Event #7 Take out

 For Event #7 We ordered take out from various local restaurants and had different cuisines including Chinese, American, Thai and Mexican.  We enjoyed the food and then ranked our favorites.

Gold US   Nordy's BBQ

The rest of the family was visiting, so we got BBQ from Nordy’s.  I think it’s the best BBQ in northern Colorado.  We had pulled pork, sausage and brisket with mac and cheese, baked beans and cornbread muffins and all of it was excellent.

Silver  Thailand  Chili Thai  chicken pad Thai

Chili Thai in Windsor serves Chinese and Thai food.  The pad Thai was really good. It had chicken, egg, bean sprouts, green onion, peanuts, noodles and a good tasting sauce.

Bronze China     Asian pearl bistro kung pao chicken

Asian pearl bistro chicken with peanuts, green onions and hot chili peppers (I didn’t eat those).  A pretty good version of kung pao chicken.

Bronze Mexico  Mi Tierra al pastor burrito

Mi Tierra in Windsor.  I ordered an al pastor burrito In a burrito plate with rice and beans.  I had it smothered in mild green chili but it was still a bit spicy. I Really liked the pork in the burrito and the rice and beans were very good.

 

 

Mexico Mi Tierra chicken enchiladas

The shredded chicken was very good with green chili on top that was also good. I ordered the plate with very good rice and beans.

 

US   Anthonys pizza

This was a good sized 18 inch NY style pizza.  A bit greasy but a pretty good pizza.  It is NY style pizza so I’m counting it as American food.

Thailand Chili Thai  thai basil chicken

Stir fried entrée with chicken and vegetables and quite a bit of basil.

China    Chili Thai  chicken lo mein

Basic lo mein but a good version of it with chicken, carrots cabbage and onions.

              

China Asian pearl bistro  sweet and sour chicken

Typical sweet and sour chicken with the red sweet and sour sauce.  This was an alright not to bad entrée.

2021 Food Olympics

 Welcome to my 2021 Food Olympics!

Over the last couple of months, I’ve been collecting and eating international foods from Omaha Steaks, World Market, Whole Foods, Safeway, King Soopers, Amazon and Walmart. We’ve also been getting takeout from local restaurants and making some foods at home. There are more than 30 different countries represented! I’ll be posting about different categories Including cookies, snacks, sodas, appetizers, entrees and cheeses and awarding gold, silver and bronze medals for each category.  

For my first post in honor of the actual Olympics being in Tokyo I ordered a Japanese snack box from Amazon.  

This “box” was actually a small bag and not exactly an overflowing box like the picture showed.  We took a couple of days testing all these and thankfully the packages were small.  The bag contained 30 different snacks including cookies, candies and crackers.  Most of these were not very good. but a few of them were alright including. 

·        Bag of mini crunchy noodles that were similar to what you get with soup at a Chinese restaurant.

·        Marshmallow with chocolate filling inside with Donald Duck on the package.

·        Foil bubble pack with 7 small round candies. Red, yellow, green, and purple with chocolate inside. These were like tiny M&M’s with no letters on them.

·        Ichigo  “Strawberry” Cream sandwich cookie, they were basically sweet crackers with strawberry filling.

But most of these I didn’t think were[ very good and a lot of them had a bad after taste including

·        A bag that Looked like soup crackers that were chalky and dry.

·        A yellow and green wrapper with a picture of bananas that tasted like a rubbery banana.

·        Puff fried rings were corn snacks that were curry flavored and was the worst item in the box.

·        Rectangle shaped cookie/cracker that was green on top and brown underneath.  It was sweet on top and bottom tasted burnt.

·        Corn Potage was a sweet and crunchy puff tube and kind of tasted like creamed corn.

·        A small candy that looked like a tootsie roll that didn’t taste good.

 

After testing all these snacks, I realized I’m not too fond of Japanese snacks,  but I still had fun trying something different.

Mike's Mighty Good Ramen Soup, Chicken, 1.6 Oz

 $2.69 at Whole Foods

This had good thick better quality noodles, and a pretty good broth.  I liked it, but I thought the price was a little high and I think I’d rather just eat the regular cheap cup noodles.

Chanpen Thai Cusine – Tempe Arizona

March 10, 2017

Last year we visited their original location and had a very good meal. This location was a bit more convenient this time. When we entered they pointed at one of the tables we could sit at.  

