12.57pm - Sveta Auntie's famous tulsi-mint tea, with tulsi and mint from Ritesh's mom's garden, plus some honey, at Ritesh's parents' house in Anaheim, with Sveta, Madhu, Vijay, Prashant and Suzanne. Sveta and Madhu are in town from the Houston area, from where they had to evacuate because of Hurricane Ike.
1.55pm - Ritesh's belated birthday lunch w/ the family, at Thai Nakorn in the O.C. This is some very good green papaya salad, some red curry that everyone liked, some pad Thai and some of Ritesh's fish...
1.51pm -... seen here in its intimidating entirety: a whole, bbq'd catfish
1.55pm - I'm more one to go for fish cakes...
1.58pm - the yellow curry, by the time it made it down to me...
2.02pm - a cup of Sveta Auntie's soup
2.03pm - a great eggplant with a very nice kick to it, as Madhu Uncle put it
3.19pm - more birthday cake at Ritesh's parents' house, still with the whole family
3.19pm - a whole coconut filled w/ a vanilla-coconut custard that we got to go from Thai Nakorn. Loved it!
6.14pm - from Anaheim to Dockweiler State Beach near LA International Airport. This beach is interesting for two reasons: a) it's so close to the airport that you're literally in the flight corridor of departing planes, and b) it's apparently the only beach between Malibu and Long Beach where you're allowed to make a fire and have a BBQ.
6.15pm - which is exactly what we were here for!
6.15pm - apparently, it's Korean Thanksgiving today, and we're here for a long-awaited Korean BBQ organized by several of Ritesh's co-workers
6.51pm - all surrounded by an intriguing audio-visual panorama - the adults were playing Identify This Flight (somebody swore they recognized the 6pm BA flight to London), the kids were just having a ball
6.51pm - little boys LOVE airplanes!
6.54pm - the first fire-roasted Korean sweet potato and spring onion w/ some nice salad
6.57pm - then some glorious Korean BBQ beef, kimchee, salad, and more fire-roasted Korean sweet potato
6.56pm - all while the sun was setting in front of us...
7.13pm - ... and the moon rising behind us
7.34pm - fire roasting marshmallows
7.45pm - a s'mores, a time-honored American treat consisting of a roasted marshmallow and a piece of chocolate sandwiched between two graham cracker cookies. The chocolate melts due to the heat of the marshmallow, and it all becomes one happy, gooey mess.what a great night!
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