Crab, Crab, and More Crab

One of my parent's friends from San Fransisco came to my house a couple of days ago at around dinnertime, and she wanted to eat something that represented where we lived (beach city!!!!). We could only think of one restaurant: Pacific Fish. It's not really a fish restaurant, but a place where shrimp and crab are abundant because it's located on a pier. There's always a abnormally big line, so it's fun just to walk around and enjoy the ocean breeze (which lingered on my hair long after dinner). After waiting, walking to our table is as exciting as your favorite baseball team winning the World Cup. Since you have to order before you get to the table, the food just comes quickly and soon, the table is full with goodies. That day, we had boiled shrimp, fish soup and of course, crab!!! The fun part is that you eat everything (except the soup) with your hands, wooden hammers, and bibs! Always be careful not to splash crab juice on anyone! I recommend seafood lovers to go and try Pacific Fish!

85 C

85 c is a bakery where you can find the best bread that you have ever ate. Chinese bread and American bread is different. American bread is just bread, while Chinese bread has all different kinds of flavors. Anyway, my favorite breads from there is the calamari bread that tickles your tongue with its garlic ness. Brioche doesn't have a significant taste but milk and plainness. It is very soft and is perfect for a clean snack. Third, their mochi egg tart is great and very creamy with not very much egg because of the mochi bottom of the tart. I am not very sure of the address of this bakery, so if you are interested, you should google it.

Asian Bar-B-Q

In most countries, Bar-B-Q means meat, but in different places, the seasoning, the type of meat, and the way to eat is completely opposite. A couple of days ago, I ate at a restaurant called Gye-Maku, which means cow in Japanese. It is a very big music with friendly servers and great food that you have to cook yourself (Japanese Bar-B-Q). That time, I ate the limited Kobe beef (not the basketball player Kobe). Kobe is a more expensive and exclusive cow, where they are fed beer and massaged everyday. Gye-Maku only sells 20 dishes per day, but it's very unlikely for it to run out. It's a very small proportion but it comes with rice, miso soup, and a big salad. When the time for cooking comes, I recommend to do it quickly and cook all of them in two times because the heat from the stove gets in your face and is very uncomfortable. i have to say, the meat was a little to hard for me. It took me 2 minutes to eat one piece. Other wise, everything else was pretty good. If that doesn't sound enough for you, they also have appetizers at 50% off, of you could get the all you can eat meal starting at roughly $12.
A couple of weeks ago, my family and I went to my dad's friend's house for dinner. We had Korean Bar-B-Q which is about the same thing, but with green onion salad, daikon, rice paper, miso paste, chili sauce, garlic, and a salt and pepper sauce. This is how I eat it:

1. Cook the meat
2. Dip the meat in the sauce
3. Get the daikon and put it on top of the rice paper
4. Put the meat on top of the rice paper and daikon and add garlic
5. Enjoy!!!

Most of the time we eat this when we go to their house because everyone can have fun!

Kula Sushi

If you have checked my profile, you would see that I like sushi. I don't just like Sushi Boy sushi that has poor quality and pricey fish. I like real sushi that has sweetness and comes with great sushi rice. That's why I eat sushi at the greatest sushi bar called Kula. At Kula its a revolving sushi bar that cost $2 per dish. Every dish is very fresh and cut just minutes before the customers eats it. Every fish is cut perfectly and has no sticky fiber in between. Its very sweet and refreshing! They also have great handrolls like spicy tuna and tuna. I would recommend all sushi lovers to go and eat there!

Vegas

Vegas! A place where dreams start and end. As we all know, Vegas is known for it's resorts, hotels, casinos, and even restaurants! For two nights, I stayed at the newest hotel; Aria. After staying there, I will never stay at a hotel without thinking that it seemed old. Aria was indescribable. They had a smoke-proof system where you couldn't smell any smoke, but a heavenly perfume. In every guest room, there was a electric pad where you could control everything in the room. Now to talk about the buffet. The Buffet (which is also its name) was very beautiful with lots of glass chandeliers and lots of lights. There was so much food that I didn't even know what to eat. Then again, there was nothing I wanted to eat. I am not a buffet type of person, so I will write in a buffet lover's point of view:
Food! Food! From king crab legs to fat desserts, I was going to faint. I had to eat everything! I have to say the king crab legs were the best. They were so sweet and tenderwith juice coming out. Plus, the legs were already cut conveniently so all you needed to do was peel the meat off! The desserts were just excelent! They were so unique with the different sauces and flavors. I have to go back someday!
Yeah, my mom and dad loved the buffet and came home with a full stomach and a happy face!

