We went to Korean Palace BBQ on Friday night to celebrate Pei-Chen's birthday. We wanted to avoid a long wait so we decided to meet there at 6. Totof apparently tried very hard to meet the time since he was the first one to arrive...
Palace BBQ is always a good choice when you want to indulge yourself with good quality meat. Nice marinated meat. I always want to find out what secrets Palace has in marination sauce. The sauce makes Palace's meat stands out among the bay area Korean BBQ places.Totof and I like their side dishes. For me, I like their kimchi, noodles, radish, bok choy, and spinach. For Totof, he prefers kimchi, bok choy, noodles, meat ball, and rice. We barely try their crab meat, tofu, squeeze and jelly fish.
The first round we got two plates filled with beef and two plates filled with side dishes. Yongjin was good at picking meat. As our dinner went, a question was raised. We saw Yongjin's plate was filled with raw crabs. So we asked why. He and Pei-Chen told us that crabs in Korea were very expensive. Therefore, he liked to get some crabs. We did not try any crabs due to their spiciness. But according to Pei-Chen and Yongjin, these crabs were good. Palace apparently had done a good job at making these crabs. Just one drawback, the crab size is too small. Yongjin said they should serve larger crabs.
We talked about surfing. One day Totof told me he bumped into Yongjin in the water in Santa Cruz. So Totof asked Yongjin
g how his surfing was going. These two big boys were enthusiastic at surfing. We talked about the length of surf boards, talking about the skills, talking about the performance difference between surf boards, and talking about locals.
g how his surfing was going. These two big boys were enthusiastic at surfing. We talked about the length of surf boards, talking about the skills, talking about the performance difference between surf boards, and talking about locals. Then the topic turned to focus on stock market. I recall that Pei-Chen mentioned the Wave Theory. The Wave Theory said that in long term, any stock price movement can be generalized by five step up and three step down. Stock prices need to have momentum to go up. When stock prices are low, it means the stocks are accumulating energy. When a stock's energy tank is full, the energy will then push the stock price to go up. All healthy stocks therefore in long term moves up.
We had so many rounds. As usual, we feel the fullness was up to our throat. But we still like to visit Palace and make ourselves suffered a bit. Maybe this suffer also produces a kind of satisfaction. Dinner went well. Everyone was happy. Happy atmosphere. Happy meat. Happy belly.
After dinner, let's play games
The initial plan was to go to Totof's place to play a board game. Pei-Chen, Yongjin and I arrived 10 min after Totof because Pei-Chen needed to refill. So, you could imagine Totof already turned on the projector and watched some cool stuff with nice sound. We sit on the sofa and watched Totof showed off some cool Linux features. Linux was filled with astonish features.
We then talked about Guitar Hero. Pei-Chen played Guitar Hero 2 before. But not with the guitar, just with the controller. We turned on XBox 360 and BANGed, Guitar Hero 2. I could tell Yongjin knew how to play music instruments immediately. Yongjin tried playing Rancid's Salvation and Cheap Trick's Surrender. The way he placed his fingers and moved his fingers showed this fact out loud. He did not perform the songs like the first time to play. He got some nice scores. Pretty good.
Then, Pei-Chen tried it. Accidentally she got a medium level on Pearl Jam's Life Wasted. Totof and I thought we needed to restart the song. It turned out we did not need to. Pei-Chen missed several notes at beginning phrase. It did not matter. She quickly understood how to play and got the Mojo. She moved her fingers on frets accordingly. She strummed with perfect rhythm sense.
She did not fail. In stead, she rocked. Totally, she rocked.
Her performance revealed that she must have a great music training.
Pei-Chen and Yongjin, this couple, truly amazed Totof and me. We have seen so many people. This was our first time to see a couple can nail down songs like this in first try. We stunned.
They went to every level. They were unstoppable. Toadies' Possum Kindom and Cheap Trick's Surrender were like a piece of cake. Warrant's Cherry Pie and Iggy Pop and and Stooges' Search and Destroy were defeated immediately. Guns N' Roses' Sweet Child O' Mine and Police's Message in a Bottle were completed without any difficulty. Deep Purple's Hush and Rage Against the Machine's Killing in the Name of were nicely performed. Dick Dale's Misirlou was also challenged.
Besides, Pei-Chen and Yongjin has tried some bonus songs. For instance, Freezepop's Less Talk and More Rock.
When Yongjin played Guns N' Roses' Sweet Child O' Mine, he told us a story. He had this CD when he was in Junior High. He liked to listen to this CD, esp this song. Somehow, his dad did not like him to spend time on rock music. So, one day, when his dad found out what Yongjin was listening to. His dad threw his CD away.
In the end, we did not play board games. We could not stop playing Guitar Hero.
Pei-Chen and Yongjin, you are awesome.
Korean Palace BBQ
1092 E El Camino Real # 1, Sunnyvale, CA
