Food update - week 1

Did not take photo on every food, but did recorded each meal and rating for each restaurant I had.

Will pick some highlights here.

Cornelius Pass Imbrie Hall - Steak was hard and wasn't the very best taste.

Observatory - Salmon was OK.

King Salmon - The Observatory

Cheesecake Factory - Steak was good. Although I ordered shrimp pasta which was average.

Pure Spice - Not very often we can find a less typical Chinese restaurant. Typical means all the weird, Americanized Chinese food that appear almost exactly the same on every Chinese restaurant. Pure Spice has more specialties that might not be suitable for angmo. Peking duck was highlight of the meal. It wasn't too bad.

Peking Duck - Pure Spice

Syun Izakaya - It was one of my favorite restaurant last year, despite the limited times that I ate out, I went Syun twice. This third visit is a different one's, with my high aim on getting nice aka expensive sashimi. Ordered a 9-piece sashimi combo, and highlight of the night was the ootoro, fatty tuna. I wasn't really a sashimi enthusiast nor I am expect in taste, but the ootoro tastes right on the sweet spot for me.

Ootoro - Syun

Tempura Banana aka goreng pisang - Syun

Aviary - March is Portland Dining Month, there are over 100 restaurants that are offering a 3-course-meal with discounted price of $29. Aviary is one of them. I would imagine it'd be a nice and classy restaurant with such pattern menu, and the place isn't too bad as well; but maybe it is small and packed, it was extremely noisy when I was there, probably the noisiest I have been in The State. Ordered Dungeness Crab Chawanmushi, Beef Short Rib and Chocolate Budino. The chawanmushi was served with sea urchin on top, crab meat was mixed within the egg. Taste was OK. Main course came after 30 minutes, it was small and it tasted awful.

Dungeness Crab Chawanmushi - Aviary

Beef Short Rib - Aviary

Interesting menu, something like Japanese-Western fusion I guess - Aviary

Red Onion - Angmo has little resistance over spicy, it is not easy to get a proper spicy flavored dish that suits our appetite, Red Onion happens to be one of the restaurants that is capable of serving authentic Thai food. We ordered the out-of-ordinary menu, both mango salad and tomyam were nice.

Mango Salad, just the right spicy taste - Red Onion

Coconut juice, pretty sure it wasn't fresh. - Red Onion

Salt & Straw - A signature ice-cream in Portland. Had the Sea Salt Caramel Ice Cream and it tasted just as weird as you can imagine.

There were some other dishes ate at company's cafe that doesn't worth mentioning.