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One of our favorite places is hands down, Honda-ya in Old Town Tustin. It's a quaint little Japanese restaurant (always with a line) that serves not just sushi but yakitori and other traditional Japanese dining options. My go-to has always been a couple of their yakitori (specificially the veggies wrapped in bacon) and then dinner would always be either the sesame fried chicken or the pork tonkatsu (also breaded and fried). When we were super hungry, we'd go with a 2-item dinner combo: comes with miso soup, a salad, bowl of rice, side potato salad and two choices (of which mine would always be vegetable tempura with sesame fried chicken or the pork tonkatsu.. But usually the sesame fried chicken).

My appetite having decreased a whole lot since our last visit to Honda-ya (i'll have to see if I posted our Honda-ya feast fest earlier on), and being diabetic for the time being, Corina and I finally hopped on over (now only a 3-minute drive from my new digs!) for some bacon-wrapped stuff on sticks - YUM!





From left to right: Bacon wrapped asparagus, bacon wrapped cherry tomatoes, bacon wrapped zucchini, and chicken leg meat. I had already demolished the bacon wrapped sausages at this point. But how pretty and delicious does that look?

I don't know why the images always look smaller and grainier when I post directly from my phone even though when I post from my computer (still not hooked up) with photos from my phone, it looks fine.

So maybe our taste buds have changed, or maybe the chef changed, but dinner didn't knock our socks off (if we had been wearing socks) like it used to. Will we return? Of course!!!

- Posted mobile-y (please excuse the typos!)

Lazy Dog!

So there's this place that I always pass in my local Target shopping center. It's called Lazy Dog Cafe and it's a really low-key, cozy, casual restaurant with a somewhat rustic charm, despite the fact that they've got a bar and decent happy hour and everything. The menu has a decent selection, including quite a drink list (alcoholic drink list).

So last night after some shopping at the mall, Corina and I swung by for a "quick" dinner. I mean, we didn't even bother looking at the full menu, we just looked at the starters and small bites section. And well... starters aren't exactly small either.

Corina's order of the nachos with carne asada chili and all the fixin's (7.95)... look at that cozy fire going on back there.

My order of the blackened chicken quesadilla (9.45) was quite tasty. I particularly loved the melted and crispy cheese on top of the tortilla - in fact, I liked it more than the chicken (which was still tasty) on the inside! And the salsa/guacamole/sour cream they provided was not skimpy at all. Gosh that quesadilla looks delicious right now.

Anyhow, would I recommend this place? Sure! The last time I had gone with the hubster, he had ordered a beer sampler which had, I believe 5 beers (ales) come out on what looked like a wooden painter's palette. They weren't large glasses of beer, but decent enough size... at that point, the hubster couldn't even get through them all. But then again, that was a couple of years ago... let's say his alcoholic consumption/tolerance has increased... exponentially... (but then again, he's more of a lager than an ale person anyway)...

Next time I'll have their Sweet Potato Tater Tots. Doesn't THAT sound delicious???