East Ocean Seafood Restaurant (東海) - Emeryville

東海海鮮酒家是少數在灣區擁有無敵大海景的中式茶樓
這家茶樓可以讓客人一邊喝茶一邊欣賞三藩市及灣區大橋的景色
可惜他們的點心水準參差不齊




排骨是當天最好吃的點心
鳳爪也不錯
鮮竹卷還可以






這碟海螺只有胡椒味
應該不是太新鮮

我也不太喜歡經油炒過的齋鵝



椒鹽玉子豆腐 (其實係有鹽冇椒)
炸得有D油膩
因為切得細舊
所以食唔到D滑溜感覺

我都係鍾意順峰個鮑汁玉子豆腐多D


擂沙湯丸個樣唔係好得
一食之下果然不出我所料...


牛肉腸粉好似整得好靚
不過我當時冇食到

總括:他們做的傳統點心比較好吃

Address: 3199 Powell Street, Emeryville, CA
Tel: (510) 655-3388
Website: www.hongkongeastocean.com

BB糖

新鮮人嘅尋寶post令我想起小時候我最愛嘅BB糖
(唔知係咪其他人都叫呢個做"BB糖")
好多時我同媽咪經過士多佢都買俾我
每次我都吹完先食
仲要吹到有咁大聲得咁大聲

上次返香港都有買呀
真係見到都開心:)

Will this be my oasis?

Last week, someone brought this new budget airlines to my attention and informed me that the cheapest one-way ticket from Hong Kong to London is only HKD1000. Since Oasis Airlines will offer services from Hong Kong to Oakland(good!) later, someone suggested that I can fly Oasis to Hong Kong and have dim sum with my friends. Hm...I'm starting to daydream now. :p

Lego World

買了這盒Lego大概有一個月的時間
因為怕砌好後沒有地方放
所以把它閒置了

上星期五心血來潮
下班回家便立即打開這盒Lego

興奮地把所有小塊倒出
然後依著指示
毫無系統地尋找所需的配件
最怕包裝時出了問題
有配件缺掉

花了大約一個多小時才完成這項"工程"
擔心的事並沒有發生
最後也找到了安置這座"建築物"的地方

第二天意猶未盡
還下載了Lego Digital Desiger的軟件
繼續陶醉在Lego世界裡

new M&M flavor plus fun

I ran into the M&M's website while researching for school work and found that M&M's has the new dark chocolate candies (look for the purple package). Then, I got hooked by the M&M's dark movie game. The mission is to find 50 dark movies hidden in the picture. I can only get 20 out of 50 movies so far (with a lot of help from imdb.com). :(

Tickle Me Elmo's Tenth Anniversary

Do you remember Tickle Me Elmo was the hottest toy 10 years ago? Since then, most of the stuffed toys have the "press me to ________" feature. Now, Fisher-Price had released the new T.M.X. Elmo which will laugh and do the belly-clutching and floor-thumping when you tickle it. The retail price is $39.99 (Wal-Mart and Target might sell it for $34.99 in store). The price is not bad and it seems like the demand for this new Elmo is as high as it was 10 years ago.

Click here to read the news and see the T.M.X. Elmo in action

The Getty Villa Malibu

At first, visiting the Getty Villa museum wasn't part of my plan for this L.A. trip because the admission tickets were sold out a month ago. For some reasons, I checked the Getty website a day before we left for L.A. and I was thrilled to find available tickets for the Labor Day weekend.

The main building of Getty Villa recreates the Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum, Italy. Do you remember the Roman town buried by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in ancient time?


The Getty staff provided material for visitors to make their own Greek headdress. The headdress in the picture is created by my brother and mom.









Visiting the Getty museums (Getty Center and Getty Villa) is always a pleasant experience. I like tranquil environment, architecture, and gardens. In addition, the Getty staff are very friendly. I hope next time I can spend a whole day in both Getty museums so I can see all the art pieces and antiquities.





