Brother’s 25th Birthday – 193/365
My brother turned 25 today, so we and our mom went to Din Tai Fung to eat dinner. Din Tai Fung is a very popular dumpling house that first started in Taipei, Taiwan. Their dumplings are very special because when you bite into one, it pops and bursts out this wonderful broth into your mouth. The meat inside the dumpling also tastes freshly made. In fact, you can see chefs working on the dumplings once you enter the restaurant, but unfortunately, there aren’t any photos of that because we went there pretty late. Anyway, the photo above is a shrimp shaomai (燒賣). It has the same affect that the dumplings give when you bite into one.
We also ordered pork chop fried rice because we have heard good things about it, and the seasoning on the pork chop tastes like how my mom makes it. I asked what was the basic marinade, and she told me that it is basically soy sauce, salt and pepper. Both the pork chop and the fried rice complements each other nicely.
When my mom asked my brother what cake he wanted for his birthday, my brother said that he wanted an ice cream cake. So my mom and I went to Baskin-Robbins. We went into the store and checked out their refrigerator for a vanilla ice cream cake, but all we found was pralines and cream. I asked the girl on the counter, and she found this classy looking vanilla ice cream cake that looked so freaking awesome. It wasn’t even in the refrigerator that my mom and I checked, but I completely adore the cake. It tastes phenomenal, too. Nom om om!
» Din Tai Fung
1108 S. Baldwin Ave.
Arcadia, CA 91007
(626) 574-7068
ETA: I am calling the end to the 365 Days Project right here. I had stopped it a while back, but I am going to stop labeling and tabbing it until further notice. Thanks for your understanding and support.
Hydrangea – 190/365
Hydrangea is one of my most favorite flowers, too. The last time I took photos of them was for Nature Photography Day, but there weren’t many in bloom at the time. In fact, many of them were drying out, and I was sad because I wanted to see more. However, when I walked back home today, I saw my neighbor’s garden that had some, so I just had to check if they were in bloom in my mom’s garden, and they were! I knew I had to take photos of them, and I can’t wait to see the magenta one grow more since all you see in the photo is all of what we have right now. I’ll be sure to keep an eye on it.
Irritating Day – 181/365
Today was a very irritating day. You see, I knew the Metro had fixed up new bus lines near my house, and I even checked the Metro website last night to make sure I get to work the right way. So, I got off the stop that the website told me to stop, but the bus I was supposed to transfer did not exist anywhere! However, both fortunately and unfortunately, the busses that continued on south goes to El Monte Metro Station. Fortunately because I could ask for directions at the metro station. Unfortunately because I had to wait longer for a Foothill Transit to pass by since I had gotten a transfer that is only acceptable on that boss. I managed getting to El Monte Station, and I had to pay an extra dollar to go another Metro bus, but I still had to wait for another half an hour for that bus to come. All this trouble made me an hour late to work. I had a lot of stuff to do today, and many of them were new, so I had to learn them all. I wasn’t very happy because it took me a while, and I didn’t want to screw up.
Apparently, I wasn’t the only one that had an irritating day. My mom called me during lunch hour and told me she accidentally bumped my brother’s car with her car this morning. She was feeling very awful about it. She blamed it on an early morning phone call that no one was answering, so she kepting on saying “hello?” until she called it the end. Then when I called my brother to pick me up, he was mad about not having the right ink catridge for the printer (when it was right). He needed to print out confirmations for Anime Expo tomorrow. Then he tried to start his car, but it wouldn’t work, so he had to drive the new car. He wasn’t happy about that either because he isn’t used to the new car. This made him half an hour late to pick me up, so I was pretty irritated while waiting for him, like what was he taking so long? But now we’re all back home, and I really hope the irritation stops for all three of us. I’m exhausted!