Food Review: Pho Hong Vietnamese Restaurant

5975 Kingsway, Burnaby [map]

Food:  Tasty.  At least the noodles that I’ve had.  I’m not a fan of the meat balls though.  Good place for a quick lunch.

Service:  Usually quick but not usually personable.  The second you step in the front door, someone will ask you how many people and then point you to a table.  Your order will be taken minutes later followed by your food quite quickly.  Drinks at times may arrive much late though.  Don’t expect the waitresses to check up on you, but don’t be afraid to flag one down if you need to.  The bleached-blonde woman is always angry looking.  I think every day is the worst day of her life.

Ambiance:  I think there used to be a Greek restaurant there.  Cleanliness?  Let’s not go there. 

Posted by tastethehappy Posted in: 30-Second Food Reviews 4 Comments » June 2008

Late Night Blues

I worked about 19 days straight as of this past Saturday.  I took Sunday off.  Sometimes, I find working late quite peaceful.  My desk is in the far corner with 4 other desks and so secluded away from the busy-ness of the rest of the area.  However, it gets rather boring at night.  Especially since the other 4 people that normally sit around me aren’t staying as late.  There are a lot of others staying late too, but they’re all on the other side of my cube.  Sometimes it makes me jealous when I hear them guffawing about stuff I don’t know about.  Oh well.

Posted by tastethehappy Posted in: Worky Worky No Comments » June 2008

30-second Food Reviews!

I’m horrible at writing, always have been since elementary school.  So I will leave the more elaborate reviews to those who have talent!  Any restaurant I review from now on will remain short and sweet.  Anything that stands out from my experience will then go into detail. 

Hmm, my blogroll seems to have disappeared with this new layout… I’ll need to sort that out…

Posted by tastethehappy Posted in: 30-Second Food Reviews No Comments » June 2008

Lack of Updates

Unfortunately for the past month I’ve been pretty swamped at work so I haven’t had much time to do anything creative.  I did remember that I did a small Mario-based painting sometime last year.  Nothing fancy, but definitely geeky!

Posted by tastethehappy Posted in: Random Life Tales, Artsy Fartsy, Video Games 4 Comments » June 2008

Oh, Guitar Hero. How far you’ve fallen.

http://kotaku.com/5011292/rip-guitar-hero-2005+2008

http://www.destructoid.com/footage-of-guitar-hero-iv-someone-tells-activision-ceo-it-s-called-rock-band-88034.phtml

Posted by tastethehappy Posted in: Video Games No Comments » May 2008

Office Pranks

I’m at my desk and then I heard just a barrage of laughter on the other side of my cube.  So I wandered over to find out what was going on.  My manager had sent his XBox 360 away for repair some weeks ago and it just arrived back.  However, he wasn’t at his desk when it arrived, so they opened up the box and replaced his 360 with an old XBox and taped it all back up so he couldn’t tell it was opened.  He was about to call the Microsoft helpdesk to complain until they broke it to him.  I thought it was a pretty awesome prank.

Posted by tastethehappy Posted in: Random Life Tales 1 Comment » May 2008

His Mom Thinks He’s Cool

Me, the boyfriend, and another couple went to Sweet Revenge, a small dessert cafe, last night after dinner.  When I say small, it’s pretty small.  We had this tiny against-the-wall table for the four of us, right next to another tiny-against-the-wall table which seated a guy and a girl.  Throughout our time there, the guy at that small table was just loud enough to be slightly distracting to our own conversation.  Every now and again something he’d say would stand out and we’d chuckle to ourselves.  I guess it’s pretty rude to eavesdrop on other people’s conversation, but when you’re making no effort to keep your conversation to yourself, I say it’s a free-for-all.

What I learned about this fella…

1. He and this girl he was with met on the Internets.
2. He likes to repeatedly say that he’s gotta put himself out there and see what happens.  He’s done the dating scene for a long time.
3. An older woman, through a dating website, was interested in him.  But he wasn’t (since she had a kid that was his age), so he nicely wrote back to her that he was flattered but he’d rather just be friends.  The woman was quite unhappy about it.
4. He’s old enough so he’s allowed to have high standards.
5. He was in the army for a while… But he hates guns and refuses to serve overseas.
6. He was shocked by the Taco Del Mar explosion when his buddy told him to go to the Global website to catch the live feed which wasn’t a live feed of the explosion, but rather a live feed of a reporter on the scene.
7. He has Samurai Jack on disc.
8. His mom thinks he’s cool.
9. He brought up his ex-girlfriend for some reason.  She has the same name as me, and she turned 25 last September.
10. He has verbal diarrhea.

Posted by tastethehappy Posted in: Random Life Tales 2 Comments » May 2008

Good ‘Ol WoW

I remember why I left Warcraft 6 months ago now…  Retards.  I was in a Warsong Gulch game with my level 17 priest.  I’m going down the Shadow route so I have nothing to help my heals out.  But when I was in the game, I was mostly healing.  I followed around a warrior and a hunter on the first two flags.  But the third flag was picked up by a rogue, who I ran up to, shielded and started throwing heals on.  Now either my heals really suck ’cause I don’t have anything to boost the numbers, or he’s got a lot of stamina gear.  Either way, I was throwing out the heals.  Even when he started accusing me of not healing him.  And he ran into a fight, instead of running away from the fight and returning the flag.

Why should I heal your dumb ass if you’re not even going to play your role properly?  After he died, I picked up the flag and got it back to the base while he was going off in the raid channel that I wasn’t healing and that no one else should heal me.  If he took a look at the roster, he’d have noticed that a paladin, who was guarding our base, and I were the only healers and we had thrown out a good number of heals.  Anyway, I should remember that arguing on the internet is like the Special Olympics.

Posted by tastethehappy Posted in: Teh Intrawebs No Comments » April 2008

Vancouver Cries a Little… Plus some Karaoke

After an embarassing 7-1 loss to the Flames, the Canucks have ended their 2007-2008 NHL season.  And again, it could’ve also possibly have been Trevor Linden’s last game as well.  I wish I was at the game just to be in the crowd to cheer for him, but I watched from a bar downtown.  I hope he gets to play again, 7-1 isn’t a way to end an NHL career!  I think this photo and write-up conveys the emotions much better than I can.

Saturday night was spent mostly downtown.  Dinner was at Alpha Global Sushi Bar, a Japanese tapas restaurant in Yaletown.  I will attempt a mini write-up on this place as well as the restaurant Goldfish sometime in the future I hope.  After dinner, the group of us went to The Met in Gastown for karaoke night.  While the place itself looks pretty seedy, the patrons were not.  While we were sitting there waiting for karaoke to start, a woman came and sat at our table just to say hi and introduce herself.  As for the karaoke, we weren’t quite sure what to expect, but it was pretty awesome.  There were a handful of good singers.  One woman sang Bullet With Butterfly Wings and I was totally impressed.

It took us about an hour and a half to gather the courage and pick some songs to sing.  Then another 45 minute wait until it was our turn.  Jenny and I ended up singing Radiohead’s Creep, then Ryan and Jenny sang Men At Work’s Down Under, and finally Jon closed our night with the Marilyn Manson version of Tainted Love.  His performance was quite epic as two random women danced with him throughout the entire song!

What I liked about this place’s karaoke was the song selection…  I’m way more into rock music, though I can appreciate pop songs and old classics.  But the closed-room karaoke places tend to lean more to pop songs, maybe a few really popular rock songs, then Asian songs.  I’d like to return to this place again, hopefully with more courage as well as more people that are willing to sing too.

Posted by tastethehappy Posted in: Random Life Tales No Comments » April 2008

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