Amiee's

French cuisine is said to be one of the best, and I totally agree. Of course, you can get french cuisine in France, but if you live in L.A. and can settle without the beautiful Eiffel Tower view, there is a fantastic restaurant in Torrance called Amiee's. It's a great restaurant with real french waiters. The owner is a friendly lady who remembers all of her costumers. Once you sit down, you look at the menu with no clue what to eat. Usually they have a special menu that changes everyday. The main ingredient doesn't change, but the sauces and the side dishes do. The special menu has fois gras and escargot that are the best! The fois gras is creamy and very rich with a salty sensation. It comes in some kind of fruit sauce that goes perfectly with it. The escargot is also a salty sensation with a pesto garlic sauce. It is chewy and you can't believe it's snail! Please try it!!!!

Pa Pa Walk

I am Taiwanese and I am always looking for great Asian restaurants. By the way, Panda Express is NOT Chinese food. Panda cooks American Style Chinese food. Real Chinese food taste much better and is MSG FREE!!! We also don't put that much sauce and salt in our dishes, so our cooking is much more healthy! Anyway, Pa Pa Walk is one of my favorite restaurants because it is tasty and affordable. It is located at 227 West Valley Boulevard, San Gabriel, CA. Their best dishes/drinks are:

1. Popcorn Chicken with Rice
2. Watermelon Milk
3. Three Cups Chicken with Rice
4. Oyster Pancake
5. Smoked Duck with Rice

Those are my favorite and I eat them every time I go there. If you have a chance and have a craving for great Taiwanese food, I recommend that restaurant!

Princess Cruise Food Diary Day: 5, 6, 7

Day: 5
I've been super busy these days, so sorry for the delay of blogging. I need to blog about more topics, so I need to write about 3 days. Anyway, back to the topic! Welcome to Skagway! Skagway is just a small town with a population of 800 people. Skagway is all about the gold rush time, so everything is very acient. Tonight's dinner was soooooooooooo good! For an appetizer, I had pate along with a strawberry lemonade thyme infused sorbet. You cannot imagine how good that combination is. For a main course, I had scallops with assorted veggies. For dessert, I had some type of ice cream?
Day:6
A day at sea is good for: eating!!! I joined a Jr. Chef @ Sea program, so I got to decorate a cake! It was humongous! I had no way of finishing it, so my mom helped me. For dinner, I had a seafood pate with a trio of CAVIAR!!! It was heaven in my mouth! For a soup, I had a Pina Colada (with no alcohol). Last, but not least the main course was... lobster tail!!! I know I've said that day 5 had good food, but compared to this dinner, that was just a speck of dust! The lobster tail was perfectly cooked with some butter and fresh shrimp.
Day: 7
Welcome to Victoria! (British Columbia) Today was a sad day for me, because this was going to be my last dinner. Anyway, no more tears. I had a seafood salad with all sorts of goodies, like squid, avocado, lobster claw, oranges... etc. It was very refreshing and was a perfect match with the beautiful weather. For the main course, I had block mussels in a white wine sauce. It was great, but I was tired after eating them. LOL! For a dessert, I had a passion fruit souffle that was not too good. I didn't taste any passion fruit inside. This concludes my Princess Cruise Food Diary to Alaska. Maybe I'll make another one for a different cruise...

Princess Cruise Food Diary Day: 4

Welcome to Tracy Arm/Juneau! From 6:00 am to 10:00 am, we were in Tracy Arm, a beautiful glacier place. I even saw a glacier melt. It was so heartbreaking to me. Next, the ship headed for Juneau, a fun and exciting place to be at. I went to the glacial museum there and I learned a lot. Unfortunately, I forgot to take pictures of the dinner that night, so i will not be talking about food today. It I can remember what I wrote about, I will post it as quickly as I can!

Princess Cruise Food Diary Day: 3

Welcome to Ketchikan, a beautiful salmon industry. What really shocked me, was that the dinner had no salmon! Tonight's dinner was on of the worst. For a soup, I had a seafood soup that was rather bland. I would have liked it more if the broth was less watery. For a main course, I had a steak along with scallops and shrimp(again!) The steak was horrible. It was dry and was too chewy. I could barely eat any of it, even though I ordered a medium rare! Now to pick on the dessert. My nectarine sorbet was so artificial. It tasted like rotten milk candy! Word of advise: if you're going on the 7 day Alaska Princess Cruise on the Sapphire, don't eat in the dinning rooms on the third day!

