I tried these spots yesterday at dinner. The first in on 436 near the 408. I think it was a Cuban place. The second is in the old Mongolorian spot on East Colonial (50) near the Milk District.
Tropical Paradise Pepperlicious - I think it was just TP before. Maybe just Pepperlicious now? I think I went there. Think of jacket (stuffed/baked) potatoes. Now picture green peppers instead. I had the Tradicional for $6. All are. I nuked it the next morning for breakfast (jet lag) and it didn't have any char, etc on it. Not sure how (or if) it was cooked. Seemed near raw. Picadillo and shredded mozz and a hint of a tomato sauce. I should state that I dislike bell peppers. Give me gas. Flavor is weird. I take it off any dish it comes on. I was so hungry this time that I ate them. The toppings were enough to mask most of the flavor. I liked them (the two halves). They also have empanadas and tequenos, desserts and smoothies. And a section called Cuban Pizza that looked like more peppers. I think they opened that night. Twelve or so tables of different seat levels. Two stages. Wood. Mish mash of interior design. Man and woman team. Parking. Something different. They said they were serving healthy items. Couldn't really pin down where from.
Moa Kai - I read they were in a soft opening and hoped they would be open. They call themselves a Hawaiian Diner. I call them a Favorite. Cute. Good value. Worth the wait. From the people who do the Korean Fried Chicken on Mills and Poke Hana (I think). I had a spam musubi for $5 and the two item mix plate for $16. It comes with two suggested sides that you can either switch out for a few others or upgrade for a few bucks. I stuck with the two servings of white rice and mac salad. I chose shoyu ahi and Korean fried chicken for the mains. I had a fever for both (as Chris Walken would say). They do the rice well. Sort of sticky. Short grain. This helped the musubi. Big. I used the onions from the ahi and that should be required from now on. Everywhere! Even dipped it in the shoyu. There was a poke bowl size amount of ahi. Pretty fresh. No dental floss. There was one bad (stringy/dry/unchewable) piece (out of four) of chicken. The mac was the best one I've had from a Hawaiiann place. Not too sweet. Firm pasta. The dishes came out fast. Four cooks in black t shirts. They also offer up a bao type app, fried wonton with shrimp and pork app, burger, mahi, poke, kalua pork, pupu platter, moco loco, eggs, po boys, saitan dishes, desserts, cocktails and I think some noodle bowls. That not all. Just can't remember more. Three booths. Eight fours. Fourteen stools (L shape) in front of the cooking area and bar. Earth tones. Wood. Green jungle tree wall paper. Windows. Steel. Little travel posters. Patterned tiles. Off white. Faux white marble table tops. Two giant ceiling fans. A diner feel, but, a hipster diner. Two servers in red Hawaiian shirts. There was one family there when I came in. Six more tables (off all kinds) came in after. And it was 8pm. Opened last Tuesday. I think the name has something to do with a rooster or chicken. Probably the Kai part. If I lived near here, I would eat here at least once a week. Even the free water wasn't gross.
*Ok I tried to teach Grok AI on X (my first AI foray) to read my blog and tell me what Orlandoer would do. What are his Favorites? Make me a travel plan to X like he would. Etc. Things that I wish this platform would do. Things that would make this a usable web destination. Grok is not allowed to do much. Utter failure. It is only allowed to search from what other search engines find. Mostly Google. Like looking for fish in at a fish market instead of the sea. I asked it directly after much frustration. Which is funny because Google owns Blogger and as you know I often complain that it won't even (whatever the term is now for spidering) its own platforms. I tried to get Google's AI to "find" my content. You have to log in (if you have an account) and disable privacy function first. I didn't feel like doing that then. Maybe later on. I doubt it will do it either. I bet it will also say it can't access web sites directly. Grok said this was to limit requests from crashing servers. I guess I get it. Not sure if all AI companies have agreed to these rules.
I would love it if you would crack the code (and tell us how). It seems you almost have create your own program to get the data you want. I had to request it ONLY use www.orlandoer.blogspot.com. I tried to get it to access the header/title and/or body. Because I put Travel Notes in the title and Grub Crawl, it would return odd things if you wanted Orlando Restaurant stuff vs Travel Info. It put Orlando restaurant info in Travel Plans. It didn't understand the state abbreviations I use. I had to teach it those. Or asterixs. It couldn't find the tutorials. It didn't understand that Grub Crawl meant numerous, different restaurants. I'm not sure it got slashes (/). I tried to get it to learn all posts from 2008 on and then by the months. Like I said, it won't get the info directly. It was funny, when I first started the session it whined that I ghosted it after I did something else while it was screwing up again. And the sucky thing is that if you suceed in training your AI, it isn't "house broken" for the rest of us. I think you even have to save the search and it is ONLY FOR YOU. It doesn't make it any smarter for the rest of us or for itself. There doesn't seem to be a common "brain". Hopefully, one of the AIs will. Or maybe that would be bad?
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