Dinner at Darda

Tonight I met with xiao Jimmy and CC for dinner at Darda (yelp) at Milpitas Square. CC is supposed to be returning to Taiwan on the 14th, though she was offered another job by a different company. But she hasn't received a written offer yet, so she doesn't think she can stick around to see if she gets one. Darda is a Chinese Moslem restaurant. It's similar to Fatima in Cupertino and Ma's in San Jose (not sure if the same people are involved with all 3).

Xiao Jimmy thought the food was too oily--it was. The black pepper beef short rib had too much black pepper, and the chicken with snow peas--something tasted funny. The beef with green onion was ok, as was the Westlake beef soup. Would this be considered complaining? Or just making a judgment about the food? After all... we should be thankful that we can have such food, especially so much meat. Meat should be a luxury, and yet we tend to take it for granted. At any rate... I suppose one should make a judgment about the quality of food, if only to avoid wasting money in the future. Though I can understand why some people hate cooking for only themselves, but enjoy cooking if it is for others. If I get a job that requires long hours I may have to adopt the "typical" well-off bachelor lifestyle... eating out everyday...

At another table I noticed everyone was praying before dinner--the only woman there made a sign of the cross, so I'm guessing she's Catholic. The two men didn't, so I don't know if they're Catholic or Protestant. The Caucasian that she was sitting with... her bf? Well, she did gaap sung for him. She looked a bit like Christy Chung, at least face-wise, but she has a much thinner frame. But she seems devout at least. Maybe it was just some sort of interdenominational Christian gathering of some sort. But I hope her bf? is not Protestant... I've heard about too many couples of which the girl is Catholic and the guy is Protestant and the girl ends up becoming Protestant.

-:-Totally Christy Chung-:

There was another woman having dinner with her boyfriend, who didn't look Chinese, but the waitress was speaking in Mandarin, so at least one of them is Chinese. She looked more Thai than Chinese... she seems to be very conscious of her appearance (lots of make-up, painted toe nails, etc.), but her walk wasn't very lady like. Xiao Jimmy thought she was very good-looking and I too picky.

Inside one of the private rooms was an Indian? (Pakistani?) family--the daughter was very pretty... Jimmy said a lot of Indian families eat at restaurants that serve beef... if they are strict Hindus, is this permissible?

My nose is stuffed and I'm getting a cough now... Did I get this cold from my housemates or from the students last week? Bah.