A day with two of my siblings.

Today, I went to Golden Palace and ate dim sum with my brother and sister. But, it was busy today and we had to wait a bit. When I walked in I noticed that we saw some relatives and we went to say hi. Afterward, we waited about 10 minutes until we actually had a table. We got chrysanthemum tea. We ordered the usual. I do not know the English names of what we got though. Since it was busy today, the serves were not attentive. We had to ask for water when we usually would get that with the tea. Also, the food seemed drier or

Chicken paws

older than usual. I think that is strange
because I would expect food to be more fresh and for them to run out. Instead, there seemed to be a lot of dishes available. Also, the shrimp noodle didnt have enough sauce as usual and we had to ask for it since the carts did not have any. Afterwards, my brother stopped by a tennis shop to try out some tennis racquets. Then, we headed over to the ice skating place called Iceland. Its actually in a hard to find spot, but it turned out there was a lot of people there. The ice skating rink was definitely over skated. I am not sure how often they cleaned the rink, but it was obvious that many people have skate on it. But, I was even more

 surprised about the price to just ice skate. It was $15 for the three of us, so $5 dollars each. That was the cheapest I ever paid for ice skating. There was a lot of people there, but not everyone skated. There were many people who did not skate. Some were standing around and just slowly moving around. I thought that I would fall a couple of times since I have not skated in years. I almost did a couple of times, but I did not. It was pretty fun, yet we only ended

up skating for about an hour and a half. I dropped my sister off at Arden mall and my brother went to Barnes & Nobles and read for a while. I helped my mom out for an hour and picked up my brother, so we could watch A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas in 3D. I actually really like the 3D animation in this movie. I think that 3D movies are improving. In the beginning of the film there was a lot of weed shown and Kumar smoked out of it. And, since the film was in 3D, many of the smoking scenes were popping out and blown to the audience. I really didnt like that part and I never did like smoke of any sort being blown to me. There was also ecstasy and cocaine. I dont like how the film referred to the experience of smoking and getting high as a fun experience. There was too much of it and it looked like something that was fun to do. I really dont like that. I am glad that the film is rated R because the film really shouldnt be seen by young children because I do not want them to look at tobacco and receive positive about of it. In the film, weed and drugs provided the characters with problems, but in the end that is what brought them together and gave them a good time. In fact, in the end of the film, there is a scene with Harold and Kumar and they are sharing a weed. Later, on me and my siblings decided to go to Target. At Target, we spent a long time at the board game section. Me and my siblings really do enjoy playing board games with one another. Target had a much more interesting game board collection that the last time I checked. I tried looking for checkers, but there was only checkers with chess. But, we already had chess. The Mario Kart chess set. I havent played it yet, but I am excited too! When we left Target we ended up buying the game bezzerwizzer. It looks fun! We havent played it yet, but it looks promising!

First, Ali Baba's. Later, Pho Bac Hoa Viet!

Hamburger

I finished my last final of the quarter today. But, before that happened I decided to get some energy by eating a hamburger. I got a hamburger at Ali Baba's. It was good. Most of the time I like their hamburgers, except for this one time. While I eat it the melt, parts of the hamburger also drip or fall. I kind of like that eating experience. I just like eating hamburgers. Its one type of food that keeps me full for a couple of hours and I am pretty satisfied with my portions.

Pho Ga (Chicken)

When it came time for dinner I just didnt want to cook anything. I really wanted to eat something warm, so I had pho! Before I ordered I ask the difference between the sizes that they had for pho and they said that they gave more meat and noodles. I been to Pho Bac Hoa Viet before and it seems that no matter what size I order I am never please with the amount of noodles I have. Actually I think its every pho place that I go to. I dont care about the size of the bowl. I care that they give me more of what I want, which is more noodles and less soup. When I finished eating there was almost to no more noodle except for those itty bitty ones that are barely even noticable and some green onion. But, also the bowl was still more than halfway full of the soup. I barely drank it because all I wanted from it was its warmness and the noodle and chicken. Im curious to try the new pho place that will open in Davis. Maybe they will be the place that will be generous in noodles?

