Food Photos from Rochester, NY
Apr. 13th, 2018 05:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
baratronI have been in the US for three weeks now, and will be returning home on Sunday. In related news, I have well and truly messed up my sleep patterns. It is 5.57 am and I haven't managed to sleep yet.
I flew into Toronto on Friday 23rd March, and was met by Grant. We then drove into town and had dinner withmaize, okoshun and clawfoot at The Hogtown Vegan. Their special dessert of the day was funnel cake, a thing of great excitement for me because it is not The Food Of My People. The last time I had funnel cake was at Paramount Canada's Wonderland in I Don't Remember What Year, but definitely the naughties. 2000, maybe? Anyway, it doesn't exist in the UK, and I certainly didn't know where to find a vegan version of it before seeing it here. So I ordered it, and it was ENORMOUS. It was just as well that clawfoot's chocolate mousse was tiny, because I would never have been able to eat all of that on my own.
Grant drove me down to Rochester and we did basically nothing of any interest for the next two weeks other than eat out occasionally. I mean, we went to the mall to buy clothes for Grant, and then jeans for Richard (which got mailed to him by the cheapest service possible, and somehow arrived in 6 days even though 2 of those days were a weekend). And we went to the laundrette to wash Grant's GIANT sheets! (He has an American king-size bed and the sheets would never fit in his tiny American top-loading washing machine.)
We had lunch in the Chinese restaurant that's about 5 minutes away from here. Several times, because it's really damned good.
(The food is so good that looking at these pictures makes me want to go there, even though it's 6.54 am and they won't be open for another 5 hours. Honestly, I dream about the food from this place when I'm at home in the UK, especially now that Noodle Express has closed down. The best Chinese restaurant I know of in the UK is in Leeds of all places.)
We went to John's Tex-Mex, in which everything is vegan unless obviously not. So they have real cheese and meat for the omnivores, and fake meat for the v*gans, and all of the beans, rice, tortillas etc are safe. On Mondays they have queso and vegan queso until they run out, and their vegan queso is genuinely good. It doesn't try to mimic real queso, but is a tasty thing of its own.
And then there was PAX East, which we went to as Big Nerds and also to represent the UESP. This probably deserves a post of its own, if spoons can be found.
Since returning from Boston, there has been a lunch buffet at Tandoor of India with Grant's ex-housemate-now-co-worker and his wife.
And also vegan doughnuts at Misfit Doughnuts. Which has an octopus on its wall, because cephalopods are awesome.
I flew into Toronto on Friday 23rd March, and was met by Grant. We then drove into town and had dinner with
maize, okoshun and clawfoot at The Hogtown Vegan. Their special dessert of the day was funnel cake, a thing of great excitement for me because it is not The Food Of My People. The last time I had funnel cake was at Paramount Canada's Wonderland in I Don't Remember What Year, but definitely the naughties. 2000, maybe? Anyway, it doesn't exist in the UK, and I certainly didn't know where to find a vegan version of it before seeing it here. So I ordered it, and it was ENORMOUS. It was just as well that clawfoot's chocolate mousse was tiny, because I would never have been able to eat all of that on my own.
Grant drove me down to Rochester and we did basically nothing of any interest for the next two weeks other than eat out occasionally. I mean, we went to the mall to buy clothes for Grant, and then jeans for Richard (which got mailed to him by the cheapest service possible, and somehow arrived in 6 days even though 2 of those days were a weekend). And we went to the laundrette to wash Grant's GIANT sheets! (He has an American king-size bed and the sheets would never fit in his tiny American top-loading washing machine.)
We had lunch in the Chinese restaurant that's about 5 minutes away from here. Several times, because it's really damned good.
(The food is so good that looking at these pictures makes me want to go there, even though it's 6.54 am and they won't be open for another 5 hours. Honestly, I dream about the food from this place when I'm at home in the UK, especially now that Noodle Express has closed down. The best Chinese restaurant I know of in the UK is in Leeds of all places.)
We went to John's Tex-Mex, in which everything is vegan unless obviously not. So they have real cheese and meat for the omnivores, and fake meat for the v*gans, and all of the beans, rice, tortillas etc are safe. On Mondays they have queso and vegan queso until they run out, and their vegan queso is genuinely good. It doesn't try to mimic real queso, but is a tasty thing of its own.
And then there was PAX East, which we went to as Big Nerds and also to represent the UESP. This probably deserves a post of its own, if spoons can be found.
Since returning from Boston, there has been a lunch buffet at Tandoor of India with Grant's ex-housemate-now-co-worker and his wife.
And also vegan doughnuts at Misfit Doughnuts. Which has an octopus on its wall, because cephalopods are awesome.
