Memorial Day weekend in Socal

For Memorial Day weekend, we drove down to socal for my cousin's wedding.  Going to socal means good times hanging out with my cousins, eating tons of food and usually not enough exercising. In addition to wedding festivities, we managed to go to a lot of new and old food places.

Favorite boba place in San Gabriel: Half and Half!  Iced milk w/ pudding, caramel, and honey boba.  So good!

Shinsengumi for ramen.  Highly recommended by a hs friend of mine.  This is the most efficient ramen joint I've met so far.  There is only one flavor of ramen, which you customize what toppings you want (pork, egg, bamboo shoots, corn, spinach, mushrooms, bean sprouts, etc), how strong the broth, how much oil, and how chewy the noodles.  They also have spicy pastes and miso and butter to add flavor.  So you can pretty much get whatever you want!

Pho Lu (found on Yelp) in Garden Grove for a late dinner (we got there around 10 pm, and they were still packed!).  The beef tendon in the soup was really good!

Woori Korean restaurant (found on Yelp): Bone broth and beef soup with noodles, the ox blood hangover soup, a mung bean pancake, and japchae.  The ox blood hangover soup was really interesting.  The ox blood itself was kind of fluffy and porous, very different from the chewy sort of jello like consistency that I've had before in Chinese congee.  I think I still don't like eating blood very much, but at least I tried it!

And last, but not least: 85 deg C for coffee mochi red bean bread, taro bread, and mountain green tea for the drive back up!