French Macaron at Ladurée

Address: 864 Madison Avenue  New York, NY 10021
Website: http://www.laduree.fr/

I absolutely adore French Macarons and finally got a chance to visit this place now. Ladurée is an old French pastry shop and it is almost 150 years now. And Finally opened a NYC location not too long ago.

New Haven Restaurant Week 2011 Fall -- Dinner at Zinc

Address: 964 Chapel Street New Haven CT 06510
Website: http://zincfood.com/

This is the 3rd stop of my restaurant week journey! I came with RCSIII and it was his 1st time here (my second). It was still one of the best restaurant in New Haven.

My Killer Clam Pasta!!!

That was so good so RCSIII made a movie about it!

New Haven Restaurant Week 2011 Fall -- Lunch at Christopher Martin

Address:860 State Street  New Haven, CT 06511

Website: http://www.christophermartins.com



This is my second stop for this year's restaurant. I came here with RCSIII for lunch and it was our first time there.

New Haven Restaurant Week 2011 Fall -- Lunch at Pacifico

Address:  220 College Street, New Haven, CT 06511
Website: http://www.pacificorestaurants.com/home-nh

Here was my 1st stop of 2011 Fall New Haven Restaurant week. Pacifico is one of my favorite places in New Haven and I went there for a Sunday lunch with Sahr. This place serves really good seafood in town, and I've come here many times.

Brunch at Sabrina's cafe -- Philly

Address: 910 Christian St, Philadelphia, PA 19147
Neighborhood: Bella Vista
Website:http://www.yelp.com/biz_redir?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sabrinascafe.com%2F&src_bizid=K3RURR9lIEE4JjOaPt99zg&cachebuster=1320008995&s=667a0567bab994c72927c43f5a70467f96017343ebdfb8e56b06aebdd5457980

Finally I caught up on my Philly trip. RCSIII and I visited Kate at Philly, and that was so much fun! (We also walked 10.3 miles in one day!!!) So we felt that we could eat whatever we want! So we decided to have some crazy brunch!

Brunch at Cafe Luna -- Boston

Address:403 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139
Neighborhood: Central Square
Website:http://cafeluna-centralsq.com/

BRUNCH TIME!!!

Of course! Brunch is a MUST when you visit another city and right before you're about to drive 3 or more hours to go home.

Dinner at The Daily Catch -- Boston

Address:323 Hanover St (between Lathrop Pl & Prince St), Boston, MA 02113
Neighborhood: North End
Website: http://www.dailycatch.com

This is a super late post when Rob and I went to Boston in late August. I just wanted to mark this place down since it was a place really worth to check out!

Katalina's Bakery -- Vote for the Yale Bulldog Cupcake!

Address: 43 Whitney Ave. New Haven, CT 06511
Website: Still working on it!!

AWESOME!!!! A new sweet shop just opened and it is SUPER close to my apartment! I just discovered it yesterday (apparently they just opened on Friday) and immediately bought 2 cupcakes. They are: Vanilla Cupcake with Chocolate Frosting and almond topping (see picture above) and Red Velvet Cupcake with Cream cheese Frosting (see can kind of see the cupcake at the top right corner of the picture.)

Lunch at 潮桂 鐵板燒 Tepenyaki (hibashi) Tasting Menu--Taipei

Address:台北市敦化南路一段200號（忠孝東路口, Taipei, TAIWAN)
Website:http://www.parentsrestaurant.com.tw/cate.html

I've never had hibashi/tepenyaki dining experience in the US, but according to my friends, the chef just had to interact with the dinners. I am not sure I will enjoy that. However, when you go to such restaurant in Taiwan, you never have to worry about that. Chef only prepares your food and asked you about how do you like to done or any additional seasoning. Other than that, you can still talk to your friends.

Pâtisserie Sadaharu AOKI Paris 青木定治 (Bellavita location at Taipei) - Matcha Pastries

Address: 台北市松仁路28號(BELLAVITA購物中心 B2) Also see website. (France (Paris), Japan (Tokyo) & Taiwan (Taipei))

Website: http://www.sadaharuaoki.com/

Green Green Green! If you know me well enough, you may already known that I absolutely LOVE everything with green tea.

