Month: August 2022

Tra Ling’s Oriental Cafe at 2850 Iris Boulder has Chinese Comfort Food Handled

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All For Yoo and Me

I have been to this wonderful restaurant more than once, now!

They have combo plates that are right up my alley with traditional Chinese dishes with fried rice and an egg roll for $10.95 to $11.95.

So far I’ve had the Mongolian Beef, Kung Pao Chicken (both spicy) and the Beef and Broccoli, which has become my “go to”. The egg roll is extra crispy and comes with sweet red sauce and you can get it in pork or vegetable.

boba at tra ling's yoo and me boulder — A Traditional Boba for $4.95 at Tra Ling’s Cafe in Boulder, CO. GoshDarnBlog.com 2022.

When there I also make sure I buy a Traditional or Green Tea Boba for $4.95.

They serve your dish fast if you sit down to eat there, which is what I do. Mostly in like five minutes or less!

The restaurant has ample space for customers. If you come here on a date you will find it comfortable and quiet. Red paper lanterns populate the ceiling and their is even a red heart theme happening on the light fixtures. I asked them if the red lanterns and hearts were used for Feng shui, but I was told the color red more represents “luck.”

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When you enter you will see a room on your right that has a spinning tray for large groups who can share what they ordered with each other. This is a plus for me and makes Tra Ling’s Oriental Café a special place.

I’ve sat in the restaurant a number of times by myself and I will say the the yellow walls remind me of Backrooms videos on YouTube, which is funny to me, but it’s no problem.

The restaurant is clean from top to bottom with lots of space between the tables and they have convenient electric plugs in the walls if I need it.

tra longs boulder colorado — Ample seating at Tra Ling’s and Yoo and Me. GoshDarnBlog,com 2022.

Yoo and Me Noodle House is also a part of Tra Ling’s location. If you need a landmark this Chinese restaurant is in the DMV building off Iris in Boulder.

The hours are 11:00 AM to 9:30 PM Monday through Saturday and they’re closed on Sunday. You can order online for delivery or pickup.

If you visit their website you will see their menu is vast. They even have Vietnamese dishes.

mongolian beef at tra longs oriental cafe yoo and mee boulder colorado — Mongolian Beef at Tra Ling;s and Yoo and Me in Boulder, Colorado. GoshDarnBlog.com 2022.

https://tralingsorientalcafe.com/17295

https://youandmeenoodlehouse.com/17313

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Plants and Coffee Reimagined: Terracotta Plant Café on 2005 Pearl St.

2 years ago

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Visiting this place was different

Terracotta now has a new location and a totally different theme. The miracle of nature is in full effect at this plant cafe because, ya see, it’s full of vegetation.

Shrub, greenery, flora… oh my!

When you enter look to your right and you’ll see a wall full of foliage and a wooden chaise lounge sitting at the bottom of it looking like it all belongs in an uptown community garden.

Looking at the hanging plants coming from down from the rafters I noticed one that looked like a large platter, holding two plants, not just one.

If you want to buy a potted plant, a hanging plant or a plant close to resembling an indoor jungle tree stop by here to browse. You can even order a plant like you would a pizza and get it delivered!

The Café is something special

Potted vines sat at the top of coffee bar and hung down through lights. A double fountain of rough marble pillars, near the window, reminded me of what they found on the moon in the movie 2001, trickling water down into a rock garden.

The sound of the tranquil fountain made me notice how quiet it was in this café. Nothing like the other ones you find up Pearl St. There were no cell phone beeps, no loud people talking about their life no entrepreneurial ideas being spouted and talked about. Just peace, quiet and plant life even with the funky hip hop music coming from behind the café bar.

What a great place to just be! I thought to myself, sitting there at one of the many small tables with a white marble styled top and one large iron leg resembling more the 1920s than the 2020s.

Order a drink and take it all in

The café bar serves coffee, tea, elixirs, sparkling water and then there was Wild Monkey Chocolate and a donut brand I want to try next time from their small cooler.

Off the menu I ordered the Geometry, bean coffee brewed just for me in one of those Chemex brewers.

The barista, who said he was also the owner, talked to me casually about how it was not sacred geometry, but I think with all the plants around this place you can always be reminded of fractals, can ya dig?

What else happened there?

A dog was asleep on a cot, napping under a table of plants for sale, not interested at all in greeting any of the customers. There were just a few patrons who browsed through the store carrying a small metal basket by their side where they could place their succulents to buy and bring home.

Hanging plant supplies, planters, pots, plant holders, plant tables, fabric plant skirts and even plant jars are some of the things you can find here. Postcards, stickers and mugs were sold at the cash register like most stores around here have been prone to do.

