Rishi Alluri's Senior Project

This week, we decided to try American food and also replicate some of it ourselves. We started by eating burgers at Skyline burgers and we all made sure to get different ones so we could try a wide variety of burgers. They were large half-pound burgers which we thought was fitting and they had a lot of flavor on them. For the next food, we thought we couldn't get more American than barbecue so we went to Smok'n Grill where we tried the smoked tri-tip sandwich.  For cooking this week, we decided to make burgers on the grill instead of barbecue because it would have been easier to make given our level of cooking. We cooked standard burgers, and to our surprise, we liked them better than the ones from the restaurant earlier in the week as we felt like it was fresher. Overall, this week was a success in terms of trying and making new food.  This senior project as a whole was a great experience and an opportunity for me and my group to experience foods we would have never tried bef...

This week, our group decided to try Asian food in the local Portland area. We started by eating different types of traditional ramen and Japanese sides including gyozas and chicken katsu.  We found that the food was really good especially when enjoyed on a colder day.  Next, we tried sushi and we ordered a large variety of traditional rolls, Americanized rolls, nigiri, and tempura. We all the food we tried that week and we decided to replicate one of the dishes we had called chicken katsu which is breaded and fried chicken cutlets. This was a relatively easy task after our first few weeks of experience and the chicken turned out great. We also tried to make Udon which was slightly more difficult as we had to be working on many different parts of the dish at once including the noodles, broth, and meat. Though it didn't turn out like we expected, it still tasted good which was what matter most. Finally, since we ended up having more time at the end of the week, we decided to try...