Everyone has their oasises and ideals.  However, sometimes it is important to share just what it is we’re refering to… to actualize  away the magic within words conjuring and homp…there it is.  a seedier strip mall hole in the wall joint that for whatever reason seems to change it’s name once or twice a tax season….and or ownership/management.  I am not Vietnamese and aside from what the difference between a spring roll and an eggroll are, I’m not really on the case what is happening for dinner.  This IS OKAY!  let’s Familerize the Foreign… to me.

 

Vietnam is a country far far away in southeast Asia.  in my parents and grandparentls time it was  unsuccessfully colonized by the french and later due to political interests wwas attempted to be made a democracy or puppet of others… while it took years and I mean half my lifetime’s worth – the country unified as a communistic country which in a way fits as so is it’s big neighbor china.  Ethnically and Heritalogically speaking… here’s a DUH, the people are?  Vietnames.  Like all people they get hungry and want food.  so they must eat and wow…another duh… they don’t do it like others do!

 

I don’t have time to decipher the whole of an encyclopedia article  or length and breadth of a culture’s cuisine- but I’m going to warn you- it looked like a whole lot of foreign to me  until I came across this other blog with a dish similarly named to what I had the other night but looked far far different.  this is not surprising as local ingredients vary and also  it isn’t unheard of that people say something is in a “style of” rather than an exacting match.

I had a bun dish.

no, I didn’t have a bowl of rump.  I had bun, not bread persay but bun  rice vermicelli.

bun from what I read means noodles rice.. but that website as it’s only fair you read what I did.

http://behindtheskillet.blogspot.com/2009/08/rice-vermicelli-with-grilled-shrimp-bun.html

this above link is to behind the skillet for a dish

rice vermicelli with grilled shrimp

bún tôm nướng

yes this is a simplistic google powered translation of english from vietnamese of bun – rice noodle; tom shrimp; and nuong grilled.  now I mentioned that the vietnamese had themselves a boot out the foreigners couple of shoot ‘em up parties but the french like the americans leave inroads and borrowed words and in the case of the bun tom nuong which I can not pronounce correctly bun as i burger bun, tom as in tom cat and nu ong  hmn nwong – the sound of someone expressing their discontent of my butchering their native language with a pot upside my head.  but the point is the french did bring about the use of the more western style with a few additional characters required for complete duplication of the sounds of the language… thus sorry to disappoint but I can not give you some fancy charactered foreign for the dish I do not know enough to do so and it’s not actually correct anymore anyways.   but lets look at  other differences within the same.

 

 

to me this same dish looks enirely different.  it’s not.

the recipes however, can be.

http://www.phamfatale.com/id_3060/title_Bun-Thit-Nuong-Recipe

take out the pork/crab/steak no wheredoes thisdish give me the impresssion of fish sauce…. that doesnt JIVE with my mouth’s experience.

 

sorry but not a speaker of vietnamese so long link

http://recipes4viet.com/mon-nuong/bun-tom-nuong

translate

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=vi&u=http://recipes4viet.com/mon-nuong/bun-tom-nuong&prev=/search%3Fq%3Db%25C3%25BAn%2Bt%25C3%25B4m%2Bn%25C6%25B0%25E1%25BB%259Bng%2Brecipe%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dubuntu%26hs%3DUss%26channel%3Dfs%26prmd%3Dimvns&sa=X&ei=CW-NUN3bCaOWiAKspoHABg&ved=0CDUQ7gEwAg

note how close but still foreign this is? pepper hash – HUNH????

from cooks.com

perhaps this is what they mean!

 

thats as close as are veggies here and  what the hell this stuff is.  yes – thus this is not just in the style of, but also americanized. deal with it.

