L.A. is heaven on earth!

Went to L.A's Rowland Heights area last Saturday for a pigging out session. Seriously, I think I teared a little when I tasted that salted soy beancurd. Man, I never knew L.A asian food was so superb! The taiwanese food there rocks, and is prolly better than in Singapore. *Gasp* I can't believe I just said that! Ha. And the food's cheaper than in sucky San Diego. San Diego sucks balls. I am going to look into transferring to UCLA. Blech. I'm kinda lazy, so Imma just post loads of pictures, and write very little. Blech.


We went to this breakfast store called Yi Mei, which serves Taiwanese style breakfast. This has got to be my favorite food in L.A! The salted beancurd is sooooooooooooooooo good! I've never had it before and it is sooooo good. Sooooooo good! SOOOOOO GOOD! With a little bit of vinegar, it tastes like yummy soup. YUM. I will be dreaming of this...


I had the radish cake with omelette with garlic sauce. SOOOO GOOD! :) The garlic sauce is soooo good. It's called 沙茶 sauce, and man, they have raw bits of garlic in it, giving it an extra kick. :D


We had the 烧饼 too, but it wasn't that great. I mean, it was good, but it wasn't OMFG good, like the beancurd milk. I found it a bit bland.

Apparently Jay Chou comes here for shaved ice everytime he's in L.A.


We moved onto this lobster restaurant called Newport Seafood Restaurant. My friends swear by it, so we got a 4-pound lobster stir-fried in a garlic spring onion sauce. It tastes like crabs in Singapore, but meatier. And the flavor was soooo good. Just maybe they put a tad too much MSG in the thing, cuz I felt really thirsty after eating it.


My failed attempt at getting a close up of the meat.

We went to get dessert at this award-winning French dessert place which is owned by Asians. The desserts were soooooo pretty!

The tiramisu. The cocoa powder was so fine and delicate that I kept coughing on it, but it was not overly sweet and really good!


The green tea mousse and raspberry mousse cake. The raspberry cake was to die for. It's sour, but not overly sour, with a subtle hint of sweetness. The coating is a layer of raspberry jelly. YUM!


A peek at the inside of the raspberry cake.

I wasn't kidding when I said it was award-winning. Ha.


Went to eat 臭臭锅 after that. I've never had it, but I figured since I like the stinky beancurd, I should like this. The soup was really good!


Went to 长江 soy bean factory to get freshly made stinky beancurd. YUM. MAAAAN, it's been too long. I wanna eat it again. The vegetables that came with it was really fresh, and crisp too! Slurp.


Went to the Stinking Rose for dinner. It's a garlic restaurant in Beverly Hills that has only garlic-based dishes. I was so stuffed at this point that I only ordered the garlic cloves in olive oil dip with bread, and some potato garlic soup.


Our menus!


The soup was disappointing.

The bread was yummy! The garlic cloves were soft, and not overly salted. It melts in your mouth literally, and went very well with the piping hot bread!


Me digging into my garlic ice cream en mole (which means a caramel chocolately kinda sauce). It sucked. Ha.


They served little gum drops after dinner. Look how tiny they are compared to my phone. So adorable.


Naka has an apparently 1.2 million condo in Hollywood, so we went up to his rooftop to pre-drink. It was pretty nice, but kinda small.

Me and Jenn!


Went to Avalon to watch the Infected Mushrooms concert. I was kinda tired, and irritable, cuz they came on like 3 hours late. Grrr. Got home at 5 am. -__-


On a sidenote, went to watch another concert the weekend before (sorry, been so busy that I haven't been blogging). It was Britt Daniel of Spoon! Pretty big guy, he usually performs in stadiums and stuff, but he was on vacation in San D. with family and decided to do a last-min show. Tom was shrieking like a little girl and yelling at him (he's a fan), and he gamely performed his favorite song for him! :P He really was pretty good. I love his voice!



Meredith and I cam-whoring. At some point, Meredith was point drunk. :P Ionno when it happened, but we developed an insane obsession to wearing our shades at night. Weird.

The night before, when we went out to Arrivederci for dinner near Meredith & Noel's place. See what I mean. Ha.

ALSO, last Friday was Jenn's (Renee's BFF Jenn) birthday, and we had a quiet night with wine and cheese and playing board games and jeopardy.


The mandatory penis cake. Ha. This time it was made of cupcakes in ice cream cones. Jackie added that eh hem smear at the tip... :p


Jenn was clearly thrilled when she opened her eyes. :P


Jeopardy!

Okay, that's about it. Super tired now. Ciao!