Elizabeth: Ugly Fruits and Vegetables Dinner
2019-Jul-25, Thursday 12:54![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I feel cheated, since none of the fruits or vegetables here were ugly.
(The previous statement is a lie)
Yesterday,![[twitter.com profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/e0caa790ec10/-/twitter.com/favicon.ico)
worldbshiny and I went to Elizabeth for dinner. I had gotten a coupon in my email last month and filed it away as something I might use, and then later that day, meowtima posted about the coupon himself and put out a call for someone to go with him. I commented on his status, and he said that he already found a taker and gave me the coupon code, so I immediately turned around and asked worldbshiny if she wanted to go. She said yes, we picked a date, and then it came and we ate a ton of delicious food.
I keep mostly kosher (restaurant kosher in restaurants) andworldbshiny doesn't eat red meat or fried food. I thought that wouldn't be much of a problem for a dinner that was explicitly about fruits and vegetables, and I was right, but there were a few dishes here and there that were altered. worldbshiny got crab when I got palm hearts, and I got beef when she got some roasted vegetable that I don't remember. And everything was delicious.
Salmon roe and some kind of vegetable set atop a thin slice of fried yuba.
This is the only dish that the chefs couldn't alter to suit our dietary restrictions. I suggested thatworldbshiny could have the non-fried parts and she was thinking of asking for a spoon, but eventually decided to pass on this one and give me both. I did not protest.
The flavors didn't blend at all, but in a way that worked together somehow. The vegetable was sweet and firm, the salmon roe were salted and popped almost as soon as I put them in my mouth, and the fried yuba was slightly crunchy and without much of a taste of its own, letting it balance the other flavors. That was a pattern for most of the dishes we ate, really--they didn't come together as such, but the disparate flavors still worked together.
The rope was a little we want plates, but I didn't even think of it when I was eating it. And it was fried food, so it being on a non-eating surface wasn't bad.
Not pictured here is the porchini tartlet with almond creme set on a bowl of artichoke leaves. We weren't sure if the leaves were garnish or if they still had any edible artichoke on them, soworldbshiny took one for the team and put one in her mouth. It was garnish. Her deeds of valor will be remembered. 
Sturgeon and pistachio creme in summer squash, all in deconstructed bagna cauda.
worldbshiny was really excited about this because of the sturgeon, and after my first bite, I was too. The really amazing part was the bagna cauda--I'm not sure what the green part is, since the traditional bagna cauda is a ton of oil and butter and then just "vegetables," but mixed with the squash and the surgeon it was delicious. Until the very end of the dinner, this was my favorite course.
Green beans and purple snap peas with sunflowers and star anise, all in beer and hops.
We saw this course going out to the table that got seated before us and it really built the anticipation. It was smoldering--later we saw one of the chefs setting one on fire with a blowtorch--and then the waiter unwrapped all the leaves and poured a beer and tamari solution over it. The mixed smell of singed plant and hops was weird and not entirely pleasant, though maybe that's just because I don't like beer, but it was...kind of tasty? A strong beer taste. If the tamari had been more evident I think I would have liked it better, but it wasn't bad. This is probably the course I'm the most mixed on.
I was wary of eating it because I'm no good against hot temperature foods--I have a 猫舌 (nekojita, literally "cat's tongue") as the Japanese say--butworldbshiny took the plunge and snatched one up, and said it wasn't hot at all. She was right.
Beef, with walnut-puree crepe, and blueberry, lavender, and beet.
This was the only dish that was altered forworldbshiny but not for me. It had beef in it, so for her they gave her more vegetables. I had a piece of beef, and beets, and that walnut crepe which I expected to be more flavorful than it actually was. Generally, I really love any kind of food made with nuts, like almond cakes, almond crackers, almond tortes, almond butter...
...you know, maybe it's just almonds I love.
My favorite part of this was actually probably the plate. 🍁 Hiroshima has been connected to maple leaves for centuries, dating back to when it was Aki Province and Momijidani on Miyajima was a sacred location where only the nobility could enter, and while nowadays the maple is maybe most famous in the context of momiji manjū, I love maple leaf anything. I'd get a whole set of cutlery if it were maple-leaf-themed.
