Month: August 2012
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Authentic Chinese Restaurants in Washington, DC
We travel fairly often to China and have enjoyed the food there very much, so we decided to start hunting for Chinese restaurants in the Washington, DC area that we thought produced authentic dishes that taste like the restaurants in Beijing. (With the added advantage that the restaurants in DC are cleaner, and it’s safe…
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Alan Wong’s (a double helping)
In our latest visit to Honolulu, we were greedy enough to eat at Alan Wong’s twice during our trip. The first meal was very good, but the second meal outdid itself. At the second dinner, Jim and I ordered the classic tasting menu, which we could do without having the entire table required to order…
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The Bourne Legacy
I am a huge fan of the Bourne movies, and Jeremy Renner is my latest candidate for hunk-of-the-year, and so while I was disappointed that Matt Damon didn’t return to the franchise, I was predisposed to like this movie. I did really enjoy the movie, but there are some major differences compared to the Matt…
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(Almost) Completed Renovations
It’s been a while since I’ve done a house renovation update, and I wish I could say that no news is good news… We still aren’t done with the renovations <sigh>, but there is progress. We have moved upstairs, as all of the bedrooms and bathrooms are about 99% finished. Each bedroom now has its…
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Our Hawaii Vacation
We just returned from a fabulous week in Honolulu where the skies were blue, the ocean even bluer, and it was 80 degrees every day. Oahu is our favorite island, mostly because we aren’t sit-on-the-beach kind of people, so there is more to do in Honolulu than anywhere else. That’s not to say we didn’t…