Since it was Norwegian friend's first time to Vegas, I started the tour off at my favorite hotel - The Venetian.
Saturday, June 30, 2007
Viva! Las Vegas! and the Bellagio Buffet
It's been almost six years since I've been to Vegas, eight years since Norwegian cousin has been here, and first time for her friend. I almost always have lots of fun, even though I never gamble. Well, once I spent $10 on the slots. I won $6 and should have cashed out! Hmph. Really, I hate losing money.
Since it was Norwegian friend's first time to Vegas, I started the tour off at my favorite hotel - The Venetian.
Since it was Norwegian friend's first time to Vegas, I started the tour off at my favorite hotel - The Venetian.
Friday, June 29, 2007
Revisiting Mission 261- San Gabriel and Pinkberry - Rancho Cucamonga
Besides taking my Norwegian cousin around to experience as many of America's culinary offerings as possible, I also wanted to change her misperceptions about certain foods. She always declared that she didn't like dim sum because she could never fill up on all the little dumplings. *Gasp* I know! Well, I think it's also because dining out is frightfully expensive in Norway so it would cost a lot of kroners to get full on dim sum.
Lately my favorite dim sum restaurant is Mission 261 in San Gabriel, which I wrote about in this post. So go there if you want to read all about the history of the century-old building and all that. Although, I should probably visit a few new places and do a dim sum series like I did with my dumpling series.
This also marks the debut of my new camera, a Canon SD1000. It's nothing fancy, but I needed the bigger screen because I'm just getting too old and my eyesight isn't what it used to be. ;) I think you'll be happy with how very colorful these photos look as compared to my previous visit.
Preserved duck egg and pork congee.
Turnip cake.
Char siu bao.
Abalone mushroom dumplings.
Pear tips and peanut dumplings?
Shrimp and scallop dumplings.
Har gow.
Chicken feet.
Steamed crystal buns.
Shrimp cheong fun.
Dried shrimp cheong fun with scallions.
Lotus leaf sticky rice.
Mango pudding.
Pork spare ribs.
Oh, yeah, I think I definitely changed my cousin's perceptions of dim sum for the better. :P
My brother's friend, who missed his flight out to Vegas, hitched a ride with us. And since we were already going to be on the 15 freeway, we made a quick detour to the Pinkberry in Rancho Cucamonga.
We were only going to share one or two between the four of us, but when they saw how good all the toppings looked, they each wanted their own. And afterward, my brother's friend had to call up the other two guys who were stuck in St. Louis on a layover just so he could rub it in that they missed out on the latest SoCal food craze.
OK, next up will be my mini adventure in the desert.
Lately my favorite dim sum restaurant is Mission 261 in San Gabriel, which I wrote about in this post. So go there if you want to read all about the history of the century-old building and all that. Although, I should probably visit a few new places and do a dim sum series like I did with my dumpling series.
This also marks the debut of my new camera, a Canon SD1000. It's nothing fancy, but I needed the bigger screen because I'm just getting too old and my eyesight isn't what it used to be. ;) I think you'll be happy with how very colorful these photos look as compared to my previous visit.
Preserved duck egg and pork congee.
Turnip cake.
Char siu bao.
Abalone mushroom dumplings.
Pear tips and peanut dumplings?
Shrimp and scallop dumplings.
Har gow.
Chicken feet.
Steamed crystal buns.
Shrimp cheong fun.
Dried shrimp cheong fun with scallions.
Lotus leaf sticky rice.
Mango pudding.
Pork spare ribs.
Oh, yeah, I think I definitely changed my cousin's perceptions of dim sum for the better. :P
My brother's friend, who missed his flight out to Vegas, hitched a ride with us. And since we were already going to be on the 15 freeway, we made a quick detour to the Pinkberry in Rancho Cucamonga.
We were only going to share one or two between the four of us, but when they saw how good all the toppings looked, they each wanted their own. And afterward, my brother's friend had to call up the other two guys who were stuck in St. Louis on a layover just so he could rub it in that they missed out on the latest SoCal food craze.
OK, next up will be my mini adventure in the desert.
