Entries from January 2006

January 19, 2006

chocococo loco

Because I have nothing to write today:

I {heart} this blog.
And I love chocolate and coconut!! Imagine, chocolate & macapuno (a young coconut). What a couple!!! Hershey’s came out with Mauna Loa Extra Creamy Milk with Toasted Coconut & Macadamia Nuggets and they are the best thing to come out of Hersheys, EVER!!

Sadness [...]

January 17, 2006

japanese food takes a long time to prep no wonder why its $$$$!!

my mom and i went shopping at mitsuwa yesterday. it’s wintertime so what i was happiest the most about seeing on the shelves were the boxes of meltykiss, ahem, meltyblend. this year, aside from the standard royal cacao, they have in stock royal almond!

inside the box reads, “gently melts in your mouth like [...]

January 14, 2006

random cake pic

everyone likes cake.

tres rosas circa 1987.

January 7, 2006

99 ranch

besides the honey balls, my favorite thing to get here is the produce. where else can you get a huge pack of portobello mushrooms for $2.71?
sweet pink pomelos are also in season!

my favorite books at the moment:

Tip #2 – ‘Baby chickens’ are just as tender and favorful as cornish game hens but have more [...]

January 6, 2006

pretty drinks

coconut mocha @ hash house a go go

hot apple cider (angedible) & pomegranate lemonade (also angedible)

January 6, 2006

article in gastronomica

Browsing the magazine racks at Cody’s in Berkeley, I found this magazine. One of the articles in the issue that I was perusing through was about an art exhibit constructed by chocolate and sugar sculptures with the intent of being deconstructed with hammers placed strategically around the room by museum goers. Little did I [...]

January 6, 2006

never too much of a good thing.

Heaven @ the Bellagio buffet. The surrounding air of the creme brulee trays smelled like Black Friday at Wal-Mart. Someone seriously almost got hurt by a ramekin that rolled off the tray and onto the ground as hands furiously snatched the cups faster than the burnt sugar could have a chance to harden [...]

January 6, 2006

inaugural food poem

My cousins told me about this bougie Filipino restaurant in NYC called Cendrilion. I didn’t have a chance to check it out the first time I went to NY and instead, had pizza at Rinaldi’s in DUMBO (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass) and noodles at a Korean liquor store/sushi/deli in Manhattan. What [...]