General Info: admission is free but we will need to reserve the ticket in advance. Parking is only $8.
Hours: Thur - Mon 10am - 5pm
For more info visit Getty visitor page

我來聽你的演唱會

將於今年推出新國語碟的學友，現正密鑼緊鼓錄歌，明年初他會開始世界巡迴演唱，先由美加開始，然後到東南亞及內地，到暑假才班師返港，由於紅館檔期搶手，學友笑言屆時能唱幾場唱幾場，場次少也無所謂。

Source: http://www.epochtimes.com/b5/6/9/17/n1457014.htm

暑假開演唱會
熱死花啦~~

New Concept Restaurant (順峰) - LA Area

A picture is saving me from typing worth a thousand words

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

The Good: 鮑汁玉子豆腐 (Fried egg white with abalone sauce)
This is my first time trying 玉子豆腐. At first my mom doesn't want me to order it because she had had it once in Hong Kong and it was horrible. It turns out New Concept did a good job on making this dim sum. The egg white is as soft as tofu, although I doubt the sauce is really made with abalone.

The Bad: 瑤柱腐皮白粥 (Porridge with dried scallop and tofu skin)
They must had cooked the porridge without dried scallop and tofu skin because the flavor of the porridge is very plain.

The Ugly: 白粥 (Porridge)
Not only do the porridge is lack of flavoring; the rices used to cook the porridge are grinded into smaller particles (so that they can save on cooking time, gas, and labor).

I think the other dim sums are okay, but my aunt thinks that they are so-so.

Address: 700 S. Atlantic Blvd. Monterey Park, CA
Tel#: (626)282-6800

值得等

重臨L.A.嘅鼎泰豐
同上次一樣:
- 好多人等位
- 原盅雞湯超正
- 小籠包皮薄餡靚
- 炒四季豆好味
- 排骨麵D麵唔多掂
- 有菜肉餡嘅嘢都唔好食

我覺得今次D蟹粉小籠包仲正過小籠包

點解鼎泰豐唔喺Bay Area開分店呢?

(我哋等位等到好肚餓, 一見到D嘢食就起筷, 所以忘記咗影相)

Address: 1108 s. Baldwin Ave. Arcadia, CA 91007
Tel#: (626)574-7068
Website: www.dintaifungusa.com

蚊形奧斯卡頒獎典禮

地點: 荷里活環球影城









裡面嘅一間禮品店

首先細佬同媽咪互頒最佳媽咪獎同最佳仔仔獎


然後細佬頒咗個獎最佳家姐獎俾我
好開心~

最後呢個獎係俾我D好姐妹嘅


典禮幕後花絮

個pose好有影帝feeling呢

Death of a President

After sending out the "9/11 In Plane Site" video link in email, someone replied and think that I will be interested with this movie which depicts the assassination of Bush. It seems like the producer of this movie used the similar technics as in Forrest Gump (putting an actor in the original footage).

Do I really want to see him die like that? I guess not. I would want to see him and Dick Chenney go to war crimes trials more and I want them to tell us what they know about 911 that we don't know.

2pac

Didn't realize Tupac had left us for 10 years until I read the news today. Ten years ago, I had been in the States for about a year. Without much pocket money but a lot of free time on my hand, I often listened to Hip-Hop radio station for pastime. 2pac's songs always caught my ears when they are played on the radio. The first 2pac album I got is "All Eyez on Me". It is a double CD album with 13-14 tracks on each side. Seriously, none of the tracks have repeated melody or arrangment. I was really impressed with his music talent. Shortly afterward, 2pac released another album "the don killuminati: the 7 day theory" under the name - Makaveli. (I didn't know Makaveli = 2pac until my classmate told me about it) That album seems to give a different favor than the previous one and some of the tracks are filled with anger. And then the bullets claimed his life and he left behind hundreds of unreleased songs. What a true song writer!

Since the death of Tupac, followed by the death of Notorious B.I.G., I didn't listen to rap music as much as I used. Then, the inactivity of the Fugees and my change of heart added to the reasons why I left the Hip-Hop genre all together.

I'm listening to 2pac's album "All Eyez on Me" as I'm writing this entry. I think I had left his CDs untouch for over 8 years.

