韓國料理 － 大長今 Dai Jang Kum

到Richmond的The Brick逛完傢俱剛好碰到晚餐時間，看到旁邊就有一家叫大長今的韓國料理餐廳，於是決定進去吃吃看。其實住在溫哥華，一直覺得隨便一家韓國料理都有一定的水準，差只差在服務的好壞。不像臺灣的韓國料理，很多有名的店又貴但味道只是so-so，還超難定， 跟這裡真的不能比。Anyway, 現在就來介紹這家無意發現的餐廳。

一進來就感覺餐廳很明亮，感覺乾乾淨淨蠻舒服的，還有很多間包廂，很適合聚會。牆上掛著李英愛／大長今的照片。嘿，這可是我媽最愛的韓劇之一。

坐下來發現桌子底下真的很擠，膝蓋都會頂到。男朋友從廁所回來還撞倒膝蓋，痛的他小抱怨了一下。

我超愛韓國烤肉甜甜鹹鹹的味道，但又懶得自己烤，所以點了牛肉燒烤蓋飯 (Bulgogi on Rice). Bulgogi如果甜味太重很容易膩，但他們的不會，甜鹹度剛好很快就被吃完了。

辣拌冷麵 (Spicy Cold Noodles) 也是我的必點，我喜歡這種清爽的味道。

香辣豬骨土豆湯 (Potato Soup) 裡面有滿滿的料 － 燉爛的豬脖子肉，馬鈴薯，還有其他的菜。雖然看起來很辣但喝起來並不會。湯上面放了很多胡椒子，一邊喝一邊咬脆脆的胡椒子感覺蠻特別的，但它比較heavy,感覺像湯菜不像湯所以我喝了一點就不想喝了。

Total:

大長今的價格還不錯，服務也蠻優。雖然我們沒按桌上的服務鈴，但服務生照樣來了幾次確定一切都OK還問我們有沒有什麼其他的需要。不像 Lansdown Mall裡的Kyung Bok Palace, 去的幾次服務生跑來跑去永遠叫不到，感覺人手不足。

他們的Lunch Special價錢不錯，下次去試試！

Dai Jang Kum

Picasso's Goddesses and Doormats

Now, I was never much interested in Picasso, perhaps because I knew little about him much less his work, other than the fact that he is really famous for his paintings that sometimes confuse the heck out of people. However, that's changed when I found out more about the prolific artist's life due to my job. Picasso's love life -- consisting of two marriages and many, many affairs -- intrigued me the most. He certainly did not have trouble getting women due to his fame and wealth from his success as an artist. The  artist once said that, for him, only two kinds of women existed: "goddesses" and "doormats." Unfortunately for most of his women, they started off as objects of his obsession only to find themselves downgraded to the undesirable doormat status when passion fizzled. Take a look at his portrayal of his first wife Olga Khokhlova and one can see that she starts off as being a gentle soul but becomes a monster with vagina dentata in later paintings.


The Picasso Museum in Paris is undergoing renovations, allowing 62 art works of Picasso from its collection, which includes sculptures, to travel all the way here to Taipei for an exhibition at the National Museum of History. I had the chance to see three paintings, "Dora Maar" (above), "The Embrace" (below) and "Paul as Pierrot" fresh out of their sturdy containers a little over a week ago.  

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