After Hannah had spent a few days at her friends' cabin, we had planned on going out to Spokane for the week to spend time with my family. She had been once before (in the beginning of the blog!) and it was time for a revisit before we both go off to college and military.
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| Key lime truffle |
In one of our many bike rides around the Seattle area we found ourselves in the University Village shopping center one day, where we curiously found a lovely looking truffle to buy! Key lime is quite the serious flavor, with an awesome citrusy cream in the middle. Even when splitting it you get a mouthful of intense flavor that is unforgettable.
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| Din Tai Fung menu! |
Now, this is something we've been looking forward to for a LONG time.. Din Tai Fung is a world class restaurant (with good prices) that is famous for its hand rolled pork dumplings that are to die for! We absolutely had to go there, and keep in mind that everything we ate was all in the neighborhood of about $30. Not bad at all considering all we got. The menu you see above really is quite simple: you've got everything on the menu with prices in front of you and all you do is write down the quantity and what you want and wait for a server to pick it up. Easy right!?
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| Passionfruit bubble tea |
What goes better with unspecified asian food than bubble tea! Classic bubble tea smoothie with the boba in it of course. Went well with out whole meal there. We just split this one and it turned out perfectly.
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| Sauteed spinach |
To start we got the bubble tea, ginger sauteed spinach, PORK DUMPLINGS, veggie buns, and a side of brown rice. The spinach as you see above was a good amount, we felt like we needed some green veggies in the mix. It was good and very gingery, only thing was that we both found it a little too wet maybe, or maybe we're just too picky :P
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| PORK DUMPLINGS |
THE PORK DUMPLINGS. This is their famous food. These were so incredible, and filling, that next time i'm just going to get 4 freaking orders of these.. First you pop the soft doughy outside and let the juices out, then you drink the warm and pork-y juices, then you pop the whole thing in your mouth and let the pork-gods take your taste buds on a journey. THIS IS THE BEST PORK I HAVE EVER TASTED.
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| Veggie rolls |
We needed enough veggies to cancel out the porkiness, so we ordered a pair of veggie buns too. These were in the similar construction to dumplings, only much larger and without the juices (and with mixed veggie of course). The result was splendid! The veggies inside were full of flavor and I always love the texture of the buns that they put these things in. Seriously!
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| The whole masterpiece |
Overall Din Tai Fung is one of the best places I can say I have ever eaten at, and definitely plan on returning when I'm back home in the winter.
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| Best salad ever |
Silverwood. The six flags of Idaho. On our trip to Spokane we had to stop by this park which seems to grow exponentially by the year. During our day of thrills and spills we had to stop for lunch, at their only (affordable!) restaurant: Lindy's, based on Charles Lindbergh. We waited a little while but got some nice outdoor seating in the shade and I quickly ordered a tall cold root beer. We eventually ordered, Hannah got a beautiful looking salad and I got a turkey burger (both of us trying to go a little healthier). Her salad really made me double think what i ordered, It was great! It had fresh fruit and berries with almonds and gorgonzola and a vinagrette dressing. It made me pick up my fork and help her out with it!
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| Turkey burger |
About my turkey burger? Well, it was a burger. Made of turkey. Nothing bad, nothing special. Until Hannah put her avocado on it :} thanks babe
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| Omelet with red pesto! |
After silverwood we had to get breakfast at least one day in Spokane! And in the style of trying new places, we went one place that has been famous in Spokane for a long time: Frank's Diner. It's located downtown in an old boxcar where the sign above boasts "voted best breakfast in spokane!" which they said for a good reason. The wait was about 10 minutes for the bar seating, this place was PACKED. So show up early. We got a couple coffees and ordered two different egg dishes: Hannah's was an omelet with red pesto smeared on top and parm, and mine was a super spicy mexican something scramble which left my tummy aching. Seriously, mine was just too spicy to REALLY enjoy the flavor, but it still was good from what i could taste! Hannah's was another winner. A seriously unique and delicious choice. I have no idea what makes the heavenly red pesto sauce so good, but whatever it is i want more of it!
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| Super spicy scramble |
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| Frank's Diner in Spokane |
Well this blog post concludes my (Tyler's) last one in a while, any others that happen before thanksgiving will be completely Hannah's doing! I'm off the Marine Corps boot camp and soon Hannah will be down in college too. So goodbye for a little while! I'll miss you Hannah, make the blog proud!