去完又去

嚟L.A.兩轉已經幫襯咗為食屋四五次
最鍾意係去嗰度食晚餐
因為Bay Area好少港式西餐廳有嗰種 dining feel

老火湯 - 赤小豆煲粉葛鯪魚湯
我哋每人要咗一盅
為食屋D老火湯次次都咁正


細佬叫咗個是日晚餐 - 有牛柳有蝦有薯蓉


香港仔炒麵 - 媽咪嘅最愛
佢嘅另一最愛係香草燒羊架


菇炆米 - 我嘅主菜
(我見佢哋個個都叫肉, 所以我打算黐佢哋嗰D..hehe)
雖然菇味不足 (當然啦, 金菇同蘑菇係用嚟索味架嘛)
但係D米粉好入味
阿姨話D米粉應該用咗高湯嚟炆


法式香草燒鴨胸 - 阿姨話唔鍾意佢D汁


跟特餐嘅甜品一D都唔馬虎, 不過我哋飽到食唔落
老細幫我哋包個甜品時都裝飾一番
真係誠意十足

However, the iced milk tea I got from 為食屋 the next day is not as great as last time. I guess different person makes different milk tea, but I still give it an 8.

Address: 402-404 E. Valley Blvd., San Gabriel, CA
Tel#: (626)280-3232
Website: www.yumekitchen.com

September 11th Revisited

This video focused on the witnesses accounts on what happened inside WTC and also experts' comment on why they think the WTC were brought down by controlled demolishion.

Rethink about 9/11

After watching "9/11 In Plane Site" last month, I started to have doubts on what we had been told about 9/11 by the government. Did the Boeing 757 really hit the Pentagon? Were the collapses of WTC 1, 2, and 7 caused by explosive? Was Al-Qaida really behind the attack?

In this documentary, Dave VonKleist presented video and photographic evidences found on DVDs produced by the major news network and pictures from magazines.



Update to 9/11 In Plane Site

I can't say for sure that 9/11 was an insider job, but I had stepped back from the original conception that Osama Bin Laden/Al-Qaida are responsible for the attack and placed the Bush Administration in the suspect list.

If the Bush Administration really masterminded the 9/11 attack, this is even eviler than any terrorists ever existed. Sacrifice the lives of thousands and then use them as an excuse to bring wars to the other countries and to restrict our freedom.

維他新口味

Mini人話維他奶出咗紅豆荳奶
佢哋話"飲落好有紅豆冰feel"
唔知美國幾時有呢?

熱烈期待中~

香港齋滷味 - LA Area

好耐冇食過齋啦, 我哋一到香港齋滷味, 媽咪同阿姨就狂掃D外賣
我哋買咗齋滷味拼盤, 扎蹄, 齋鵝, 齋雞, 滷雞腳, 滷雞脾同豬耳
D齋滷味太多汁同埋D汁嘅味道太濃
滷雞腳,滷雞脾同豬耳對某D人嚟講可能有D淡
不過我個人鍾意淡淡地
扎蹄,齋鵝同齋雞 - 正! (因為我勁鍾意腐皮:p)

Address: 311 E. Valley Blvd. #103, San Gabriel, CA
Tel: (626)572-3000
Hours: Close on Sunday and Monday

I Love Seafood

上次去 Quality Seafood 冇海膽供應, 今次再去終於令細佬如願已償啦! 原來活海膽係好鮮甜㗎~~Yummy~~



呢隻新鮮游水Maine龍蝦特價$15一隻
我哋order咗每人一隻
獨佔一隻龍蝦嘅感覺好爽!



We had also ordered Clams Quahogs, Green Mussels, Winkles Eastern, and Eastern Conch (響螺). I'm not too impress with the Green Mussels and Eastern Winkles (蛾螺). I think the Winkles are too small. The shell of Clam Quahogs is really heavy and I think the clam is a bit overcooked. The conch is still my favorite shellfish^^



Address: 130 South International Boardwalk, Redondo Beach, CA
Tel#: (310)372-6408
Website: www.qualityseafood.net

Down South

I had just spent the Labor Day weekend in L.A. with my mom, brother, and aunt.

洛杉磯美食團行程
Day 1: Redondo Beach (seafood~~~); order to go from Hong Kong Deli (香港齋滷味); dinner at Yume Kitchen (為食屋)

Day 2: Universal Studio Hollywood; dinner at Din Tai Fung (鼎泰豐)

Day 3: Dim Sum at New Concept Restaurant (順峰); iced milk tea to go from Yume Kitchen (為食屋); Getty Villa

I feel very tired after the trip, but the fun and good food are very rewarding.