Golden Boy Pizza - Popped Another Cherry

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So my cousin Star and I were at Naked Lunch to have the foie gras sandwich. Since we split the sammie, we were still a bit hungry, so we headed to Golden Boy Pizza which was not too far away.

Right when we got to the front of the place, we were beckoned to the window and spied on the girl behind the counter serving up the square-shaped slices.

Sheets of pizza topped with pepperoni to clams to olives lined the window only making us debate in our minds which ones to order.

After MUCH deliberation we both ordered the combination which was a red-sauced slice adorn with pepperoni, sausage, onion, tomatoes, and zucchini.

You know I am anal about people ordering the same thing. I like to try different things when I go to a new place, but the medley of ingredients on this particular slice lured the both of us.

The girl who were watching in awe earlier slung our slices into the oven to heat and crisp up a bit. After a few moments she brought them back out and placed them on red-checkered paper. We were invited to add our cheese and red pepper flakes on top. She wrapped them and we were out the door.

PLUS you know I love taking pictures of what I am eating. Too bad so sad I did not capture a picture of the slice. I was too busy walking down Columbus eating my slice like a tourist to even care.

The tomato sauce had the perfect hint of sweetness and tanginess. The vegetables and meat clung onto the hot cheese perfectly so that they did not come sliding off of the pizza. We were lucky to get the slices that hugged the sides of the sheet pan so the edges had a lovely crispness.

I am going to be bold when I say this:

Golden Boy is officially one of my favorite slices in San Francisco.

I remember going to Pier 39 with my family as a child and eating square-shaped pizzas.

This totally brought back memories.

Anyway...

I love this place.

Love at first sight.

Go there.

xoxo,
Jo

PS: Now we are here at a random cafe on Polk and my cousin and her friend are talking about "orgasm meditation" and taking each other's energies and crystals.

Holler.

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50 Shades of Grey and I Am Famished

Talk about getting so deep in a book (actually 3 books) and leaving no room for any social life and networking.

I started reading the 50 Shades Trilogy about a week ago. I started reading it because I've become bored! Blogging has become stagnant and work is a drag. Knowing my husband would be away on vacation, Hawaii no less, I had to do something to "spice" things up.

I'm not going to give away too much about the plot, but the "protagonist" Ana is enchanted by hot and steamy billionaire Christian Grey. Anything can happen when one has ridiculously obscene amounts of money giving the author basically free range on what they can write.

All I can say is that Ana is an idiot. She annoyed the crap out of me. The beezy doesn't eat and she doesn't know ish about food. Christian, where were you when I was 21?

Okay okay, I kid. I am just jealous. Something must've been good in the book to keep me reading, right?

The book is set primarily in the Pacific Northwest and it was nice to hear about Pike Place and Puget Sound since I had just visited in February.

Okay okay, I'll get to the point: there's sex in it. And lots of it.

For those who've read the trilogy, you know. Character development is also important and I was pleased...even though I knew I wanted to slap the crap out of the main girl.

She always says "I'm famished" when she's hungry. Maybe I'll start doing that too.

Would I recommend this book?

It depends, if you're one who used to flip through your mom's romance novels straight to the lovemaking parts, then you might like it. Because the bastard is so rich, I was hoping for more food references, but that's just the foodie in me, I suppose. I was annoyed by the repeated phrases throughout the whole trilogy. I never want to read "gape" or "mercurial" or "bile rising up to my throat" ever again.

Besides that, I forget the last time I was so enchanted with a book series since The Babysitters Club...

...the again, Christian was incredibly hot in my mind. I kept picturing the guy who plays Dex in "Something Borrowed" or Grayson from "Drop Dead Diva" portray him. As for Ana, I kept seeing Anne Hathaway in that Princess Diaries way. I can't wait to see who plays them in the movie!

Other than that, my family is supposed to be going to Chuck E. Cheese today for Jayla's birthday! We went to Sutro's at the Cliff House yesterday for lunch. It was very nice.

Until next time, I'm famished!

xoxo,
Jo

She's a foodie in training! Gotta start em' young!

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Keat Is In Hawaii...and I Am at Home

Super lame, right?

Okay, okay, so I shouldn't be the [upset, jealous, worried] wife who is going to end up being a killjoy and make her husband feel guilty for not bringing her to the one place in the United States of America where she has been yearning to go to for the last 6 years since her last visit in 2006.

No, I shouldn't.

That's so not me.

Keat lived on Oahu for a little while and made a lot of friends there during college at HPU. He unfortunately had to come back to the mainland because he got himself in a [stupid] motorcycle accident. Cocky hapa boys with motorcycles do not mix at all.

In retrospect, Keat probably should have thought twice before doing bike tricks to impress the ladies, but it all worked out because if hadn't come back, he would not have met me!

So no, I'll let him have his fun [no, NOT a hall pass] while he is there. He just called me to let me know who he reunited with and I can tell he is happy. If he is happy, so am I. While he sounds totally silly talking in pidgin, it makes me smile.

We shared a little bit of Hawaii together as well as with his family at the Hawaiian festival at the Alameda County Fairgrounds just a few days prior to his departure. There were arts and crafts, music, dancing, but more importantly FOOD!

For starters, I went for samples of li hing mango. My sisssy Kie got this dope drink with dry ice that made it look like a steaming volcano.

For our plate lunches, I went for the lau lau which is a pouch made with tea and taro leaves that is stuffed with pork and fish. Alongside came macaroni salad and rice which I splashed with shoyu and ponzu.

Keat is a big boy so he got a plate of kalua pork with rice and noodle soup. I stole his tomatoes. They were just like how Inang made them. He then got a plate of pancit, pork adobo, and lumpia.

For desserts, we spoiled ourselves with shave ice (mine was with soft serve), Plumera Flours' caramel bacon popcorn called the "Kalua Pig" mix, and sugary malasadas!

At home, Jayla and I shared a SPAM musubi. If you subscribe to my channel on Youtube, check out how she "enjoyed" it.

Hanging out with his mom, dad, sister, and [hopefully soon-to-be] sis-in-law was so much fun! I love them to pieces! You hear that KwanHull Familly?

I LOVE YOU TO PIECES!!!

I just think him being there only made him more excited about his trip! I'm just jealous. I wish I was there to eat Giovanni's shrimp, Matsumoto's Shave Ice, and all that glorious seafood! I'm crossing my fingers that we go in the Fall. Looking at the fares on Hawaiian Airlines for October and it's very very tempting!

Like I said, the travel bug has bitten me extra hard this year! I am purposely trying to do something special during the even months of the year. For example: February went to Seattle, April went to NYC/BOS, June I am staying put in SF because Cousin Star and I are going to eat as much foie gras as we can before that [horrible] ban that takes effect on July 1, August I am thinking Nawlins (New Orleans), October Hawaii, December idk yet but it has to be special for our wedding anniversary.

We shall see. My motto is "make your happiness happen." While Keat is getting lots of grief from me because I am not with him, he is making his own happiness happen for himself and I love him for that!

Come back soon, my love!

xoxo,

Jo

ps: I am posting this from my iPad, so I apologize if the pix are different sizes and are out of order. I will fix it once I get on a real computer. I still can't find a decent blog post app. Lemme know if you know of one!

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