Posts Tagged ‘taiwanese’

Jay Chou World Tour in LA – The pictures

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

I had an awesome time at the Jay Chou concert. It could have been better though:

1. The concert felt like it was a marketing opportunity for Nan Quan Mama.
2. Jay changed outfits too many times – he’d sing a song, change, sing a song, change … There was a lot of waiting for him to come out again.
3. They kept pretending the concert was over when it really wasn’t.
4. It started half an hour late.
5. Merchandise was poor quality, unavailable (you had to place an order) and they didn’t even have his CD.

I still had tons of fun! I think Jay sounds better in person because you can actually hear him clearly. He didn’t speak a word of English. Not even a hello or a merry christmas. I guess he’s just too cool for that.

I sat at the balcony all the way to the side so these were the best I could do with pictures:

Jay Chou Concert

Jay Chou Concert

Jay Chou Concert

Jay Chou Concert

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Little Shanghai Restaurant – Straight from Shanghai!

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

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The chef is actually from Shanghai – you can’t get anymore authentic than that. They have a lot of Shanghainese dishes (cold dishes, dumplings, etc.) that you can’t find at just any Shanghainese restaurant. Their Shanghai dumplings were good, of course, but my favorite was their panfriend dumplings (aka shengjianbao). Unlike most restaurants, they actually use Shanghai dumplings and panfry it to a crisp.JONASAPPROVED!

-jonas
Little Shanghai Restaurant
visited on 12/4/07

Ay-Chung Noodles – My favorite Taiwanese Oyster Pancake

Monday, November 19th, 2007

When I got back home from Taiwan in the summer of 2004, there was one thing that I missed so much that it actually haunted my mind: oyster pancake (蚵仔煎 “oh wa jian”). It’s one of those love it or hate it type of food – the flavor is great but the texture is bizarre, and by bizarre I mean mushy.

I searched all over San Francisco for it. It was already hard enough finding a Taiwanese restaurant in SF, so finding the oyster pancake was even harder.

Alas, I found several restaurants that had it but it just wasn’t the same. It was either too hard or too mushy or too saucy or didn’t have enough sauce. Three years later, this weekend, I decided to drive all the way to Milpitas Square to try Ay-Chung’s oyster pancake. I found it through Yelp, and may I say, it’s the best I’ve had so far in the Bay Area.

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Guppy Teahouse – Small fish, BIG dish

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

Taken from dictionary.com:

gup·py (gŭp’ē) Pronunciation Key
n. pl. gup·pies
A small, brightly colored live-bearing freshwater fish (Poecilia reticulata or Lebistes reticulatus), native to northern South America and adjacent islands of the West Indies and popular in home aquariums.

A bit pricy but the food is good, and at 12am in the middle of the night, you can’t be too picky. The city of Cerritos is lucky to have a place like Guppy Teahouse. What’s really fun about this restaurant is their shaved ice. They say a size large can feed four people, but I don’t think four people can even finish a size small! The image above is of a small, and no, we did not finsih it. :(

JONASAPPROVED!

-jonas
Guppy Teahouse
visited on 10/5/07
thanks susan for taking us here!

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shaved ice with mango and banana

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popcorn chicken with sweet and sour sauce

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beef noodle soup

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soft tofu soup

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guppy teahouse at cerritos, ca