 

a good recipe close to what I got:

http://behindtheskillet.blogspot.com/2009/08/rice-vermicelli-with-grilled-shrimp-bun.html

again

bun tom nuong

 

basil or thai basil ifavail.

cilantro (chinese parsley, the seeds are coriander)

bean sprouts

red pepper (watch it.)

crispy fried onion

sub toasted dried onion

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cucumber

rice vermicelli

tiger shrimp if you can

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missing is? the fish sauce so – a light one (wicked salt watch it)

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recipe?

http://behindtheskillet.blogspot.com/2009/08/rice-vermicelli-with-grilled-shrimp-bun.html

 

The point is, that a lil bit of research can make something  very much findable  with stuff typicallyfor the most part recognized easy to understand… do try to follow as you find them your joys with those who know a different world than yours.  for my part I may makethis dish as I like it and can figure out the simplest version I can manage.  this dish with an electric kettle pot collender  knife or food processor  is fairly easy as you can drain the noodle and cook the marinated  shrimp. voila less dishes and the kettle brings up water faster than a stove top so you could be eating in literally less than thirty minutes.  do investigate what style means.  it can be close while you enjoy outtings to “authentic’ 

oh and hin tgot sambal oulek? add a pinch of sugar for siracha.  the label difference

and?take away the noodles and add common lettuce? you’ve a shrimp salad -eat the noodles you noodle doodle! – wrap this up (chop some) in rice paper? spring rolllllllll!

Shore Memories Seashell Bottle Opener

$1.71 – $2.99 http://www.weddingfavorsunlimited.com/Barware_-_Bottle_Openers.html

 

 

 

violin/golden ratio within design

golden ratio as it graphs

golden ratio as compared to a seachell

seashell themed wine opener.

 

okay the idea here is I’m on my morning math for a smack.  I am after the ratios required for a passive egress walkway to surround/incorporate into a few of my lil house designs as in yes closer to true scale drawings to demonstrate the  spring about walkway…should tm that.  springing movement into living.

 

you’ll love this,  it’s  32.16 ft or 9.80 meter (approx)  for a 20 foot 2 inch roughly section of 1 inch rise to one foot distance – a safe enough ratio for slope of a walkway for manual wheelchair decent/ascent.  and adequate space for  people going both ways to pull off and rest / wait.  five of these sections is around 11feet just under height of a “story” or level.  this allows for finished level ceilings of just about 9 feet in height or not being in the hottest zone of a room  and thus comfy in summer relatively speaking. 

 

theis with superadobe type 18′ walls  is  about a 72 foot lot  by 208 ish or just over 1/3 acre by current sizing  of such and a two level 4200 square foot  cylender. ish.

 

 

this is so I can remember

jeddore premium as my eyes see it.

wiki to the rescue, jeddore is a ficticious name for alberta premium rye whiskey

 

yes, I’m feeling a don macclane song coming on “them good old boys were drinkin’ whiskey and rye…”

with of course an optional!

Filtered carbonated water, real sugar, caramel color (from sugar), tartaric acid, natural cola nut flavor, and citric acid.

yes, grape acid.  some say this lack of a phosphoric bite leave this to be a too sweet thing.  it’s here because in canadanian thoughts, real not corn syrup fake  is the point.

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and so you too can get into it – Trailer park boys – jumping the cheeseburger (smell the happy days allusion to jumping the shark)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pYGiSf2w_w&feature=related

 

 

do you eer try to take from the shows commercialisms you can enjoy? 

Red dwarf triple fried egg chili sauce and chuney sarnie, curry, beer milkshakes

married with children big un’s fergusson toilets… nah on a sit on the can-a-thon for that one

Please teacher, pocky!(40.5% calories from fat just about as close as you can get for a chocolate biscuit.. in america..to being heart healthy literally)

please twins pretz (nay on them)

 

 

 

 

http://www.chinavasion.com/china/wholesale/Health_Lifestyle/LED_Lights/Color_Changing_LED_Light_Bulb

http://www.ehow.com/how_4760403_make-sea-salt-lamp.html

 

Denver Colorado.  with a little poking around, you can find for yourself a wealth of golden treasures..oh perhaps not aurum  Au as in physical elemental gold, but still, wealth none the same.  over this millenium bridge to the west is the platte river- such a typical wastral of a river- where a small section has been  done up for one to test out river fun stuff from an rei close by…. a spice shop harbors the exotics of the world, one can grab healthy food/drink for the picnic at a vitamin cottage market, get good sushi at sushi sasa, a great pot of tea at the english tea room or a pizza margarite in between.

