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Face Cafe: An Update

(Yes, this is an old photo. Bad watermarking as you can see. Plus, no more Grand Opening sign now if you visit, and there is a new logo with the Face Cafe logo in Chinese) Following on my list of cafes and Hong Kong style food in the SGV area is Face Cafe. Earlier readers would know that I did not have such a positive experience on my second visit . Improvements have been made of course between my last review and this review however, so today I am here to tell you about improvements and other items on the menu. Basic improvements that have been made include the inclusion of take out menus for all parts of the day- breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Also, there is a new suggestion box nearby the cashier's desk. I am tempted to put the link to Eat. Travel. Eat! into the suggestion box but have not yet. If I do decide to put it in, I will do it myself :). Side note: Be prepared to be annoyed by the constant watermarks. You see, I was angry and decided to put watermarks all over after my p

Tasty Garden-Arcadia

( The addicting and delicious H.K. lemon tea ) Like I said before in "Jazz Cat Cafe-Alhambra", I can not write about Garden Cafe 3 times without even writing about its nearby competitor down the street, Tasty Garden. Both of these places opened their doors around the same time, and are Hong Kong style cafes. However, Tasty Garden focuses on Hong Kong style dishes, while Garden has a larger variety of international and fusion dishes to choose from. These different interests that these restaurants have makes for plenty of difference. Coming from the entrance from the parking lot (NOT the front- park in the large back parking lot, not on the street), you will find a large drinks and desserts area, which they call "T. Tea Express". In addition, you will find plenty of seating for waiting as well as eating, along with a fish tank (for display). This area has changed quite a bit from its opening. Before, the billboards for the items available was completely glass, where t

Jazz Cat Cafe-Alhambra

( My attempt at heavily editing an image (for me at least) in Photoshop. Do you like it? ) I was really hoping to write a positive and glowing review of this place. All of my previous experiences at Jazz Cat when it first opened were memorable and most certainly delicious. Large portions and interesting food. Cook by yourself tableside shabu-shabu that came with fishcake was a highlight to me and others . Curry and egg omelet rice which I ordered due to the Dotch Cooking Show was served in a large plate and was exceedingly delicious. We returned several times, but pretty much forgot about the place after a nighttime experience there where we had to wait for a long time. Driving to Alhambra was already pretty far. Waiting for a long time for food...not a great idea! However, I and a dining companion decided to eat here after passing by on a drive back home. Why not Jazz Cat? After all, I've talked about Face Cafe twice already (and will do a large update the next post after the n

Cumin Cabbage

Normally, I do not frequently post recipes onto the blog as I have a huge list of NEW restaurants to post about. However, this post has been waiting for too long- as you see the watermark is even the old one and not the new one with the copyright logo. There is also another reason for posting this recipe now: Weekend Wokking ! As you see, this month's ingredient is CABBAGE . The inspiration for making this dish was yet again from a restaurant, just like how I was inspired by Phoenix Inn's Mixed Seafood on Tofu . In this case however, it was inspired by Hong Yei Restaurant, which I was able to try their cumin cabbage (no post on this restaurant as I tried leftovers). The cumin cabbage was slightly spicy from dried chili peppers and chili oil, and was fragrant due to the abundance of cumin. In addition, the cabbage was crisp, but also very oily (boo). Since it seemed like it was easy to make, we tried making it at home with some adjustments to what we had. Some of our adjustmen

Diamond Jamboree Weekend: BCD Tofu House, 85C Bakery and Cafe, and HMart

Like I stated last week, I said I would write a post on our visit to the OC that was made several weeks ago. This purpose this time was finding a place close to UCI for their welcome week to eat, and so after I proposed the restaurants that I wanted to visit to my dining companions and they disagreed on it (like Brodard as it was 15-20 minutes away and we had to go back again to UCI), I randomly thought about Diamond Jamboree after reading a boatload of posts on it from Eileen's blog, Eileen Likes to Eat . Diamond Jamboree as a whole sounded awesome. Not only was there plenty of restaurants to choose from (and so we randomly picked one that sounded familiar looking at our phone), there was also a chance to restock on some items we wanted for home and for one of my dining companions. Thus, Diamond Jamboree it was for our lunch destination. After a five minute drive, we arrived at Diamond Jamboree and drove around the area. It seemed quiet and looked like a business and housing area.