What’s the take away?

Unique and wonderful is the only way to describe Terracotta plant café on Pearl. The place is definitely a café experience you will surely enjoy because of its fabulous green and clean atmosphere.

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George Dessev is a Fine Artist

2 years ago

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And gives a big middle finger to Modernism

“I have,” he says with emphasis. “In that direction I have excelled everything.”

For George, painting is more about symbolism than anything else.

“Appliances or cars er (pause) I think they don’t have symbolism… Like a can of Coke has no symbolism. A cup has symbolism. A can doesn’t. For artistic purposes, if you put anything like that… just spoils your painting…”

I ask him if he knows what an NFT is and he replies, “Huh…What’s that?”

George is forty-eight years old, from Lafayette and drives into town almost every day to draw in coffee shops. He tells me his angle is “the coffee shop.” Since he was a teenager he’s been going there to learn art rather than a school.

The man sitting with me at OZO Coffee in Boulder, Colorado, is soft spoken and intelligent. In fact he’s so soft spoken I’m wondering if my recorder will pick up his voice over the funk music and the banging sounds the baristas are making behind the counter.

George Dessev Jr. — Courtesy George Dessev on Flckr. GoshDarnBlog.com 2022.

On this hot August day George is hunched over in a black t-shirt. His dark hair parted to the side. In the chair next to him is a weathered leather bag with a strap that makes him look like a professional when walking down the sidewalks of this town, but in his bag are pencils and paper.

Two drawings by Fin Artist George Dessev. GoshDarnBlog.com 2022.

He sold me two drawings for five bucks last week and I’ve been carrying them around in my laptop bag. We’d had a short conversation about visibility or how my blog doesn’t get any hits, like he wasn’t going to do the interview with me because of it.

I was introduced to him several years before Covid and saw some of his paintings hanging up at Avante Coffee on Walnut. He had nudes, which I thought were cool and something you don’t see often in Boulder.

Courtesy George Dessev “The Funeral of Robin Hood”

Another time I saw his self-portrait, a striking painting, but something every famous painter has done, like Van Gogh for instance. George’s self-portrait looked similar to portraits from several hundred years ago, like you would see on the walls whenever you visit a well-known museum.

Dessev was thinking of subject matter no one knows about when he created his 36″ by 40″ art piece “The Funeral of Robin Hood,” which will be available for sale at The Trident Bookseller and Café at his month long hanging in September 2022.

George said about Little John in his painting, “He’s kind of a midget… Like Friar Tuck you can recognize.”

Also you can see minstrels singing about Robin Hood’s immortality in the furthest part of the picture.

There are several painters of note he’s studied with; Quang Ho and Ron Hicks at the Denver Art Students League.

His Show in September 2022

For the month of September George Dessev will have his paintings hung and for sale in The Trident Café at 940 Pearl St, Boulder, CO, 80302.

He does not have a website you can visit so you’re going to have to go over to the café yourself to see them all.

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Have You Heard the One about the Moose Falling into a Basement in Summit County?

2 years ago

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Read this moose story with some fun moose facts added

Moose

In Summit County, Colorado, Back in January of 2022, a Moose fell into a house through a window well.

Antlers and all, it found itself in a basement and broke a pool table there.

Frightened it went to the bathroom all over the carpet and scratched its antlers and hooves against the walls.

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A team of rescuers tried to woo it up some stairs, but in the end they had to use a trank and make it nap. Then 10 people lifted it up the stairwell, but unfortunately, they had to saw off the antlers to get it out of the dwelling, but a moose at this age loses his antlers naturally anyway they reported.

The windowell was covered in snow and the moose was munching on some shrubs or plants when it fell in and broke into the house.

The poor thing’s antlers were left by the rescuers under the christmas tree for the owners of the abode as a gift from the harrowing experience.

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More about the Moose

Did you know Elk and Moose are the same? WildSweden.com knows this is confusing and they laid it out for all of us.

Fun Moose Facts

The Scientific name is “Alces alces.” There are more moose in Sweden than anywhere else in the world. The predators of Moose are humans, wolves and bears.

Moose in European

“The Swedish word for Moose is Älg,” WildSweden.com explains on their website.

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They also say American Elk and European Elk are different and have the pics to prove it.

“European Elk, also called European Moose, which is the same species as the American Moose. This is not the same species as the American Elk.” from “Facts About the Moose” at WildSweden.com.

References:

CBS Colorado on YouTube.com

https://www.wildsweden.com/about/facts-about-moose