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Rockin' Crawfish - Westminster (Little Saigon)
As I mentioned in my C&C Express post, as my cousin was snacking on the hot vit lon (Vietnamese fetal or embryo duck eggs), we were headed off for appetizers before going to another place for dinner. This is after a quite full lunch at Brodard Restaurant. Yes, we're still talking about the same day. It just got stretched into three posts. :)
We went across the street to the Asian Village Mall so the visitors could take pictures with Confucius and all his disciples at the Cultural Court, and so my brother's friend could stop off at the grocery store to look for fresh jackfruit. Unfortunately, they were out of jackfruit, but I scored 2 very fresh and very sweet Dole pineapples for only 88 cents each!
My brother's friend also wanted to eat at one of the many Vietnamese-owned Cajun crawfish places that have opened up in Orange County in recent years.
Does it make you feel like you're in a honky-tonk in the deep South? It's as bare bones as possible. Paper on the tables. Bibs for patrons. A whole roll of paper towels. The waitress even nicely went around tying the bibs on for all of us. Well, all except for one of my brother's friends who was kicking himself for sitting so far away that the waitress handed over a bib and asked him to tie it himself. :P
The seafood usually goes for market price and on this particular night, the crawfish/crawdads/crayfish was $6.99 per pound. They were completely out of crab. And shrimp wasn't exotic enough for my cousin to try.
My cousin had never had raw oysters before. So we ordered a dozen for $14.99. I have no idea what kind these were. We just squirted some limes, added some cocktail sauce, and they just slid down my throat. After two, my cousin decided she had had enough since she just wanted to try them to say she experienced it.
The basket of calamari was nicely crispy, not heavily breaded, and only $5.99.
We ordered two pounds of crawfish with mild seasoning. The choices are lemon pepper, garlic butter, and rockin' combo. The crawfish are served in a clear plastic bag, often with a few pieces of sausage or corn thrown in.
One of my brother's friend's, who's from Mississippi, kept exclaiming that these prices were completely jacked up. Cajun crawfish places are cheap and ubiquitous in his neck of the woods. He said in Mississippi, fresh crawfish range from $1.50 to $2 a pound, and in Houston they're $2.50 to $3.99.
Not that crawfish are only confined to the South, mind you.
I've caught a few in my time. They're plentiful in rivers and streams in Oregon. We'd usually stop off on our way home from fishing along the coast. I'd tie a rib to a long stick, jab it under a crevice, wait until the crawfish grabbed a hold of the meat, and then I'd shake it into a bucket. If that didn't work, I'd scream for my brother to hurry over and grab it before it crawled away.
Nothing beat fresh crawfish that I caught myself. My mom would boil them. Then it was time to eat. Ripping off the heads, sucking out any juices, bending the tail lengthwise to break the shell, before pulling out the tail. They were so delicious dipped into salt, pepper, and lime juice. So much work for so little meat. But it was sooo worth it. So succulent. Tastes like lobster to me.
Eating these crawfish, even with the very strong Cajun spices, brought back some nice memories from my childhood.
Oh, yes, back to the story, here's the "after" picture.
After I left to wash my hands, our order of potatoes arrived. 50 cents each. I had totally forgotten about these.
And actually, I wonder if the waitress had heard our request for mild because these were spicy! So spicy that two of my brother's friends literally had sweat running down their faces. So spicy that one of them peeled the skin from the potato and he was still sweating.
Anyway, surely you didn't think we were done? Two pounds of crawfish, 1 dozen oysters, 1 basket of calamari, and 6 potatoes for six people? Nah, that was just the appetizer. :P
We then moved on to Seol Ak San - Stanton for our real dinner. Nothing fills ya up like Korean barbecue with all the panchan (side dishes).
Other Cajun crawfish restaurants:
The Boiling Crab - Alhambra (Main St.)
The Boiling Crab - Alhambra (Valley Blvd.)
Rockin' Crawfish
9211 Bolsa Ave., Suite 120
Westminster, CA, 92683
714-894-4536
Monday to Thursday 4 p.m. to 11 p.m.
Friday and Saturday 2 p.m. to midnight
Sunday 2 p.m. to 11 p.m.
We went across the street to the Asian Village Mall so the visitors could take pictures with Confucius and all his disciples at the Cultural Court, and so my brother's friend could stop off at the grocery store to look for fresh jackfruit. Unfortunately, they were out of jackfruit, but I scored 2 very fresh and very sweet Dole pineapples for only 88 cents each!
My brother's friend also wanted to eat at one of the many Vietnamese-owned Cajun crawfish places that have opened up in Orange County in recent years.
