I made a weird avocado, peanut butter, banana shake tonight. It was good but a bit thick, and it didn't really go with the chowder, or the lettuce with oyster sauce. I had a similar lettuce dish at a Chinese restaurant in Sana'a.

At the time, I thought it was some bastardized Arab-Chinese dish, because I had never had lettuce cooked like that before. It was literally swimming in sauce and so hot. But my mother made the same dish tonight (minus hot sauce) and I learned it's a real Chinese dish. Actually, it was quite good. I miss Sana'a.