After a brutal week, M, C&C took me to Arisu along North Road for some much needed food and drinks. This is one of the many Korean BBQ restaurants along the Burnaby and Coquitlam border, which has now become a high traffic area. Transit if you can... We had one of the BBQ combos, which came with a pile of meat, including pork belly and short rib: 

Pretty standard Korean BBQ meal, with the usual sides of kimchi, vegetables, and marinated potatoes. I would recommend visiting for the freshness of each cut of meat, the good portion size, the flavour. They had one of those bells to request a server, and the best part was that it actually worked! We had quick and efficient service, and while the servers were Korean and pretended like they did not understand might not have understood English, they were friendly enough. 

Also, it's close to other places for dessert and groceries, which just makes it a convenient spot to meet up.



Pretty late post for this section of Week 9, 2019. Almost forgot about it, to be honest, because of all the events of Week 10, the reunions and the new faces.

Do you ever have difficulty remembering somebody's name after meeting them a few times?

A friend told me that when you can't remember somebody's name, it's because that person is cheap.

“What is there to do in Kansas?” I asked everybody I met in Kansas.

“Barbecue food is great!” said everybody I met in Kansas.

So, we had BBQ food in Kansas. We visited Joe’s and I had the Z Man:



Topped with 2 onion rings, there’s a thick pile of brisket in between two freshly toasted buns. Meat is good and all,  but BBQ is not something I’d usually choose. Yet… there was something about this burger, the meat was tender enough to just fall apart at the lightest bite, and the onion rings didn’t get in the way because they were crispy enough. I guess my problem with meat is that it’s sometimes too tough to chew, and I’m too lazy to tear into it, but this was perfectly cooked meat that I had no complaints about. I could not stop until it was all gone.

I would tell my friends to go again for me.



CONCLUSION - No flying monkeys in Kansas, but good BBQ.

PW decided to have a BBQ to celebrate her birthday this year!

blueberry slush. this tasted very good. S, start a bbt place soon please.

this guy’s a monster. patty + spareribs, and didn’t even bother cutting out the bones.

mango pudding!!!!!!! what’s the trick to prevent mangoes from browning….?

more mango, in cake form. the syrup was sorta messy, but it tasted good. we had a hard time splitting this between ~30 people though. the pieces were very randomly shaped, and size of a piece could range from eaten in less than a bite to eaten in maybe 3 bites… lol. cutting cake is not as easy as it seems!!!!!!!!

pictures were from my Samsung ST50… not too bad right?

happy belated birthday PW.