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8-17-16 Kitchen 305

All You Can Eat Lobster!

Originally, this post was going to be jumbled into the next one, but screw it, two posts it is! There are so many great food things that I did in 2016 and I really need to force myself to find the time to write and share my experiences. I can and will do better to get this done.

Tonight was the second time I went to Kitchen 305 and both times has been absolutely delicious. After a long day at work, I met up with 3 of my co-workers and we went to town on some all you can eat lobster. As we sat at our table and ordered our dinner, things started off nice and slow as usual and we were given our soup/salad and first course of lobster. Along with that came sides of corn on the cob, potatoes, and of course plenty of butter. I quickly ate down plate after plate and I was thoroughly enjoying that delicious lobster smothered in butter. For others, they found it was a little too much work, but to me, that is all experience, getting in there with your hands.

After eating around 9 lobsters, the waiter began to express concerns for my well being. When I asked for more lobster, he told me that there is a lot of sodium and that it is dangerous to eat so much, but I insisted that he bring more lobster for me. With each additional request for more lobster, he would continue to stress the sodium level in the amount of food I consumed and began to say “don’t blame me if you don’t wake up tomorrow.” I wasn’t going to let this guy stop me from eating to my absolute consent, so I kept ordering and putting down food.

Once I was working on the 13th lobster, others needed to leave so they paid their checks and made their way out. Me on the other hand, I just wanted more food to shovel into my mouth. We didn’t see him come back for a bit (I assumed he thought we were done when the others made their leave) but I waited patiently. Once he finally came back I asked for more food. He expressed his concerns once again and asked “how much more do you want?” I told him I wanted 5 more and he almost fell over in shock, but sure enough, he brought me 5 more lobsters. While I could have eaten another lobster or two, I was satisfied enough with the amount of food I consumed and made my exit shortly after finishing my food. It was once again a pleasant night full of fun and food.

8-13-16 Paintball! and ROK Korean BBQ

The local paintball field I play at has been renovating and today I got a chance to see the brand new air filled bunkers in the speed ball field. Looking good, can’t wait to play! To be completely honest, I don’t even remember much about what went on today. I’m sure I have some gopro videos, but I believe my gun was giving me trouble and didn’t make for a much of a great day of playing. Either way, I ran around a lot and enjoyed myself.

All I needed to hear was ALL YOU CAN EAT and I was sold on the idea for Korean BBQ. Before I get too far into the food talk, I want to reflect back on one of my previous posts. I mentioned that I had gone to a big family reunion, but I never really got into much detail about what happened. I guess at the time, it was mostly some small talk and a whole lot of eating, but from there a bunch of us added each other as Facebook friends. We kept in touch and talked about food and fishing (I went fishing with my cousin in my last post) and today I met up with my cousin’s wife and her cousin (which was essentially my cousin too) and we had dinner at ROK, an all you can eat Korean BBQ restaurant. Being in touch and meeting up was a start to so many great things to come, which you will see in future posts. A life changer that I almost wimped out on, which hopefully I learnt my lesson. Ok, back to the food!

I don’t normally have a big appetite after a long day of running around and doing activities, but that by no means stopped me from eating lots of food today. We ordered one of each meat dish, which included: chicken thighs, pork belly, diced pork, thin cut beef, and beef short ribs. While all of the food was tasty, those beef short ribs were sooooo good. After eating all of the food we had, it was just nonstop refills of beef ribs.

Plate after plate after plate, it was extremely delicious. At some point, I got bored of meat with meat and more meat, so I started to order bowls of just lettuce.

8-14-16 John U Lloyd and Teppanyaki Buffet

I met up with my cousins again at the beach and swam around a bit, even though it was a little chilly in the water. It’s always relaxing to make a trip to the ocean and today was just another nice day.

After everyone else left, I went for a walk on the jetty to just admire the area.

For dinner, I met up with my cousins and their two children (my nieces) at Teppanyaki Buffet. I usually don’t do back to back all you can eat, but ohhhhh well. Things started off like any normal trip to a buffet, eating plates of food and enjoying the company. This was the first time I really interacted with my nieces, so they were a bit shy and didn’t say much or interact with me. I don’t really blame them though, here goes this new guy they don’t know just eating down piles and piles of food. After a good amount of eating, the older of the two commented on my eating abilities and we started to poke at each other and eventually she started to try and feed me. The younger one quickly caught on and started to mess around with me as well. All of us had a lot of fun and I ate a ridiculous amount of food (as usual....) which my nieces never forgot. This whole weekend was a start to a lot of great memories to come.

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Kitchen 305 All You Can Eat Lobster!: 1-27-16

Chow.... Never Mind! A Break From Chow Time, but not From Food.

Hmm, this doesn’t look like Chow Time... What is going on?!? These plans were set in motion even before I decided to go on my Chow Time adventure, so they got a break today. I am going to allow Chow Time to recover for a day while I go about making a new restaurant start sweating at their profit loss. Tonight I went to Kitchen 305 for all you can eat lobster with some of my coworkers, and let me tell you, we had a riot. The lobster was delicious and they had live music going on all night; no real complaints here.

So let’s just start from the beginning, where everything actually started going downhill right away. Our original reservation was for 10 people, but as things changed, we got cut down to 6 then when we actually arrived, it turned into 3 plus 1 person being late. I felt like this was strike one, because we had this big reservation setup and only 30% of the group showed up. We were waiting and starving, so we went ahead and got seated with 1 person pending to arrive still. The hostess took us over to a large booth and we immediately got straight into it.