 

Once we were seated they brought large ball jars full of water with lime. After a bit of time looking at the menu our waiter came, but I wasn’t quite ready to make a decision yet so he left. After I looked a little bit more and decided what I wanted a different waiter came to take our order I ordered the cashew chicken ($9.95). Dad the stir fried silver noodles with chicken ($9.95) and mom ordered the spicy sweet basil chicken ($9.95). All with 1 on the 1-5 heat scale.  Pretty soon after our food arrived.

 

I thought my cashew chicken was pretty good it had decent quality chicken and a good amount of vegetables and the sauce tasted very good as well.  This was very good but I should have ordered this with a larger amount of spice and I think it would have been even better.  I tried mom’s spicy sweet basil chicken and it tasted pretty good too. She enjoyed this

 

and I think dad thought his was all right.

 

Just about as we were finishing up they brought three little dishes with a little scoop of coconut ice cream which was pretty good and a nice touch to end the meal. Overall I thought Chanpen Thai was pretty good at this location, but I think I enjoyed their food more at their original location.

 

 

 

 

2700 W Baseline Rd, Tempe, AZ 85283

  

Lemongrass Café – Moline Illinois

August 8, 2016

After a day visiting some of the John Deere attractions around the area including the harvester works factory and the John Deere pavilion, which was a couple blocks away we stopped in here for a bit early of a dinner. We parked back behind the restaurant and walked around to the front door which when we got there we found out it wasn’t wheelchair accessible. So we went back around to the back where they had the wheelchair accessible door. So we went in and were seated right away. After looking a bit at the menu we all three ordered a Coke $2.50 and I ordered the pad woon sen with chicken for $11.95 as did dad and mom got the pad Thai with chicken for $11.95. Then we sat and waited for a while and watched some of the staff interacting with a couple little kids that were there. They were very excited to see kids including our waitress carrying one of them around for a bit. Eventually our food came.

  

I thought my pad woon sen was pretty good. It had a glass noodles and vegetables and some sort of sauce. All of this tasted pretty good, but I have had better similar dishes. Dad seemed to like his too.

 

 

Mom enjoyed her pad Thai and I sampled it and I think it was better than when I got. I enjoyed this Asian place and wish I could go back and try some of their other things. Since they had many different Asian items from Thai to Korean to Chinese to Japanese and Vietnamese items that sounded good when reading the menu.

 

 

 

 

Address: 1419 5th Ave, Moline, IL 61265

 

  

Bop & Gogi – Centennial, Colorado

November 18, 2015

I read about and had been intrigued by this place for some time now, especially how you got to choose your three side dishes. This included kimchi, cucumber and other veggie sides and Jap chae among various other side items, but sometime along the way they changed ownership so I didn’t know how much had changed but I still wanted to try the place out. We arrived for quite a late lunch after a doctor’s appointment in Denver. The place was empty except for one or two other people that came in. We went up to the counter and checked out the menu I eventually ordered a Kim Bop roll with bulgogi along with my entrée of spicy chicken and mom and dad both got the bulgogi  plate. They didn’t ask what sides we wanted so I guess you don’t get to pick your sides anymore.  

 

 

Soon after that the Kim Bop roll arrived, mom asked if she could have some of it (she ended up eating half of it) so she really enjoyed it as did I. This is basically like a sushi roll but without the sushi it had spinach, carrot, cucumber and imitation crab along with pickled radish with the rice and the seaweed rolled around it. This was freshly made and you could actually see them making it and rolling it up.  


Once we were done with that our plates came out these came on sectioned trays with the entrée in one, rice in one and the three side dishes in their own section. the three side dishes they had were jap chae which this version was cold noodles with raw vegetables, a salad with sesame dressing it was good and I thought the dressing was very good but don’t know how Korean it was and bean sprouts.

These were all nice and plain and went nicely with my spicy chicken which was grilled chicken with a spicy sauce on it and after a while I didn’t really care too much for the sauce and it was a tad spicy for me.

The bulgogi did not have great meat quality and there was a good amount of fat and tough and chewy spots, but it had a very good flavor. After eating we left and I was thinking I should’ve tried their kimchi since they said it was fresh made, but I didn’t really think about it when I was there but maybe next time. My meal was alright but I think I would get something else next time, but I for sure would get another Kim Bop roll or two because it was just that good.

10639 E Briarwood Ave B2, Centennial, CO 80112