Deep Fried Chicken Fried Rice?!! Whaaaat?! Out of control!
21. Tom Yum Gai Soup Hot and sour soup with chicken, shrimp, lemon grass, galangal, tomato, and mushrooms.
Shin Ramyun with egg, green onion and dumplings. I don't like my ramen with too much broth and I don't like my noodles overcooked so I rarely go out for ramen, but I enjoy making my own. :) 
I used the cilantro lime sauce I made the other day as the base for this, but mixed in sesame oil, soy sauce and wasabi.
Soba noodles, rinsed cold.
Mixed. Simple. Delicious!
Buckwheat noodles with a Korean dressing (that I'm also going to use to marinade some meat for Korean tacos!). Yums.
Papaya Salad at Three Papayas. Ta-wei, Vivienne and Matty at the Three Papaya's treated us to two of these! So sweet!
One of the specials, a lotus root salad with chicken. Mmmmm.
Another one of the specials! The pig's head with Spanish rice and a fried egg. This is apparently a Filipino dish and was very interesting! 
My bossman, Chris, workin' the screen! 
Our amazing screen-printing pro, Henrik! Thank you for everything! He is holding up the first part/color of our print.
Here is a photo of my finished t-shirt! You can see the other layer here (in gray). I LOVE what Charmaine designed for us and love how it looks screen-printed! I'm so happy with how today went and can't wait to plan more events!
Vietnamese crepe. Yummy, but not the best Vietnamese crepe I've had.
Vermicelli noodle salad with pork and imperial rolls! This is one of my favorite Vietnamese dishes. I could eat this every day! This once had great, flavorful pork and nice imperial rolls, BUT they didn't have enough imperial roll. Also, they only gave fish sauce with this. I decided to use the sauce from the Vietnamese crepe dish with this and it was lovely.
Shaking beef. Definitely not my favorite shaking beef. 
The bachelorette gang! Woohoo!!
Taaaaaaao! Gosh, I had heard SO much about this place from SO many different people that I immediately put it on my "must" list! 
Pretty.. I guess on the weekends they have models in these baths as you walk into Tao.
The Tao Buddha. 
It's a pretty spot. I like what they've done with the decor.. not overdone, but definitely a nice mix.
Crispy Coconut Shrimp with Spicy Thai Peanut Sauce. 
Top: Satay of Chilean Sea Bass with Wok Roasted Asparagus. 
Chocolate fortune cookie! With clever little fortunes! Fortune cookies aren't really my thing, but these were fun.
My amazing vermicelli noodles with imperial rolls! This is my favorite Vietnamese dish and the one here was HUGE! The biggest portion I think I've ever been served, but the sauce wasn't the best I've had. The rolls were a generous portion and very tasty though. I was super happy with this dish and had leftovers--yay!
Meatball pho. Again, very generous with the meat! The broth here is beef based and they used thinner noodles for their pho. 
Photo from ji k on Yelp.
This was pretty great. I used my special Asian sauce with rice, egg, eggplant, chicken, baby corn, broccoli, green beans, black pepper. This was great! :)
Special Asian sauce! Haha. Vinegar, Rice vinegar, olive oil, sesame oil, soy sauce, oyster sauce, sugar, wasabi, garlic, red onion, cilantro, Korean seasoning packet.
I cooked the shrimp in this sauce and then let it cool. 
I cooked the somen noodles quickly, rinsed them in cold water and then mixed them with the sauce. I topped them with shrimp and cilantro. Very tasty! 
I'm going to mix in the recipe with the photos.. Approximate ingredient measurements are below.
3. Add 2 cups of cooked rice, sausage, the above Korean spice/veggie packet, fish sauce, olive oil, sesame oil and soy sauce. 
5. Add cilantro and mix in. 
6. Serve! :) 
Frooooozen veggies! I have mixed feelings on frozen veggies, but it's been hard being on foot and picking up fresh groceries all the time! I decided to give this batch a try.
My classic--vermicelli noodles with imperial rolls. The imperial rolls here were huge! They were awesome, but sliced too thickly! The noodles were cooked perfectly, the sauce was just right and I was very happy with this meal! :) My only other complaint though would be that there was no cilantro!!?? I was shocked and I loooove cilantro so I was pretty disappointed by that. Strange for a Vietnamese place, but maybe they ran out?? Hmm..
The special make-your-own wrap meal. This was very good and came with nice wrap paper, tons of fresh veggies and a three different sauces! Again though--no cilantro to be found! :( 
The better Pork Shoulder (left) and Phad Thai. 
So I only had a small pot, so I did the veggies separately.. haha. Red onions, obviously. :) 
Red, green, yellow bell peppers!
Celery.
Add teriyaki sauce, the rest of my rotisserie chicken (Gosh, I got good use out of that!), pineapple chunks, and cashews. 
Finished. There was SO much of this--I filled two things of tupperware to freeze and then one to eat with rice later. :)
It all started with our hostess (in purple) and a bunch of empty serving platters. Asian Thanksgivings are always an interesting mix of Asian and American food. :)
And then we arranged this appetizer tier to nibble on while everything else finished cooking. The mini jalapeno-cheddar cornbread muffins on the bottom are mine! 
Getting the ham ready for the final bake!
My parent's seafood dish.
String bean casserol.
Asian fish dish.
Korean japchae. My mother's friend, who I hadn't seen in about 5 years made this and made it vegetarian because she remembered that I was! Aw, bless her! But I had to break it to her that I haven't been a vegetarian in almost 3 years now! 
Korean vegetable and egg pancakes.
A spicy Korean chicken and potato dish.
Bacon wrapped asparagus! 
Corn bread stuffing. 
The ham, was our turkey this year! First Thanksgiving without a turkey, but I don't love turkey so it was okay. :) 
Baked salmon with lemon, capers and a cream sauce. This was my favorite part of the meal!
The whole spread. 