Does it make you feel like you're in a honky-tonk in the deep South? It's as bare bones as possible. Paper on the tables. Bibs for patrons. A whole roll of paper towels. The waitress even nicely went around tying the bibs on for all of us. Well, all except for one of my brother's friends who was kicking himself for sitting so far away that the waitress handed over a bib and asked him to tie it himself. :P
The seafood usually goes for market price and on this particular night, the crawfish/crawdads/crayfish was $6.99 per pound. They were completely out of crab. And shrimp wasn't exotic enough for my cousin to try.
My cousin had never had raw oysters before. So we ordered a dozen for $14.99. I have no idea what kind these were. We just squirted some limes, added some cocktail sauce, and they just slid down my throat. After two, my cousin decided she had had enough since she just wanted to try them to say she experienced it.
The basket of calamari was nicely crispy, not heavily breaded, and only $5.99.
We ordered two pounds of crawfish with mild seasoning. The choices are lemon pepper, garlic butter, and rockin' combo. The crawfish are served in a clear plastic bag, often with a few pieces of sausage or corn thrown in.
One of my brother's friend's, who's from Mississippi, kept exclaiming that these prices were completely jacked up. Cajun crawfish places are cheap and ubiquitous in his neck of the woods. He said in Mississippi, fresh crawfish range from $1.50 to $2 a pound, and in Houston they're $2.50 to $3.99.
Not that crawfish are only confined to the South, mind you.
I've caught a few in my time. They're plentiful in rivers and streams in Oregon. We'd usually stop off on our way home from fishing along the coast. I'd tie a rib to a long stick, jab it under a crevice, wait until the crawfish grabbed a hold of the meat, and then I'd shake it into a bucket. If that didn't work, I'd scream for my brother to hurry over and grab it before it crawled away.
Nothing beat fresh crawfish that I caught myself. My mom would boil them. Then it was time to eat. Ripping off the heads, sucking out any juices, bending the tail lengthwise to break the shell, before pulling out the tail. They were so delicious dipped into salt, pepper, and lime juice. So much work for so little meat. But it was sooo worth it. So succulent. Tastes like lobster to me.
Eating these crawfish, even with the very strong Cajun spices, brought back some nice memories from my childhood.
Oh, yes, back to the story, here's the "after" picture.
After I left to wash my hands, our order of potatoes arrived. 50 cents each. I had totally forgotten about these.
And actually, I wonder if the waitress had heard our request for mild because these were spicy! So spicy that two of my brother's friends literally had sweat running down their faces. So spicy that one of them peeled the skin from the potato and he was still sweating.
Anyway, surely you didn't think we were done? Two pounds of crawfish, 1 dozen oysters, 1 basket of calamari, and 6 potatoes for six people? Nah, that was just the appetizer. :P
We then moved on to Seol Ak San - Stanton for our real dinner. Nothing fills ya up like Korean barbecue with all the panchan (side dishes).
Other Cajun crawfish restaurants:
The Boiling Crab - Alhambra (Main St.)
The Boiling Crab - Alhambra (Valley Blvd.)
Rockin' Crawfish
9211 Bolsa Ave., Suite 120
Westminster, CA, 92683
714-894-4536
Monday to Thursday 4 p.m. to 11 p.m.
Friday and Saturday 2 p.m. to midnight
Sunday 2 p.m. to 11 p.m.
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
C&C Express (C&C Food Co.) - Westminster (Little Saigon)
So after our lunch at Brodard Restaurant and laying out at Huntington Beach, I gave my visitors the quickie tour of Little Saigon. Basically, that meant heading to Bolsa Avenue to the Asian Garden Mall and the Cultural Court behind the Asian Village Mall. You can read my virtual tour of Little Saigon if you missed that post and don't know what I'm talking about.
The food court is in the center of the Asian Garden Mall. It's a popular place for people-watching, or grabbing a quick bite to eat. The sign says C&C Express, the white pages lists it as C&C Food Co., but either way, it's usually good for snacks such as fried bananas. Although, it wasn't the bananas that lured my cousin over. It was a little crock pot of eggs.
Not just any eggs, mind you. These were hot vit lon (Vietnamese fetal or embryonic duck eggs), also known as balut to Filipinos.
WARNING: I'm advising you to stop reading now if you're easily squeamish.
Stop now.
I mean it.
Last chance.
OK, but don't say I didn't warn you.
I'm not quite sure how Filipinos eat it, but for Vietnamese, the hot vit lon is usually between 2 to 3 weeks old, is boiled and served with salt and pepper, and rau ram (Vietnamese coriander).
