Vegas and Food

Apr 22, 2007

Homemade Cherry Clafouti

cooking

I made this Cherry Clafouti from this cookbook. Very easy, and tasted good. I recommend you eat it when you just made it.

Apr 21, 2007

Musha in Santa Monica, a Japanese izakaya style restaurant. This place opens at 6pm, we got here about 5 minutes before 6pm and already there were several people waiting outside.
This place is really popular and busy, if you come here anytime after 6:30pm, you'll probably have to wait. I mean, 6:15, already this place was packed and the customers keep coming in! I really recommend making reservations.

The taste...yes, the taste was very good. We liked the food here a lot, most of them. The only thing we were not crazy about was the tofu fries. And I was also little disappointed in the green tea parfait. The portion was small.

The seats (tables) are really close to the next table, you can hear next tables' conversations. So no serious talk here!

And I don't know if because it's busy, but each food arrived very slow. (The couple sitting next to us was also saying that.) We got our first plate, then about 10 minutes later, we got another plate, and so on. That's after we ordered 6 dishes at one time, we also ordered another dish later, and we had to wait about 15-30 minutes for that.

Now, there is also Musha in Torrance, and they seem to have more dishes and more parking spaces, that's what I read on internet.

Seared Albacore Tuna Salad $9.80
*recommended!

Kabocha (pumpkin) Croquette $6.95
*recommended! YUMMY

Butakim $6.95
Thin sliced pork stir fried with kimchee and mushrooms.
(I was just checking this menu and realized, instead of "stir fried", the menu says "stair fried".)
*recommended! this was my favorite.

MFC "Musha Fried Chicken" $7.95

Anago Meshi $7.80
Glazed sea eel, hijiki seaweed, and mitsuba leaf mixed with rice. Then grilled in a stone bowl.
When this rice arrived, it was in a stone bowl, but then the waitress mixed the rice and served like in a picture.

Vegetable miso soup $2.50 (carrots, daikon, radish, onion and chives in it)
*recommended!

Tofu french fries $5.95

Green Tea Parfait $5
Now, don't call this parfait! Call this green tea ice cream! Because I was expecting Japanese style Parfait and got this. Disappointed. Taste was fine, just ice cream, corn flakes, and little cream and snack.

Musha
424 Wilshire Blvd
Santa Monica, CA 90401

(310) 576-6330

Open: 6pm
Yelp

Apr 20, 2007

New York New York - Ziggurat Room

vegashotels

Suite called "Ziggurat Room" at New York New York casino. 1100 sq. ft. The biggest room you can get at New York New York, I believe. It was nice. It was much better than other NYNY rooms. There were 2 TVs, bigger bathroom sinks, coffee, sodas, fridge, big sofas. The only thing is that when we tried to use the internet, it said "it's not secure, your information might be shared." So we didn't use the internet here.

Spa

Wolfgang Puck coffee (We had it every morning.)

Sodas in the fridge

Chocolate covered strawberries on white chocolate plate from our host

Chocolates on bed

Inside VIP check-in

Apr 19, 2007

Stratosphere - Naga Chinese Express

Stratosphere

Here's the food at Naga China Express, Stratosphere. OMG, the food here is really really bad. And we received our entrees cold.
When we asked for our bill, our waitress forgot to add all 3 entrees to our bill, but then she realized and fixed it, but also she forgot to add our ice cream to the bill. Well, this was all comp but still, it's pretty stupid. I highly NOT recommend this place.

combination $8.95
(2 shrimp tempura, 2 egg rolls, 2 crab rangoon, 2 pot stickers)
Pot stickers were good.

sushi: shrimp $5.95 and yellowtail $5.95

Eggplant with tofu $6.95

Szechwan shrimp $7.95

House pan-fried noodles $8.25

Miso soup $2.50

Egg flower soup $2.95

Green tea ice cream $2.50
It was weird color, like they used food coloring

Apr 17, 2007

Pala casino - hotel room

Pala

Room at Pala casino in California.

VISIT WEBSITE:
http://www.palacasino.com

Apr 16, 2007

BCD tofu house

los angeles

BCD tofu house in Los Angeles. Yum!

Soon Tofu

Bulgogi

Bibimbap

Find locations:
http://www.bcdtofu.com

Apr 15, 2007

Caesars Palace - Rao's

las vegas

Rao's at Caesars Palace. Food was delicious, service was great, but somehow, me and my husband, both of our entrees were cold in parts, like just cooked from freezer. But still it was very tasty.

bread

Fettuccine alla Bolognese $24
Ground veal, beef and pork slowly cooked with San Marzano tomatoes and herbs with fresh-made fetuccine

Tagliolini Neri ai Frutti di Mare $29
Cherry stone clams, sea scallops, calamari, shrimp and mussels in fresh tomato and white wine sauce, with fresh-made squid ink taglioline