Kelly & Ping SUCKS

Good chill day with the B. After a night of weird dreams about L and the restaurant's produce purveyor, had a doc appointment -- B and MiniB are all good and ready to drop whenever it happens. Went to a crappy but convenient lunch, saw a bad movie, did a slow wander back home. Cooked nice dinner. Ah, maybe it won't be so bad if I never go back to work and the bebe delays coming until it's 18 and ready for college....I keed, I keed. C'mon, bebe!!

BREAKFAST: 9am, organic chex with organic good milk, 3 cookies, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5

LUNCH: noon, 2 veg dumplings, 2 spring rolls, a small tasting of pad thai, a small tasting of sesame noodles, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5
Went to Kelly & Ping with B after our doc appointment, I didn't want to but she did. I don't like the faux counter service -- it's set up like a full service restaurant, but they make you do counter service, it's annoying. On top of that, the food is overpriced and shitty. I ordered an $8.50 "Dim Sum Lunch Box" and form the looks of it, was worth closer to $5, just not that much food. On top of that, the small lump of sesame noodles were clearly prepared days ago, with the sauce dried out and tacky on the noodles. I tried to eat a "shumai", but what is traditionally filled with shrimp, pork or chicken tasted like....tuna? I spit it out, not sure if it was good or not. I tried eating some of B's veg pad thai, but it tasted underseasoned and a little bland. Wow, this place just sucks from begining to end!

PM SNACK: 1pm, popcorn, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
Popcorn with B and the the B2B at the movies!

PM SNACK: 4pm, half a vegan ice cream, .25 bowl, hunger 4/5
We stopped at Stogo for a cold desert, very underwhelming in the flavor department. They need to use refined sugar, palm oil and baked good that are less crumbly and more rich,

PM SNACK: 5:15pm, 1 homemade chocolate chip cookie, hunger 4/5
Each cookie is an ounce, so to call that a quarter bowl would be pushing it...

DINNER: 7:30pm, pan seared sea scallops over mushroom brown basmanti rice, salad, 3 cookies, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
K came over, fun to cook something nice, but really easy. Rice just needed a reheat, cookies already made, B made the salad. Quickly dredged the big ol' scallops in wholewheat flour, salt and cumin then into really hot oiled pan. Once a little brown on one side, flipped and into a 350 oven for about 3 minutes, came out perfectly tender and flavorful. While they rested, reduced some old white wine in the pan, then hit it with a wallop of butter and minced fresh dill and another dash of salt -- a simple pan sauce with a nice color and contrasting flavor. Just needed some stock to thicken it, but the left over floury bits in the pan did some work for me.