What I Ate: September 25, 2009 (Pho Thaison, Tapioca House)

Lunch: Coming back from doing a walkthrough of our new home, we stopped at Pho Thaison (9500 S I H 35 # L800, Austin, TX‎ - (512) 280-2060‎) because Tina felt like Vietnamese vermicelli noodles. I wasn't in the mood for that so, I ordered the combination fried rice - which I found to be inedible due to a taste in the rice. I don't know how to describe it except that I could taste the water used to cook the rice. It wasn't too much water since the rice wasn't water logged or soggy, but it had a taste that I've had at other subpar Chinese restaurants. (I'm going to have to do a test one day cooking rice with purified water like I normally do and with hard water from the tap. I'm guessing it's the minerals in the hard water that gives the rice the bad taste - but I can't know for sure until I do this test.) After a few bites, then a few more after pouring soy sauce on it, then a few more after mixing sriracha sauce into it, I gave up.

I walked across the parking lot to Chick-Fil-A where I had a Chick-Fil-A Deluxe Chicken Sandwich and cole slaw.

Dinner: We stopped in at Tapioca House (1906 Guadalupe St, Austin, TX‎ - (512) 482-9880) near UT campus and I ordered crispy pork chop over rice and then realized I had left my SD card at home. I had to take the picture with my camera phone. The pork chop was tasty as were the mung bean sprouts and the soy sauce boiled egg.