Ewww! Ewww! Said I and everyone else. (OK, I admit, I used to enjoy eating this delicacy when I was a kid and recently ate a few as an adult.)
The way to eat it is to crack the top of the egg and gently tilt it so you can suck out all the sweet brothy liquid inside the egg.
You can see the yolk and the duckling here. Actually, I think you should be happy this photo came out blurry. Then you sprinkle a little salt and pepper on top, tear off a few leaves of rau ram, and scoop it out with a spoon. This way, you don't actually see the little duckling's body parts.
The taste is a bit hard to describe. The yolk part is like a soft-boiled egg. The duckling is still soft, the bones and feathers are barely developed, so it tastes well, rather sweet actually. Sort of like the inside of a dumpling - meaty but juicy at the same time.
My cousin got so tired of me snapping photos while she was trying to eat that she scooped out a piece so I could photograph it and she could eat in peace. Ewww! Look at those feathers! I usually do not eat them that maturely developed. She really, really enjoyed her snack though and actually wanted to get more food but we said this was merely the prelude to appetizers before we moved on to dinner.
If you're adventurous enough and you're in the neighborhood, the hot vit lon are $1.25 each. You can also get them at most fresh poultry places. There's a place further down Bolsa Avenue toward Beach Boulevard that has large signs advertising fresh hot vit lon.
This was such a delicacy that in college my friend bought a few for us to eat. Unfortunately, he didn't know how long to boil the eggs and when he broke into his, it was still partially raw. So he tried re-heating the eggs in the microwave and they all exploded. Except for mine. I'm sure you can guess what happened next. I tapped the top of my egg and it exploded... right into my face. Oh, man, he recounted that story to everyone in the dorm.
Anyway, back to our story, Norwegian cousin's friend decided to snack on these nem nuong (grilled pork patties). These meatballs were gigantic. Easily several inches in diameter. Three for $1.50. A little dry and nowhere near as good as mine. ;)
My brother's friend played it safe and just got a glass of freshly squeezed sugarcane juice for $1.75.
Other snacks include gigantic apple snails and another type of water snail cooked in coconut milk. Or you can stick to the very safe and still tasty fried bananas. :)
C&C Express (C&C Food Co.)
9200 Bolsa Ave. #308
Westminster, CA 92683
714-894-7533
The food court is in the center of the Asian Garden Mall. It's a popular place for people-watching, or grabbing a quick bite to eat. The sign says C&C Express, the white pages lists it as C&C Food Co., but either way, it's usually good for snacks such as fried bananas. Although, it wasn't the bananas that lured my cousin over. It was a little crock pot of eggs.
Not just any eggs, mind you. These were hot vit lon (Vietnamese fetal or embryonic duck eggs), also known as balut to Filipinos.
WARNING: I'm advising you to stop reading now if you're easily squeamish.
Stop now.
I mean it.
Last chance.
OK, but don't say I didn't warn you.
I'm not quite sure how Filipinos eat it, but for Vietnamese, the hot vit lon is usually between 2 to 3 weeks old, is boiled and served with salt and pepper, and rau ram (Vietnamese coriander).
Ewww! Ewww! Said I and everyone else. (OK, I admit, I used to enjoy eating this delicacy when I was a kid and recently ate a few as an adult.)
The way to eat it is to crack the top of the egg and gently tilt it so you can suck out all the sweet brothy liquid inside the egg.
You can see the yolk and the duckling here. Actually, I think you should be happy this photo came out blurry. Then you sprinkle a little salt and pepper on top, tear off a few leaves of rau ram, and scoop it out with a spoon. This way, you don't actually see the little duckling's body parts.
The taste is a bit hard to describe. The yolk part is like a soft-boiled egg. The duckling is still soft, the bones and feathers are barely developed, so it tastes well, rather sweet actually. Sort of like the inside of a dumpling - meaty but juicy at the same time.
My cousin got so tired of me snapping photos while she was trying to eat that she scooped out a piece so I could photograph it and she could eat in peace. Ewww! Look at those feathers! I usually do not eat them that maturely developed. She really, really enjoyed her snack though and actually wanted to get more food but we said this was merely the prelude to appetizers before we moved on to dinner.
If you're adventurous enough and you're in the neighborhood, the hot vit lon are $1.25 each. You can also get them at most fresh poultry places. There's a place further down Bolsa Avenue toward Beach Boulevard that has large signs advertising fresh hot vit lon.
