Green Banana Leaf

OMG, I'm trying to tie up loose ends here, then it's back to the Oregon posts....

This is the last of the Epic Birthday Food Crawl Posts (EBFC). Our final stop for the day was a place recommended by our trusty driver, D...

For this we had to travel to Chino Hills...uh where?

Dream Era Cafe and Books

Right next to Din Tai Fung is a little gift shop slash bookstore slash cafe.

D wanted us to check it out before heading down to Chino Hills...

Din Tai Fung

Right across the parking lot from JJ Bakery is this dumpling house that D raves about!

"We HAVE to eat there!" she said...

JJ Bakery

D, our driver for the day, was well versed in all the different places to go during our little food crawl.

She wanted us to check out this Taiwanese bakery she really likes over in Arcada...

Mignon Chocolates 3x

Prior to coming here, D took us to one of the shopping districts in Pasadena. She wanted to check something at one of her favorite clothing stores. It happened to be next to one of my favorite stores so I browsed around in that while the other ladies also window shopped.

After our retail therapy breather, we felt it was time for some sweets.  It was starting to warm up and we were feeling the heat...

Luckily we found parking across the street of our next destination which was housed in the historic
Holly Building in Old Town Pasadena...

Vien Dong

While at Bon Epi Patisserie, I was furiously thinking of where we were going to go next for the Epic Birthday Food Crawl. As I punched in the address of my desired location in my GPS, I saw that it was only ten minutes away. Since we were in the area, I thought, "Why the fk not!"

So off we went to Little Saigon...to have the mini feast that you see above...

Return to Bon Epi Patisserie

We were still in the same shopping complex, Diamond Jamboree...

We wanted to check out another bakery just across the parking lot...

Epic Birthday Food Crawl with the Educator GF's - First Stop, 85c!

The hat says it all....

Even though my birthday was over two weeks ago, ha ha! That didn't stop me from stretching out the weekends in April to be fun filled culinary adventures....

My very dear friends, the Educator GF's (D, KD and TORC) told me they would be taking me on a food crawl. I assumed it would be in San Diego, but was told Friday afternoon to be ready to leave my house at 8 am! Wut?