Quarantine Day 62

I\’ve been eating extremely well, which is one of the bright spots amid the general quarantine gloom. This helps both me and the local restaurants, so I don\’t feel too bad about going out because I want these places to still be around when we reopen.

Taiwanese popcorn chicken was one of the first things on my list:

THIS CHICKEN IS SO GOOD and now that I\’m looking at this picture I\’m legit thinking about hotfooting it down to the Taiwanese joint tomorrow and picking up some chicken and maybe a mango ice smoothie oh no oh no ? Now that I\’ve said that it\’s probably going to happen because I have the self-control of a five-year-old.

Mother\’s Day weekend was a particularly good time, because we finally had an excuse to visit the new(ish) Choong Man Chicken in Germantown. The curry snow onion chicken was exactly as amazing as I remembered, and the nice people at CM threw in a couple of tubs of pickled daikon. I have a severe weakness for pickled daikon, and this one was particularly good. If you ever want to bribe me, feed me pickled daikon. I wish I were joking.

Not pictured: maguro sashimi from our favorite Japanese place, fried chicken wings, rice, curly fries, Japanese potato salad, and EVEN MOAR DAIKON PICKLES. It was a really good Saturday. Then on Mother\’s Day proper we had homemade chili burgers and the leftover CM curly fries, because my mom happened to find a recipe for a copycat Tommy\’s chili. We\’re not actually sure if this is an accurate copy because Tommy\’s is in LA and we don\’t exactly have access to LA, but we\’ve all agreed it\’s amazing anyway.

Celebrations in quarantine have been pretty good so far because we can still pick up nice treats, like these cakes I got for my dad\’s birthday:

And the Lindt chocolates I grabbed while I was at CVS, because I\’d just read that damn Chocolat book and it really made me want chocolate:

And these adzuki donuts and mini stroopwafels, which I picked up by chance because that\’s just who I am as a person. I didn\’t even know stroopwafels could be that small but they\’re really good so you sure as fuck won\’t see me complaining ?

Rounding out the post with more pics of the Senior Nap Manager, because obviously I don\’t photograph her enough.

Good night, world. x___x