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What I Ate - Search Tool

Posted 11 February, 2010 at 1:04pm by Michael Chu
(Filed under: Food, What I Ate)

I've found that the search on this blog works fairly well, but when I'm looking for a particular restaurant or dish that I ate (to remind myself of a previous experience or see what it looked like), the search doesn't work too well. Searching for a restaurant name often pulls up other blog entries where I may have mentioned or compared against that restaurant, making it more difficult to find what I'm looking for.

So, I wrote a tool to help - it's a search tool that was specifically designed to dig through What I Ate and provide links to to the meal as well as photos of each dish. Just go to the What I Ate Search type in the restaurant name or name of the dish and click on "Search". If there are ten or fewer results, all the photos will be pulled up automatically (otherwise, just click on the "Show Photos" link).
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The tool is both useful when I'm about to order at a restaurant AND has a weird curiosity factor especially when you type in such things as "steak" or "pizza" or "sausage".

Here are some examples:
What I Ate - Restaurant: Manresa
What I Ate - Dish: Dumplings
What I Ate - Dish: Ramen

2 comments to What I Ate - Search Tool

Victoria, February 11th, 2010 at 7:08 pm:

  • I'm new to your site. Congratulations… it's excellent. I'm especially impressed with your What I Ate search and will use it extensively on future visits.

Lisa, February 11th, 2010 at 7:52 pm:

  • I love your new search tool….now I can zero in on your sushi posts. By the way, I love your blog! Been reading it since Christmas.

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