On Baby A's birthday, the c-section surgery went as planned. I walked into the OR around 9:30am and was pushed out around 2 hours later. W was instructed to wait outside while the team was getting me prepared for anesthesia. He then got invited to come in and sat next to me while the team worked on getting Baby A out of me 😂. W was a good DJ and Baby A was born while Taylor Swift's Shake It Off was being played. So...did I feel any pain during this life-changing surgery? No, I didn't. I had a spinal block. I never felt any type of pain during the surgery. Getting the anesthesia injected - however - was the most uncomfortable part of the surgery. There was a lot of pressure. I felt my back being pulled or pushed, or something. It just felt very uncomfortable, not painful, but very uncomfortable. It was also hard to try leaning toward the source of that uncomfortableness. Learning to relax while being uncomfortable was a very hard thing to do. But it was necessary. Once it...
The pandemic happened within a year of our move to Oregon and we haven't gotten to know many places & eateries before the world began its pause. Since many restrictions have been lifted, and more people have been vaccinated, we feel it's safe to start eating out again and see what Oregon has to offer! Truth be told, we did try a few "new places" last year, but just not many and some places only offered limited menus due to scarce supplies and labor. I'll probably dig up some food pictures from last year and earlier this year and share them later this month. I'm slowly getting back to journaling and sharing more random things on here.
Anyway, so back to eating out every once in a while again! We're going to try at least 1 new place each week and make it part of our date night rituals 💕 I thought specifically of food trucks because Oregon is particularly known for food trucks! We tried maybe 3 or 4 food truck places during our first year in Oregon, but I didn't document those. So here's the first post for the food truck series.
The two food trucks mentioned in this post were located within the same parking lot. Sometimes food trucks move from one parking lot to another - could happen on the same day or rotates throughout the week. I'm not sure about these two but as of July 10, 2021 we found them in the plaza just off the corner of 185th & Tualatin Valley Highway.
Bobablastic has several "carts" in Portland and the vicinity. I think we had a boba drink from it in downtown Portland before COVID happened.
The little red truck has a small selection of tea (mostly just black tea, green tea, lemonade, and milk tea with some flavors/enhancers to choose from). There's also Thai tea which is one of my favorite drinks, but I thought it was too pricey here so I decided to try something I haven't had before and hoped it would justify a higher-than-usual price tag. By the way, I think the prices here are different than some other locations I've seen. Also, Bobablastic has some snacks like chocolate-covered cheesecake and hot dogs. We didn't try the food there because we already knew we were getting something else for dinner.
I got "Lavender Creamy Tea." W didn't get anything because he was so turned off by the price. At $6 a cup, I was not "thrilled" but the lavender milk tea did have a nice taste that exceeded my expectation. However, we both felt it's too expensive. Also, I think it was made with powder. I didn't see the making of it in-person, but the texture felt like it was from powder. Also, I remembered to request for no bobas but forgot to ask for no-ice (ice, over time, makes the tea...less flavorful because once melted ice is just water and so it's like adding extra water to tea). That's my own fault.
The briyani was very flavorful. W's comment was "it's good." I personally enjoyed it a lot :)!! The amount of shrimps in the rice dish seemed just right. That lemon wedge somehow tasted bitter but I just tossed that and ignored it 😂 The butter chicken had big chunks of chicken and there were layers of flavor in that sauce. We both loved that.
We always loved garlic nann and Welcome India Food's garlic nann tasted good. One thing I wished was different was "make it 2 actual pieces of nann, instead of 1 nann broken into 2 pieces."
Would I eat here again? Yes!
Would I recommend the drink here? Probably not. 👯
Welcome India Food serves, like the name suggests, Indian food! We didn't check up on any review before coming here. We just felt like trying new food truck food for dinner and Indian sounded good so there we went! The man who took our order seemed nice. I think he's also the business owner? The menu had some items we were familiar with, and some we haven't heard of. We decided to get shrimp briyani, butter chicken, and garlic nann.
💗 CM
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