This was such a delicacy that in college my friend bought a few for us to eat. Unfortunately, he didn't know how long to boil the eggs and when he broke into his, it was still partially raw. So he tried re-heating the eggs in the microwave and they all exploded. Except for mine. I'm sure you can guess what happened next. I tapped the top of my egg and it exploded... right into my face. Oh, man, he recounted that story to everyone in the dorm.
Anyway, back to our story, Norwegian cousin's friend decided to snack on these nem nuong (grilled pork patties). These meatballs were gigantic. Easily several inches in diameter. Three for $1.50. A little dry and nowhere near as good as mine. ;)
My brother's friend played it safe and just got a glass of freshly squeezed sugarcane juice for $1.75.
Other snacks include gigantic apple snails and another type of water snail cooked in coconut milk. Or you can stick to the very safe and still tasty fried bananas. :)
C&C Express (C&C Food Co.)
9200 Bolsa Ave. #308
Westminster, CA 92683
714-894-7533
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Brodard Restaurant - Garden Grove (Little Saigon)
Yes, yes, the yummy photo is to tide you over as I go off on a tangent. I'll get to the food in a bit, but we're still discussing the wedding you see. We are? Certainly, have you so quickly forgotten the wedding ceremony and reception? And that for several weeks I'm entertaining my cousin and her friend who are visiting from Norway? This part is important as it characterizes the next dozen or so postings. My cousin called to invite me out for lunch before he headed back up to Portland. Now, I've mentioned my many cousins before but they're all on my dad's side. This cousin and his family is pretty much all that's in the U.S. on my mom's side. And my Norwegian cousin is from my mom's side too. So, of course, we had to meet up with him.
Anyway, this was the second time my Norwegian cousin has come out to visit me. Her visits are usually filled with requests to try all the ethnic food she can't get or is vastly more expensive in Norway, and things that she picks up about American culture from television and movies. The first time she came, she wanted to order Chinese food with the traditional take-out boxes (Seinfeld) and a vanilla coke (Pulp Fiction) and to eat at a kitschy 50's-style diner (Johnny Rockets). This time around she requested cannoli (Sopranos perhaps?) and more ethnic food.
Since my Portland cousin was already hanging out in Little Saigon, I suggested Brodard Restaurant in Garden Grove. Brodard is the place to go in Little Saigon for Nem Nuong and Nem Nuong Cuon (Vietnamese Grilled Pork Patty and Vietnamese Grilled Pork Patty Salad Rolls). It's current location is on the back side of the Mall of Fortune, behind the 99 Cents Only store, enter from Brookhurst Street and not Westminster Avenue like its address indicates.
Monday, June 25, 2007
Empress Harbor Seafood Restaurant (Wedding Banquet) - Monterey Park
The wedding banquet was held at Empress Harbor Seafood Restaurant in Monterey Park. Right across the street from Capital Seafood Chinese Restaurant, which I attended for another wedding slightly less than a year ago. Read that post for my discussion about Monterey Park's role as the first suburban Chinatown in the country and why American-style one-entree wedding banquets just don't cut it for most Asians.
In case you missed the previous post with all the wedding stuff, here's what the orchid centerpieces ended up looking like. OK, it looks more impressive when you see them scattered amongst all the tables but my family was everywhere, I couldn't get a people-less shot. And I forgot to get a restaurant shot for ya'll too. There were about 36? 38? tables. So at 10 people per table, with some empty seats, that's about 360+ people. Supposedly the restaurant can hold up to 500 people but I don't know where they'd all fit.
The food! That's all you really care about right? 11 courses and cake. There were also egg rolls during cocktail hour to feed all the prompt attendees because you know Vietnamese-Chinese weddings never start on time!
Cold appetizer platter of roast duck, roast suckling pig, char siu, head cheese, and jellyfish.
I was too distracted listening to speeches or something on stage so missed getting the shot of the shrimp-wrapped crab claw. I actually put my piece on the platter just so it would look pretty for you. :)
Shrimp, scallop, walnut, asparagus stir-fry. Asparagus was nice and crispy, seafood was fresh.
Empress seafood soup. This was good, but many of the guests said they wished for the more popular shark fin and egg drop soup.
Braised abalone and mustard greens.
Lobster with ginger and green onions. Luckily half the table wasn't keen on eating with their hands so I got my fill. :) The waiters also brought out wet towels for us to clean our hands.
