Snappers Sea Grill (St. Pete Beach)

I went to the Snappers Sea Grill on St Pete Beach for dinner.  It wasn’t a real dinner for me, because I ate too many ginger snap cookies before leaving the house. There weren’t too many vegetable choices on the menu.  I only ordered one appetizer…Zucchini Sticks, which are breaded and fried.  It came with Tiger dipping sauce, which tasted like Thousand Island dressing to me.  Snappers’ seafood dishes are always pretty good, but I have to say these zucchini sticks weren’t my favorite, way too much breading and quite oily :(

Tsunami Japanese Steakhouse (St. Pete, FL)

This is my second time visiting Tsunami Japanese Steakhouse in St. Pete.  The first visit was about a year ago; we ordered some entrees on the menu, which weren't impressive to me at all.  A few days ago, we decided to give this place another try.  This time, I ordered Udon Noodle from the Appetizers section, which turned out to be a huge bowl of noodles. There were a lot of mushrooms in the soup which I really enjoyed.  The taste wasn’t too impressive, but it wasn’t bad either.  Instead of ordering entrees this time, we ordered from the sushi menu. I'm not a big fan of raw fish, but it's fun to try something I don't eat often. Actually, the sushi was great and fresh. In general, I would recommend sushi over the entree items at this restaurant.  I will definitely go back for dinner sometime J

A huge bowl of Udon noodles (in the Appetizers section of the menu), comes with 2 tempura shrimps.

Master Chirashi (Sashimi tuna, salmon, white fish, octopus, Japanese yellowtail & salmon roe served over sushi rice)

Spicy Tuna Roll & Dragon Roll (came on the same plate) and Rainbow Roll.  I enjoyed the Rainbow roll a lot. I went to their website and copy & paste the roll ingredients below.

Dragon Roll:  Grilled eel, salmon, crab stick delight, cucumber, asparagus & scallion rolled in seaweed & rice, topped with avocado & tuna, served with eel sauce and spicy mayo.

Rainbow Roll:  Grilled eel, cream cheese & cucumber rolled in seaweed & rice, topped with tuna, salmon, whitefish & avocado, served with eel sauce.

Paradise, Hawaiian Style (Week 2)

We slowed down a little bit during our second week of staying.  We went to visit a few must-go places and started catching up with work and taking more time just to relax.

A little farmers' market we drove by near North Shore.  We were super excited and stopped our car to check it out. We got a sweet coconut, a pineapple, and some apple bananas.  We’ve stayed for about 15 minutes and left.  The bad news was, after that, we got stuck in the traffic for about 1 hour :(

We drove by the Sunset Beach on the way back. We stopped there for about 10 minutes and found this fabulous view.

The coconut we got at the farmers' market fit perfectly in the bottle holder of our rental car.  It's kinda funny.

Chinese Vegetable Noodle Soup. I was super hungry when I got this noodle soup. I actually burned my tongue trying to eat it.  Unfortunately, it wasn’t very good.

We went to Pearl Harbor, which was an absolutely memorable trip. It was very touching to see the all film footages, memorials, and museums of the tragic attack.  My eyes were watering when I saw the sunken Arizona, the “tears” of the Arizona, and the names of all the people who lost their lives.  It is definitely a trip you have to make if you are visiting Ohua.

USS Missouri