Dinner at 德壽司 (Japanese Sushi Bar)

Address:100台北市大安區市民大道四段136之3號 ( Taipei, TAIWAN)
Phone: (02) 8772 7995 (no website.) ‎

Oh Man! I haven't updated the blog for so long. I have been really busy with school and job searching. Plus, I was recovering from wisdom tooth surgery and that prevent me from eating real food (oh, so sad.) Thanks to my generous sister, she treated me to this sushi bar after my final dental appointment for wisdon tooth. This place is so good that I had to skipped my Boston trip with RCSIII and write about this first. (I'll go back to the 2 great place I went with RCSIII later.)

Brunch at Biscotti's

Address: 2707 South Virginia Street, Reno, NV 89502
http://www.peppermillreno.com/


This was the brunch after the wedding and we got to see Tim and Heather again before they left for their honey moon in Italy. The restaurant is located in the casino, so it was easy for us to get ready in the early morning and be there on time.

Brunch at Peg's Glorified Ham N Eggs

Address:420 S Sierra St, Reno, NV 89501
http://pegsglorifiedhamneggs.com/default.aspx

YES YES YES!!! Vacation Vacation Vacation!!! YAY!!! Get out of New Haven!!!

For Tim and Heather's wedding, we bought the tickets months ago to go to Reno (NV) !!!

Dinner at Ted's Restaurant 蒸的起司漢堡 (Steamed Cheeseburger)

Address:1046 Broad Street, Meriden, CT. 06450
http://www.tedsrestaurant.com/

I love watching "Travel Channel" & "Food Network", and here's another one shows up at Burger Paradise and Man vs. Food -- Ted's Restaurant. If you watched the shows, you'll know what they are famous for! Their steamed Cheeseburger!

Dinner at Bobby's Burger Palace (Mohegan Sun)

Address: 1 Mohegan Sun Boulevard, Uncasville, CT 06382
http://www.bobbysburgerpalace.com/

YEAH!!! It's Friday again!!! Steve, Elissa, Brandon, Laura, Kate, RCSIII and I bought the WNBA ticket long time ago and finally the game is on. It's between Seattle STORM & Connecticut SUN. To be honest, I didn't know any players since I never watch WNABA, so I decided to cheer for Seattle since I loved the city and that's where Steve & RCSIII are from. But Before the game, we have to get dinner first.

Lunch at Xi'an Famous Food 西安名吃

Address:http://www.xianfoods.com/locations.php
http://www.xianfoods.com/

Today is the day to get my hair cut!!! And of course it is a good excuse to come to NYC. I had many food spots in mind that I really want to go for a visit. Since I arrived around lunch time, what's more important than fulfill my stomach! (Actually I visited "Two little red hens" and "Buttercup bake shop" already and have 6 cupcakes with me at this point of my NYC day.)

起司與酒的晚餐 Dinner at Caseus

Address: 93 Whitney Avenue, New Haven, CT 06510-1236
http://caseusnewhaven.com/

Dinning out again!!! Kate and I have been talking about having dinner here before she move out from New Haven, and here we go! It turned out that seven of us were there.

Brunch at Clinton St. Baking Company

Address:4 Clinton St (between Avenue B & Houston St), New York, NY 10002
http://www.yelp.com/biz_redir?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.clintonstreetbaking.com&src_bizid=nU4XBdvxDABXqZ6CnB8Dig&cachebuster=1309377539

Oh man! I really have to catch up on my posts. After my almost 3 hours group meeting today, I can finally relaxed a little and come back to my blog and food pictures again.

蘋果派 Apple Pie

Although I have made apple pie many many times, I haven't made it after RCSIII and I started dating(and that was more than 14 months ago). The reason I didn't make it was because (1). I was too lazy too make the pie crust from scratch (2) RCSIII warned me that he almost dislike all the homemade apple pies by his family and friends. He claimed they all turned out too watery and the apples were under cook. (He likes McDonald's apple pie filling, if you'd like an example).

超有名 蛤蠣披薩 Frank Pepe Pizza

Address: 157 Wooster St. New Haven, CT
http://www.pepespizzeria.com/

New Haven is super well known for it's pizza, and there are couple of them that you have to try if you pay a visit here. One of them is Frank pepe's. I have been to this place many times and I always left with a happy stuffed tummy. Their pizza is thin crust New Haven style and served on a rectangular tray. Since it's thin crust, I bet you can eat twice as many slices as you would with regular crust pizza.

