another over-indulgent weekend

so the bf has come and gone again. this weeekend was no exception to our usual gluttony. i don't know we manage to eat so much in one weekend. and usually right around this time monday morning, i feel like i don't need to eat for a few days. that's how i feel right now but i'm sure i'll be hungry in an hour or so.

saturday - went to dinner at beppe's in grammercy park for a friend's going-away dinner. (another one moving back to the sf bay area in less than 2 months!) the decor was simple but very welcoming and so was the wait staff. the hostess and host were very friendly and sat us right away. we did have reservations but that doesn't seem like much these days. (for example, with our reservations at kittichai, my friend and i still waited over 45 minutes!) we had tuscan fries and pork belly to start... and i had their butcher's spaghetti. which promised lots of tidbits of pork. by the time the my pasta arrived, i was too full to complain about the smaller portion. (i was barely able to finish it!) but it was indeed delicious. the spaghetti was cooked just right and the meat sauce... oh how i can go on about the meat sauce! i'm a sucker for meat sauce and if i am craving for spaghetti again, beppe it shall be. i was pretty full at this point but there's always room for dessert! so we ordered the pannacotta and vanilla/chocolate chip cannoli. i loved both desserts, although i think i liked the chocolate chip cannoli the best. really enjoyed dinner. d and i were going to walk to billy's bakery but it started raining and since we didn't have an umbrella, we ended up going home instead. the rain was probably a blessing in disguise.

sunday - our full intentions yesterday was to have lunch at mary's fish camp or pearl's oyster bar for their lobster rolls but i belatedly found out that they are both closed on sunday! :-( we meandered towards midtown and after wandering about the west side and the street fair and after trying the mozzarepa snack, chocolate/chocolate cannoli, and the hot dog/sausage monstrocity, we decided to walk to billy's bakery. (mind you, that was 40+ blocks) of course, we were side tracked by a cheesecake bakery (d'auito's on 8th avenue)... so we had to try the blueberry cheesecake! granted, we only had about 2 bites each... very large bites. and after what felt like miles and miles, we finally reached our destination. billy's bakery in chelsea!! the sunny bakery was cute and totally quaint. i don't even bake but as soon as i walked into the bakery, i wanted to open my own bakery! of course, the small bakery was packed with people! after browsing every single item on display, we ordered what we came for: 1 slice of ice box cake, 1 slice of the banana cream pie, 1 daisy cupcake with chocalate frosting and 1 chocolate cupcake with chocolate frosting. i have to admit the cupcakes were divine and might be better than magnolia's... but the ice box cake wasn't as good as magnolia's. although d liked it better because it wasn't as sweet but i love the ice box cake from magnolia! it's my absolute favorite. oh the banana cream pie wasn't bad, either. :-) even though we said we were only going to eat just a bite from each item, we finished our cupcakes and most of the the ice box cake and the banana cream pie. we were feeling very guilty after the sugar overload and decided to walk to union square. (to kill some time until dinner, that is.) after a few hours at the barnes and noble, feeling the ups & downs of our sugar overload, we walked over to momofuku noodle bar around 8pm-ish. i was so excited, i'd been over to the ssam bar but have been dying to come to the noodle bar for weeks! especially since i hard that the noodle bar is planning on expanding to another location! i had to go try the original momofuku noodle bar. even before i go into the meal itself, i have to say one thing: it was phenomenal!! so far, my favorite restaurant to date. i can't go on about how much i love this place. again, the decor of the restaurant is simple but warm. of course, the people waiting inside and outside to eat there gave the whole place even more excitement! we waited about half an hour before we were seated but it was worth the wait. let me list of our dinner... we started off with the berkshire pork steamed buns, roasted rice cakes, curry fried pork belly. for main entree, d and i shared the momofuku ramen, which was absolutely perfect. first, the steam buns were heavenly! the pork was juicy and tender, the pancake so soft! the curry pork belly, which was deep fried and it just melted in my mouth. the crispy skin of the pork and the belly fat. what more can you ask for?? well, i also think the roasted rice cake is one of their yummiest appetizers! the rice cakes are toasted before so it’s nice and chewy. the chili sauce is simply amazing! momofuku ramen, which is larger and had more goodies than the regular pork ramen on the menu. i was so full, i think i had to be rolled outta the restaurant.

so there you have it. i am thinking i need to go to the gym tonight for at least 3 hours to just undo some damage. that might be just enough to burn off the chocolate cupcake, though...

dessert overload

my bf and i were literally all over the city this weekend. on saturday afternoon, we went on a 13 mile run starting in the upper east side, across central park and w 100 street, down the west side, around battery park and ended somewhere on the e 34th street. we had to take the subway home because walking (or rather moving) wasn't an option. we're training for the san francisco marathon at the end of july. it'll be my third marathon and his first. we did 12 miles in san francisco last weekend. even with the hills in sf, the 12 mile run seemed much easier. maybe because i'm much more familiar with the route and terrain there.

i may have done 2 marathons already but training is always a killer. i can barely walk today! my legs are sore has hell right now. especially after yesterday, when we decided to WALK to magnolia bakery. um, ok, i don't know what we were thinking. hello, i live in the UPPER east side! we only made it to about 31st street, where we had to take a rest at the affinia hotel kitty corner from madison square garden. ghetto as this may sound, we took a wee nap on their comfy sofa in the lobby. thank goodness no one bothered us! afterwards, we went to woorijip (our house, in english), a "fast food" korean restaurant where i got some side dishes. dinner was at kunjip (big house, i think?), which was really really good. we got korean bbq, hot pot fried rice and spicy rice cakes, which i looooove. dinner was topped off by going next door to pinkberry, where we both said, "ok, just a few bites to see what it tastes like." we got the 8oz with 3 toppings (banana, kiwi and strawberry... YUMMY) and ate more than half! i really liked the interesting yogurt flavor!

then we took the subway to magnolia. of course, even at 10pm on a sunday night, there's a line out the door. fortunately, we only waited 10 minutes. i have waited 30+ minutes in the past!

we must have thought running 13 miles allowed us to eat whatever we wanted because even with our full bellies, we went to magnolia bakery and ordered the following: 3 cupcakes, 1 crispy cherry cobbler thingie, 1 slice of ice box cake (my absolute favorite) and 1 small banana pudding. we walked over to the park right across from the marc jacobs store and proceeded to eat a quarter of everything that we bought. the rest are sitting in my refrigerator right now and i can't wait to dig into them after work!

but, back to last night... i literally felt sick on our way home from magnolia. i'm sure he did, too!

after we got back home, we watched the nba playoffs (warriors vs mavericks) totally comatose from our food and dessert overload. but it was a really exciting game! goooooo warrriors! (i know, i'm a total fair-weather fan. but hello, they went from losing practically every game to leading 3-1 in the playoffs against the dallas mavericks?? go golden state warriors! need more info, check out this fab blog on gs warriors.)

did i mention on saturday night, after our dinner at orsay, we went to payard and got 5 desserts! (we actaully only ordered 3 things but one of the servers has a crush on me and brought us 2 extras! it was closing time, too, however...) my roommate was there but still... i feel really fat today.