I hate vending machines unless they’re stuffed with fried potato products like in Amsterdam or a plate of curry katsu like in Japan. I am guilty of putting coins in for those bags of jalapeno cheetos, they’re so addicting. One night while leaving work I noticed a row of Cup of Noodles, chicken flavor at the bottom of the vending machine. I started to laugh. Really? Do people at work love Cup of Noodles THAT MUCH? Yes I am also guilty of buying 1, ONLY ONE, of those Cup of Noodles once. They do bring back lots of good memories and 2am snack time. But then I noticed at the top of the vending machine, canned tuna. Innnnteresting thing to have. But you know, for $3.25 you can have tuna chunks in your Cup of Noodles.

I am REALLY jealous of offices with their own cafeterias. I just got an email from a friend talking about his cafeteria offering $4 All-You-Can-Eat taco or the $6 All-You-Can-Eat Chinese food. I need to think of a plan to get my friend to invite me to have lunch at Google.

How do you feel about vending machines?

 
Another year, another decade. We’re actually quite excited for 2010, sounds so futuristic! We can’t wait to see what new food trends are going to be big this year.

Happy eating!

On this fine fine Christmas eve of 2009 I hope all of you are being surrounded by friends and family and maybe few drunk uncles. They’re drunk maybe because they’ve been reading Drink To Blog’s guide to 12 Days of Christmas drinks. They even have fancy yet easy to make drinks to impress your in-laws. How important is that huh?!

Merry Christmas everyone!

Semi-exciting news! I will be writing for Examiner.com as their NY Farmer’s Market Examiner. You can read my first post here, but you’re better off bookmarking my main page, and checking it early and often. Subscribe to my feed if you dare!

Guess who I bumped into today at Penn Station?! Well more like my coworker, a fellow Top Chef viewer, told me that they just met Fabio down at Penn Station passing out Dr.Oetker’s Ristorante Pizza with a free tote bag. He kept saying “Good day sir” or something like that to me but I kept blah blah blah blah big fan of yours blah blah GO TEAM EURO!

Here in NYC, the weather is getting colder and gloomier. Especially this weekend. Starting today it’s going to rain till Monday. Really? I was planning to go street food crawling in Jackson Heights and apple picking over the weekend. But colder weather also means time for stews! Like big giant pot of curry with potatoes, carrots and onions over steamy rice white. I love curry especially Japanese curry. I don’t like to sweat when I eat so I prefer the more sweet and less spicy Japanese curry. Also one of my favorite restaurant in LA is Curry House.

So 2 nights ago I went and bought a box of Japanese curry and yes made a big pot of curry. It was enough for 6 meals. And so to celebrate this here are some curry food porn.
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