Meatball and fregola soup – Claudine

Meatball and fregola soup - Claudine
With pork and ricotta meatballs, fregola, kale and parmesan, drizzled with arbequina olive oil. With added egg $13
Claudine, San Francisco CA

My first fregola soup! I liked the texture of the pasta and the individual ingredients were great, but I don’t think I was a fan of the broth. It was kinda bland and it was barely warm. I came on a cold and rainy day and really wanted something hot to eat, but this wasn’t it! There was also too much cheese in the soup and it was awkward eating around the huge melted blob of it in the middle of the bowl. There was a sourness to the broth that I wasn’t a fan of either.

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Bread and butter - Claudine
Bread and butter. $2
I think it’s tacky when restaurants charge for bread and butter. Lame.

Sunrise from my balcony
Sunrise from my balcony.

Szechuan garlic beef lunch combination – Judy Fu’s Snappy Dragon

Szechuan garlic beef lunch combination - Judy Fu's Snappy Dragon
With egg fried rice, hot and sour soup, and barbecue pork. $8.50
Judy Fu’s Snappy Dragon, Seattle WA

This dish was REALLY salty! I liked the flavor of the garlic beef, but after a while I couldn’t taste anything else because of the high sodium content. The hot and sour soup was yummy though. The barbecue pork was good, but the fried rice was an afterthought.

Hot and sour soup - Judy Fu's Snappy Dragon
Hot and sour soup.

Lions Park, Bremerton
Lions Park, Bremerton.