I think I was margarita overdose in this trip; Oyster again! Yum!
Watching sunset while drinking margarita and eating oyster at a beachside restaurant after massage…THAT’s vacation!
Tags: Alcohol, Mexican, Oyster, Travel Report
December 6, 2005
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Puerto Vallarta Beachside (Part 4)
//// By Freda in 02: Mexico, Travel
December 6, 2005
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Puerto Vallarta Beach (Part 3)
//// By Freda in 02: Mexico, Travel
First destination is of course the beach. Ok ok only because water sometimes nasty looking and very rocky (someone from our group cut his foot from the rock). Few of the girls went on parasailing, which is just SCARY…the nerve they have! They said it’s scarier than skydiving because you feel the wind against you. There’re nonstop pestering from street vendors. Raw oyster for $10. They sell those at a food stand, and the waiter even bring them around to sell to people. I was worried but then I gave in. ^^;; And it seems ok as I didn’t get sick later. It’s cheap oyster but it’s alright (go well with beer kind).
Tags: Mexican, Oyster, Travel Report
December 6, 2005
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Food @ Villa Las Palmeras (Part 2)
//// By Freda in 02: Mexico, Travel
2nd day Breakfast! There’re 3-4 maids employed in the villa to take care of our empty stomach all day! The guacamole is a stable sides for all meals and they’re so fresh and yummy!
1st dinner: Taco and Enchiladas. I don’t like beans but overall quite good.
2nd Dinner: we have shrimp (tasty but salty) and steak. The first cake is divine~ The flans are a bit stale…
3rd dinner: the chicken soup taste very cantonese. There’re some kind of corn (very big) in them.
Last breakfast: scramble eggs with green onion and cheese! Very nice~
So most of the trip we have free homemade food! 😀
Tags: Breakfast, Mexican, Taco, Travel Report
December 5, 2005
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Villa Las Palmeras @ Puerto Vallarta (Part 1)
//// By Freda in TravelReport on our amazing ccommodation first, activities later…
My company is part of this global production operation and we held our x’mas party at the Mexico’s beach resort Puerto Vallarta for 4 days. Quite amazing how they paid and arranged for 30+ of us from LA, NY, Toronto, Brazil, Seattle to meet at Villa Las Palmeras, the 5 floor mansion on the hill where we’d all be staying. Jaw dropping…is everyone’s reaction at arrival… (and Margaritas waiting to greet us!)
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Tags: Travel Report
December 4, 2005
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M Cafe de Chaya (Melrose)
//// By Joan in 08: Hollywood
A friend took me to this fancy deli place and said it was good. The designy interior and the delicate prepared food displayed behind the deli glass window made the place seem really promising! Plus it’s supposedly opened by Gwyneth Paltrow’s former personal chef blah blah…not that I care about the “Celeb” factor but it sounds like the food can’t be that bad right? WRONG. I got the Carolina-style Barbequed sandwich and my friend got the Panino Tuscano (forgot to take pix). My gosh both were HORRIBLE! I wasn’t aware that this is a “veggie” place, I thought it’s just supposedly to be healthy and organic? The fake meat were just too yucky, and the sauce was not good either. The side was Moroccan salad and it was hard and not fresh. My friend also got a squash soup and it tasted bad as well (no squash taste, too salty). If I had known that this is a vegetarian place I would just stick to their salad which is probably good. My friend couldn’t even finish his sandwich and proposed us to have a 2nd lunch somewhere else ^^;;; I got a sesame dome which I hope could redeem this lunch, urrgghhh it tasted so gross! No sesame flavor whatsoever, in fact it had NO taste! I wish I got the more normal dessert (i.e. raspberry chocolate cake) instead which probably can’t go wrong (errr…I hope). Apparently all the desserts in this place is “no egg, diary or refined cane sugar”…to make this experience worst, the food is pricey. The sandwiches were $11 each, desert was $6….urggh, will never go back.
Tags: Burger, Dessert, Microbiotic
