San Diego is Treating Me Well

My expectations for good Vietnamese food were met right away with my first meal in San Diego at Nhu Y restaurant, my grandfather's favorite. We had goi ga (cabbage chicken salad), xuong kho (ribs), ca kho (fish braised in a clay pot), ca chien (fried fish), and canh chua (sour fish soup).

I haven't had other Vietnamese meals so far except for some awesome silken tofu in ginger syrup, one of my favorite desserts. I did, however, eat at Kabob House which was tasty.

Tonight was Sophia's wedding and we had an amazing meal: asparagus and seafood soup, appetizer platter of pork, chicken, and jellyfish, fried shrimp with candied pecans, tea-smoked chilean sea bass (or shall I say tea-smoked Patagonian toothfish), lobster sauteed with spicy garlic sauce, stir-fried abalone and vegetables, filet mignon and asparagus in bird's nest, Peking duck, seafood fried rice, and dessert which was some sort of peach gelatin or pudding.

Then, of course, was cake, and one quite fitting for Sophia and Steve.