for Graeter’s Ice Cream!!!! Ever since we really explored a local chain of fabulous ice cream (they made Allie’s birthday cakes last year – mmmmmm) we have totally been converted. Eat your heart out Ben & Jerry’s! Take a hike, Cold Stone Creamery! Graeter’s is the greatest!!! This is my favorite flavor: [[image:graeter1.jpg:Chocolate chocolate chip rules:center:0]] And this is why Graeter’s rocks: [[image:graeter2.jpg:Chocolate chip the size of Alaska:center:0]] The whole bottom half of that pint was literally a mound of chocolate that didn’t get broken up into more “normal” chip-sized pieces. It was aaaaaamazing! So yummy and dark and smooth. Vin’s favorite flavor is coconut chocolate chip but I’m loyal to mine. Here’s another look at said amazingly huge chocolate chip: [[image:graeter3.jpg:Half pint of awesome chocolate anyone?:center:0]] The best ice cream ever!
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Makan-makan with Jen
So before Jen and Mike set off for their awesome vacation (one of the legs included dinner with Hisham’s family), we had a warm up makan session at the newly discovered Penang restaurant in Edison, NJ. We ordered so much food that they had to move us from a table suited to seat 3-4 people, to a table for 8. Jen got to try a bunch of Malaysian dishes including assam laksa, pasembur, mee kari, kangkung belacan, roti canai, and all kinds more. The person who took our order was trying to warn me that perhaps some of my choices were not something that would be enjoyed by Jen and Vin but oh, he didn’t know them as well as I did. 🙂 We all had an excellent meal. Sila makan, everyone. Here is a picture from our first makan-makan at Penang: [[image:jen01.jpg:After we were stuffed to the gills:center:0]] Tonight, […]
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