Monthly Archives: October 2008

We woke up at 5:30am to head our way to Half Moon Bay for the Pumpkin Festival. I read on their website that they serve a pancake breakfast starting at 7am so I figured it’d be better to get there early before the crowd started to form.

It took us about 45 minutes to get there and we got there about 5 minutes before 7am. There were maybe 10 or 15 people already there. It costs $8 for all-you-can-eat pancakes, sausages, OJ, and coffee. We had to wait about 5 minutes for them to finish up a new batch of pumpkin pancakes then sat down to eat.

Nice and fluffy buttermilk pancakes!

It was still dark out when we arrived. I’m enjoying the pumpkin pancakes. I think they were just mixing pumpkin pie filling into the buttermilk mix.

About 5 minutes after we sat down, the line started to grow. By the time we finished, around 8am, the line was already about a block long. The pancakes were the rate limiting step, they couldn’t cook them fast enough to keep up with the number of people. The sausages were aplenty and were kept on warming plates.

It was still quite early so we just took a walk down Main Street to see what the stalls were setting up.

Ron thought it was cool that BofA had set up a mobile ATM truck.

We saw the huge pumpkins.

There was a street performer called Greg Frisbee who did a little bit of juggling, joking around, and ate fire.

This kid was taken from the audience and performed a balancing act.

Eating fire.

Balancing with his hands on fire and juggling knives.

We basically just walked around a few more times to check out the crafts before heading back to San Francisco. To note, by the time we left, the line for the pancakes was about 2 blocks deep. We left around 10am so luckily there was not much traffic. Once we got back, I had a nice nap.

Broadway Prime in Burlingame

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My Dad’s Uncle Kin arrived from Canada this evening so my parents figured it’d be a good opportunity to have dinner and celebrate my birthday, kill a few birds with one stone.

I ended up choosing to have dinner at Broadway Prime in Burlingame. I called around 2:30pm to make a reservation for 7 people at 8pm, pretty easy.

My impression is that the restaurant is pretty much the same as House of Prime Rib in San Francisco except quite a bit smaller and a bit of a different atmosphere, maybe not quite as traditional? Not sure how to explain it. The restaurant has an upstairs dining area where it could be pretty nice for a small party for up to 20 people but you lose the flair upstairs as they don’t make the salad in front of you nor do they bring the prime ribs to your table to let you see them slice it.

The salad was still good though, the thousand island-like dressing with red beets (I really like red beets).

We had a nice cabernet to go with our meal.

My parents and uncle Kin.

My brother and his girlfriend Cali.

The prime rib is served with your choice of baked potato, mashed potatoes, or garlic mashed potatoes. This is the latter.

The meat is served with your choice of creamed corn or creamed spinach. This is the former and the Select Cut (the middle choice, there is also the Peninsula Cut – small and Broadway Cut – large).

There is also a popover (good for soaking up the juices).

My parents got me a cake from Sogo Bakery which makes really good fruit mousse cakes. We ordered our wedding cake from them.

I got all the candles out.. thank goodness it was only 3 and 1 for good luck!

The cake was delicious as expected and the perfect size for the 7 of us.

Oy, stuffed!

Broadway Prime
1316 Broadway Ave
Burlingame, CA

Missing our own washer and dryer

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Reminiscent of the dorm days where you had to do your laundry in the dorm laundry room if you didn’t have time or the ability to go home and do your laundry at your parents’ house..

I was so excited with we bought our first washer and dryer for our home… I’m really missing them now as we don’t have laundry hook-ups in our apartment but rather machines in the lower garage. $1.50 to wash, and each 25 cents is 8 minutes for the dryer… and when it doesn’t get dry and you run out of quarters, we are forced to hang out clothes to dry on our canopy bed. Reminds me of Singapore all over again with having to hang laundry, we didn’t even have a dryer there. I hope we can find a more well equipped place in the future…

Yummy fruits

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So as I mentioned, on Saturday I went to the Asian market and picked up some fruits.

The white peaches were huge (see it compared with a tennis ball), crunchy, and sweet.

And this is the prickly pear. It can easily stain clothes and skin. The seeds are numerous (like pomegranate) and very hard, they hurt your teeth if you bite into them. But they are sweet and juicy. I’m not sure how to compare the flavor, some sites compare it to kiwi but I’m not sure I agree.