Jiro Ono, 80+ years old in this movie, is a sushi chef and owner of Sukiyabashi Jiro a small nook of a restaurant in Tokyo and a Michelin Guide 3 star restaurant. He has been recognized by the Japanese government as a living national treasure for his contributions to Japanese cuisine.
This scene is absolutely and positively one of my favorites in the whole of the Batman series.
The Age Of Miracles is a story as told by Julia, a teenage girl living in California during a time when the Earth is mysteriously slowing to a halt. The ‘slowing’ as its called is explained as it were via accounts from news reports mentioned thru the book, but there is no definitive explanation why. It happens very gradually however, allowing Julia’s story to unfold through several years.
And now we’ve come to Part III and the final installment of our Sagada sojourn, this time concerning everyone’s favorite activity: Eating! (Plus some other final details).
Starting with Matutina’s Seafood House at Tarlac, of which there is a Facebook Page here.
Waking up Day 2 we realized we slept for almost 12 hours, from 830pm to 830am. We were that tired. I could hear activity going on which may have involved the other guests, but we were too bushed to care.
Here’s Mapiya-aw Pension House again, which is actually a very very old hotel.
Apologies for the corny name. Am gonna try to write about our trip to Sagada from when we left April 28 to coming back May 3rd, 2012 before I forget. But first, a nice pic to serve as this post’s ‘headline’.
That’s a nice view from the bus going there, approximately 4 hours into the 6 hour trip.
For P204.00, Almon Marina will sell you a roast chicken with rice and 2 sidings of either (if I remember right), potato salad, veggies, mashed potatoes and.. err, something else. I went with the the veggies and mashed.
Nearly everywhere I eat, I order the roast chicken if available. This is partly due to my diabetes, which disallows fatty and greasy foods, and partly because I’ve always felt roast chicken is a benchmark of whether the restaurant knows what it’s doing. It’s a universal dish as all cultures and nationalities have roast chicken in their menus, and so it is an appropriate ‘standard’ for rating restaurants IMHO.
It’s also a simple dish. It takes some time to bake, but otherwise all you need is chicken, some herbs, an oven and time. It’s hard to get simpler than that.
So I’ve come to make it a staple, and tried out several already. Today I’m going to review Amici’s.
Wife and I had dinner at Assad Cafe on a whim today, after I remembered a friend raving about ‘a great Indian resto front of Unilever’.
Google Map below. There are no markings on it at the moment so play with the map and you’ll get the general area.
Of course I’m gonna write about this. I’m a Tintin freak and have been most of my life. I inhaled the Tintin books when I was a teen, and probably several times more into College and onwards, reading them over again when I had the chance.
So it’s hard for me to write about a Tintin movie with complete objectivity. In fact I considered skipping the movie altogether, so afraid am I of watching anything that wouldn’t live up to expectation, the only thing convincing me otherwise being the Spielberg name.