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Chicago's best Korean Restaurant

If you are in Chitown and want to taste authentic Korean food, I highly recommend San Soo Gap San located at 5247 North Western Ave. Lakshmi and I had dinner at San Soo Gap San for our anniversary :). It is not the most romantic place, but you will really get a kick out of preparing your own BBQ. In addition to falling in love with Korean BBQ, I also discovered a new beer. OB (Oriental Brewery) Lager Beer is a light lager made from Rice. It has a mild taste with a light crisp hop character. Beer lovers should try this :).

P.S: Make sure you don’t wear any expensive clothes to this restaurant. You will end up smelling like smoked BBQ, by the time you are done with your meal :).

February 15, 2007 by Food Travel Uncategorized 0

In honor of St.Valentine..

Here’s one of my favourite poem by A.S Pushikin .

I remember a wonderful moment
As before my eyes you appeared,
Like a vision, fleeting, momentary,
Like a spirit of the purest beauty.

In the torture of hopeless melancholy,
In the bustle of the world’s noisy hours,
That voice rang out so tenderly,
I dreamed of that lovely face of yours.

The years flew quickly. The storm’s blast
Scattered the dreams of former times,
And I forgot your tender voice,
And the features of your heavenly face.

In remoteness, in gloomy isolation,
My days dragged quietly, nothing was new,
No godlike face, no inspiration,
No tears, no life, no love, no you.

Then to my soul an awakening came,
And there again your face appeared,
Like a vision, fleeting, momentary,
Like a spirit of the purest beauty.

And my heart beat with a rapture new,
And for its sake arose again
A godlike face, an inspiration,
And life, and tears, and love, and you.

February 14, 2007 by Rantings Uncategorized 0

HOW TO : Linksys SRX200 + Emule

Quick guide to configure your Linksys SRX200 router/switch to support emule.

  1. Assign a static IP address in the range assigned to you by the wireless router. In this case, Linksys assigns the 192.168.1.0/24 range. I will use 192.168.1.50 as an example.
  2. Open a browser window and go to http://192.168.1.1
  3. Log in with your admin credentials (it is admin/admin by default).
  4. Click on the “Application and Gaming” tab.
  5. Make sure that you are on the “Port Range Forward” page.
  6. Enter the following information

    7.    Application : Emule
       Start : 4660
       End : 4712
       Type : Both
       IP Address : 50
       Enable : Checked

  7. Click on “Save Settings”
  8. Launch Emule and you should be in business 🙂
November 14, 2006 by Networking Technology Uncategorized Web 3

More on cooking

One of my favorite sites (blog) on cooking is http://mahanandi.nandyala.org. The author has a great writing style (which I hope, I can copy one day 🙂 ) and an awesome taste for unique dishes.

On a random note, here is a list of cuisines I have tried so far

  • Indian – Andhra
  • Indian – Tamil
  • Indian – Punjabi
  • Indian – Gujrathi
  • Indian – Kannada
  • Malaysian
  • Vietnamese
  • Chinese – Cantonese
  • Chinese – Mandarin
  • Italian
  • Mangolian
  • Korean
  • Middle-Eastern
  • Russian
  • Polish
  • Japanese
  • Brazillian
  • Costa Rican
  • Cuban
  • Mexican
  • American
  • Korean
  • Ethiopian
  • Argentinean

In short, I love my food :).

November 13, 2006 by Food Uncategorized 0

RECIPE : Masala Upma

If you are hungry and want to cook something quick (which is the case with me and Laksmi all the time 🙂 ), here’s a recipe for masala upma. Upma is a south Indian dish usually eaten as breakfast. It is also eaten as a snack and can be prepared pretty easily. Masala Upma is a variant of the dish with some spices and vegetables. Credit for the recipe goes to my sister-in-law.

Ingredients:

Here’s a picture with all the ingridients in their glory

Process:
Heat up some oil in a pan. Add a spoon of mustard seeds (aavalu), Cloves, Cinnamon and let them sizzle for a minute. Add the onions and when they get golden brown, add the chillies, bay leaves, mixed vegetables, salt and the cashew nuts. Stir fry for a minute and add 4 cups of water (add two cups of water to every cup of rava). Bring the water to a boil and add the rava to the mixture, while stirring it. When the mixture thickens, let it simmer for a few minutes and add some chopped cilantro on the top. Enjoy the dish hot :).

Here’s a picture of the dish

November 13, 2006 by Food Fun Uncategorized 0

Exchange 2003 : Logging

If you are trying to troubleshoot an issue with Microsoft Exchange 2003 and need more verbose logging, you can get additional logging by

1) Launch Exchange System Manager
2) Drill down to the server in the Administrative Groups
3) Right click on server and click on properties
4) Open the “Diagnostic Logging” tab and enable logging on any of the exchange modules

You can check the logs from the event viewer.

November 6, 2006 by Technology Uncategorized Windows 0