Not quite certain what triggered this, but after my BBQ yesterday, I had the craziest craving for crab cakes. If you’ve never had a crab cake, I don’t know what to tell you.  It’s like crab in little cake form that taste like magic in your mouth. If I haven’t already proved this on here, I’m the type of person that will totally go out of my way to get whatever I want. That being said, I could’ve got crab cakes in SF which is just about 20 minutes away from my house, but I wanted some crab cakes from Monterey. After visiting my wonderful Inang (grandma) for Mother’s Day, my cousin Phil and I were able to convince my cousin Bev to join us on this adventure with one trendy, terrible, but true word; “YOLO!” haha.

The drive down was nice and easy, took 17 with an enthusiastic style of driving, nothing too spirited; Highway 1 was scenic as usual, and upon arrival an array of “no left turns” left us driving in circles around the wharf and downtown Monterey before actually finding parking. We met up with our cousin Morgan who goes to school down there and ate at Isabella’s. This place didn’t have the highest amount of stars on Yelp, but yelp critics are idiots as far as their star ratings go, some will deduct a star because they didn’t like the view at wherever they were, which has nothing to do with the food quality, the main reason you should be criticizing a food place in the first place. I tend to actually reading a few reviews, which people tend to actually show more truthful way of rating.; this place had what seemed like the most enthusiasm for there clam chowder, and a few mentions on the crab cakes.  Good enough for me since most people go to this ocean side city’s more for chowder than cakes. All of us ordered clam chowder in bread bowls. The chowder here had a thick consistency and tasted great. My cousin Phil and I shared a house special pasta that consisted of lobster tail, crab meat, tiger shrimp, and scallops… it was AMAZING and in my mind worth the $37 tag. The real reason for my trip though were the crab cakes, though small, the crab cakes here had a good flavor and went excellent with the bits of mango they were served with. Good job Isabella’s!

Crab Cakes!!!

Random stop on the Pier

Almost all the way home going through Fremont on 880 I ran into a blue EF Civic Wagon. He pulled up in front of me and judging by his koni yellows and the tidy nature of his cars movement. I knew he wasn’t one of the bullshit/hype/trendy kids all riding around in their half assed set up cars. So to top off the night, I gave him a nod and we had a go at it, yeah, sure, not the most mature thing to do.. but before you excessively judge me, the road was clear and I pretty much let off  around 80 which is slower than a lot of people’s normal cruising speed. Did this twice in both cases he pulled on me slowly. We both then took the same exit where I was able to find out he was running a mildly tuned B18c whereas I have a stock B18c both running  b16 trannys. Cool guy, run into you later bro.

With good food and a good car encounter, my cousins and I headed to Tap-ex to get some boba. I topped this good day off with a coconut snow bubble.  As I’ve said before, life can be made more simple with this notion, “Figure out what you want, go get it!” Everything in between is just work, don’t focus on that, eye on the prize and in the end, you should end up with a smile.

Till next time.. One!