Ask Melvin Ng

When we first arrived in San Francisco, we had high expectations… and one of the first mean we had on our first night was at this diner. The food was just awesome and yummy, partly because it was our first meal and partly because we were really hungry.

The 3 of us shared our meal, and we had meatloaf, spaghetti, and turkey meat. Ah…glorious food. We truly enjoyed that first meal.

The next morning, and many times more during our stay in the US, we had fast food, burgers, burgers and more burgers and fast food - from Carl’s Junior, In and Out, Del Taco, Subway, etc. Now that I’m back in Malaysia, I’ve had enough fast food and burgers to last me for a month. I’ll abstain if you don’t mind. One more burgers and I might just throw up….*burp*.

Nevertheless, I did enjoyed those burgers and fries. It’s just different from here. Their meat patty is tastier, they have yummy bacon strips, and the best part about the In and Out burgers and fries is that they are all fresh. Meaning if you ordered the fries, they would start cutting up the potato and fry them, unlike Mc Donalds which has everything prepared in advance and frozen.

One of the good thing about our stay at the San Francisco Marriott Airport was that we discovered a nice restaurant tucked about few hundred metres away. "The Elephant Bar" was one of our favorite restaurants and I think we had 3-4 meals over there.

How about a nice refreshing alcoholic mix…and we the desserts there simply looked delicious so we can’t help it but to order this sinful brownie with whipped cream and ice cream. I’m still salivating at the mere mention of it.

That pork ribs above, it was just so juicy and tender that Gobala and I were fighting over every piece…I was just being dramatic over the fighting. You’ve got to try it to ‘experience’ it. It was even better than the ribs I had at Tony Roma’s Singapore outlet.

Sometime during out stay in SF, we hired a car from Hertz, and drove to Gilroy for shopping. Vince did some research and apparently they have one of the biggest outlet stores so we just simply had to go.

Lunch time came and since we’ve had enough of fast food for awhile, we hopped in to this Mexican restaurant. Oh my…the menu looks confusing so we just asked the owner to ’surprise’ us with his recommendation.

Taaadaaaaaa!!!

The chef whipping up some concoction to be served with the nachos. It was very creamy and it wasn’t surprising considering the amount of avocado it has inside

How about some margaritas, senor? Oh yeah!

All the above were to be wrapped in tapas and how can Mixican dish go without rice and beans. It was just so yummy but we were too stuffed to finish up everything.

That’s a refreshing dessert drink to finish off the meal. It has rice water, milk and some cinnamon powder. Very light, sweet and refreshing way of ending a hearty meal.

Can’t help not including this photo of 3 Musketeers as the name has a semblance to the 3 of us making our way to the United States.