Capital Seafood, board games, Rutt's Hawaiian Cafe

Capital Seafood

and board games

Neck pillow from United's MDE-IAH inaugural.

Pai gut and bean curd at Capital Seafood. Carts.

Carts.

Lo bac guo was basic but not bad.

Ngau paak yip (steamed ginger beef tripe) and feng zhao (chicken feet).

Wu gok (taro ball).

Traffic jam.

Beef ball. Huge.

Deep fried shrimp balls were a tad over-fried.

Ham sui gok were okay, not hot enough (temperature).

Started getting busier closer to noon.

Mara demonstrates how to eat a deep fried shrimp ball.

Order sheet.

Char siu bao to-go.

Half and Half tea with grass jelly.

Terraforming Mars.

Sue won, of course.

Loco moco at Rutt's Hawaiian Cafe.

3 item combo BBQ plate.

Portugese sausage fried royale.

Diced Veggies.

Was okay? Need another play-through to be sure.

Can't Stop is still fun, but the rules not being in English (at in this version) is a bit of a drag.

Dim sum at Capital Seafood is generally good, but we perhaps got there a bit too early? Our customary 10:30am arrival to beat the weekend crowds actually meant the menu felt a bit limited til about 11:30am, sigh. To be fair they did start filling up closer to 12:00pm, and the selection got a lot better. Alas we were already full-- even if we did load up on to-go at their to-go storefront a few doors down in the same plaza. *grins*

Terraforming Mars took pretty much the entire afternoon, Sue won as usual, but actually pressed her pretty hard on the terraforming track... but of course, once her card-building engine gets the resource-building going, there was no stopping her at the end. Diced Veggies was a much shorter but okay game that might need another play-through. And Can't Stop, in the Korean version, is quite well done-- sadly the fact that instructions are in Korean is a bit of a drag for new players.

Rutt's Hawaiian Cafe for dinner, the past few visits have been so-so and this was no exception. They are capable of decent but these days decent seems to be all they aspire to, rather than the old days when we had some excellent royales and breakfast plates.