D's Belated Birthday Crawl: Stop #7 - Pamela's Kitchen Table

Our last stop would be lunch. Us gals gotta eat, right?

We were actually going to leave Little Italy and play it by ear for lunch...

Avian Sandwich

Am trying to clean up old posts before they go by the wayside...

This particular day, I was out and about, I thought I would try the sandwich shop next to Thuan Phat...

Summer Road Trip 2018 Day 1 - Santa Monica Pier

We hadn't been to Santa Monica in a couple of years...

(view of the pier from afar, while on Ocean Ave)

TC was happy to see "action" because for our last visit, it was waaaay early in the morning, however...

Summer Road Trip 2018 - Starting off at Cream Pan, THH, a vintage Taco Bell & a stop at Neat Coffee

We can never have a road trip up north without stopping here...

It's pretty much required...

The new House Roots Coffee + a quick stop at THH before heading home

In another strip mall not too far from Ninong's Pastries...

is the new location for House Roots Coffee...

Last few road stops + Tustin's THH & Cream Pan + Spring Break Road Trip 2017 post round up

I drove my leg of the trip...

and we stopped at Kettleman City,

D's Bday Crawl - Return to Mae Ting's, LAX-C, LA's Chinatown + Dinner on Convoy St. @ Hui An Garden

Funny..this post is being written on 10/22 but backdated to 8/26...

I'm trying to finish D's birthday crawl posts and this one...

D's Birthday Crawl - The Trifecta: Cream Pan, THH + Kolache Factory

Last weekend we celebrated D's birthday with...

what else? A food crawl!  As is our MO for these trips, Cream Pan was our first stop...

Carpinteria Road Trip - Day 3 Highlights

All good things come to an end.

Free breakfast from our hotel was followed by coffee named after a South American camelid...

Return to Art+Science Cafe & Copenhagen Pastry

[Update: Copenhagen Pastry closed as of late September 2017]

I was so intrigued by the military latte the month before...

so we were here again but this time with TC...

Pasadena day trip but first, THH

Last weekend, we were finally able to use these...

which were a gift from my friend Caren, co-owner of the Velveteria in L.A....

Day 1 - LA Road Trip 2016: The Little Tree Church, Tustin

Normally when we do roadtrips, we make our usual stop at the Starbucks in Tustin (Bert has to have his macchiato from there) as well as Cream Pan and THH Sandwiches.

This time, we skipped out on Cream Pan but instead, went north one block of Cream Pan at this strip mall, Jamestown Village...

LA Road Trip Day 1 Highlights

I'd been waiting to take another mini road trip and since we had a three day weekend for Veterans Day...well, off we went. Our first stop was off of Red Hill Ave in Tustin. Coffee and pee break. Yes, TMI.

I picked up the latest post-election issue of the OC Weekly, depicting Pepe the Frog as Trump.

We would see more anti-Trump imagery via graffiti and street art in DTLA...

The last stops: THH & Cream Pan

Behold...the new Santa Fe Springs Swap Meet sign on the I-5...

The road here has been widened and was one of the surprises we discovered while on our way home from our Spring Break trip earlier this year.

Our last stop was House Roots Coffee in Granada Hills...A few hours later, we were passing by downtown LA...

There's a banh mi under here...

Last month Bert and I revisited Pho Mai Cali sice we were in the area...

This is the place with what Astroboi and I would call, the "groovy love beads".

It used to be the old Da Kine's in the 90's...

Early morning trek to the Rose Parade Float Road Test with Cathy

This weekend Cathy and I made the trip up to Pasadena..

during the wee hours of the morning and also during the same weekend as the Sand Fire in Santa Clarita. [Update: a week later, the fire burned over 39,000 acres and is 95% contained]

Hence, the long streaks of smoky clouds...As we got closer to Los Angeles, we could see the fire's effects even more...

Summer Road Trip 2016 - Tustin + Santa Monica

Finally,  back to the summer road trip posts...

when we left in the dead of the morning to beat the traffic and make it on time for THH's opening...

after our normal pee stop at the Starbucks off the Red Hill exit in Tustin...

We were not in a particular hurry...

Dragon Express

TC and I were out and about earlier today doing errands.

We visited my friend La Ley to give her some tomatoes from our garden (beefsteak, roma and cherry!). For lunch, I thought we would try a restaurant she and her sister likes...

It is called Dragon Express on E Street, next to a very groovy looking grocery store (Foodland). The strip mall is a bit on the weathered side but looks are not everything for us...

Egg Banh Mi sandwiches from Cali Baguette & Van Hoa

Yesterday while doing errands solo, I stopped by Cali Baguette before heading home.

I saw that their red jeep was there (look at their license plate and the words on the side)...

These dolphin statues were, thankfully, not being played with by unruly children...this time.

I just find it amusing that this is  right in the middle of the restaurant.  Since it was just me...

Cameron's Seafood

Even though we could have walked here from our hotel,

we ended up driving. I'm not a fan of walking around an unfamiliar area at night, as safe as it could seem.  It was the beginning of the Lenten season and we chose this place for their seafood offering...