Brunch at Chip's

Address:321 Boston Post Rd. Orange, CT
http://www.chipsrest.com/

This is RCSIII and my second time to come here for brunch. The first time was Mother's day weekend and that was the worse decision ever to come on that day since it was super crowded and we waited for about one hour.

Dinner at Cask Republic

Address:179 Crown Street, New Haven, CT 06510
http://thecaskrepublic.com/

I met so many beer lovers after I moved to New Haven. One of them is definitely RCSIII. Besides him, we also discovered Greg and his love for beer at our lunch table, although he only joins us when he remembers to eat at normal lunch hours.

紅絲絨杯子蛋糕 Red Velvet Cupcake with Double Cream cheese Frosting

I have always wanted to try to make red velvet cupcake with cream cheese frosting! The combination of the two was just so great! I finally made and it turned pretty great for the cake part, but just alright for the double creamcheese frosting.

Dinner at Lenny & Joe's

Address:Family Restaurant--86 Boston Post Rd. Westbrook, CT 06498 (where we went.)
              Drive-In Restaurant--1301 Boston Post Rd, Madison, CT 06443
http://www.ljfishtale.com

After the great breakfast at the pantry, RCSIII and I went to do a little shopping with Steve and Elissa. And we also made dinner plan to have some fresh seafoods! Some real seafoods that's not just fried. (Thanks to Elissa for looking up the restaurant.)

Breakfast at The Pantry

Address:2 Mechanic Street. New Haven, CT 06511-2638
No website available.

I love love love breakfast and brunch at the pantry. This is really the BEST place in town! I haven't been back there for a while (I used to go there every weekend, but lately have been busy sampling other places.) and it was still great!

Brunch at Bella's Cafe (and Tom Hanks!!!)

Address:896 Whalley Avenue, New Haven, CT
http://www.bellascafect.com/

Yes! Sunday brunch time with RCSIII!!! I was so excited about this weekly event we do together before we do some crazy physical workout moving stuff out of RCSIII's apartment. However, we were not going to do that after our brunch today! Instead, we were going to meet up with Kate & Laura and go to see Tom Hanks for the 2011 class day at Yale.

Dinner at SOBAKOH

Address:# 309 E 5th St, New York NY10003 40.726747 -73.988296
No Website!!!

After lunch at Totto ramen, we are still in a Japanese kick today and we decided to go to a soba (Japanese buckwheat noodles) restaurant for dinner. This time, Yvette & William joined us. After we were seated, we all quickly decided to order their $30.00 prix fixe menu. The prix fixe is a great deal compare to ordered the entrée and other things separately since most soba entrée cost ~$18.00. Go for the prix fix!!!

[紐約拉麵] 鳥人拉麵 Totto Ramen

Address:366 West 52nd Street, New York, NY 10019-6200
http://tottoramen.com/

Long time no see, NYC!!! I haven't been to the city for so long and I miss my friends and food here a lot. With my old old old friend, V from Taiwan, we  (well...actually it's she) decided to go to Totto Ramen for lunch. Most of my Taiwanese friends loves Japanese style Ramen and there are some pretty good once in NYC. So far I have been to Ippudo & Kambi (both are delicious so that I went back couple times), and it'll be my first try to Totto today.

Brunch at Lena's Cafe & Confections

Address:873 Whalley Avenue New Haven, CT
http://www.lenascafeandconfections.com/

Today's brunch partner is KC!!! Thanks a lot for driving! We planed on going shopping at the Westfarm mall today and before we start, we would like to fill our stomach with delicious brunch item so we can walk forever in the mall!!!

伯爵茶杯蛋糕 Earl Grey Cupcake with Earl Grey Tea Honey Frosting

I haven't baked for real for a while. My sweet tooth was settled with my super simple brownie for a long time and not until recently I've decided to bake something special again.

Dinner at Bespoke

Address:266 College Street, New Haven, CT 06510
http://www.bespokenewhaven.com/

Okay, there are not that many great restaurants in New Haven than in New York City, but this is not going to stop me from eating out and searching for good restaurants and amazing food. This time, we were celebrating Angela's birthday at this modern American restaurant at downtown New Haven. This was my second time coming here.