Vegas offers

Vegas offers

vegas offers  

Here's the offers we recently received.

Red Rock:
2 complimentary nights and 2 tickets to Counting Crows and/or Jackson Browne


Suncoast:
2 complimentary nights, $75 slot play


Silverton: birthday offer
complimentary 2 nights, $50 in free play, suede travel bag as a birthday gift


The Orleans: Christmas in July shopping spree
Includes 3 complimentary nights, $250 Nordstrom gift card or $250 free play


Gold Coast:
2 free nights, $10 free play per day, $20 food credit per day


Hard Rock Hotel:
$59 per night rate and 2 for 1 tickets to Santana


Main Street Station / California:
2 complimentary nights, $30 food voucher


Main Street Station / California: Pre-Labor Day BBQ & Cash
Complimentary nights, chance to win cash, BBQ food and drinks

Bellagio Slot Tournament, January 2009

Bellagio Slot Tournament, January 2009

las vegas  

Here's the food pics from Bellagio's invitational slot tournament back in January, 2009. It was Super Bowl day, and there were big screen TVs so you could watch the Super Bowl, also there was a marching band, and food and drinks, of course. Bellagio tournaments always have pretty good food, although this tournament, the food wasn't that great. There was good stuff, but not everything was good. Like desserts. That was so disappointing. They used to serve higher quality desserts.


CLICK HERE for pics from Bellagio slot tournament in 2008.
CLICK HERE for pics from Bellagio slot tournament in 2007.
CLICK HERE for pics from Bellagio slot tournament in 2006.


All pics below are for two days.

































































































































































lobster corndog

Mandarin Wong - Newhall, CA

Mandarin Wong - Newhall, CA

Santa Clarita  

This place is called "Mandarin Wong". But their takeout menu says "Chinese cuisine healthy style with a touch of Vietnamese, Thai, & Japanese". And Yelper's most recommended item is "Mongolian" beef. "Mandarin Wong" should be a Chinese restaurant, and a Chinese restaurant ONLY should serve Chinese food. What is a touch of Japanese or Thai or Mongolian or Vietnamese? Places like this restaurant always suck. You can tell by menu without eating.

I'm very surprised that this place is rated so high. Because we didn't like it at all. It's not something you can't eat, but we just don't like this Americanized Chinese taste. Do people really like this taste?

Every time my husband tries to get Chinese food in Santa Clarita, I say NO. And he still keep going to get Chinese food in SCV. I keep telling you, there are no good Chinese restaurants in SCV.


Mongolian Beef $7.95













Combination Pan Fried Noodles $8.95













topping for noodles













This is what their "pan fried" noodle looks like. SO WRONG. They even can't make basic Chinese pan fried noodles.













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Rating (food): 2 / 5
Rating (service): N/A
Repeat: No

Mandarin Wong
23758 Lyons Ave.
Newhall, CA 91321
(661) 259-5823

Closed on Monday
Sun-Thurs: 11:30am-9:30pm
Fri-Sat: 11:30am-10:00pm

http://www.yelp.com/biz/mandarin-wong-chinese-restaurant-newhall

JJ Bakery - Torrance, CA

JJ Bakery - Torrance, CA

torrance  

JJ Bakery in Torrance. Overall, I love this place, but there were a few things I wasn't crazy about. It's just like I'm in Japan, I can get all these crazy breads that you're never gonna find at American bakery or supermarket. White bread was very good when I toasted, croissant was delicious. I love hotdog and green onion buns, and of course their cakes!



All bread & cakes total was $27.55.














sliced white bread - I think it was about $1.90













mini croissant $2.85







































hot dog with green onion bun $1.25













Danish bread (It was like a danish with sugar on top.) $1.25













black rice and red bean bread $1.35













This was OK.













crispy green tea with red bean $1.50













I'd buy this again.













red bean bread with mochi $1.25













I've had so many crazy breads before, but mochi slice in bread was my first time. I loved it.













There is a thin-sliced mochi under red bean paste.













dorayaki - I think it was $1













It was different from Japanese dorayaki. This was like super-soft sponge cake with raisin and cream inside. I didn't like it.


























Quite small.


























black currant & vanilla cake $3.75


















green tea mousse $3.50







































latte French $3.95


























mont blanc $3.95













Unfortunately, I didn't like this Mont Blanc so much. Chestnut cream should have more flavor. I could only taste chestnut. It should be a little more sweet and flavorful.



























Rating (food): 4.8 / 5
Rating (service): 3 / 5
Repeat: Yes

JJ Bakery
2370 Crenshaw Blvd.
Torrance,CA 90501
(310) 328-6668
Mon-Sat.8:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.

http://www.jjbakeryusa.com/

http://www.yelp.com/biz/jj-bakery-torrance


Other JJ Bakery locations:

1130 S. Baldwin Ave.
Arcadia, CA 91066
(626) 836-6888

1756 Nogales St.
Rowland Heights, CA 91748
(626) 581-1678

15846 Halliburton Rd.
Hacienda Heights, CA 91745
(626) 333-1278