Today we wnet to Diana's Baths. I didn't get to go into the waterfall, or do the bridge jump (thank god) for safety reasons. Jonah and Noah were much more adventurous at the falls and so I couldn't take my hands off of them. Well I let Noah crawl across some slippery and flat rocks with water rushing over it sort by himself, but that was it. As for the Bridge jump I did last year, the water was too shallow. I don't think I would have done it anyway. But I'm glad I did it that one time.
After that we ate lunch, did another little trail and some pretend fishing next to some mountains and then got ice cream at this awesome place with it's own playground. For dinner we got Irish take out. That's right, We are a Chinese family that just got Irish take out. Now there are a lot of jokes about Irish food, but I want to say that this is by far the best Fish and Chips and Irish Stew I have ever had. Boston is supposed to be Irish, but "Irishness" three generations ago, and cutting corners on ingredients, and general cutting corners in general tends to produce crap food. In New Hampshire's "May Kelly's Cottage" the fish for fish and chips is thick fresh slices, no chunks, of fish that is fried in clean light batter. Somehow even though we aren't by the coast, the fish is fresh. After all, just because you have fresh fish in Boston, doesn't mean that you use the freshest fish in your fish and chips. You can sell that for more money raw. So your fish and chips is usually ends and not too fresh. This stuff was fresh and thick. The tartar sauce is homemade for sure. Heck the ingredients are probably local and organic or something. They seem to be into that up here. The stew tastes home made cause it is, just like the bread.
Most Chinese people, ABC's eat fish and chips and such fried food at some point at chains or various other local pubs and bars. Basically, even if you are Asian, European, Hispanic, African, or anything other than Irish, when you live in Boston, a little bit of Irish ends up rubbing off on you whether you know (accept) it or not. You have basically eaten some sort of fish and chips either by force because you were hungry while you were pounding back beers watching sports, or happen to be hungry while with friends who were pounding back beers watching sports. And somehow you have even come to like "plain" cooking even though you were raised on very complicated and delicate Cantonese cuisine. (or insert the famously good ethnic food you were raised on here, as opposed to Irish/English food which is stereotyped as bad) . You've eaten bleeding, rare steak even though your Taishanese ancestors would have beaten and maimed a chef who dare served them something so raw. You appreciate and like steak and potatoes, stews, burgers and fries, fish and chips. So, if you are in North Conway New Hampshire, either to take your kids to Story Land or the many other attractions here, DEFINITELY get some food at May Kelly's Cottage. I'v never been to Ireland but I'm pretty sure people who are from the countryside there and used to fresh food will appreciate this place. And yeah, you'll never get that kind of food in Boston, and nobody in their right mind would get Chinese food out in New Hampshire, (unless there is some hidden jewel I am ignorant of) so try it. Grace found out about it through great reviews on the internet, so it must be true.
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