August 25, 2025 Breakfast - Toasted Bagel spread with cream cheese and garnished with Salmon spread, cheddar cheese, and red onion Lunch - No. 30 at Vietnam 2000. Dinner - Suzette’s Birthday Dinner at Tamashi

 August 25, 2025  Breakfast - Toasted Bagel spread with cream cheese and garnished with Salmon spread, cheddar cheese, and red onion Lunch - No. 30 at Vietnam 2000. Dinner - Suzette’s Birthday Dinner at Tamashi 

Today I ate a lot of rice dishes, with a traditional European breakfast thrown in.

I worked from 5:30 to 6:45. Then I showered and dressed and watched the market open. For a large part of the morning it looked like the market would continue its remarkable run from Friday with Apple up $1.25 and Nvidia up over $3.00 in the first 2 1/2 hours of trading but by the close Apple was down $.60 and Nvidia closed up only $1.82 with the Dow down over 349 points and the Nasdaq down over 42 points.  Another day with stocks moving dramatically in opposite directions during the day.m except today the final move was down.

At 9:00 I ate breakfast. I toasted two slices of Bagel, spread them with cream cheese and garnished them with Swedish Salmon spread, cheddar cheese, and red onion and drank two cups of Earl Grey tea.

Suzette went out to visit Peter and offered to be a medical advocate for him, which was really nice of her since she had lots of things to do today including firing two employees.

After breakfast I organized a closing and prepared my bill and delivered documents to the realtor to take to the title Company. 

Then at 12:30 I drove to Vietnam 2000 and ordered my favorite summer dish No. 30, fried eggs rolls and grilled marinated pork on a bed of warm rice noodles on a bed of cucumber threads and mung bean sprouts with a bowl of fish sauce. For some reason today the fish sauce tasted better and there was more cucumber and no lettuce. I preferred the absence of lettuce and the abundance of cucumbers.

I asked for and was given a small plate of cilantro, Oriental basil, and mung bean sprouts to add to the dish. I really enjoyed lunch.

Then I went to Walgreens and bought a birthday card for Suzette. Today is her birthday. I then returned home and prepared a directive and then met with a client until 5:00.

At 5:45 we drove to Tamashi Restaurant on Holly for dinner.  Suzette got to pick her favorite restaurant and she picked Tamashi, perhaps because I said it was a higher end Japanese restaurant.

When we arrived we saw that it had been selected as the best sushi restaurant in Albuquerque for multiple years.

Suzette ordered a unagi (fresh water eel) on rice dinner that came with a pile of tempura vegetables, four nigiri, a salad, and a bowl of rice covered with five or six strips of BBQ eel. She also ordered a carafe of wolf sake that was very pleasant.

I ordered Traditional Chirashi and it was quite wonderful. There were two slices each of five raw fish, escarol (white tuna), melt in your mouth tender blue fin tuna, hamachi center cut slices, salmon, and seared albacore tuna plus a boiled shrimp, two slices of egg omelet, red pickled radishes, shredded daikon, and a small dish with wasabi and pickled ginger.

Suzette only ate a few bites of rice and we only ate half of my fish, so we boxed the rest for lunch tomorrow. 

When we arrived home we watched some Antiques Roadshow but Suzette was tired and fell asleep in front of the TV.

I drank two cups of green tea and ate two squares of milk chocolate with almonds.

We both went to bed at 9:00. I to blog and Suzette to sleep.

I like the extra squid salad and seaweed salad on the chirashi at Crazy Fish but I loved the freshness and quality of fish on Tamashi’s chirashi even though it was $7.00 more expensive.

We are looking forward to all the fresh fish in Japan.

Bon Appetit