Science Museum<\/a><\/p>\n For those from the Philadelphia area, this is the city’s equivalent to the Franklin Institute.\u00a0 And dare I say it was better?\u00a0 I’m not knocking the Franklin Institute by any means. But I am saying that the Science Museum had an overall greater collection of objects.\u00a0 I think the Franklin Institute does a better job of interactivity with the exhibits, while the Science Museum has a more robust variety in the exhibits.<\/p>\n Personal highlights for me included Launchpad, a hall with physics exhibits, and a huge hall which mapped out the history of both mathematics and computing.\u00a0 On the mathematics side, they had a large case of specially designed Klein bottles, that when sliced correctly, produce M\u00f6bius strips.\u00a0 On the computing side, they had huge computers from the 1950’s, one of which was a random number generator which the British government used to assist with treasury bonds.\u00a0 There was no interest paid on the bonds, however the computer would randomly pick a number, and if you were lucky enough to have you “Premium bond<\/a>” number picked, you were awarded a cash prize.\u00a0 They even gave it a name, ERNIE, and it developed a huge fan base where people would send in cards and gifts to the machine to ask that the computer picked their bond number next.\u00a0 It sounds like a crazy version of a lottery to me.<\/p>\n Natural History Museum<\/a><\/p>\n Didn’t say here for very long because it was very crowded, but did see a huge dinosaur skeleton.<\/p>\n Food:<\/strong><\/p>\n Wagamamas<\/a> Ben’s Cookies<\/a> Sunday Pub Lunch Indian Restaurant #1
\nA noodle bar is the best way I can describe this place.\u00a0 You go in, you sit at really long bench tables, and the waiter will come over with a hand held gizmo to take your order.\u00a0 You pick a number off the menu, they put it in their gizmo and write the number you picked right on your placemat.\u00a0 I ordered a pan-fried panko-crusted chicken breast, slicked up and served under a bed of rice and a mild curry.\u00a0 A-maze-ing.\u00a0 The chicken was very juicy and had a slight crunch because of the panko, and while the sauce was milder than I would of liked, overall a tasty dish.<\/p>\n
\nI heard about this place from a friend of a friend ages ago before I went to London the first time, but never had a chance to go.\u00a0 This time, however, I stumbled upon their South Kensington location, and they are indeed fantastic cookies.\u00a0 The are about the circumference of a normal cookie, however they are much thicker.\u00a0 The consistency was very cakey but very layered.\u00a0 Interspersed between the layers were the fillings.\u00a0 I had three cookies: peanut butter, white chocolate, and milk chocolate.\u00a0 The chocolate pieces were very flat and thin, and were between the layers of the cookie, making for a very tasty treat.\u00a0 If you happen to find yourself in London, I highly recommend it.<\/p>\n
\nSunday Lunch is a big thing in London, so on the Sunday I was there I went to a pub near my hotel and ordered the Sunday Lunch Chicken.\u00a0 It was an entire half of a chicken, served with two different types of potatoes, along with peas, carrots, and two crusty bread shells to make your own shepard’s pie if you wish.\u00a0 Now, given that I’m adverse to gravy, cooked peas, and cooked carrots, I was left with chicken, potatoes, and crusty bread.\u00a0 It was still very delicious.\u00a0 The chicken was falling off the bone and was very moist and juicy throughout.\u00a0 I am not generally a fan of dark meat but I ate the entire half a chicken very readily.<\/p>\n
\nClearly a half a chicken wasn’t enough for me, so that same evening I ate at an Indian restaurant right in the same complex later that night.\u00a0 For the life of me, I can’t remember the name of the place, but it’s right near the North Ealing tube station.\u00a0 It was on the fancier side, with nice linens and place settings and the like, and the food was superb.\u00a0 I have decided that whenever I go to an Indian restaurant, I am going to get chicken tikka masala.\u00a0 For the uninformed, chicken tikka masala is standard fare at American-Indian and British-Indian restaurants.\u00a0 The basic ingredients are chicken breast chunks slow-cooked in a tomato and yogurt based sauce.\u00a0 However, according to our good friends at the BBC<\/a>, a survey was done of 48 chicken tikka masala recipes, and the only common ingredient in all of them was chicken.\u00a0 The chicken tikka masala here was very good, and I might have to designate it as my favorite.\u00a0 The reason that this particular recipe was so good was that the sauce was of a slightly sweeter nature than normal.\u00a0 I’m not sure what made it sweeter, but my guess would be that some honey was put into the recipe.\u00a0 Overall, very delicious.<\/p>\n
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