Summer Like Weekend

Even though it just turned to May this weekend, it feels like one of the weekends in July. Very warm and humid.
Our weekend started on Friday. We cooked easy Chinese style noodle dish. I usually don't follow the recipe but I got the idea from some website. I swapped fried Tofu with chicken, and changed the cooking method a bit, but follow the mixture of the sauce. I did not have time to cook rice - we eat brown rice which takes much longer time (90 to 120 minutes), so we used thin Asian noodle. (like So-Men in Japan).

Because the dinner was VERY light, we did not feel guilty having desert - velvet cake from Baked. It had a hint of cinnamon and cocoa. Baked does not use cream cheese frosting, but butter cream, which I thought was unique. The cake was very moist and good. I might like to have a bit more cocoa taste though.

We went to Philadelphia on Saturday to meet up with my friend, who is having THREE babies this fall. To meet her in the afternoon, we decided to have lunch on the way in NJ.
I think that NJ is the capital of diners, and we picked the one supposed to be the best in NJ. They serve the buns - cinnamon and cheese (both are sweet) to every table. It was like 6 by 6, meaning not too small, and steamy hot (just out of the oven). They were not too oily/buttery and good.

Our main dishes were bagel with smoked salmon and white fish (no surprise),

and typical breakfast egg and home fried potato. Both were huge and really good. I only know a few places' white fish, but theirs was bit more sour (not just mayonnaise).
A lot of Italian sausage, onion and belle peppers, this egg dish was awesome!!!

Finally we arrived in Philadelphia - very different from NYC even though it is only 2 hours drive away. I could not point anything specific but you can feel it is a different city.
Have you ever seen a mother with three babies? She is only three months pregnant but she looked like already 8 months pregnant. We will go back down there this fall or so to see the babies. How exciting...