How I ended up at Jang Su Jang...

Today I hurried out of work, forced my mom to come home early and rushed over to the nearest place for one of my summer time cravings~~~Korean Cold Noodle called "mool naeng myun" at Korean Noodle~~~(a great hole-in-the-wall kinda restaurants)

Korean Noodle
13347 South St
Cerritos, CA 90703

(562) 865-4771

To my shock and dismay, when I got there...the restaurant was boarded up and CLOSED!!

I found out that it had caught on fire mid-last week~~~right when my craving for this delicious treat started! >.<


New Peking Restaurant
19131 Bloomfield Ave
Cerritos, CA 90703

(562)865-8139

Desperate to find a restaurant and not willing to go to church on an empty stomach...we went to another Korean Restaurant in the same plaza (Cerritos is never short of Korean eateries)




I have eaten at Jang Su Jang a couple of times before and the one thing that I really like from this place was their Short Rib Soup (but it was way too hot for this and I just wanted something quick and simple) I've tried their cold noodle before and didn't like it very much...


Some Small dishes~~~



So I ordered Bi Bim Pap...=_=::



Jang Su Jang
19107 Bloomfield Avenue
Cerritos, CA 90703

(562) 924-5367


Overall experience: -10
Rating: 4 (mainly cuz it didn't satisfy my "noodle" craving)

Shabu-shabu!

My mom's colleague and family was so sweet to invite my mom and me to their house at Lake Forest for dinner last Wednesday night.
To my surprise, we had "shabu-shabu"~~~it's usually a winter food.

Shabu-shabu (Japanese: しゃぶしゃぶ), also spelled syabu-syabu, is a Japanese variant of hot pot. The dish is related to sukiyaki in style, where both use thinly sliced meat and vegetables, and usually served with dipping sauces. However, it is starkly different in taste; shabu-shabu is more savory and less sweet than sukiyaki. It is considered a winter dish but is eaten year-round.

It was the first time the family tried to make it, it was kind of different from the way that my family does it but all in all it tasted great! ^_^::
The sauce that was used was a mixture of a sesame oil, a nutty paste, and the green one was probably cilantro paste....not too sure. Really flavorful!


They had a lot of lamb meat (actually plate after plate after plate of it)~~~loved it!


But the best part of the meal was when they put in the hand made noodles...

stretching...


more stretching...


then all together...in the pot it goes ^^


Even though I was so full and heading towards major food coma, I had to have a bowl of the noodles (cuz I helped too~~~only the last step of stretching it out and putting it into the pot ^_^)~~~By this time the soup/broth was flavored with all the ingredients (nappa, mushrooms, spinach, lamb, etc.) it was very flavorful!

Foodsick

Can this be my first "foodsick" experience?!!

I was in such a mad rush during lunchtime that i rummaged across some hummus in the fridge...so I opened a bag of chips and started to dig in

I noticed that there were these white spots here and there....and so my response was....oh~~~let's dig into that stuff and eat it! and so i started scooping off the white specks from the hummus ::here:: and ::there::
NOTE: I was in a rush so I was standing and walking back and forth from the hummus on the table to the fridge.

By the time I got settled down~~~I noticed a blotch of green furry stuff....o.O



I had been digging and eating at all the molded parts of the hummus...
but it still tasted good....I was tempted to eat another bite of the hummus **cuz I love that stuff** and my intuition told me that if I continue on like this I would end up dead at work =_=:: so I tossed it into the trash =(

My poor hummus~~~



Rating: 3 (cuz it actually tasted fine)

Absentee Note

So I have left my blog unattended for a while since my last post~~~no access to the internet....I've been on the road...living out of a suitcase ^_^::
This past week I attended the West Coast College Training at Sacramento! Here are just a sample of among 200 photos....ENJOY!

