South Harbor Blvd has a hidden gem, the San Sivar Restaurant.

I love nothing better than discovering a small restaurant that serves amazing food at decent prices. Costa Mesa has a little known spot that you have to visit! I am talking about San Sivar Restaurant. San Sivar Restaurant serves real, authentic El Salvadorean pupusas.

What is a pupusa? A pupusa (pooh-pooh-suh) is a Central American dish made of a thick flour tortilla, stuffed with melted cheese, and a choice of different seasoned meats (chicken, beef, pork.) An option to include beans is available as well but I usually skip this.

The pupusa is found in many Central American countries but was made popular by El Salvadoreans. The cuisine of the Central Americas is very rich and diverse. I recommend that if you enjoy Latin foods, that you explore the other authentic dishes that they offer.

The cook at the San Sivar Restaurant makes the pupusas fresh and hot.

They are served with fresh-made red salsa that isn’t too spicy, this dish is delicious.

I have yet to try the other authentic El Salvadorean choices at San Sivar Restaurant because the pupusas are so good. However, previous to my many visits to the restaurant, I was unaware of the uniqueness of El Salvadorean cuisine. Fortunately, I learned from the experience and now whenever we visit a new ethnic restaurant, I pay attention to the various offerings instead of skipping to the safer “Americanized” dishes.

San Sivar Restaurant
1940 Harbor Boulevard, Costa Mesa, CA 92627
(949) 650-2952
San Sivar’s Website

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Union Jacks Fish And Chips, Ahoy Mate!

Last weekend, my wife and I had a craving for British food. Just around the corner from the Pan Asia Mongolian BBQ is a shop name Union Jacks Fish And Chips II. I’m not one for fish and chips but my wife loves this traditional British food.

My eyes were on the selection of candy and other British sweets that were on the rack. The British equivalent of Whoppers is a malted milk ball delight named Maltesers and in my opinion, they are superior. Another favorite of mine is lemon curd. This is the lemon-flavored jelly you will typically find in a Danish pastry. I love this stuff on toast and so do the British. I bought a jar of lemon curd as well.

The Union Jacks Fish And Chips II also offers a few frozen food selections like bangers and other meat pies.

Many people discount British cuisine but they are doing themselves a great disservice. The English have many great dishes that are not only important parts of time honored traditional meals but also individual year round delights.

One of my favorite things about British foods are the names. The Brits seem to have fun naming their dishes. For example, spotted dick is a cake with raisins in it. Blood pudding, meat pie, and bangers are also amusing names attributed to English foods. Union Jacks Fish And Chips sells several of the most popular and loved Brit-foods.

Union Jacks Fish And Chips II
333 E. 17^th Street #2
Costa Mesa, Ca 92627

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Tomorrow, Saturday May 29^th, the Surfrider Foundation and Volcom are teaming up for a beach cleanup at 11^th street in Huntington Beach. In preparation for the long Memorial Day holiday weekend, Surfrider wants to help keep our beaches clean and wildlife safe. For the first 200 people that attend, Volcom will be giving away a free bag of goodies. The bag includes stickers, posters, socks etc. and Surfrider is giving certificates of accomplishment. Many of the local high schools require about forty hours of community service before a student can graduate. This is a great opportunity for any high schoolers that want to hit the beach, help the community, and chip away at their forty hour requirement. I wonder who chose the day for this. Why didn’t the organizer choose a day during or after the peak of the littering? I guess Surfrider wanted to have our beaches clean before the masses come to leave their trash? Monday, Memorial Day seems like a better choice or even Tuesday but I guess kids are back in school and adults are back to work. Regardless, there will be tents for Surfrider and Volcom on 11^th so keep an eye out!

Reference

I was surprised to read the review on this smartphone app (Coker, 2010). SMSReplier is basically an app that auto-replies to any inbound text message that the smartphone receives. Ideally this is to be turned on before you begin driving. Well first of all, I am surprised that with the level of sophistication on these new smartphones, that they don’t have an auto-reply feature already. I have a Droid and was not able to find any feature like this on my smartphone. Second, this app developer is charging almost $10 for the app?! I wonder if the cost is so the developer will have plenty of funds for its legal defense when the first subscriber (yes you have to pay for a subscription every year) (Iconosys, Inc., 2010) gets into an accident while looking at who the smartphone has auto-replied to? In all fairness, I will say that this is an admirable endeavor and I applaud their efforts. However, when 95% of apps on the Android market are $.99 to $2.99, charging $10 for this simple app is unrealistic.

References
Coker, M. (2010, May 26). Laguna Hills Company Says Its App Ends Deadly Texting-While-Driving Practice. OC Weekly. Retrieved from http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/a-clockwork-orange/laguna-hills-company-says-its/

Iconosys, Inc.. (2010). SMS Replier. Retrieved from http://www.smsreplier.com/