So, what's for lunch?

This morning I had a spaghetti and meatballs ready meal and full fat Greek yoghurt with honey and cocoa powder mixed into it, I also would like to take this opportunity to rave about MeatLiquor's cheese and onion fries which are utterly delicious in every conceivable aspect (and in spite of the restaurant's name they are vegetarian), they have this lovely nacho-ey cheese sauce on them plus crispy and pickled onion bits, I friggin love them and I also feel like it's one of those "side dishes" that's a meal in itself, I've had them 2 or 3 times over the last couple of months... yum! 🤤
 
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I've always wondered what the appeal of bubble tea is? I like tapioca pudding but not in something I'd drink.
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I just think it's rly tasty? I also tend to get a lot of lil jellies in it as well as the pearls and they have a lot of different pearl flavours in the bubble tea places in my city. Have you actually tried bubble tea? :)

EDIT: I doubt the end product tastes much like tapoica pudding when all the bubbles and jelly cubes have tropical flavours, and the tea is chocolate milk tea! (yes that's my favourite bubble tea flavour combo lol) ;)

Oh also while I'm sure it's still not a recommended diabetic food (to put it lightly) I like that they let you choose to an extent how sugary you want the base tea (at least at the bubble tea specific places, perhaps not if you're ordering it from a general dessert cafe that has a handful of bubble tea options on the menu but not lots and lots of them) :)
 
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So yesterday I attended my Ham Radio club's monthly breakfast at a local diner that has a huge breakfast menu, with all kinds of unusual breakfast platters incuded on the menu. They even offer a Buffalo Hot Wing Breakfast, Crabcake Breakfast, Fried Catfish Breakfast, and my favorite which I always order - Giant Fried Oyster Breakfast! 6 huge fried oysters, 3 eggs, Homefries, and toast. I get my eggs sunny-side up, with rye toast, and drink 4-5 mugs of coffee along with it.

Haha, speaking of my least favorite condiment, they give you cocktail sauce for the oysters (yuck! ketchup!). Fortunately the horseradish mostly covers up the flavor and smell of the ketchup, so I can stomach using it, but even so I always ask for tartar sauce instead). I always eat half the meal and take the other half home with me for a second breakfast on Sunday morning. The breakfast comes out on two huge platters that barely fit on the table in front of me, lol. You can also see my 2m/70cm ham radio handy-talkie and my vial of ground super-hot Carolina Reaper hot peppers that I like to put on my eggs in the photo.

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Saw a pre-prepped veg pack in my local supermarket and decided to get that plus some bacon lardons and double cream and make soup, I also used paprika, salt, pepper and Schwartz mixed herbs for seasoning, and boiled it all in water, it's rly nice just had a bowlful :)
 
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Here's my lunch - Korean BBQ. I first tried it on my trip to South Korea last month. Our local guide introduced us to this delicious food where you cook your own meat, seafood and vegetables on a grill at your table. It was a fun experience and the best way to enjoy steamy hot Korean BBQ is wrapped in lettuce. Thank you to my guide Jake from South Korea Private Tours & Local Tour Guides for showing me this popular dish - it made me fall in love with Korean cuisine!
 
A new ramen shop "Ninja Ramen" recently opened near my office in York (in Pennsylvania, USA), so I thought I would try it out for lunch today. To keep my lunch cost down I only ordered a bowl of ramen and a glass of water, and did not splurge on including my usual sides of takoyaki and bubble tea. Ninja Ramen has a larger selection of ramen bowls on their menu than the Noodle Shack my friends and I usually go to near my home, and I picked out their Beef Shank Ramen which was quite good: "Ramen in Dashi chicken broth with slow-cooked beef shank steak, half marinated egg, bean sprouts, kikurage, bamboo shoots, scallion, fry onion."

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The interesting thing about this ramen shop is that i's interior decoration is anime themed, although it focuses mainly on the Naruto anime, with some Dragonball and Demon Slayer thrown in too - all shonen anime which I have zero interest in whatsover, lol. But if you're a fan of that kind of anime, I suppose you would be in heaven in there. They even have a television screen up on the wall playing episodes of the Naruto anime on it, although I didn't get a photo of that:

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For my birthday! Tonkatsu Ramen with numerous starters: tempura prawn and veg, ebi fry, fried chicken, takoyaki, chicken gyōza, spring rolls and seaweed salad with a soy sauce. And a couple of duck sushi rolls.
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Only problem was the ramen was stuck together, I guess from the time taken for the delivery, so I couldn't eat the meat with the noodles. So picked the meat off the top which left me with soup and noodles only.
 
I was going to ask why the Tonkatsu ramen looks like that, looks almost like a bowl of porridge now... ;) All the other stuff looks good, though. Which Is the takoyaki in that picture - to the right of the chopsticks? The takoyaki we get at any of the ramen shops here always has two different sauces, white and dark, drizzled over the balls.

I love Takoyaki!
 
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Wellz, I'z gotz me even more ramenz! It's actually been a while since my friends and I last went to dinner at the Noodle Shack. They had some new entrees for the summertime, and I fell in love with their new "Volcano Ramen," a fairly spicy ramen which includes four ouces of ribeye steak, bamboo shoots, mushrooms, bean sprouts, scallions, shallots, chili threads with red curry sauce and hot chili oil. The sauce was a bit on the rich side, thicker with an almost cheesy texture, but boy was it good! 🤤

The ramen bowl was delivered to the table on a fancy large hot plate, and was actually at a rolling boil when they sat it down in front of me! The boiling sauce was yellow with lots of red chile oil floating in it, so it looked like bubbling molten lava, and the meat was nice and red, looking like big chunks of cooling lava, heheh. Defininitely a "Volcano" with all it's looks, heat and spicyness! 🥵

Also, they had a couple of special summer flavors of Bubble Tea, a floral rose flavor and a light peach flavor, so I got the peach and it was very very good, I love peaches! 🥰

I did get my usual side of takoyaki, but I've taken enough photos of that previously.

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