Albeit it's a day off, I'm not a huge fan of mid-week holidays. They're pretty hard to plan for since you really can't get fracked up too much since you have to wake up the next morning and be cheery at work. Fug....

At least we got to try new restaurants. One decent find was Shakas Hawaiian Flavors via some posting on Chowhound that they have decent shaved ice (w/ condensed milk, ice cream, and sometimes azuki beans if there are some left!). Well, we ate lunch and didn't have room left for shaved ice. Life is a bitch sometimes, and you're just going to hafta roll with it. Of worthy note is their Honu Pepper Chicken and Sesame Chicken Wings. Gonna try other things once what we ate successfully makes it's way to the "other end".

At night, we met up with Wifey's family friends in Alhambra for a 7/4 celebratory dinner. One thing you can count on is that most Asian joints don't give a rats ass what holiday it is so long as it'll give a slight boost to sales. Anyhoo, looks to me we found yet another Vietnamese joint to eat that has more offerings than your typical pho joint. A few noteworthy dishes at Lee Kam Kee (no...not the oyster sauce brand): beef curry claypot served w/ french bread, soft shell crab, and their pho noodles were like ho fun (pronounced haw fun)...hmmm...maybe it was ho fun...**shrug**

Man...gotta increase the workouts with all this eating...