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            TOP THREE

                                   Restaurants

                             (In Tegucigalpa)

  

Of the many restaurants in Tegus, I have created a list of the top three (which are chosen by my tastes, so if you don’t really like them then sorry). Let’s get into the list.

Number 1

Usami:

Near the ‘Sky Tower’ (a rich people’s apartment building) is this small sushi restaurant called Usami. It is definitely my favorite restaurant in Tegus, and best of all, they have 2x1 Monday through Thursday! I LOVE the sushi there, but I have to say that, at least for me, their soups (not counting miso) aren’t very good. They have these cool cone sushi things that are really big and they even have a family sushi-boat (thats a huge combo in a plate that looks like a boat)! The family sushi-boat is for 8 people so, just be aware. Usami has a nice little sushi bar and even a VIP room. I myself have never been inside it, but I have seen it from outside and it looks like a Japanese dining room (alongside a normal table) My favorite meal of Usami, which includes two plates, is Sake (salmon sushi) and Miso Soup!

Number 2

Sen Rose:

The follow up to Usami is ALSO an asian restaurant, but this time it’s Chinese. The reason I picked Sen Rose is because Sen Rose is IMMENSE. It is literally four stories tall and they just keep BUILDING! Also, they have a secret menu (dim sum) which has real Chinese food and not just MSG and rice… They have dumplings, rice soup, chicken and mushrooms, and more! The fact that they have REAL Chinese food makes me nominate it as at LEAST one of the best Chinese restaurants i’ve been to. My favorite meal is… Chicken dumpling bowl.

Number 3

Mami Luz y sus Calderas:

The next restaurant is a soup-erb soup place called Mami Luz y sus Calderas, which in english means Mother Light and her Cauldrons. They have ONLY soup, and their soup is GREAT. They have chicken, beef, beans, all sorts of stuff. I personally have only eaten there once, but the one food, chicken soup, was excellent. Which means I can only recommend one plate, chicken soup.

A Knight of the Seven Book Reports

I recently finished a lesser known book by George R.R. Martin called A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, and I have to say that it was MORE catching than A Song of Ice and Fire (commonly known as A Game of Thrones). It tells the tale of Dunk (who is an adult), a squire recently knighted, and Egg (who is 12), a runaway prince living on the outskirts of Ashford Meadow (his brother’s castle). Dunk and Egg don’t really like each other to start off with, but begin to like each other as the story progresses and they adventure the countryside of Westeros.

Other important characters are Tanselle Too—Tall, a girl with whom Dunk falls in love shortly before she leaves for Dorne. Baelor Breakspear is prince who fights for Dunk after Dunk kicks Baelor’s brother (because Baelor’s Brother kicked the townsfolk). The Red Widow is a warrior Lady-Lord who shows Dunk that he has been fighting for the wrong side and convinces him to leave. The Fiddler is a ‘Hedge Knight’ who is secretly an evil lord in search of a dragon egg, and Dunk’s knighter, sir Hector, died on a hill in a rainstorm.

The Story in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is divided in three sections:

Ashford Meadow; It is the story where Dunk is knighted and finds Egg at an inn as a stableboy. He rides to Ashford Meadow and Egg follows him until Dunk makes him his squire. Dunk meets Tanselle and then Baelor’s brother kicks some townsfolk (including Tanselle) and Dunk defends them, at which Dunk is threatened to a trial of seven where they fight along with 6 other knights until one team is defeated. Dunk wins.

The Chequy Castle; Dunk serves at an old lord’s table. He fights for this lord’s river only to realize that legally the water is actually the other castle’s at which point the Red Widow shows Dunk he has been fighting for the wrong side, but Chequy and The Red Widow’s castle are united and Dunk leaves.

Whitewalls; Dunk and Egg travel to a castle called Whitewalls where a tournament is being held at which a knight called The Fiddler (who is secretly Daeron, an evil lord) tries to win a dragon’s egg and is killed by the ‘good guys’ who are simply the other side.

The Seven Kingdoms are a setting shared by both A Song of Ice and Fire, and A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. The Seven Kingdoms are set in Westeros, which would be England and Europe in our world. The places Dunk and Egg travel in are:

Ashford meadow

Flea bottom

Whitewalls

Chequy and The Webber’s Castle

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and A Song of Ice and Fire are connected deeply, from setting to characters and they even mention a few of the characters from Game of Thrones in this story, but in my opinion they are also very different. Everything from the story style to the plot is different. I could also say Knight of Seven Kingdoms is more appropriate for young adult readers, and the Knight of Seven Kingdoms book keeps moving, I really couldn’t stop reading it, unlike the Game of Thrones book I just have sitting around on my bookshelf.

I got Stranded Deep (SD) a while ago and I liked it quite a lot. I have to say I knew about Subnautica way before SD but since Subnautica was windows only on Steam (game shop) I ended up getting SD, and actually now that I have both I realize that they are REALLY similar.

The overall story is that, during a trip from LA to Japan the plane you are on (which only carried four people) explodes and goes down. You manage to escape onto a life raft, and drift to a nearby archipelago. You must survive while scavenging rusted shipwrecks and avoiding aggressive creatures like sharks. 

Many of the challenges experienced in SD are sharks (which are SUPER-aggressive from day 2 and on), drowning in shipwrecks, having low food and water, breaking bones, and even trying to flag passing vessels (which will actually never see the player due to programming). 

There are A LOT of easter eggs* in SD like a scavenge-able ALIEN UFO! You can find a ‘Wilson’ (a volleyball with a face, from the movie Castaway), a diver slate with writing on it, a ‘DeadEx’ box with the address ‘nowhere in particular’ on it, a hidden AK-47, and ocean mines, those spike balls with chains.

Most of the items you use in SD are sticks and rocks, but it IS possible to find axes, knives, hammers, and other items found in shipwrecks. BeamTeam games are considering adding alien tech into the UFO. I really want to know what they might add. I want to use a laser gun!

I really like SD, but, unfortunately not as much as Subnautica. That’s because Subnautica has tons of different creatures, plants, biomes, and it even has an element of mystery. SD, unfortunately, has a pretty straightforward storyline, no deep sea diving, and shows no sign of possible contemporary human life. I mean it’s quite hopeless to find another human, BUT the possibility of rescue is real, unlike Subnautica, where you actually colonize the planet. Also, another major difference is that SD is in 2010-2020 while Subnautica is in the 2600’s! But in the end Subnautica and SD are the same idea, a castaway story with a lonely idea. Can’t wait for multiplayer!

*a secret/hidden ‘gift’ from the creators of the game, something that is simply for a laugh, or a surprise.