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60-degree weather: Il Corvo, Pioneer Square, Seattle

March 26, 2015March 26, 2015by have you eaten?1 Comment

This place seats 38 people. You share your table with strangers. It only opens 4 hours a day from 11am. It’s jam packed and you feel like canned anchovy. They only serve 3 kinds of pasta with a few kinds of appetizers. No desserts, no after lunch coffee. The line gets long at 11:10am. They have rules how you eat there. Be in line for a while, order at this tiny counter, find your table, bus your table, exit. You get tempted to find your table first then be in line. No, you don’t do that here.

It’s mid 60’s today and sunny in Seattle. It was just perfect to get out. My co-worker and I hopped on to the “lunch shuttle” from our office building to Pioneer Square and headed to Il Corvo. We got there 11:10am and there already was a line. We waited in about 15 minutes or so and we were out of there by 11:55am. Inside of the restaurant is rustic and welcoming. Reclaimed wood tables and old wooden floor and vintage pasta machines as interior décor. Totally my kind of place. I had torchiette (short pasta) with house made pancetta, sugar snap peas, and parmesan cheese. Savory, sweet, slightly tangy, delicious. Perfect amount as well.

Thanks to the gorgeous weather and my co-worker Yumi to make me get out. I feel like I had a real quick trip to Italy during my lunch hour.

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Story of Shotgun Trip to Seoul & Tokyo: over Via Tribunali in Georgetown

March 23, 2015by have you eaten?2 Comments

March 12 Thursday left Seattle

March 13 Friday arrived Gimpo Airport, Seoul, South Korea

March 14 Saturday flew from Seoul to Haneda,Tokyo

attended concert of this Jin YiHan dude in the afternoon in Shibuya, Tokyo

flew back to Seoul from Tokyo in the evening

March 15 Sunday Facial, city tour, massage, body scrub, shopping in Seoul

March 16 Monday flew back to Seattle from Seoul

Who does this?

She and I have been friends since May 2000. She is unique and I am quirky so we make sense together. She is the one person whom I don’t feel uncomfortable seeing after not seeing each other for a long time and we can go back to where we left off. We got together last Friday and we did not have any awkward moments whatsoever and we started our non-stop 3-hour conversation as soon as we met in Georgetown.

We went to Pizzeria in Georgetown in Seattle called Via Tribunali. They have 20 descent kinds of pizza and some pasta dishes. We ordered one pizza with prosciutto and mushroom and linguine vongole. To be honest with you, I don’t even remember how they tasted. It must not have been bad because I didn’t notice. I was too busy catching up with her whirl wind, insane travel story and it was way more interesting than the food we ordered. She told me that this trip was her 10- year wedding anniversary gift from her husband, while he stayed behind to take care of his business and their 5-year old daughter. I have no intention to be criticizing their decision. I’d rather embrace how understanding her husband is and how hard Amy works every day by working full-time, being a mom and being a wife at the same time. I guess her mom was so upset hearing Amy was traveling alone and leaving her daughter behind. I understand where her mom is coming from but she should know already by now that Amy is spontaneous, curious and a determined person, which makes Amy so unique and interesting.

So, I have photos of what we ate that night but I don’t have any comments on them. They were good.

Really, who would do this kind of trip? My crazy friend Amy does. I am so glad that I have such an insane friend who makes my life way more entertaining and fun.

Embrace your craziness, Amy. This is a huge compliment.

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Tomato…so cheerful

January 3, 2015by have you eaten?Leave a Comment

I am hungry. Actually I am starving. After spending 10 hours or so at work, I want to eat fast. My choices are 1) to suck it up and cook 2) to go straight to the couch. OK, I choose 1) tonight but it needs to quick and delicious. It cannot be one those ready-made crap. No. It MUST have my love in it and be yummy in my tummy. On cold and gloomy night in Seattle, I thought tomato red would cheer my heart up and my stomach up. One big can of San Marzano and dried spaghetti box in my pantry. Ok. One Walla Walla sweet onion and brown mushroom in my veggie bin. Cool, I don’t have to go to store. In my Staub, I start cooking chopped onion with Lorenzo No.1 olive oil then add some mushroom, then whole can of tomato and Eden sea Salt. Shimmer while I take shower.

Then above becomes this with accompaniment.

Baby, it’s cold outside. Let’s eat spaghetti with simple tomato sauce so this will take us to under Italian sun and cold night blues are done immediately.