I just looked up maple leaf plates and found a bunch. Some of them are even square! I'd better guard my wallet.
Peach in Kirsch brandy, with honey and creme, and dehydrated rose on the edges.
I said that the sturgeon was my favorite dish, and that was true for most of the meal. This was the last dish we got, after we thought the meal was done, after I ordered some grappa andworldbshiny ordered coffee, and after the first bite it immediately took first place. Fruit in alcohol is one of my favorite desserts, but not one I ever have outside of a restaurant context, and the dehydrated rose and honey creme together with the peach was delicious. The appropriate response would have been some kind of Hana Yori Dango display, throwing my head back and shouting 甘～～～～～～い, but instead worldbshiny and I just talked about how good it was and then devoured it.
There were a half-dozen more courses, but this is a good place to stop.
We got fruit drinks, too. I got a fermented strawberry and basil drink andworldbshiny got "cornchata":
I've been to Elizabeth a few times, and while it's always delicious, sometimes it's a bit samey. The Game of Thrones brunch had a lot of the same dishes as the one ordinary brunch I went to, but when I went to the Pagan Gods dinner, there were a lot more new dishes. This dinner was more like the latter than the former, and while I do miss the whiskey donuts, I'm glad that everything was new and delicious. Especially that peach and honey dish! There's no way I can dehydrate roses, but I want to figure out how to make the rest of it.
The full menu is here for now.
The conversation was also lovely, and I want to especially point out that when I brought up the Dreamcast that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jdcohen and I had at Penn, worldbshiny got a nostalgic look on her face and immediately brought up some games I've never played. Chu Chu Rocket, which I always thought was a racing game but apparently was kind of like competitive Lemmings and had this paper-doodle-style commercial, and Vib-Ribbon, which sounded a lot like Audiosurf with a rabbit to me except a decade earlier.
The whole evening was fantastic.
(The previous statement is a lie)
Yesterday,
I keep mostly kosher (restaurant kosher in restaurants) and
Salmon roe and some kind of vegetable set atop a thin slice of fried yuba.
This is the only dish that the chefs couldn't alter to suit our dietary restrictions. I suggested that
The flavors didn't blend at all, but in a way that worked together somehow. The vegetable was sweet and firm, the salmon roe were salted and popped almost as soon as I put them in my mouth, and the fried yuba was slightly crunchy and without much of a taste of its own, letting it balance the other flavors. That was a pattern for most of the dishes we ate, really--they didn't come together as such, but the disparate flavors still worked together.
The rope was a little we want plates, but I didn't even think of it when I was eating it. And it was fried food, so it being on a non-eating surface wasn't bad.
Not pictured here is the porchini tartlet with almond creme set on a bowl of artichoke leaves. We weren't sure if the leaves were garnish or if they still had any edible artichoke on them, so
Sturgeon and pistachio creme in summer squash, all in deconstructed bagna cauda.
Green beans and purple snap peas with sunflowers and star anise, all in beer and hops.
We saw this course going out to the table that got seated before us and it really built the anticipation. It was smoldering--later we saw one of the chefs setting one on fire with a blowtorch--and then the waiter unwrapped all the leaves and poured a beer and tamari solution over it. The mixed smell of singed plant and hops was weird and not entirely pleasant, though maybe that's just because I don't like beer, but it was...kind of tasty? A strong beer taste. If the tamari had been more evident I think I would have liked it better, but it wasn't bad. This is probably the course I'm the most mixed on.
I was wary of eating it because I'm no good against hot temperature foods--I have a 猫舌 (nekojita, literally "cat's tongue") as the Japanese say--but
Beef, with walnut-puree crepe, and blueberry, lavender, and beet.
This was the only dish that was altered for
...you know, maybe it's just almonds I love.
My favorite part of this was actually probably the plate. 🍁 Hiroshima has been connected to maple leaves for centuries, dating back to when it was Aki Province and Momijidani on Miyajima was a sacred location where only the nobility could enter, and while nowadays the maple is maybe most famous in the context of momiji manjū, I love maple leaf anything. I'd get a whole set of cutlery if it were maple-leaf-themed.