My experience at Cafe Italia

Pink Lemonade

I been wanting Italian food for a while. I have not had it in a few months besides pizza. I just came back from Cafe Italia and I am so full. That had to be my most expensive meal this whole quarter. But, it was also the meal that both an appetizers and dessert was ordered along with the main dish. I was so close to ordering a wine or some other alcoholic drink tonight. But, I stopped myself. So, I guess after finals I will have alcohol. Oh, and I might actually be able to go to my first bar during the break? That would be exciting because I

Mozzarella sticks with ranch and marina sauce

 had not ordered alcoholic drinks before. So, instead of a wine I got myself a pink lemonade. It was much more sour than I expected. But, I still found myself to finish one glass of pink lemonade. I was brought another cup of pink lemonade, but I could barely handle it. I wonder. I think that I drank a lot in the beginning because I was hungry and just wanted something in my system until the food came. We ordered mozzarella sticks for appetizers. It was very tasty and light. I kind of wish they gave us more in the order since I was in the mood for them. When I though of ordering mozzarella sticks all I could think about was how delicious it would be to have it with the marina

Chicken Fettuccine

Garlic bread (missing two pieces ;D)

sauce. When we got the mozzarella sticks I also tried the sticks with ranch and I love it with ranch. The sticks tasted much better than the marina sauce. The size of the mozzarella sticks actually reminded of how big sausages are. Now, it reminds me of how much I love eating sausages. Another reminder that it provides me is how much I want to try the sausage in Austria. While we waited for our dishes to arrive, we started drawing on the tables. Yes, that is one of the reasons why I enjoy dining at Cafe Italia and what makes it different. Its decorated very beautifully inside. About everywhere I turned there was a poster or a sign. The only one I really remember is the one with Marilyn Monroe. Its kind of dark in there too. But, not as dark as it was at Sophias. There was a light for each table. I like that there was light. But, I dont like it when light is so close to you that you could reach it. Something just doesnt seem so right about that. When our orders arrived it also came with the garlic bread. I though that they were only going to give us one piece of garlic bread each. But actually we ended up
getting 4 pieces of garlic bread. I love garlic

Ka-Boom!

bread even though I dont always like garlic. I like my housemate because she is one of the few people who actually remember what I like or dont like. For others, I have been with them for a while or I mentioned to them before of what I dislike or like, yet they tend to forget. The garlic bread at Cafe Italia was delicious. Ah. I dont know if it was the best one I ever had, but definitely delicious and something I would want again. I think the best garlic bread that I had so far is the one from Village Pizza&Grill. That place offered me a garlic bread that definitely exceeded my expectations. Every bite was just melt in my mouth and the pizza was delicious as expected. My housemate ordered the ka-boom pasta and she wanted it to be extra spicy. And, I ordered the chicken fettuccine. When we got our orders, my housemates ka-boom didnt look spicy at all, so she asked for spicy sauce. She was able to get a Tabasco sauce and some chili pepper. My order was also suppose to be spicy, but I dont think it was spicy. I saw

Tiramisu and whipped ream. oranges are already devoured

the chili pepper in my pasta, but it didnt really made me think that the dish was spicy. Is it me or some peoples definition of spicy are not the same? What I expect from spicy food is that when you eat it you automatically think that its spicy with no doubt in your mind. It becomes part of your eating experience when you can feel the taste in your mouth. After eating about halfway in my chicken fettuccine pasta, I realized that I was getting full. But, I wanted to know how much more I can eat. I suddenly realized that I couldnt eat anymore and that dessert was coming and the dessert is tiramisu. Tiramisu is one of my most favorite desserts ever. I started loving it when I first tried it in high school. I had a few bites of tiramisu, but I really couldnt handle more. I let my housemate finish it. Overall, I think that the meal we had was good and filling. It made me very sleepy after I ate it.