LA Arboretum in May
On May 15th, Bridget came to visit Arcadia, and as a part of my Arcadia tour, I invited her and Kanie to the LA Arboretum to check out peacocks and flowers. We didn’t stay there for long, though, so I didn’t get to take as many photos as I would have liked. I’m also pretty bummed that we didn’t have a photo of us together. Gah! But the arboretum was still beautiful as always. These night blooming cereus are one of my favorites. I was surprised of how many colors they came in.
Wasabi Japanese Noodle House
After watching Alice in Wonderland with my brother and his friends, we went to eat at Wasabi Japanese Noodle House because his friends said it’s a relatively cheap Japanese restaurant. It made me pretty excited because I actually have been wanting to eat sushi lately. I was also very hungry, so I ordered a lot of food! I ordered a Katsu Ramen, which is a ramen with fried chicken cutlet, and a Salmon Tempura Roll. I was actually disappointed about the ramen. The fried chicken cutlet was in the ramen bowl already, which I thought it was sort of weird because most places separate it from the ramen to prevent it to become soggy with the soup. Surely enough, the fried chicken cutlet was pretty soggy. Another thing that I was disappointed was the ramen. The soup base didn’t have much flavor besides soy sauce, so I wasn’t very pleased. Then I moved onto the Salmon Tempura Roll. I thought the salmon would be raw, like sashimi, but it was already cooked. The flavors were alright. Nothing too special. I did find it kind of funny that I had to find where was the wasabi when the restaurant was called Wasabi Japanese Noodle House, and there was only a little bit of wasabi on the side of the plate. Overall, the restaurant would give a mediocre review from me. I don’t think I would go back to it again since nothing special captured me significantly.
» Wasabi Japanese Noodle House
3183 Wilshire Blvd. Ste 186
Los Angeles, CA 90010
(213) 384-7484
Reading to Kids
So I just got back from reading to kids at an elementary school called Magnolia Avenue Elementary School in Los Angeles as part as volunteering in an organization called Unified We Serve. Remember the Survive the Night event I did last semester for my photojournalism class? It is basically the same “volunteer program” that did that event. They also did the Hands for Haiti benefit concert I went last month. Well, such “volunteer program” finalized the organization name this semester, and now Kanie and I are part of it. Since we are now focusing on the education portion, we signed up with Reading to Kids to read books to children in elementary schools. I got five fourth graders, and this guy and I read The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden. We didn’t get far in the book at all since the kids were getting antsy and wanted to do something else. We later made them do arts and crafts before the time was up. It was so cute to see the elementary school kids react. It made me feel nostalgic to such days. All that screaming and yelling. (And no photos of little kids because they’re minors. Too bad.)