Portland Spring Break Trip 2018 - Day 6: Return to An Xuyen Bakery

For our 6th day of the Portland 2018 trip, we revisited a bakery we enjoyed back in 2012...

which was An Xuyen in the SE Quadrant...

Revisits: Rice King, Bonchon, Pop Pie Co

La Ley and I went out to lunch the other day...

I hadn't gone to this place in two damn decades...

Dinner from Jamaican Jerk Hut & Russian Food Babushki

I had to do a return at the mall...

and realized that it was a Tuesday...

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...

Los Pollos Revisits

Earlier this week I was able to go to the South Bay's only Cuban bakery...

not once but twice...

Bourre Southern Bistro

This past Friday while TC was at a football game, Bert and I took this opportunity to head out to dinner..

Thank goodness for our FastPass transponder, I love using the 125 and not dealing with the mess on the 805...

Above, the view of Mount Miguel as veered north...

Moscow and Tblisi Russian Bakery

I remember reading online that the Richmond District had a sizable Russian population...

What better place to explore a Russian eatery/bakery on one of the main streets...

Ther ewere several places on our radar, like Europa Plus...

A quartet of bakeries - Los Pollos Cuban, Hogetsu, Papa Luna's & 85c

This post is a compilation of a few places where I had baked goods...

at places that aren't quite traditional bakeries. The first is a fairly new place in East CV...

Snacks from Harvest International Market

Yesterday I thought I would get some Christmas shopping done at an ethnic grocery store I hadn't yet been...Harvest International Market in Clairemont.


This used to be North Park Produce...

Tustin Trio - Cream Pan, return to Tan Hoang Huong & Kolache Factory

This past weekend we made a short trip (which ended up being 12 hours including driving time) to LA...

Our first stop was Tustin...

But first, we had to pass the tits the decommissioned San Onofre power plant...

Pan de muertos & more...2015 Edition

The other day I was off work early and had some errands to do on the west side of Chula Vista...

It was that time of the year...

San Diego Serbian Festival

Located on a hill overlooking the western edge of Clairemont and Bay Park...

is the beautiful cerulean blue domed structure that is St. George Serbian Orthodox Church...

the site of that day's festivities...

Imperial Beach Farmer's Market plus Monday Night Traffic

Earlier today...

I jammed the hell out of work (first day back) to make it here...

in laid back IB...

"God, That's good!" or a meat pie by any other name...

This movie was a bit on the gruesome side and it was a bit disturbing find out later what was REALLY in those pies...

also known as the "best meat pies in London", heh heh.

Luckily these meat filled pastries that I've tried over the past few months weren't filled with murdered humans...

Snacks from K Sandwiches, and wrap ingredients from Thuan Phat

Bert and I had some time to kill before picking up TC from track.

After our breakfast and coffee in La Mesa...

we headed to Linda Vista...

Return to Papa Luna's & Junz

After getting coffee from Ladies & Gentlemen, TC and I headed over to go thrift store shopping on Garnet...

visiting Goodwill, Thrift Trader and Buffalo Exchange all within walking distance...

The Empanada Maker

Yesterday we made a mini road trip up to the OC...

(passing by the decomissioned San Onofre nuclear power plant, aka "The Tits", or at least that's what I call it)

We were invited to Bert's niece's Gold Award Ceremony...

Peasant Pies

We were digging all of the different places we saw on Irving Street, but it was this place that was specifically sought out...

We wanted something small and snacky and not a huge meal to tide us over until the wedding...

SF Road Trip - Day 2 Highlights

The weekend started off right with a really great breakfast at a nearby eatery...

where I had the BEST pancake I've ever had in my life (of the banana walnut persuasion)....

followed by a short walk across the street which led us to...

A Deli & Pieman Pies twice

Earlier that morning, we had breakfast next door at Top Dog Coffee Bar and took a peek next door...

We picked up a small pie and then ended up coming back later to get a few pies for dinner...