Moab is a pretty small town. You can pretty much walk up and down the main strip in no time. We tried to go to this one restaurant, but we could not find it and our GPS wasn’t much help. So after driving around for awhile, we came back to the hotel and walked to Zax. There’s indoor seating as well as pseudo-outdoor seating. It’s a casual restaurant that seems pretty good for family dining.
S got one of the specials, which was a mahi mahi entree with mango salsa. It also came with grilled veggies on a stick, garlic bread, and baked potato. This wasn’t particularly interesting to me. The fish didn’t seem that fresh and the mango salsa just wasn’t right. I found the baked potato to be the best part.
I went with one of the regular deals which is all-you-can-eat pizza, salad, and soup. There’s something I’ve got to like in there, right? Well, the pizza was definitely the weakest. I think if the pizza was actually hot, it would have been ok and almost good, but when it’s lukecold, it’s pretty blah. I think I wouldn’t have ever cared for their dough though, so the heat probably really didn’t matter. The salad bar reminded me of a really simple buffet salad bar, kind of like the one my family would take us to when we were young and we ate at the Rustler every weekend. But you know what? I was a big fan of this salad bar. The veggies were fresh even though completely not fancy, they had hard-boiled egg and dressings that I liked. I love any salad bar that has chopped up hard-boiled egg.
But it was even better that the salad bar itself was in a canoe. Yes, a canoe. You know I can’t make this stuff up.
It was pretty obvious that the soup came out of a can, but I also did not mind that. Sometimes you just want soup, and to me, most canned soups are just fine. This was a beef vegetable and it was just fine by me! The server was really nice and enthusiastic, but I’m not gonna lie to you, I really wasn’t crazy about any of the food. I would have to say this was one of the not-so-great meals of the entire trip.

For mother’s day this year, we somehow ended up at Margaret Kuo’s Akari Room in Wayne. My aunt picked it. But then she didn’t end up going. But we had to go anyway. That’s ok, the old lady would have picked sushi anyway. This is on the second floor of the chinese part of Margaret Kuo’s. It’s swanky. There’s a large sushi bar and plenty of tables and traditional style booths.
The miso soup – quite respectable. Mom didn’t complain about it being too salty or anything. It was just right.
Since I always like to try the agedashi tofu, I tried it here too. And it was good! It was nice and hot and the sauce was spot on.
Mom’s sushi dinner, which is usually her go-to at any sushi joint. Everything was good and fresh.
As for me, I went with a grilled chilean sea bass in an orange miso sauce. This was a great big honkin piece of fish! And it tasted great too. The sauce was just a tiny bit on the orangey side, just enough. The veggies were great too. All in all, this was good food with good service and a fancy atmosphere.

I’ve been dragging K out of his house lately. And since he’s a First Person Arts star, he got us passes to the PIFA Slam Nation Event. Before that, I made him go eat on Washington Ave at Pho & Cafe Viet Huong, But then he went and ordered the most wrong dish on the  menu. For whatever reason, at a vietnamese pho restaurant, he ordered the shimp and pork egg noodle soup. This had egg noodles in a broth with shrimp, lean pork, and ground pork. The noodles were the really thin kind and sadly, the broth was mad bland. Even after attacking it with sriracha and hoisin and limes and whatever else, it didn’t get any less bland.
I stick to tried and true stuff here and since I didn’t want pho, I went with the charbroiled pork and crispy spring roll vermicelli bowl. This is just fine here, but their noodles have gotten really fat and I’m not sure how I feel about that. I think it’s better with the really skinny vermicelli noodles. I also got an avocado shake but it wasn’t all that great. I think I should have gotten a fruit one instead. I think this was from a powder and it wasn’t very avocado-y. Better luck next time!