P.F.Changs(Chinese)

My husband and I went to eat lunch at "P.F.Changs(http://www.pfchangs.com/)". This restaurant opened last week in Colonie Center. Inside the restaurant, it looked Chinese restaurant but there was bar counter and we could hear jazz music. I like this atmosphere! We ate steam dumpling($5.50), wonton soup($6.00), hot fish($14.00) and Singapore street noodles($9.50). All of them were so tasty but quantities were too much for us, so we took some of them to our house. Also, there were many kinds of Chinese tea. I was impressed it and drank it. I like this restaurant and will come again!
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P.F.Changs

131 Colonie Center, Albany

NY 12205

TEL (518)454-0043

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Brindisi's Restaurant & Bar(Italian)

My friends and I went to eat dinner at "Brindisi's Restaurant & Bar(http://www.brindisis.com/)" in Saratoga. This restaurant serve Italian meals and there were many kinds of pastas, seafood and meat. I ate "Sesame Tuna". Tuna was so fresh but taste was so plain and I could not eat all of them because of its taste. I wanted to put some dressing or something like this. The service was terrible. Because many people were waiting outside the restaurant, waiter took our dishes just after we finished eating. And manager suggested us to go out quickly. We got angry and did not eat desserts and went out the restaurant. I will not go this restaurant again!!!

Prime Outlets Lee

My husband and I went to "Prime Outlets Lee(http://www.primeoutlets.com/cntrdefault.asp?cntrid=1031)". because we left our house later, so there were many cars and it was difficult to look for parking area. This weekend, many shops in this mall do a Columbus sale and there were many people to buy something. I bought my sweaters and a pretty dish. My husband bought 2 bottle of wines. In MA, tax is cheaper than New York state, so it is good reason to buy a lot of products! Around the mall, we could see foliage and it was beautiful. I like fall but I do not like winter in Albany!

Italian Festival

Next Monday will be Columbus Day, so there was a Italian Festival(http://www.columbusdayalbanyny.com./) in Washington Park today. Parade started at 13:00 and Festival started at 14:00. My husband and I did not see parade but we went to festival and enjoyed music and ate food. Today was sooooo hot and we gave up immediately to sat in front of stage.

Boston 1 Day Trip

I went to Boston with my friend yesterday(Sep. 29). We met at 7:30AM on uptown campus and went by bus. We arrived at Boston about 10AM.At first, we went to Harvard University(http://www.harvard.edu/) by subway. Compared with New York City's subway, Boston's subway is cleaner and comfortable and I like it! Harvard University has huge area and a lot of green. There were many people to see campus. We wanted to see a statue of "John Harvard" who founded this university. I heard the story which "touching his left foot makes us happy", so I touched his left foot. After walking the campus, we went to "COOP" and bought some goods.
On lunch time, we went to "Porter Exchange Mall", where is famous Japanese restaurant and Japanese supermarket. We ate Sushi(http://kotobukiyamarket.com/sushi.htm) and it was so delicious, especially row fish was so tasty. After eating, we went to Japanese supermarket(http://kotobukiyamarket.com/tobukiyamarket.com/) and bought some Japanese groceries.

In afternoon, we went around "little Italy" and ate dessert at "Trani(http://tranibrand.com/)".

First we selected our pastry(we selected eclair and cup cake), then they put ice cream in pastry and finished the process by topping with warm chocolate. they were really delicious!!!

After went around "Little Italy", we went to "Qunicy Market(http://www.faneuilhallmarketplace.com/)"　and bought some food for dinner. We bought Lobster's sandwich, boiled shrimp and clam chowder. We shared all of them and were full. We left Boston 7:30AM and arrived Albany about 10:30PM. I was soooo tired.

Today's dinner

Today, I had a "JLCC(Japanese Language and Culture Club)"meeting at 6:00PM. After that, I went to "SUSHI-TEI" with my friend. I went there once in lunch time but I had a first time to go dinner time. There were many customers in this restaurant. We ordered Sushi-combo. In Sushi-combo, there were 3 kinds of sushi rolls. My combo was California roll, tuna roll and yellow tail roll. My friend's combo was California roll, JA roll and ...(I forgot the name). I did not know what JS roll is and asked the staff. JA roll means Japanese American roll and this roll contains eel and cream cheese! Strange combination!!!I could not image the taste. After tasting this roll, I still could not express whether this roll is delicious or not!!

Mezzo Marketplace & Eatery (Deli&Cafe)

My husband and I went to buy our lunch at "Mezzo Marketplace & Eatery(http://www.mezzomarket.com/)" where is near the Washington park. In this shop, there are some sandwiches, soup and some kinds of meals. We bought 2 kinds of sandwiches and sesame chicken. The bread of sandwiches is so nice and I like this taste. Here is cooking class in this cafe and I am interested in it.
This cafe is selected "Best Gourmet Takeout" in 2007 by Metroland(http://metroland.net/).

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Mezzo Marketplace & Eatery

340 Hamilton Street,

Albany, NY 12210

TEL (518)463-6240

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