Ngu Binh Restaurant

Bun bo Hue #2

Bun bo Hue #2

My intern took me here for lunch today. From yelp it has over 60 reviews which made me totally wanna try here!As we enter the restaurant the lady didn’t speak a word of ENGLISH. The menu are under the glass panel on the table…everything was in Vietnamese, not a single word of English… HORROR Thank god my intern. understand Vietnamese. She was able to order food for us.

Well, I ordered Bun bo Hue (#2 on the menus) Bun bo Hue is the spicy pork soup which was super good! The soup is loaded with beef, coagulated pig's blood, pig's feet pork cakes, and topped with onions, cilantro, and scallions. On the side they also gave me a plate of bean sprouts, lettuce, herbs, banana flower/blossom, and a couple wedges of lime.

Anyway, on with the Banh Beo and Banh Nam #11 & 13...it was quite delicious! Fresh, soft, warm, just steamed to perfection; the texture is fluffy, not too hard nor too soft to where it breaks apart; the dried shrimp pieces on top of the Banh Beo added a chewy texture which complimented the steamed cake, and once it gets dipped into the non-fishy fish sauce~

The portions are so big I couldn’t even finish half and I am super full. This place is really cheap and tasty.

Ngu Binh Restaurant

14072 Magnolia St

Westminster, CA

Hot Stuff Cafe

Hot Stuff Cafe

Alice, my elementary school buddy took me to Hot Stuff Café for lunch today. It’s really good to see her again! Thanks to her, now I know another new place to eat around San Gabriel area. I never know where to eat while I am around that area. I recalled when I was in college I love to go to Hot Stuff Café but for some reason it was closed down. Hot Stuff Café server Taiwanese night market steak~~ I heard from Alice that the original owner decided to close down but recently the owner’s kids decided to reopen it at a new location with new flavors.

I ordered Top Sirloin Steak $12 which came with soup and bread. Both soup and bread isn’t bad~ My steak came out SMALL… Alice ordered the same thing but for some reason her steak looks much bigger! The black pepper sauce was pretty good!!!

Overall this place is so different compared to the typical Hong Kong style café. Small restaurant with friendly service. The steak is tasty but I think Lone Star is much much much better~~~Mmn… I think it’s time visit Lone Star Steak House~~~

PS I forgot my camera today so I grab the photos from others website~~~

315 S San Gabriel Blvd Ste A
San Gabriel, CA 91776

(626) 292-7975

www.hotstuff-cafe.com

Hot Stuff Cafe~

Garlic Bread - Came with the meal
Taste so so... the flavor is not in yet~

Corn Soup - Came with the meal
I think mine corn soup is better...

Top Sirloin w/fries $12

Taiwanese Intestine Noodle

My very first time making Taiwanese intestine noodle.
I gotta say taste very very good! I am very impressed with my own cooking now.. wahahaha Everything was from the package, all I did was just follow the instruction in the back. I added intestine that I bough from Sam Woo. YUM~~~ I guess next time I can make this dish to share with friends~

Fukada Restaurant

Finally I am back at Fukada~
This place is sooooo good!
As usual I ordered my favorite udon with Japanese wild veggie & spicy tuna don (rice). Toan ordered seafood salad and crunchy roll. As for Hong she ordered tonkitsu don.
I borrowed this camera from a friend...horrible Sony camera. Most of the photos are dark and blurry.
As for dessert Toan ordered fried ice cream~~~ I love fried ice cream but fukada makes it nasty~~~ Not good at all. I miss how my aunt/uncle makes it for me. I miss my uncle's sushi restaurant in Maryland.

West Coast Seafood Buffet

Went to West Coast Seafood Buffet at Hacienda Heights for dinner.
I heard tons of horro stories about this buffet, not that I wanna test my tummy out. The reason why I went there tonight is cuz I got $50 gift cert. Mom won this gift cert from some event. We are not a big fan of Buffet plus it's all the way up in Hacienda Heights... We been trying to give the gift cert. away but everyone we asked they simply reply errr WEST COAST, horrible food that can get you food poision! Hot foods are too salty, anything they can add water is too water down, and seafood are not fresh. Since the gift cert. will expire coming Monday I decided to take a risk of trying it out myself. ERRRR everyone was right, that place is over priced with horrible food! Todai is much much much better plus you won't have the fear of FOOD POISION!

The buffet is full of food everything looks interesting~~~ Since I read ALL the posts on YELP.COM I know what to eat and what not to eat. First I went for the hot food. The name tag next to the food are mostly WRONG~ So I just take the food that looks more tasty for me. I took a few bite of my hot food, mmn they are not hot. Did they forget to turn on the heat lamp or the food has been sitting there since lunch time??? No my friend mentioned to me that the food tasted like they been sitting there since yesterday. GROSS~~~ Next I went for the raw section (Sushi...) The raw fish has a funcky taste!!!! The rice they used are not sushi rice!!! GROSS~ The cooked rolls are not bad~ The crazy part is that the Sushi chef was on his cell phone yellowing while making sushi. >,< Lord~~ I never seen this before~ Soup is the next item I got... There are 4 different kinds of soups, I got three of them. GROSS, no need to describe in detail... simply GROSS. Oh, at 7pm the rest. were serving 1/2 of lobster per person. Mmn, I never seen lobster meat that's gray looking. The chef even tried to cover the gray meat by adding sauce on top of the meat. I think they bough lobsters that are DEAD! Nasty~ Double Nasty~ They did came out UNI SUSHI, not fresh at all. After one uni sushi I didn't even bother to get more. The dessert soup are very very water down and gross too! Even the ice cream is water down. While eating there I felt my skin was all itchy~ Good part about this place is that, the service is pretty good. They take away the plate as soon as I went for my next plate of nasty food. They didn't even question me about all the left over food. There are signs all over the rest. saying please do not waste food... blah...blah...blah... Man, if the quality of the food is good I don't think anyone would wanna waste the food!

Oh, gotta mention it cost $19 per person at dinner time. OVER PRICED!!! I rather go TODAI where I paid $40 dollars for a really good decent seafood buffet! TODAI has much much better sushi, lobster!!!!

I really wanna know where does WEST COAST BUFFET orders their products, cuz it's HORRIBLE!!! Quality of people who goes there are horrible too~ SAD~~~ I hope this place close down SOON, VERY SOON~