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On BBC’s website, there is a Sex ID test to identify the gender of your brain. There are six parts to the test, some of the parts are timed. You will also need a ruler that measures millimeters.

The six parts are:
Part I: Angles
Part II: Hands
Part III: Emotions and Systems
Part IV: Fingers
Part V: Faces
Part VI: 3D Shapes

For a lot of my answers I was right in the middle, so not really female or male. My personal brain score is 25 Female (out of 100), so I am sort of split in the middle, but my brain leans more towards a female than a male. Not sure if it’s good or bad. But the test was interesting to take. Go try it and let me know what gender your brain is.

Here’s the second clip released by NBC on the Scrubs musical episode to air on January 18th. It is the “Everything Comes Down to Poo” music video with JD, Turk and one of the women from Avenue Q (which is definitely worth watching too).

After our dinner at Buddakan NYC, the PHOG Council went uptown to Hell’s Kitchen to grab a drink or two. Pat and George suggested Hotel QT, it’s a quaint little boutique hotel around Times Square at 125 W 45th Street. The bar there was never packed, we had seats and were never squished and it never got too loud that we couldn’t hear each other. They also have a swimming pool in the lobby. As it got later, we saw people going into the pool and using the swim up bar. We had a good time there and it was a nice way to end our evening.

The PHOG Council met yesterday at Buddakan NYC for a nice dinner. It was too hard getting reservations, I called less than a week in advance and we got 6:15PM reservations, they said the next available one was at 10pm. I went in Buddakan once but it was packed so we left. I had no clue how large it is. Pat, Henry, George and I were seated downstairs, which was huge. I found the area where we were seated to be a bit dark, but it was spacious. I started off with a drink, it’s called Charm, Pat had one and it tasted good. Charm has passion fruit liqueur, apple, fresh berries and prosecco. It was pretty good with strawberries and blueberries.

For our appetizer, we got:

• shaken chili beef tartare (with tapioca and shaved shallots)
• deviled tuna tartare (with chopped egg and sriracha mayo)
• steamed sea bass roll (with cabbage, ginger and sizzling scallion oil)

The beef tartare was pretty good. The tapioca was there more for texture than for flavor. The tuna tartare was pretty fresh tuna but the chopped egg tasted very bland with the tuna. The steamed sea bass roll was very good, but presentation wise, it was pretty boring. We had to add an extra one because the dish only comes with three. It was good, but the only complaint was that we’ve had it many times before, in Chinese restaurants, for a lot less.

For our meal, we got:

• house special rice (scallop congee)
• long green beans with minced shrimp
• chili crab & crispy noodles (jumbo lump crab in a spicy tamarind)
• whole peking duck (with cucumber, scallion and hoisin)

Do not get the house special rice, there is nothing “special” about it. It is pretty plain with a white sauce over it. Boring! The long green beens with minced shrimp was good, but it came in a bowl the size of a rice bowl. The chili crab and crispy noodles was not good. The noodles weren’t even crispy! Not worth it! The whole Peking duck was good, but there was no way they gave us all the skin to the duck, there were like only 10 pieces of skin! What did they do with the rest of it? That’s the best part of Peking duck!

For dessert, we split the

• pumpkin souffle cake

The pumpkin souffle cake was very good. No complaints with it from me.

All in all, we were pretty stuffed and the food was good, but we’re all Chinese and we’ve had good (and bad) Chinese food and this meal did not stand out. We paid a considerable amount for Chinese food and it was pretty average. So if you are Chinese, I suggest you not go there, unless you want to be seriously ripped off. But it is good to experience it, once!

Nora, Alan, Henry and I went to Buddha Bodai (42-96 Main Street, Flushing)for some dim sum. It is all vegetarian food. Their food is made up of 85% soy and 15% vegetable root. Alan and Henry didn’t understand why we were eating vegetarian, they’d rather eat the real meat and not fake stuff, but Nora and I have been there before and we’ve enjoyed the food. Keep in mind they serve dim sum through 3pm.

We got the

• pan fried turnip cake
• dumpling Cantonese style
• fried taro custard
• roast pork rice roll
• vegetarian rice roll
• pan fried dumplings
• gluten and vegetable pan fried noodles

The food was really good. The rice rolls have about 5-6 rolls instead of the normal 3. Henry and Alan were both surprised that everything was all vegetarian. Some things really did taste like meat. If you go, you can also try the congee, it’s pretty good there. Nora says she’s also seen a fish dish, where they make the whole fish (including the fin) out of vegetarian ingredients. Maybe I’ll try that next time, if we are there for a dinner.