Princess Cruise Food Diary Day: 2

Day 2 food was great, but not the best. For an appetizer, I had a smoked duck with a cranberry sauce. It was DELICIOUS! The duck was not over smoked and was not as salty as I expected it to be. I have to say, the sauce was a little bit too sour. As a main course, I had shrimp. This dish was disappointing to me. There was just shrimp, along with some rice and veggies. I liked the shrimp's flavor, but it was too rich. I felt like I was eating a stick of butter. Last but not least, dessert. I had grapefruit sorbet and a chocolate souffle. The grapefruit sorbet was so original and very refreshing to my mouth. The souffle was the opposite. I was in heaven with all that creaminess. It was a good feeling of richness, not like the shrimp. I went back to my cabin with a warm feeling in my tummy.

Princess Cruise Food Diary Day: 1

From July 4 to July 11, I have been on a magical cruise. I was on a Alaska Princess cruise. This was my fourth Princess cruise, but it was the best. I was on Sapphire Princess, a boat with friendly crew and great chefs. My favorite part was... the FOOD!!! Since I was on a 7 day cruise, I will talk about the food one day at a time. Now I will talk about day 1's food. For lunch, I ate at the over sized buffet! It was not like any buffet you've been at before. It was basically heaven for food lovers! There was food from all over the world! Since I was going to Alaska, there was a lot of salmon. Smoked salmon, salmon sandwiches, grilled salmon, and much more! For dinner, I ate in one of the anytime dinning restaurants called Santa Fe. There are two types of dinning. One is traditional dinning, where you are assigned a time and table that you have to eat at everyday. Another choice is anytime dinning where you can pick your restaurant and your table everyday. Anyway, every anytime dinning restaurant has a specialty dish. For Santa Fe, it was fajitas. Whatever type of dinning you choose, you get a full menu! Day 1 had some great food, like seafood pate, thick steak, and a special fish.

I-Naba

Nothing is better than eating soba in summer. Soba is basically buckwheat noodles with cold soup to dip in. Yesterday, I had a delicious lunch with my mom at a restaurant called I-Naba. They have a lot of noodle meals, but everyone who's been there knows that their soba is the best. I ordered the soba with grated radish. Turns out, they already put the soba in the soup, so you get more soup then the regular soba. I devoured it all with a smile on my face.After the meal, the waiter gave us the water used to cook the noodles. He said that the soup was better for digesting than tea. Turns out, he was right!

Yogurtland

I go to the redondo beach Yogurtland almost everyday. I have to say, Yogurtland is the best place to get frozen yogurt. Every now and then, they change flavors and that's the fun part! Couple weeks ago, they had the flavor Green Tea. I loved it! It was really authentic. It became my favorite flavor. Anyway, this week, they have a new flavor (that replaced Green Tea) called Lemonade Passion Fruit. It sounds weird, but it tastes soooooooooooo good! It's a combination of two types of citrus blasts in your mouth. Now, it's my favorite flavor. Couple of days ago, I saw that they had condensed milk as a sauce. I added some on the side and I tasted it. YUM!!! Please try!!!

Hors D'oeurve

Have you ever tried to make hors d'oeuves? They are fun to make and are delicious. I am going to tell you about a salmon roe hors d'oeuve:

1. Get a piece of white bread and put it on a cutting board.
2. Get a cookie cutter (any shape will do).
3. Use the cookie cutter to cut out pieces of bread.
4. Get some salmon roe and mayonnaise (or My Chef Shrimp Sandwich Pocket) out.
5. Drip 4 drops of mayo (1/2 of a spoon of the shrimp mixture) onto the bread.
6. Use a mother-of-pearl (or plastic, but NOT metal) spoon to scoop the roe onto the bread.
7. Enjoy!!!

Scallops on the Half Shell

Have you ever been to Trader Joe's? They have many frozen items, and I am about to tell you about one. It is called Scallops on the Half Shell. They come in packs of twelve. They are already cooked and all you have to do is bake them for 400 degrees for 10 minutes! It is just scallops with a delicious garlic parsley paste. I hope you enjoy them!

Welcome

Welcome to my food blog, which is my summer project.My mom gave this blog to me and I am loving it! I am a food loving girl, who wants to be a chef when she grows up. I am not like most girls, who think pate and caviar are gross. I eat things that most people don't eat. I am not afraid to eat anything!!! I will try to post everyday, with recipes, pictures, restaurant reviews, and more!