What is everyone lining up for at 7:00 in the morning?!


~~~FOOD, OF COURSE!



Look at all those cookies!! There was oatmeal raisin, sugar cookie, chocolate chip, peanut butter, white chocolate Macadamean nuts (my favorite was the white chocolate macadamean one)


All gone! ^_^ Sugar High...


I loved these strawberries that they bought for us when we went to the Church in Sacramento to eat dinner~~~


I was so full from dinner that I could only try one of them...kinda regret getting so much food on my dinner plate >.< (decisions....decisions....)


This is what my serving one chose: she likes white chocolate and coconuts~~~


I like a nuttier combination with my chocolate~~~


Yummy~~~

Ashoka the Great

Right in the heart of so cal is this street called "Little India"

Where are we going today?



They play Indian music in the restaurant~~~the lunch is worth it because it's buffet style (I recalled it being about $7 per person).
I went one time for the dinner~~~not so worth it~~~didn't know what to order and ended up spending almost twice as much!

We went there last Sunday and filled our tummy with some goodies!
It's buffet style~~~so my tummy was quite satisfied~~~unlike right now *it's growling like crazy* especially when posting pictures >.<"


Plate#1
Plate #2

They have about 8 or so different curries to choose from and among them I like the lamb curry and spinach curry the best!
You should get the cucumber yogurt like I did with the curries~~~it adds flavor to it and also makes it less spicy. I like it cuz it goes GREAT with the Nan.

Plate #3

~~~what better way to finish up the meal than their rice pudding! I like how it has nuts inside it~I'm kinda picky with the raisins tho. But I highly recommend you save some tiny bit of room for this dessert. (They have other kinds of desserts too, but in my personal opinion, this rice pudding is my favorite.)

This is one of my favorite places to go when I've starved myself for several hearty meals...this food really brightens my day, makes me and my tummy happy ^^


Rating: 7

Ashoka the Great Cuisine of India
18614 S. Pioneer Blvd.

Artesia, CA 90701

(562) 809-4229

4th of July

It's funny how originally Independence Day was the day in which our nation, the United States of America, adopted the "Declaration of Independence" to declare its independence from Great Britain. Today Great Britain is our ally in the war against terrorism...in the future how much more will our world evolve?? who will be our allies then?? Who will our enemy be against?? How will the "furture enemy" attack??

How the whole world is changing is crazy: who would have thought that China could grow into a super power? Who would have foreseen terrorism?? It has changed the old ways of life....so many freedoms have been stripped from our lives because "precautions" have been set up to make our nation safe from terrorism.

It makes the whole origin of the 4th of July seem like the "good ole' days"...but for me....^__^

I will still celebrate it because it happens to be my grandmother's birthday!!!

happy Birthday~~~to you!!

Congrats!

I went to my cousin's graduation this past Saturday! She has recently graduated from a Bible College in Southern California. Wishing her and all the other graduates the best~~~~

Here's the pictures of all the graduates from the FTTA~~~
I guess everyone was blocking my view~~~So~~~^_^:: (no pictures)




Actually I did manage to get a quick shot before all the paparazzi decided to show up~

Congratulations~~ Summer 2007 Graduates!

We later had a little dessert party at my house the night of the graduation. There is tons of cake left over but it was too ugly to show~~~
So instead I'll show you what I had for lunch at my company picnic.

mmMMmm~~! Just to show you what kind of a eater I am~~~I ate two of these+++.

Ratatouille

Ratatouille (rat-a-too-ee)

French ratatouille may be served as a meal on its own (accompanied by rice, potatoes, or simply French bread), or as a side dish. Tomatoes are a key ingredient, with garlic, onions, zuchhini (courgettes), eggplant (aubergine), bell peppers (capsicum), some herbes de Provence, and sometimes basil. All the ingredients are sauteed in olive oil.

The name of the dish appears to derive from the French touiller, "to stir", although the root of the first element "rata" is slang from the French Army meaning "chunky stew".

I think I'm in love with French cuisine~~~I want to hop on the next plane to Paris just to have dinner. . .



O.K.~~~a bit overexcited but this movie is a MUST see because the characters are so cute, the scenes are really funny, and it's located in Paris, but MOST of all "it's all about food"~~~~what else can you do but fall in LOVE!

At times I almost forgot that I was watching an American film or that the characters in it were talking in English. This movie had a really nice vibe to it that I really liked and enjoyed~~~like you were watching some sentimental classic or something---very "Frenchy"...

Rating: 10+