Shrimp dumplings, Shangahi soup dumplings, sausage, bacon, Shanghai dumplings, tomato, potato puff. Complimentary in Executive Lounge
Renaissance Beijing Wangfujing Hotel, Beijing CHINA
Final breakfast in Beijing. After a few days, I got kinda bored with the selection at the Executive Lounge, but I still appreciated that it was complimentary. 🙂
Scrambled eggs.
Wild Turkey rye, antica carpano, angostura bitters. $13
Villa Creek Restaurant, Paso Robles CA
This cocktail was nicely made and you know how much I love large globes of ice! 🙂 This restaurant bar was warm and cozy and our bartender was super friendly and professional.
Full assortment of cured meats and artisanal cheeses served with warm focaccia, pickled vegetables and organic Opolo walnuts. $28
Opolo Vineyards, Paso Robles CA
This charcuterie and cheese board was wonderful and worked great with their wines at Opolo. It was very relaxing to sit on their patio and sip wine and have a midday snack.
Sausage, egg, and American cheese on an English muffin. Served with hash browns and coffee. Combo $5.25
Burger King, Gilroy CA
Ugh, the jerks forgot the egg and just gave me a sausage and cheese muffin. SO lame! I really can’t stand incompetent restaurant workers. 😦
Chicken wings, fried rice. Happy hour buffet $10
Tonga Room, San Francisco CA
This food was marginal, even for a happy hour buffet. I guess you can get away with this when you’re a San Francisco institution. I will never do this happy hour buffet again though. I would rather spend the money on an extra drink.
Chicken wings, egg rolls, chow mein.
Happy hour $9
El Gaucho, Tacoma WA
This mac and cheese was very good. I wish there was a bit more lobster, but it had great flavor and the pasta was cooked nicely.
Crispy imperial rolls filled with crab meat, shrimp, pork and silver noodles, served with rice vermicelli, fish sauce, fresh herbs and roasted peanuts. $9.75
77 Chinese & Vietnamese Cuisine, San Francisco CA
This was ok. The pork was dry and salty. Actually, even the imperial rolls were pretty salty even without the fish sauce. Don’t think I’ll be returning to this place for lunch. 😦
Mortadella, salami, lox, assorted cheese, olives, capers, artichoke. Complimentary in Executive Lounge
Renaissance Beijing Wangfujing Hotel, Beijing CHINA
I’m a little sad that I ate so much at the Executive Lounge instead of exploring more of the local restaurants, but it was also nice not to spend so much on food and drinks. I really need to win the lottery so I don’t have to make these lame decisions, lol! 🙂
Dumplings. These were actually pretty good!
Canadian bacon, ham, and pineapple. $4.49
Sbarro, Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA)
This slice wasn’t very good. The crust was cardboard-y and there was SO much cold and lifeless cheese on it. It felt like work trying to eat this. Lame!
Cured salmon, scrambled eggs, red onions, tomatoes, Swiss cheese, bagel. $5.95
Hilton Seattle Airport, SeaTac WA
This sandwich was on the dry side, but it was free so I can complain too much. I liked that you got to choose items from their coffee shop for complimentary breakfast items.
Jim Bean manhattan. Don’t worry, I didn’t have this for breakfast, lol! I grabbed this at the hotel bar the night before. 🙂
Â¥268
Da Dong Roast Duck Restaurant, Beijing CHINA
Omg, this duck was amazing especially the skin! It was so juicy and flavorful, and they slice it tableside and serve all parts of the duck. We also got the condiments so had a nice variety of toppings and sauces to wrap our roast duck with. A visit to Da Dong for their roast duck is a definite must when visiting Beijing!
Wrappers.
Staff member slicing our duck tableside.
We ordered pan-fried buns, but got these sesame buns instead. Boo!
Madarin oranges accompanied our check. Yay!
With tartar sauce and fry sauce. $9.75
Al’s Humdinger, Hoquiam WA
This fish and chips tasted great. I liked the halibut more than the fries though. I’m not a big fan of crinkle cut fries. Anyway, the fish was cooked nicely and not greasy. The fry sauce was also very tasty.
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