 

go east of here and you walk in sight of the baseball stadium go rockies…this last year AWAY.  a lil further along past a brewpub or two and the train station.  and then?  the walking mall, 16th street.  16th street mall.  the early mall mall portions have a fine irish pub, a divine local coffee shop/dessert/deli upstairs, and a fine bistro… red square bistro…where you may possibly have yourself a pan seared duck breast in a cherry cognac reduction- it is that good even at 30 a plate on occassion.  one more brewpub almost and it’s up the street  to Sakura square and the pacific merchantile *pacificeastwest.com) for  all the rage in comicon candy or confectionary treats and perhaps a delightful beverage.  a coffee shop as a street or two gos by and one is at the fbi building and the lightrail .  why fbi? well it’s there. don’t commit any crimes!

 

various  other haunts are on this jaunt but mainly it’s just an ideal place to get to a rental car and drop some postcards.  hey mom’s I just ate an aligator’s tail at bayou bob’s!  hey dad I just took a bath in the platte – kayaking sucks…lotsa water. 

 

from here the meander to another place begins.

i-70 into kansas is  pedal to the metal jam out to tunes !  or, dirt fucking boring flat kansas has shit nothing to offer  god? can we have a refund?…  no lol it is a bit tranquil if you want a word and please don’t snore and swerve off the road.. but we must! we’re going to?

smoky hill vineyards

kansas and wine- well?
  due to an excess so it seems of meteeorites or wishing on shooting stars, kansas has taken up a grass roots campagne to get your sorry ass drunk as an appology for the majority of the states tranquil scenery just fucking perfect for grass fed beef where the hold time is so low the cows are grass fed from earth to the turf cuts prime on your plate cooked to order…. yeah I thoughts you’d start opening your eyes to why kansas can scare away the wrong kind of people…you want real tasty and good for you steak.  just admit it.

 

pictured are a nice porterhouse steak, red pepper *bell) and beef kebabs and czech white wine’s label from smokey hill vineyards kansas.

 

oops turn now you head down the centerline of kansas and watch. it’s cant get pretty

I’d picnik near here. providing it’s nowhere near shotgun land! ( cheyenne bottoms wildlife refuge, near great bend kansas)

anyways were tolling down to

ponca city  (ok ) with this: the poncan theater

and then over to the great salt plain lake

(the above shots are of a view of the great salt plains lake ok,  and also car caping so no asshole says it cant be arranged)

 

from here is is a jaunt into okc to catch the heartland flyer

amtrak train that is  okc to ftw (tx)

http://tickets.amtrak.com/itd/amtrak

 

 

the train gets us one city from my highlightable hunt for the place that helped ace me out of research and analysis  or college english …2.  this place woud be murphy’s place and whether or never…oh someone fire up the rose royce and let’s be wishin upon a star   the book was nigerian or pan west africa as cusine goes and hows about this?

surprisingly enough this dish above, egusi and fufu – ee goosey smack! and foo foo or starchier than potatos mached so you can make a pancake to eat with… this dish is thickened with egusi which is a wild water melon seed and we mean the white ones no cyaniding your guests with the clycosidal sugar with  duh syanide in the midle.   pumpkin seed can sub but it’s just not the same.  anyways surprisingly there is some significance to cola being all fake in this country or nearly because yes it would be correct to have  a …oh blue sky cola is the only real cola extract using company of wide distribution.  it wouldn’t hurt to be authentic  oh no never.  plus I want to taste my A.

the point though is to meander now down to?

galvaston tx. to board? yes, one of these

to go from tx to la  as into new orleans’

 

to trade boats to this

to?

vicksburg mississippi for  perhaps abed and breakfast?

to write one’s trip memoir..you know a tweet’s worth  or pulse. no one actually reads anymore.. but if it’s mississipi and duh the south?  what do you think the chances are of getting some of this?

