Jackie and Dan eat at some restaurants up and down El Camino Real in the Bay Area to fill in the missing areas of their mental map. Hilarity ensues.
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Restaurant: Sushi O Sushi
Distance travelled: 0 ft
Ordered: Ca Crunch Roll and Tempura Crunch Roll
Bell Rating: Dan 350 bells | Jackie 400 bells
Show Notes:
(I wrote this post for our original recording which is the computer ate, OMNOMNOMNOMNOM)
We’re back with two Korean bakeries!
Restaurant: Kung Sil Rice Bakery Company
Distance travelled: 30 ft
Ordered: Bran muffin and curry pastry
Bell Rating: Dan 425 bells | Jackie 400 bells
Restaurant: Jin’s Bakery
Distance travelled: 0.2 miles
Ordered: Rice cakes - one mini mocha tray with read bean, rice cake with sesame, and sesame and brown sugar dumpling
Bell Rating: Dan 250 bells | Jackie 300 bells
Show Notes:
Cubanos are sandwiches
Red Wine-Braised Short Ribs recipe by Bon Appetit
No-Fail Roast Chicken with Lemon and Garlic recipe by Basically
The cookbook we mentioned is Where Cooking Begins: Uncomplicated Recipes to Make You a Great Cook by Carla Lalli Music
Applebee’s grilled chicken dish covered in fireball whisky-infused sauce
Restaurant: BN Chicken
Distance travelled: 0.6 miles
Ordered: Samgyetang (Korean ginseng chicken soup) and wings with salad
Bell Rating: Dan 417 bells | Jackie 410 bells
Show Notes:
Kranch - Meet Heinz’s hybrid of ketchup and ranch
Strawberries & Cream Scones from King Arthur Flour
It’s another Mexican and Vietnamese food combo edition! We chat about our pilgrimage to Del Taco #1 in Barstow, poaching pears, date shakes, new Bonchon flavors and Tyson’s pizza flavored chicken nuggets.
Restaurant: Lupita’s Taqueria
Distance travelled: 0.5 miles
Ordered: Enchiladas de mole (Enmoladas) with chicken. Four tacos (al pastor, carnitas, lengua, and carne asada).
Bell Rating: Dan 300 bells | Jackie 375 bells
Restaurant: Blurr Kitchen
Distance travelled: 0.3 miles
Ordered: Crispy spring rolls. Roasted pork banh mi with garlic fries. Meal plan with spicy beef and pork, eggplant, cauliflower, and garlic noodles.
Bell Rating: Dan 420 bells | Jackie 400 bells
Show notes:
The Date Shake in Costa Mesa we were obsessed with and keep chasing.
Yup, we’re still at it and it’s another double restaurant edition to try to make some progress.
Restaurant: Burma Bistro
Distance travelled: 338 ft
Ordered: Palata and dip, tea leaf salad, meh hin ga (fish noodle soup), and chicken dan bawk (Burmese style chicken biryani)
Bell Rating: Jackie 410 bells | Dan 400 bells
Restaurant: Psycho Donuts
Distance travelled: -0.2 miles
Ordered: Key Lime Pie
Bell Rating: Jackie ??? bells | Dan 370 bells
Show notes:
Restaurant: Taqueria La Veracruzana - married couple recommendation
Distance travelled: 0.3 miles
Ordered: 4 tacos (asada, lengua, al pastor, and carnitas) and a side of rice and beans
Bell Rating: Taco Bell…. jk jk Dan: 367 bells | Jackie: 400 bells
Restaurant: Tay Ho
Distance travelled: 0.7 miles
Ordered: Bánh cuốn : Tay Ho Combination Flour Sheet
Bell Rating: 100 bells
Show notes:
Lay’s Turn Up the Flavor program: Flamin’ Hot Dill Pickle Remix for hip-hop, Wavy Electric Lime and Sea Salt for pop music, and Kettle Cooked Classic Beer Cheese for rock music.
Tartine County Loaf - The sourdough bread recipe we follow.
Tepache Recipe - We watched this video and followed this recipe for Dan’s fermented pineapple drink. And if we don’t die from it, we’re looking forward to trying this cocktail with it.
Progress: We’ve travelled 1.5 miles and eaten at 4 restaurants.
We travelled 0.8 miles down the road from The Sub Hub, passed Santa Clara University, Larry J. Marsalli Park, and found ourselves at Euro Grill! The restaurant is located in an office building that looks like a house, definitely adding the homey charm, and enjoyed a delicious meal of ćevapi, Euro burger, chicken skewer, lepinja, and burek.
We gave this place 390 bells out 500. While we discovered there are only 450 bells, for simplicity we are keeping our grading to 500 😜.
Fact Check:
The languages spoken are Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian.
The Bosnian sour cream is called Kaymak.
For our very first restaurant, we visited Sub Hub in Santa Clara! Jackie ordered: The Unforgiven and Dan ordered: Feel the Bern. We gave this place 375 bells out of 500.
The South Bay Historic Railroad Museum we did not visit.
Mission Santa Clara de Asis - Free to visit
Fact check:
UOP is in Stockton
Santa Clara University does have a football team, they are the Broncos. And yes Sub Hub does have a Broncos sandwich.
There were originally 450 bells.
