@cstephens2

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First, let me clarify the obvious - these are my opinions and how I'm choosing to do what I do. Everyone should do whatever they want.

I've not been particularly interested in Project Hail Mary, though I've heard good things about it, and it's doing quite well at the box office. I would have considered seeing it at some point. But then I heard about the viewpoints of Andy Weir, the author of the book that the film is based on. 1/3

Posted by the CEO of Epic Games.

F@ck him. Seriously. F@ck him until tomorrow. And the day after that. And the day after that. And every day thereafter.

#EpicGames

I learned today that #CharlieCox is British. 馃う

In my defense, I really don't watch talk shows anymore, and while I might read stories about actors and such (but I don't even do a lot of that), I don't often hear them speak. Until I watched a promo thing this morning that he and Vincent D'Onofrio did. And I heard Charlie's real voice. #Daredevil #DaredevilBornAgain

I'm interested in the matcha cheesecake but I'm turned off by the white chocolate they say is in it, so I'm not sure about that. The husband will want to try the banana pudding on a later visit.

Their cart is located on the main corridor of #DisneyCaliforniaAdventure , across from Maters and near the entrance to Carsland. #PaderiaBakehouse #DisneyCaliforniaAdventureFoodAndWineFestival #Disneyland 4/4

There's another place I've seen local to me that has advertised Portuguese egg tarts, and they're darker, so I'm going to have to try one sometime.

The cookie was very good, though it was much bigger / higher than I expected. It was almost like a muffin size! It was very tasty, but about 3/4 of it is now sitting in my refrigerator for me to enjoy this week. 3/4

In any case, I ordered two egg tarts and one sea salt chocolate chip cookie.

$5.25 is a bit expensive for one egg tart, but it was delicious. The crust was definitely a butter bomb - you got heavy flavor and feel of butter in every bite of crust. (I'm not saying that's a bad thing.) The filling didn't taste different than Chinese egg tarts to me, though the husband did think it tasted different to him. 2/4

I'd seen a post on social media about #PaderiaBakehouse being at #DisneyCaliforniaAdventureFoodAndWineFestival this year, so I wanted to stop in and try some of their items. The social media post said they had Portuguese egg tarts but none of the signage in person said Portuguese. The tarts also were not as dark as I've seen in pictures of Portuguese egg tarts so I'm not sure what I had since I've never had them before. #DisneyCaliforniaAdventure #Disneyland 1/4
I'm not sure the salsa verde at the bottom or the tomatoes on top would have moved at all. Having to dig through the top layer of tomatoes to try to get to the chicharr贸n was very difficult. Again, one of the bigger paper boats they've used for other dishes would have worked fine. If they're trying to use chicharr贸n to simulate chips in nachos, this is really the wrong way to do it. #MagicKey #MagicKeyHolder #SipAndSavor #Disneyland #disneyCaliforniaAdventureFoodAndWineFestival 2/2
For the #DisneyCaliforniaAdventureFoodAndWineFestival today, we had also ordered the new-this-year Chicharr贸n Nachos: Chicharr贸n, chorizo, cheese sauce, tomatoes, and salsa verde. Again, the taste & flavor were great. The plating & presentation were baffling and just plain bad. This is not the kind of dish you put in a shaker. Shaking it would have done nothing because the chicharr贸n pieces weren't moving around. #MagicKey #MagicKeyHolder #SipAndSavor #DisneyCaliforniaAdventure #Disneyland 1/2

The choice of using what is effectively a bowl is completely wrong. It's messy to try to pick it up from the top and even messier with the sauce just on the bottom. It would have worked fine to use the plate like for the Asa'DOS, with the torta on one side, and the sauce in a separate little container or even just on the side, like the salsa verde on the other dish.

#MagicKey #MagicKeyHolder #SipAndSavor #DisneyCaliforniaAdventure #Disneyland #DisneyCaliforniaAdventureFoodAndWineFestival 4/4