 

there a quick over to catch a quicky flight home?  I think that kind of food might lead to a nap.

 

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I’ve a pile of five cards with the first but for counts 6th signed stuffed and addressed.  I have a family outting to a nice dinner as mom wants to.  afterwards it’d be halloween so why not mall it in boulder.  this allows shopping. window or otherwise.

I have a kaleidoscope for one

Old World Kaleidoscope Item: 600137 Price: $7.50 Category(s): Extraordinary Toys Manufacturer: Toysmith

www.intothewind.com

 

teas and or trinkets for the baker boy on the frozen continent.

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and many many card to mail. 

 

of course trying to save money it’s my turn for the booze  procurement with? heh last physical wekk of the gals here so yay down to two putter inners. l  we’ve lines on the replacements so that’s not hard.  we’ve family room is another is done but not with family persay but I doubt that ‘ll matter as we’re the smokers and she lost her mom to it.  always techier with family.

 

and so thus with three cards to write left I’ve a semi busy week.

 

here’s to ya

magners,my choice for a bit of livation.

 

significance eludes

every day’s repeated pattern

can’t live without it

 

significance eludes

every day’s repeated pattern

can take for granted

 

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veggie tally eight

vroom fuel for the body

in “moss-less stone beer”

 

 

v8 low sodium vegetable juice is good potassium – of course ding with hot sauce ( chalulah,) smoked salt (alderwood,) and the opener, rolling rock beer
.  this was the joy of the night, /i had to amble the darkness for more beer – but that was hitchless (as in no josh smacked by car)  really easy really to remember – a normal (HOT) is about 4 shakes  of hot sauce, sprig of salt (under 1/8 teaspoon – 12% rda sodium) half the juic 2.oz splash beer dissolve salt by stirring) 2 oz more juice fill with beer sir  ding! done. doublethis forme as in the hot sauce.  the advantage is you get 10% sodium? no!!!!!!!! POTASSIUM in the diet.  I have to regrettably eliminate the additional yummy salt because hot sauce has salt and I’m restricted.  this  not so bad

 

 

I was surprised tomato beer is truly inexpensive.  I had 2  pints going  for 1.25 a piece.

I like little realizations like that.

 

 

you can order the coffee in denver downtown at  “the delectable egg” it’s a black forrest latte.  you can order  a supposedly better red beer anywhere or even obtain it in a can premixed  as clamato beer.  clamato isn’t v8 and thus will be less good.  mux of the magi is poisoned not making it yourself.

 

potassium is as important as any other of our vital minerals and amines.  I don’t always want a banana. nor a sweet tater.  okay duh red beer lol is like not the correct answer but v8 is.

 

 

IFC? street fights

bfc black forest coffee

cream cherried coffee

 

e)

(sippable)

the following combination is not terrific for me

Sony ps3

I forget the brand but it’s not 42 inches it’s bigger television.

broadband internet – nothing seems to work as well without it

empty house….well maybe not this empty

netflix service courtesy of the ps3.

 

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this leads to whiskey and gum drops  a nap after wow 87 tv is old  startrek tng. how it’s made

 

my friend born way early in the 80′s me a pipsqueak to you-some of you my readers- mid seventies birthday is december I like cardsthey can even be paper .    anyways she’s not too far behind me and likes the tenth doctor I’m like..number 4?  cough cough cough dust dust.

 

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I have most of my initial cards list done oh heavy hardship to add more.

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prior to this I looked up the featured folk of 2 years and some ago.  just amazed that two groups emerge wave one and wave two…and wow wave one submerged to a smaller circles….wave two jilted but made it and one or two that was primed for thirdstage and? failed to ignite.

I got hopefully one card posted

fucked up pentameter again…  this time just transcribing it.