The Greek Corner is a cute little cafe close to the University. From my experience, the closer to the college means the cheaper the food. This place had good service, nice atmosphere and fair prices with hefty portions. Gyro sandwiches were $5.96, the most expensive salad was $6.95, appetizers were affordable and didn’t go over $6.00. I ordered hommos, for $4.95 and that’s the way it was spelled on the menu. I’ve always seen it spelled hummus but hommos is a little more entertaining to say. It was a little oily but still delicious and came with a pita bread cut into four pieces. The pita bread was good but was hot like it was microwaved rather than hot like it was fresh. There wasn’t enough bread and we had to order more for .75 cents. I didn’t mind because they really gave generous portions of hommos. Yes, hommos is definitely more amusing to say, even if it is pronounce hummus. I prefer homos. The hommos was fantastic but a bit greasy. There’s just so much hommos, don’t you think? Alright, let us move on.

I also ordered a Mixed Plate. It was a nice variety of gyros beef and lamb topped with Tzatzif, (I don’t know what that is either), along with marinated boneless chicken baked in slow fire, and topped with a garlic mayo sauce, served with a Greek salad and pita bread. All for the special price of $10.95. Ray and I shared it and it was more than plenty. Everything was scrumptious. I definitely will be back.

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Bogart’s is one of my favorite places to have breakfast. It’s one of those places where no matter what you order you can’t go wrong. The last two times I’ve gone I’ve ordered the Lox Bagel. Now, I know I’m all about trying new things, unless it’s just that freaking good and that it is.

The Lox Bagel cost me $7.75 and is a bagel with cream cheese, capers, onions and tomato topped with smoked salmon. I think everyone should experience one in their lifetime. I like to have it for breakfast but I think this could swing for any meal.

My advice however is to go to Bogart’s for breakfast. I was there the other day for lunch and service was horrible. Ray came to the table after ordering our food and said, “I don’t think pregnant people should be aloud to work.” Our food was delivered to us in a plastic bag and practically thrown at us. The girl was pregnant so maybe her hormones were all out of wack but I still don’t think that should allow her a, “I get to be a biatch” card. Like I said, go for breakfast; service is good in the morning and sucks during the day.

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Growing up, my parents owned a small Chinese restaurant call Golden Dragon in a small town in California. I worked there since I was in the 5th grade up until I transferred to San Francisco State University. Since then, my Chinese food consumption has gone down tremendously. Could it be that nothing compares to ma and pops traditional cooking or that I actually have to pay for food now or both?

Anyhow, The Golden Eagle is fairly close to the University Hawaii, which means it’s more than likely going to be affordable. Ray and I shared the Seafood Chow Fun. It’s Ray favorite Chinese dish, next to me of course.

This dish cost us $11.49 and that’s including tax. It wasn’t on the menu, but here’s more free knowledge I’m willing to share with you. When your dinning at a Chinese restaurant you can basically have anything you want. Money talks and if you want it and the Chinese has it, they’ll gladly make it for you . . . for a small fee of course. Next time your out for Chinese and you think to yourself, “man, Mongolian beef sounds good, but I’ve had way too much red meat lately. I really wish they had Mongolian chicken instead.” Order it, It’s your world sweet cheeks, you can have anything you want, but make sure you bring cash because Chinese no like paying tax and a lot of places will not settle for anything less.

Back to the food. It was delicious. Generally, when you order chow fun, which is rice noodles, the waiter will ask you if you want it wet or dry, which means do you want it with or without sauce. I suggest with and that’s the way we ordered it. It was everything we had hoped and more. The vegetables were fresh and crispy. It was flavorful without being too salty. The service was good and we even got free tea, but no fortune cookie. That’s o.k. I don’t need a cookie to tell me how my life’s gonna turn out, that’s what I pay Sylvia, my psychic, for. Here’s my fortune cookie fun fact of the day for you, fortune cookies are an American invention, just like chop suey. Desserts were not traditionally part of Chinese cuisine, and the cookies thus offered Americans something familiar with an exotic flair. Who would of thought, writing a message in a freaking cookie could be so popular. I think we should take this a step further and start writing subliminal messages on toilet paper so after we’re done with our reading material we could wipe our ass with something really really special.

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