We actually wanted to try some pepper lunch that night.
Actually we wanted to go to this all-you-can-eat Japanese restaurant that night. When we were seated (at the Japanese place) we realized their menu didn't have sashimi. Which was going to be 80% of what we were going to eat.
It seems Santa Clara/San Jose isn't big on ayce Japanese.
So we went back to the Markham-esque plaza in Milpitas (it was around 2200 I believe). And maybe wanted pepper lunch, but it was closed.
And Sizzling Stone was almost closed. We made it just in time *yay*
I shared the kids bibimbap, soon tofu, and beef short ribs with friend.
The kids style is the same as the regular one (cooked in stone pot, and mixed for you), just not served in stone pot. The portion was generous. I could not finish, although I > child.
The kids one came with capri sun. It was cherry flavoured. I don't drink juice and they didn't have any other flavours, so we returned the drink back to them LOL
They had a self serve cutlery, water, sauce station. The sauces were: curry, teriyaki, spicy, mild. I mixed the teriyaki and spicy (it was sweet and spicy then)
Kimchi was a grated cabbage not fermented at all. Chopped up well so you can mix it into your rice.
I've read this place is like Chipotle but for Bibimbap. Accurate description.
Your choices: 3 kinds of rice, as many veggies as you want, 4 (?) kinds of meat, and +egg.
Then they grill it on the stone pot for you.

The first time I've had honey-lavender flavoured food was in Dolores Park, when Bi-Rite was giving out free ice cream. It was so delicious. I ate the whole thing. 

And so when I saw that they had honey-lavender here I ordered it too.

Along with the green tea because we needed dessert after whatever we had for dinner (I think it was deep dish pizza) and saying our farewells to a friend.

The guys also chose a chocolate or smores flavour which did not entice me very much.

Anyway I would highly recommend coming here just for the honey lavender gelato. Or if you are in SF, to go to Bi-Rite Creamery for their honey lavender ice cream.

Yes, it sounds like it would taste like febreeze but let me assure you that it is going to taste rather heavenly in your mouth.

There's this plaza in Milpitas that resembles Markham food plaza perfectly. They had your ghetto Chinese bbq/hotpot place, bakeries (85C), restaurants you do Chinese weddings in, and this: Pepper Lunch

The corn on the skillet reminded me of the creamy cheesy corn served at korean bars. *yum*

That doesn't mean it was anything like the korean bar corn. It wasn't.

We got udon and ramen versions, all with the beef, one of us plussed an egg.

I didn't like how after eating the ramen, all the niblets of corn were left - which meant it was quite difficult to get a good serving of corn while eating the ramen. This problem would be solved though, if rice was chosen because then you can scoop it all up nicely. Should have thought this through beforehand.



Would probably not come back - nothing minimally mind blowing here.

This was so very hyped before I even went to Palo. So for each time passed by a Blue Bottle, I got in and ordered something (we only passed by twice though)

I tried both their cold brews, which are on tap right here:

And added almond milk because they are too hipster for the whole milk I ask for at every coffee place.

 
 Affogato was ordered once

And a black cold brew was also ordered

Short and sweet post so I can get on with the second half of the sandwich afternoon I was having in Palo.

When friend from Canada came to visit us in Cali, they were telling us to visit Nola (no, I don't expect you to know who they are, nor do I remember who it was who suggested going to Nola).

So we looked through the menu, and it looked pretty interesting enough - and the feels inside were rather warm and cozy...

We ended up getting sandwiches (wow, something I actually never order, like burgers, but I did anyway).

So here is the grilled chicken/pesto sandwich, oyster sandwich, shrimp po-boy

Macaroni and cheese, salad, fries, for sides

Food was not extraordinary. It seems that we had ordered all the wrong things (we had then been suggested to order jambalaya, amongst other cajun-y things)

But the highlight of the day was not food (what a change) but the visit to beautiful Stanford.

With its own public transportation because it is so large, we ended up staying there for the majority of our afternoon - taking pictures and wishing we went to school there instead of Waterloo (because it is so beautiful)