The advertisement for the lobster said that it included a soup or salad and 2 sides, so I was taking a quick browse at the menu and they had some interesting things going on. Duck fat fries? Bacon wrapped brussels sprouts? Were these really the kind of choices we had? Once the waitress came over, the first question one of the guys asked was: “are there free refills on the soda?” The look she gave him.... yea, that was strike two. We told her we were all doing the all you can eat lobster and ordered our soups/salads. I was still a bit curious on the sides and while I was still looking at the menu, the waitress asked if we were going to order any extra drinks or sides and we said no, so she took away the menu. I was a little confused, and thought: well damn, it’s not like I was looking at that or anything, but just let things take their course.

We were given a basket of bread and butter along with out starter items. I had gotten Manhattan clam chowder, but for me, it was a little salty so I didn’t bother eating it. The bread, I am sure it was tasty, but I know better than to go about eating down some free bread at an all you can eat lobster event. After a short time, our main course was ready. We were each given a plate of sides, which contained mac and cheese, scalloped potatoes, and corn on the cob. The mac and cheese was OK and the potatoes were just whatever for me, but either way I didn’t plan to detour too far from eating just lobster anyway. We were each given one lobster to start and oh was it delicious. My plan was to take a picture of each lobster I ate, but it quickly became too messy since it was such a hands on eating experience.

As we were still eating our first lobster, the 4th person joined us at the table. Someone handed him one of the plates of sides to eat while waiting for the waitress to come back. At this point, the plate of sides were already cold and he said: “this stuff is cold, I don’t this.” which I don’t blame him for. As the waitress came back, she brought a another round of lobster for us and set it on the table. There was no Hi, Hello, or any form of ordering, the late person at the table just said "my sides are cold, I need new ones.” I couldn’t help but chuckle a little bit and she responded by saying “those were someone else’s sides” and he said “yea, but they are cold I need new sides.” Here we go, strike three; I just kept laughing as she went and got new sides while we munched on some lobster.

She came back with a fresh plate of sides for him and we continued to eat round two of lobster. Now for the real kick, when the sides came, he looked at them and said: “I don’t even want these sides, who wants this?” I was practically rolling on the floor laughing at this point. We ate round three, then round four of lobster and asked if we could get a lot at once rather than just one at a time, but our request was denied. Round five... then round 6 and things came to a halt. We waited, and waited... and waited, but no lobster came out, for anyone at all actually. During this time, we had a random guest stop by and say “are any of you going to beat my record?” I said to myself: “who is this guy trying to challenge me?” and he told us about the 9 lobster he ate. I was like “HAH... we are on #6 but I am going to down more than 9 lobsters like it’s nothing.” He laughed and made his way back to where ever he came from. Maybe 10 mins later, another person came by trying to show off his lobster numbers and again, I was thinking: “who are these people coming by and telling us this like they are some serious lobster eating badasses?” This guy... he only ate 8 and again I told him his “record” was nothing.

It took a while for the lobster to start flowing from the kitchen again, but once it did, things seriously picked up. Round 7 and 8 came out quick and two people started to tap out at the table, but the waitress didn’t let up. Her entire tune seemed to change and she flooded us nonstop with lobster, which I didn’t mind. Two people tapped out at lobster #8 and the other two of us kept going. Lobster number 9 and 10 came and I was still cruising, but the last person eating with me was spent. As I ate up to number 15, a lady stopped by our table (people really liked our table!) and told us they had been waiting 30 mins and had zero lobster so far! We spoke a little more and she told us about how she can normally eat around I believe 8 lobster and when we got into some more talk and we told her I was on number 15... she didn’t believe me. It’s ok, she didn’t have believe me, but I was eating all of the lobster that could have come to her table.

At this point, I was starting to slow down and slowly creeping toward my goal of 20 lobsters. The taste of lobster became so absolutely undesirable but I was determined and kept pushing on. The soda came in a carafe and even though it was only meant for one person, three of us were drinking it down. I started using it to help change up the taste and get the lobster down. One after the other I slowly chewed up and swallowed down bite after bite. When I finished my 17th lobster, the waitress asked if I wanted more and even though I said maybe just one or two, she brought me a plate with three. I took it as a sign, a sign that I was destined to eat the 20 lobsters tonight. Around this time, I saw the two guys that tried to brag about their 8 and 9 lobsters eaten and I had to go ahead and set the record straight on how many I was currently at. As I finished off number 17, I desperately needed more soda to help with the last two and asked someone to ask the waitress for a refill when she came back. Well... here was strike four lol... as she came toward us, someone picked up the carafe and just extended it out toward her general direction and just said absolutely nothing. She was mildly confused and with a .... expression as well and someone else had to jump in and said “can we have a refill?” My jaw just dropped at the whole thing and one of the guys was said: “omg man, she is going to spit in that soda!” We laughed and she came back with a refill and we poured it out and started drinking it. They continued to talk about the whole soda ordeal and as the the guy that did it began to speak, the waitress walked up to the table and began to clear off the empty cups and carafe. He had no idea she was next to him and there we went talking “...I don’t care if she spits in the soda, I hope she does, because then....” and he continued on as she moved on until we interrupted him. My jaw was on the floor again and I couldn’t help but laugh at the whole thing. I dunno how many strikes we went through tonight; there were times when I felt bad, but other times when I felt our service in general could have really used some work. Either way, in the end we took care of literally everyone: the waitress, the valet, the guy busing the tables, and even the guy in the bathroom giving out paper towels.

I went about finishing my last two lobsters and lubing up my arteries with the last bit of butter. SUCCESS! mission complete! I went and cleaned up in the bathroom and came back over and we sat down to chat for a little bit. We had been here for almost 4 hours, way longer than I thought anyone else would want to stay. We continued to chat and around 10:30, the lights went dim and they had two women in outfits get up on the bar and start dancing. Well, I guess that’s one way to end the night; a full belly and some live entertainment. Suffice to say, when I got home I was completely out cold within minutes. I posted my before and after picture; I should have angled it a little better, but oh well!

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