jack t 🍥

Many years ago a Singaporean friend in San Francisco tweeted that the old lady who lived next door said there was a family in Vietnam who made the most delicious lap cheong & it was rumored they now make them in LA. Did some sleuthing & found the place. ✨ Picked up some today.

Swung by Costco for Halloween candy & stopped for the $1.50 hot dog & soda. Guess which one was mine 🧅 🧅 🧅 🌭 lol.

Pastrami reuben- pastrami, sauerkraut, russian dressing, swiss cheese on rye. From a place called The Oinkster lol. Split it with my friend. 🥪

Wasn't exaggerating when I said I was up all night rearranging travel bookings. This is how many tickets I canceled and rebooked yesterday, on United alone. Lol. 🙃🫠🙃🫠🙃

Haha yes. All your most complex pw's protected by your easiest to remember one lol. Better have a good strategy to keep that file out of reach.

When my kids had to pick a language (French, Latin, Mandarin, Spanish) I encouraged them to choose Mandarin or Spanish. Guess what the nouveau riche Asian kids all chose? Lol.

The problem w old money attitudes towards new money is that new money is always bigger than old money.

Also- why do tiny no frills rooms in Covent Garden cost more than five star rooms in those palatial Mayfair hotels?

Wow, hotel rooms in major European cities run small. Like, smaller than Shibuya business hotel small.

Was up all night rearranging travel reservations and trying to optimize hotel points. 🫠 Finally took a nap this afternoon. Post nap groggy dinner in my bedroom lol. 🍔

My mom made Thai Chinese style bajang/zongzhi/sticky rice wrapped in a leaf but without the leaf lol. Chinese sausage, pork belly, shiitake mushrooms. The real hallmark of quality is if it has ginkgo nuts in it. She must've not had any lol. Still good. Tons of white pepper.

Huh so Rome gets super jammed up with crowds the week before Easter and eases up the week after. Didn't know that but probably should've lol. 🐇

Apparently some people make monthly payments so they can fly business class lol.

Potato skins stuffed with mashed potatoes, cheese, sour cream, & steak. Dinner at home. Well, was busy working so just ate this one that someone had assembled and left in the kitchen. 3-bite dinner snack, I guess? Lol.

Our travel research be like...

Lost count but this must be trip number 5 that I'm booking this week. 🙃

Our friend made this & brought it over. It's a giant mochi cake with breadcrumbs on top. Dessert.

My wife just got back from a Thai American girls' trip to Hawaii. Now she's going on another girls' trip to Paris w her Korean American friends. I, as usual, don't get invited to any trips yet drove to Hollywood to pick up dinner for their planning session lol.

Amravathi biryani with chicken & cashews. Huge box- must've weighed over 2 kg lol. This place is an hour's drive from my house & this is the best Indian dish I've ever tasted. 🍽️

Went to my son's school's football game. His friend took the stats & records for both teams & plugged them into ChatGPT. It calculated that we were favored by 5 points. Nail biter in the rain, with the lead changing multiple times. Guess how many points we won by lol. 🤖 ✅ 🖐️