Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Dim Sum

I love dimsum, but I never had the opportunity to have really good dimsum. So today, on our way back from Reno, we stopped over at Dublin to this Koi Garden, there is another one in Daly City. Oh boy, to eat at that branch, you'll have to wait for an average of 2 hours before you're able to be seated, by the time you get to sit down, everything will be too yummy to decline. But seriously, Koi Garden's dimsum is really awesome!


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I didn't take enough photos but the food was very good, my favourite is the radish cake. We had our usual, Phoenix claw, siumai, spinach dumplings, radish cake, noodle, porridge and salty egg custard pao. The next time I want to eat DimSum, I'll definitely come to this branch! Yummy!! :)

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Winter Wonderland

Finally, after working really hard for the past 4 months, it's time to kick back and have a little break before going back to work. Where should we go? Reno! To gambling? Nah, to SKI of course! The weather turned really cold over the weekend and it was snowing on the way up, so we had to rent a 4-Wheel drive, if not putting on and taking off the chain will be a real pain in this cold weather.


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See, it started snowing on the drive up.
Most cars had to stop on the road side to put on the snow chains.

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YC said it feels like we're in Narnia.

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On the way up to North Star ski resort.

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On the lift, prepared to be dropped off and down the slope we go!

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After a hard day of battling with the snow, it's time to have some food. Into Reno city we went.

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Seafood buffet. Yummy? It was but this was all I could stomach that night.

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The next day, we went to Mount Rose and attempted the slope again, the weather was so beautiful. :)


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Look at the snow covered mountains.

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We had to leave at 7am the next day because there was a snow storm coming up and we didn't want to get stuck in the traffic and it started raining halfway through...


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It's so beautiful. :)
I had a really great time, thanks to AP and YC!!

Brrrr.....

The weather is getting very cold. Thus, my staple diet - vegetable hot pepper soup noodle with home made kimchi.

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Santa Cruz

The weather was really beautiful so we had to take a stroll along the beach after breakfast.

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The tide was coming in but we were looking for the anemones in the pool tides.

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Finally we found some! :)

Breakfast at Santa Cruz

We drove almost 1.5 hours to Santa Cruz for breakfast. Was it worth it? It was pretty good. Cafe Brasil is a very small restaurant famous for its breakfast. Everything here is really fresh and superb. As usual, we ordered the Cafe Brasil pancake, Egg Benedict and Omelette. Somebody asked if there was a worm in my tummy, I think so, and it's name is Bo.Pit - Bottomless Pit.

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The breakfast was really good, but it's crazy to drive so far just to have breakfast but if you're around the neighborhood, you should definitely try it.