{"id":576,"date":"2008-02-07T17:10:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-08T03:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/07\/yummy-nuggets\/"},"modified":"2008-02-07T17:10:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-08T03:10:00","slug":"yummy-nuggets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/02\/07\/yummy-nuggets\/","title":{"rendered":"Yummy Nuggets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/02-03-08_1732.jpg\" title=\"Joyful Kaneohe\"><img vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/02-03-08_1732.thumbnail.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"Joyful Kaneohe\" title=\"Joyful Kaneohe\" \/><\/a>Had dinner at &#8220;Joyful Garden&#8221; Chinese restaurant near Kozo Sushi in Kaneohe this weekend.\u00c2\u00a0 Supposedly they also have a downtown location.\u00c2\u00a0 The atmosphere is more upscale here than the more familiar &#8220;take-out&#8221;\/family dinner Chinese restaurants here.\u00c2\u00a0 It was very clean and bright inside, and they had a big Philips LCD TV to watch the end of the &#8220;Big Game&#8221; on.\u00c2\u00a0 Cloth napkins &#8211; I think that sums it up well.\u00c2\u00a0 The waiters had black slacks, white shirts and black vests!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Their <em>hot\/sour soup<\/em> (A) was good. The tofu was cut into tiny pieces like shoestring potatoes, and there was a good sesame oil taste and smell. Their <em>pork with bittermelon<\/em> (B+) was nicely prepared with slightly fattier pork than I usually see (this is a good thing!), and the bittermelon was cut into lengthwise strips rather than half-circles. This may have moderated the bitterness by exposing fewer of the vascular cells where that particular taste resides. It did seem a little on the sweet side though. Their <em>gon lo mein<\/em> (B) was fine, but that&#8217;s pretty hard to screw up. The best part was their <em>minced shrimp tofu on spinach garden<\/em> (A+) which was a February special. I thought it would be steamed stuffed tofu, but instead, it was deep fried balls of minced shrimp and strained soft tofu, served over a bed of cooked spinach and covered in a rich translucent brown sauce. It was simply wonderful. There was also <em>jai<\/em> (?), but\u00c2\u00a0I didn&#8217;t have any.<\/p>\n<p>Go get some of that shrimp\/tofu stuff before the end of February!<\/p>\n<p>Four out of four grinning monkeys<\/p>\n<p>Around $60 USD for a family of 4\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had dinner at &#8220;Joyful Garden&#8221; Chinese restaurant near Kozo Sushi in Kaneohe this weekend.\u00c2\u00a0 Supposedly they also have a downtown location.\u00c2\u00a0 The atmosphere is more upscale here than the more familiar &#8220;take-out&#8221;\/family dinner Chinese restaurants here.\u00c2\u00a0 It was very clean and bright inside, and they had a big Philips LCD TV to watch the end [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[8,13],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paJYlx-9i","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}