iSushi

This past weekend, we met up with our good friend, Superman at a local sushi place...

If the outside looks familiar, it's because it used to be the Chamorro restaurant, Yokozuna's (which then became Yokoz and then went downhill)...

This place has been open for almost a year now so I thought we would check it out...

Snacks 'n candy

Hey now...

I thought this sticker was pretty funny and cool, but what's even cooler is sampling new snacks...

MJ's 3x

Sometime last week I had lunch with a few friends at a local fusion place...

It was their first time there. For me, my third but I'd been wanting to go back...

Attack of the Macs!

As you may might have noticed from my last few posts, I've been on a macaron kick...

I first tasted these back in 2006 when a friend brought some back from Bouchon in Napa.  A few bakeries in San Diego offered them, but only sporadically. Fast forward to 2013 and now macarons are a bit more widespread than they used to be. Of course, some places are better than others....

Brodard's once again

After our quick trip to the Asian Garden Mall, we made our way to Brodard's. If you see this sign, don't park in the front...

Remember to drive past the front on Westminster Ave, hang a right on Brookhurst, and then a right in the parking lot BEHIND the 99 Cent Store...

Party food in Canada

At C's aunt's house, we made our way to the backyard where the party was at...

C's cousins were super nice, greeting us and making us feel at home. One of them offered Bert a selection of Canadian beers....

Aloft Hotel - Montreal, Quebec

Ah, the brief return of the Canada posts...

Here we are, on the road again...en route to our hotel in Montreal.

Traffic may not look that bad in the photo, but later on that evening, it took C and her husband nearly an hour and a half  (when it should have been half an hour) to pick us up....

The Asian Garden Mall

Before heading over to our last stop, my SIL wanted to  see if she could find a particular beauty product at a nearby mall...

located on Bolsa Ave, one of the main commercial streets in Little Saigon....

As predicted, the parking sucked in the tiny lot, and as we were about to drive out to try another place, we snagged a spot at the last minute! The parking gods were smiling upon us that morning....

Rainbow Cupcakes 2.0

Earlier this week, TC and KDD had fun with colors...

both outside aaaand inside...

Women's Museum of California - "Wonder Women: On Paper and Off"

Finally, the last stop from our day of exhibits and good desserts...

Our last stop was the Women's Museum of California in Liberty Station for yet another comic related art exhibit...

Au Coeur de Paris Patisserie & Boulangerie

This was another place I looked up online and happened to see that the writer of the article thought their macs were among "the best" in the OC.

My SIL was initially reluctant to go to Westminster because she really hates the traffic and the parking in their crowded strip malls. Well, we didn't have a problem with that at all over here...

This next bakery is not in the more populated shopping areas of Little Saigon.

It's stuck in a depressing strip mall in the suburbs...

We would soon find out if they lived up to their reputation...