Golden fried crispy chicken with shrimp puffs. I think I tried a piece, but really, by this point I was way over-stuffed.
Steamed fish with soy sauce and scallions.
Fried rice with scallops and seafood. I revived a bit to eat the fried rice. I never pass up scallops.
Chinese cookies. Eh.
Red bean puree with lotus seeds. The bride wanted a Cantonese menu so we got this Cantonese dessert, but I and several guests longed for the Trieu Chau mashed taro and gingko nuts we got at Capital Seafood.
Overall assessment of the wedding banquet? The restaurant was nicely traditional Chinese red and gold, food was good if not spectacular, and half-eaten plates were transferred to smaller plates to make room for more entrees. The restaurant met the request for a "cocktail" appetizer of egg rolls which held off hungry people who arrived on time. I liked the decor and more intimate feel (if you can call a wedding for 360+ people intimate).
But, and this is simply a matter of personal preference, food-wise, I liked my experience at Capital Seafood better because of the shark fin soup, bird's nest made out of chow mein noodles, and the Trieu Chau mashed taro dessert.
What's a wedding without cake? Wedding cake by Maxim Bakery in Alhambra. Top two layers were lemon and pineapple, third layer was tiramisu, fourth layer was chocolate.
Umm, I have no recollection which piece I got since it just tasted like wedding cake to me.
The wedding souvenirs were jasmine and rose tea in spice jars. Lovely aren't they? The souvenirs and centerpieces were quite a hit with all the guests.
In case you missed the previous post with all the wedding stuff, here's what the orchid centerpieces ended up looking like. OK, it looks more impressive when you see them scattered amongst all the tables but my family was everywhere, I couldn't get a people-less shot. And I forgot to get a restaurant shot for ya'll too. There were about 36? 38? tables. So at 10 people per table, with some empty seats, that's about 360+ people. Supposedly the restaurant can hold up to 500 people but I don't know where they'd all fit.
The food! That's all you really care about right? 11 courses and cake. There were also egg rolls during cocktail hour to feed all the prompt attendees because you know Vietnamese-Chinese weddings never start on time!
Cold appetizer platter of roast duck, roast suckling pig, char siu, head cheese, and jellyfish.
I was too distracted listening to speeches or something on stage so missed getting the shot of the shrimp-wrapped crab claw. I actually put my piece on the platter just so it would look pretty for you. :)
Shrimp, scallop, walnut, asparagus stir-fry. Asparagus was nice and crispy, seafood was fresh.
Empress seafood soup. This was good, but many of the guests said they wished for the more popular shark fin and egg drop soup.
Braised abalone and mustard greens.
Lobster with ginger and green onions. Luckily half the table wasn't keen on eating with their hands so I got my fill. :) The waiters also brought out wet towels for us to clean our hands.
Golden fried crispy chicken with shrimp puffs. I think I tried a piece, but really, by this point I was way over-stuffed.
Steamed fish with soy sauce and scallions.
Fried rice with scallops and seafood. I revived a bit to eat the fried rice. I never pass up scallops.
Chinese cookies. Eh.
Red bean puree with lotus seeds. The bride wanted a Cantonese menu so we got this Cantonese dessert, but I and several guests longed for the Trieu Chau mashed taro and gingko nuts we got at Capital Seafood.
Overall assessment of the wedding banquet? The restaurant was nicely traditional Chinese red and gold, food was good if not spectacular, and half-eaten plates were transferred to smaller plates to make room for more entrees. The restaurant met the request for a "cocktail" appetizer of egg rolls which held off hungry people who arrived on time. I liked the decor and more intimate feel (if you can call a wedding for 360+ people intimate).
But, and this is simply a matter of personal preference, food-wise, I liked my experience at Capital Seafood better because of the shark fin soup, bird's nest made out of chow mein noodles, and the Trieu Chau mashed taro dessert.
What's a wedding without cake? Wedding cake by Maxim Bakery in Alhambra. Top two layers were lemon and pineapple, third layer was tiramisu, fourth layer was chocolate.
Umm, I have no recollection which piece I got since it just tasted like wedding cake to me.
The wedding souvenirs were jasmine and rose tea in spice jars. Lovely aren't they? The souvenirs and centerpieces were quite a hit with all the guests.
On Monterey, between Bay and Main Streets
Alhambra, CA 91801
Sundays 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
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