Saturday, October 5, 2013

Hot Pot + Mucho Mango + Gravity

Fridays I work at SD (Slickdeals.net - for newcomers), and this Friday for entertainment, we (couple of SD-ers) decided to have hot pot for dinner and watch Gravity that just came out and apparently had high reviews.

Noodles Exchange is a Chinese restaurant located at Gold Coast Casino in Las Vegas, NV. Their main speciality or super popular dish is hot pot. As seen in the picture below, a pot of brew is placed in front of you along with raw ingredients that you drop in the pot while the brew is heated to boiling point. Once the ingredient is cooked to your liking, you take it out and dip in sauce (optional) before eating it. While we didn't get that much food shown in the picture, it was still plenty enough to fill me up. I got the beef platter (other choices was seafood and lamb). The beef platter came with beef (duh!), fish balls, taro, radish, daikon, lettuce, tomato, noodles, enoki mushrooms, and couple other veggies. The stew (I ordered spicy) came with tons of red chillies, and spices - garlic, cardamon, cloves, cinnamon sticks, etc.
 

After hot pot for dinner, we still had an hour and few minutes more to kill before the movie started, so we decided to hit Snowflakes Shavery for desserts. Snowflakes Shavery serves shaved ice of various flavors some includes green tea, strawberry, sesame seed, mango, mochi,  chocolate, etc, along with condensed milk and chunks of fruit if you ordered a fruit flavored one. I got the Mucho Mango which looked like this:

After that, we had like 20mins before the movie started, so we all rushed back to Brendan theaters which is right across Gold Coast to watch the movie Gravity staring Sandra Bullock. We watched the IMAX 3D version, and my opinion is that movie is only worth the time if you decide to watch it in IMAX 3D, anything else it is not worth the trouble. Especially since the plot was more or less obvious and predictable with each development in the story. There couple of flaws, but that aside, watching the Sun, Earth, occasionally the Moon and the billions of stars in space was really fun :D. Honestly, watch The Heat if you like Sandra Bullock, this one is just... meh.

Thanks again for inviting me along SD-ers!

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