Simpang Asia + NLP Proj 2

out of all the foreign food restaurants i've eaten at in LA, somehow i've never had food from the indonesian restaurant Simpang Asia. so, sometime last week, i gave it a try. i ordered:

• Nasi Warteg (entree): Turmeric fried chicken, jackfruit curry, telor ceplok balado, fried noodle, tasty tofu tempeh, tiny salted fish, steamed rice; all wrapped in banana leaf. Est. September 2005.

• Roti Bakar (dessert): Indo sweet grilled cheese bread. Delicious w/ condensed milk and chocolate topping.

overall, it was pretty good stuff! halfway through, though, my tongue realized that something wasn't right and asked me what the heck i was doing to it. it felt like i had eaten 3 bags of hot fries simultaneously. nevertheless, it was a really cool place and the dessert was seriously one of the best desserts i've ever had. the only immediate thing that comes to mind that was better is google's catered strawberry/chocolate/waffer/pudding/cracker things. my mouth is watering now, so i should stop talking about it.

for my NLP class, we get to choose anything we want for project 2. leslie and i decided to create a system that (1) automatically classifies stories as being adult stories (i.e. regular text for adults, not x-rated stuff) or children stories; (2) converts adult stories to children stories. we have 1.5 weeks left, so it'll be fun. i did #1, already. now it's time for the fun parts.