Today we learned how to suture! (We didn’t suture each other, just rubber dams.)
I think I might need some more practice….
Month: March 2016
Sampan
Ashley took me to Sampa for happy hour post ADEX and I loved it! The food was super cheap and super tasty! I definitely recommend it but it does get quite busy! I can’t even choose just one favorite dish since they were all great!
Here was the kimchi fried rice, pork baos, brussel sprouts, and edamame dumplings.
Setting teeth
Currently we are learning how to set teeth in dentures. It’s probably some of the most difficult GRD lab work that we’ve done so far since the teeth have to positioned so perfectly to fit all the requirements. Hopefully my final dentures will look better than this!
Last day of vacay
We were very sad on our last day of vacation but I recorded a video of the sunset! Enjoy!
Day 7
On Day 7 we had our engagement photo shoot and then headed off to Waikiki beach!
Our engagement photos were so much fun! Here was one of the photos from our experience:
Fun fact: there are only 39 Harry Winston salons in the world and ended up visiting the one at Waikiki! It was really funny when a couple walked past us while we were taking a picture and the woman jokingly told Andrew to go buy me a diamond! I quite enjoyed that since he had just asked me to marry him!
Our walk along Waikiki:
We also stopped by the aquarium to see the jellyfish, some seahorses and the seal:
Lastly, we ended with dinner at House without a key and had the chance to watch some live performances!
Roy’s
After golfing, Andrew and I went to Roy’s, the restaurant at the course.We love food a lot.
For a starter I tried the sampler which included a spring roll, seared ahi tuna a short rib! I loved the short rib’s flavor and the ahi tune texture was amazing!
I also have an unhealthy love for crab cakes:
The beet salad:
Andrew ended up getting the steak and I got the short rib. We definitely enjoyed both of them very much!
For desert, they gave us strawberry shortcakes:
And we had the chocolate souffle and the assortment of ice creams!
I guess golfing makes us really hungry!
Day 6
Day 6 started with Loco Moco for breakfast. Loco moco is a hawaiian food that consists of rice (sometimes topped with furikake), with a hamburger patty, fried egg and brown gravy. We love loco moco but had to drink tons of smoothies to get some fruits and veggies in!
We also had a great day at the golf course! Since I’m still learning, I didn’t play but Andrew let me hit a couple of balls and we later hit the driving range!
It was so nice to just spend so much time out in the sun too! I’m pretty sure that Andrew also loved my gold cart driving skills!
We had a great day and ended it by taking a walk and watching the sunset!
Alan Wong’s
One of my absolute favorite restaurants in the world is Alan Wong’s so Andrew took me there for our engagement dinner! They even printed us special menus congratulating us at the top!
Remember how I love that Andrew loves trying things with me? One of the first things on the menu that caught my eye was the butter tasting. It offered three different types of butter that were all local! When we first ordered it the waiter scared us a little by telling us that it was just butter and then questioned our devotion to butter. We looked at each other a little funny and ordered it anyways. Were we ever glad that we did! It was absolutely delicious! It was so fresh and you could taste a hint of sweetness with the grass fed one. Have I mentioned that this was one of my favorite restaurants ever?
For dinner, I tried the smaller tasting menu. I started with the poke-pines. It consisted of poke (marinated fish) in a wonton type wrapper.
Andrew had the salad to start:
I then had the chance to try the ginger crusted onaga (red snapper). I absolutely loved the corn with the miso sauce and it really made the fish flavor stand out! (Can you see how we demolished the butter in the background?)
I also got to try the lobster lasagna which completely blew me away! I absolutely love lobster but I wasn’t too excited about this dish until I had the chance to try it. It was definitely not like any lasagna I’ve had before. The only aspect grounding it to lasagna was that it was wrapped with one lasagna noodle. The inside was a delicate bed of lobster but the tomato garlic sauce was very light and was not a strong tomato base.
For his entree, Andrew had the twice cooked short rib which is amazing! I actually tried it last time we were here and Andrew loved it so much that he had half of my meal! This time he got his own short rib!
My dinner ended with The Coconut – coconut sorbet in a chocolate coconut shell. We really enjoyed this dessert!
The restaurant also surprised us with a creme brulee!
We had an absolutely fabulous meal and I’m glad that I got to share it with my most favorite person in the world!
Nitrogenie
At the Ala Moana shopping center, we discovered this place called Nitrogenie that serves liquid nitrogen ice cream! Cue inner nerd squeal! Nitrogenie is an Indonesia based company that recently opened in the states! They constantly have cool and unique flavors like roasted coconut cream and white balsamic strawberries!
They have liquid nitrogen tanks that deliver liquid nitrogen straight to the mixer to guarantee that your ice cream is nice and frozen right when it gets to you!
Here’s a video of what the process looks like:
We decided to try the mango and summer flavor. I loved how they serve the ice cream! Each flavor has a unique design. For instance the mango was shaped like a fresh cut mango half. The nutella cornucopia was topped with a little cone filled with nutella.
The ice cream tastes like regular ice cream but we enjoyed our experience of watching them make it! We also loved that it transported us back to our childhood days of getting liquid nitrogen ice cream demonstrations!
In West Philadelphia 