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!