Thursday, August 23, 2001
At work today, Gail dropped off a photo of the Golden Gate Bridge under construction for me. I put it on the wall, and my office now has an elegance that never existed before. Dinner tonight was at Thanh Long, again with Patrick, Sam, and Dianne. We had three kinds of crab: roast crab in garlic, drunken crab in Chardonnay, and tamarind crab. My dish was butterflied prawns over garlic noodles. The desserts were banana cake, bread pudding, and chocolate cake. Everyone's favorite was the banana cake. Service was surprisingly sophomoric, almost as if you could tell someone took the effort to train them, but they just couldn't get it down or quite possibly they had too many tables to work. Still, Dianne called the evening "exquisite" and if it weren't for the tasty food I would have silently disagreed. Dianne got a Diet Coke at 7 Eleven again.