I headed off to vegas for a short work-related visit. For our first night there, we had a rough time finding food. We went to the Rio to eat at an italian place that C had been to before, but when we got there, we found out it was no longer there. So then we walked to a different italian place there, but it was too expensive and the advertisements for the restaurant were too creepy. Several other places we tried to go to were already closed. This is why we resorted to eating at Mah Jong. It’s a fast food chinese spot. I went with the beef chow fun. It was ok. The hot and sour soup was awful. It’s hard to describe why it was so bad, but it was neither hot nor sour nor good. And this food was horribly overpriced as well, for less than mediocre chinese. I like the Rio, but not for this place!

I wanted my hot korean noodle fix, so I got a nice big bowl of jjamppong. It’s a dish that originated in china, but it’s been quite koreanized. It’s one of my favorite korean dishes of all time. This wasn’t the greatest jjamppong around, but it really hit the spot. The noodles are usually thick and hand pulled, but these were just some boring thick spaghetti type noodles. There certainly could have been more seafood in it. Not exactly what I wanted, but you know, sometimes, you take what you can get. I still enjoyed it! It looks like a big bowl of red death, but it’s not too spicy. Spicy, but not too much so.

We had a lovely drive over the Golden Gate bridge into Marin county, where we drove further up through Muir Woods and to Muir Beach. We enjoyed our well earned $5 foot longs here. Yum. Let me say that I’ve been wrong to poke fun at J about his love for the $5 foot longs. It’s been such a long time since I’ve been to a subway. But really, it’s such an amazing deal! You get to put on all the veggies you want! Including cucumbers! And all the sauces you want! They have like a dozen! How can you go wrong? And with a view like this, it tasted even better!