Earlier this month John Chow, Stephen Fung and myself headed down to Seattle for the World Cyber Games. I haven’t been to Seattle in well over ten years so I was looking forward walking around a bit.
More importantly, I really wanted to check out Red Lobster. Sounds dumb, yes, but we don’t have any Red Lobsters in Vancouver and I really wanted to check out their Endless Shrimp event. I particularly enjoyed the garlic shrimp scampe and the alfredo shrimp linguine. I probably ate about $200 worth of shrimp, a great deal at $16.99 
Big shot himself, John Chow, had to go with the steak and lobster meal. Then John, evil incarnate, threw his lobster shell in the bread basket, ending our stream of free biscuits 
Stephen and I explored Pike Place market but it was so early most of the vendors weren’t open yet. I didn’t get to see the flying fish they are so famous for.
One of the most interesting things we encountered by accident was the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame. It’s located in a giant monstrosity of a building by the Space Needle and is an addition to the current Experience Music Project, a music museum of sorts. Judging by the crowds in the Sci-Fi side and the relative emptiness on the music side, I’m guessing the science fiction displays may expand. Entry is $15 per adult, which gives you unlimited access to both museums. You weren’t supposed to take photos but I managed to snap off a few before Security caught me 
The museum is the brainchild of Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, and many of the exhibits come from his personal collection.
The one thing I found really strange about Seattle was the lack of Starbucks coffee shops located in the downtown area, strange for the birthplace of the popular barista bar. In Vancouver, you couldn’t spit without hitting a Starbucks and it’s not rare to see two locations across the street from each other or in the same shopping mall.
Posted on October 27th, 2007 by Leo
Filed under: Lucid Thoughts
Damn, that all you can eat shrimp sounds hella good. I really need pop my Red Lobster cherry LOL!
I love the first photo!
I’ve only been to Seattle once and it was for an interview with a consulting firm that would have had me working at Microsoft. As much as we loved the area, the job offer was not significant enough to warrant us moving across the country but we loved the area.
Seeing that first picture brought back memories of our trip there to look at houses and explore the area. Cannot say that we ate at Red Lobster, never been a big fan myself, but the market is really cool though, particularly when you do get to see the flying fish.
That’s some appetizing sea food.
I wish my girlfriend like seafood so I could go places that served awesome seafood like that.
I would have dirtied up about the shell in the basket!
You rebel you, taking pictures inside the museum!
So they wouldn’t give you any more biscuits once that jerk put his lobster shell in the basket? Why would he put it in there anyway? Oh, the silliness.
That’s too bad that you didn’t get to see the flying fish.
That’s a colorful lobster shell. Do you happen to remember what type of lobster it was? I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything like it before.
I have no idea, John had the lobster and I was stuffing my face with shrimp.