H Mart - Restaurant Review

Some of you may know that there is a new Korean Market in town. It's called H Mart and is located on Hwy 99 in Tigard, where the Haggen used to be.

If you have not ventured into H Mart yet, I advise that you do this on a weekday during the lunch hour or perhaps into the late evening when it is near closing time.
When you go there, you will be overwhelmed with Korean food (and other asian food, although it is primarily Korean). You will find items that range from yummy sweet cakes to frozen dried squid, your pick. You will also find that they have a hot food/deli section.

This hot food/deli section is open for lunch and dinner. They have a variety of traditional Korean meals, but I must say, not for very cheap. I thought the menu was a tad bit overpriced. You can find the traditional bibim pap (rice in a bowl with spicy red paste, vegetables, meat, and an egg), spicy squid with rice (cooked squid with vegetables in a spicy red sauce), kalbi-tang soup (beef stock soup), jja jang myun (noodles with brown bean paste, meat, and vegetables), to the more common fried rice, sweet and sour, hot wings, to the Japanese influenced sushi.


I went with a group of coworkers and I'm proud to say that we all got something different. Most liked what they got and some weren't that impressed. Myself being one. I got the jja jang myun and thought that it was bland. the noodles were too clumped together and the sauce didn't have that much flavor to it and was kind of liquidy, rather than thick, like I am used to. The sauce only had onions and meat as well. I'm used to sauce with potatoes, meat, onions, cucumbers, cabbage, etc..something a little more hearty.

My coworkers got mabo tofu (spicy tofu - she didn't get it that spicy and it ended up being pretty bland), chicken fried rice, sashimi salad, and spicy squid.

I may venture to H Mart again for lunch, but it will probably be a while. I think that I will stick to grocery shopping there and purchase some frozen dried squid instead.

Cha-ching!!!

So we got notice yesterday that daycare will be increasing their rates come September 1. Ugh!

The Bee Movie - A Review

So Bill rented "The Bee Movie" for Jae to watch and I believe they watched most of it, but I don't think that Jae would consider this movie to be in the same class distinction as the movie "Cars" - now that is an awesome movie.

Anyway, so I just wanted to say that I would give this movie 2.5 stars out of 5. The only good thing about this movie was Jerry Seinfeld and his one-liners. The animation wasn't that great (well, when you compare it to a Cars, A Bugs Life, etc) and the characters weren't that interesting.

Dr. Jekyll and Miss Hyde

My previous post talked about the crazy side of Hannah. Well, this post is about the cute, lovable side of Hannah.

How cute is she? It's moments like this that I will forget about what happened on Thursday = Screech!

Brewfest 2008

The quest for the holy spot began at 10 am on this glorious July 26th Saturday morning. Every year we set off on a quest for this spot under a tree that my dad likes. It really is a great spot that hides you from the hot sun or rain (this is Oregon). Out of all the years we've gone to this fest, we've only missed out on this spot once. This year, we got there so darn early that Stacey, Jake and I walked right in with the rest of the volunteer staff while Barb and her friend Cathie waited at the front gate. So once Barb and Cathie got in legally, we all went back out to get our wristbands.

This year's brewfest programs finally were well organized and they listed which trailer had which beer. It only took 21 years but they finally got it right. Got my first beer, Dragon's Milk, and sat down and checked off all the beers I wanted to try. I was very aggressive in the number of beers I wanted to try but, at this point in the day I had hope.

Barb's friend Cathie, Josh Pollinger and Patty the Pollinger cousin all came to visit from California to attend the brewfest with us. Its always nice to have visitors and we all had a great time.

This year the brewfest got busy so fast. On a typical year when the drunken cheers start we know its almost time to go. This year the cheers started only an hour into the fest. And the long lines that come with the drunken cheers also came early making it hard to taste all the beer you wanted. All in all, it was a great year and my favorite beers were the Dragon's Milk and Widmer's Full Nelson. The full nelson was my last beer and I discovered it had a 10% alcohol content. It wiped me out by that point in the day. Really wanted to try Rogue's beer Glen but, didn't get to it. There's always next year.

After the brewfest we headed to my sister Stacey's place for a barbecue and also to celebrate Anna Pollinger's 33rd birthday. All sorts of people were there and a good time was had by all. I learned that my sister's friend Seth is the son of a guy I've worked with at Rockwell for years. What a small world.

We all had a great time but, the busyness of this years brewfest has us all wondering if we want to keep going. Not sure if that makes us old or is just wise?

Screech..Part II

Sooo...I'm heading home tonight and who does the same thing??

Typical, she fell asleep for the first 30 minutes and then woke up. I stopped at a gas station and was there for 30 min, doing the whole rigamarole and nothing. So I get on the road, just as I see a vagrant walking around the parking lot!

So I told myself that I was going to drive for 20 minutes (regardless of crying) and if she was still crying after the 20 minutes that I would stop, and of course keep going if she was asleep.

She cried the whole 20 minutes and as I was getting ready to pull off at the next best exit, I heard quiet. She had fallen asleep.

She slept the whole way home, during transport to her bed, and she should sleep through the night.

Here's to a good night!

Screech!

I was heading up to my parents' house on Thursday evening with Hannah in tow. Normally, she's pretty good about hanging out with me when driving up to Olympia, but Thursday night I saw another side to little Miss Hannah.

The first 30 minutes were typical. She fell asleep as I sat through the Portland traffic heading northbound. However, 10 minutes into Washington, she wakes up and starts screaming! At first I thought it would subside, but as I kept driving, she kept screaming. So I stopped at a gas station to comfort her and put her back in her seat so we can keep going. The moment I get on the freeway, the screaming starts again. I drive for 10 minutes more and pull off the freeway again. This time we spend like 20 minutes parked at a gas station. I change her diaper, I feed her, I pat her, I walk her around outside (thank goodness for summer light), and she seems pretty happy. So we are on our way and as I pass an exit on the freeway, she starts screaming again. By this time I've got Bill on the phone and I'm asking him if I should turn back around and go home or keep stopping and head up to my parents, because my level of patience was wearing VERY thin at this point..all of this while parked on an offramp with my hazards on..alone with a baby.

I end up staying on the side of the road on this offramp for 30 minutes trying to soothe this crying baby. She ends up spitting up all over herself from the crying, so I have to change her clothes. I decide to give her some tylenol to calm her down and within 10 minutes she was asleep. By this time, it's dark! The sun has set and I'm still parked on the side of the road with my hazards. I was praying that no one would stop by and knock on the window b/c I would have freaked!

Needless to say, she stayed asleep the rest of the way to the parents. And I'm sure come morning, she had no recollection of it at all.

SOOOOOO..