I just looked up maple leaf plates and found a bunch. Some of them are even square! I'd better guard my wallet.
Peach in Kirsch brandy, with honey and creme, and dehydrated rose on the edges.
I said that the sturgeon was my favorite dish, and that was true for most of the meal. This was the last dish we got, after we thought the meal was done, after I ordered some grappa and
There were a half-dozen more courses, but this is a good place to stop.
We got fruit drinks, too. I got a fermented strawberry and basil drink and
but while they were delicious, they're not quite as photogenic.
Me: "You're just mad you didn't think of it first."
I've been to Elizabeth a few times, and while it's always delicious, sometimes it's a bit samey. The Game of Thrones brunch had a lot of the same dishes as the one ordinary brunch I went to, but when I went to the Pagan Gods dinner, there were a lot more new dishes. This dinner was more like the latter than the former, and while I do miss the whiskey donuts, I'm glad that everything was new and delicious. Especially that peach and honey dish! There's no way I can dehydrate roses, but I want to figure out how to make the rest of it.
The full menu is here for now.
The conversation was also lovely, and I want to especially point out that when I brought up the Dreamcast that
jdcohen and I had at Penn, The whole evening was fantastic.
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Date: 2019-Jul-25, Thursday 23:10 (UTC)It hasn't quite aged as well as I'd hoped when playing in an EMU, but boy I'd love a version 2 or something. Fancier/HD graphics.
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Date: 2019-Aug-12, Monday 01:09 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-Aug-13, Tuesday 17:56 (UTC)https://redream.io
I was honestly shocked, and assuming it's not just using some of the info from nullDC, it like - instantly recognized my 2 ISOs and showed them in the menu. I clicked and they started right away. I was pretty fucking amazed.
I'm not sure how great the emulation is. I tried to compare to nullDC, and they seem mostly comparable? The only problem is not a lot of options/plugins, but it's still pretty early, but damn.
So I tried to upload ChuChu ZIP to my server for you (instead of you having to download from a ROM site) but it failed at first (due to me changing PW in the middle of the session (I think it was that). So I tried again but it failed. They have an "upload ZIP" option (I wasn't using regular FTP at that point) and tried that, but it was taking forever and I went to bed.
I'm gonna try again. But yeah, check out redream I'm honestly impressed. So far the easiest emu I've ever used. Nesticle was pretty good. But SNES9x, MAME, PCSX2 all have been a bit wonky to deal with (esp. PCSX2). nullDC even more so (with it's need for plugins). But this? Wow.
This is how it should be. decompress, click EXE: BAM there's your library with the cover art for the games already there and ready to go.
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Date: 2019-Aug-14, Wednesday 05:55 (UTC)EMU: https://redream.io/
ROM: http://symbioid.com/home/symgod/symbioid.com/chuchu_rocket%21_v1.007_%28en-ja%29.zip
Let me know if it doesn't work and I can see if I need to get a EPROM or whatever. I think it "just works".
But yeah please do try I'm curious what you think.
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Date: 2019-Aug-16, Friday 02:14 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-Aug-16, Friday 02:19 (UTC)Ah try this - I copied "HTTP URL" from my FTP program but apparently it copied the home directory info (as I upload) not the public HTTP URL. http://symbioid.com/chuchu_rocket%21_v1.007_%28en-ja%29.zip
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Date: 2019-Aug-16, Friday 02:20 (UTC)Thanks a lot!
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Date: 2019-Aug-16, Friday 02:59 (UTC)YAY! Hope you enjoy it, it starts off easy of course.
If you want a quick instructional: I think you know the general idea - get the mice to the ship. Avoid the cats. Move the cursor to the square you want to place a directional arrow in. If the mice hit that arrow, they move in that direction. To place an arrow: (I can't recall now, but I think it's the face buttons, not the + key) So like the joycons layout would would be b for down, a for right, y for left and x for up. If that makes sense?
I think one of the shoulders act as an undo placement? Or maybe you hover over the arrow and press the same button. LOL I am so bad remembering things lately.
Anwyays, pretty simpl. Such a great dreamcast game.
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Date: 2019-Aug-04, Sunday 01:31 (UTC)