Pastéis de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal

Pastéis de Belém.  "The Egg Tart Place".  The most famous place in Lisbon probably.  On every list, mentioned in every guidebook for Lisbon.  Epic long lines.  Yadda yadda. I'll be honest.  I didn't really expect much.  Everyone told me to go to Pastéis de Belém.  Everyone says the pastel de nata are best ever.  People rave about all sorts of things all the time though.  The hype was too much, and, I rarely, rarely...

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Sushi @ Sushi Sam's

Update Review, February 2017 Years ago, I used to frequent Sushi Sam's, as it is halfway between my office in Mountain View and my home in San Francisco.  It was a good place to stop when traffic on the 101 was bad, or, uh, whenever we wanted sushi.  It was the first place I experienced omakase, and the first modern style sushi I ever had.  It holds a formative place in the culinary growth I went through when moving to the Bay Area, and for that,...

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"Dining" on TAP Portugal

Normally when Ojan attends conferences, there is a good chance that I also need to attend, or, that the conference is in a city with a Google office that it makes sense for me to visit, so we often travel together and combine our trips.  This year however, he had a conference in Lisbon, a place I had never been, and, we did not have a Google office.  I missed out on his last few trips (to Japan and New York!) due to my work commitments, but this time, I...

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Innovasian Meal Kits

Most of the time that I write in this blog, I'm reviewing food prepared by someone else, generally a restaurant or cafe, or sometimes packaged snacks.  I never review the food cooked by friends or family, or, gasp, by myself (unless we are talking about waffling leftovers of course). But sometimes I'm given the opportunity to review meal kits, like Fresh Express Salad Kits, although most I often fail to actually write up.  This time, I took care to take...

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