Happy Valentine Fooding

This is another one of my fooding adventure entry. The monthly menu for February at Lisa's Tea Treasures was called Fairy Tale Tea! It was just too cute of a concept to pass up. Here is what they offered:

 

Prince Charming's Passion: romantic blend of Ceylon black tea, pineapple, mango, papaya, kiwi and strawberry
Cinderella's Scone: served with devonshire cream and preserves
Beauty and the Beast: Mushroom Truffle Risotto - a mixed mushroom risotto seasoned with chardonnay, parmesan cheese and white truffle oil in a buttery phyllo dough. Gorgonzola Cranberry Puff-forgonzola cheese, crushed walnuts and cranberries in a pastry shell, accented with a goat cheese rosette and ruby red cranberry.
Princess' Tea Sandwiches: Rapunzel's classic egg salad. Aurora's strawberries and cream cheese. Little Mermaid's lemon cucumber hearts.
Snow White's Love Apple: apple shaped pastry filled with green apple puree, fromage frais cream and speculoos crumbs, covered in a raspberry glaze.

Valentine's Day is here~ I was inspired to make this for Pooky.

He surprised me with a lovely fancy dinner at Le Papillon. 

Obligated picture with my pretty dessert~ It's a fresh berry corbeille.

Happy Holidays!!

I had special Christmas tea with my boyfriend at a location I've been wanting to take him. It's a sweet little spot in Pleasanton. I'm lucky to have someone that is neutral about these things and is willing to tolerate my extreme girly escapades <3. BFF material lol. They were servering their special Xmas menu!

The tea room was dressed up in Christmas decorations.

I'm dreaming of a pink christmas~

Would love to have this mirror in my room.

This fruit salad is so refreshing! With pinapples, mandarins and coconut flakes. not sure what sauce they used.

 

Lastly, tiramisu cake and ice cream.

 

Happy Holidays to you all!

Have a sweet day,

Yumi

SoCal Day 1: Sweets Journey

I was crazy enough to spend the first day in SoCal eating solely sweets. First stop was Beverly Hills for some Sprinkles Ice Cream! A branch originally of Sprinkles Cupcakes, the first cupcake bakery ever. Sprinkles Ice Cream opened their doors a few months ago (May 2012) and I've been very excited to visit! The decor is similar to it's sister store with minimal color and simple but modern decor. They did not have strawberry that day (totally came on the wrong day) so I tried a vanilla ice cream instead with chocolate sprinkles. It's simple but I didn't want to overindulge because I have to save room for many more sweets!

The original Sprinkles Cupcakes.

Their new cupcakes ATM machine where you get can your cupcake without stepping into the shop.

I got my first taste of Sprinkles Ice Cream!

Next stop was IOTA Coffee & Bakery in Koreatown. We ordered a mille crêpe and a honey brick toast.

Bottega Louie was not far from K-town and it's one of the places I absolutely MUST stop by. When I stepped into the store it was like sweet heaven for my eyes with pretty colors and filled with desserts. I just wanted to try everything of each. I did get my box of macarons and stopped by Frances Bakery & Coffee for my second box of macarons. Then we went all the way to San Gabriel for Half & Half Tea House for some milk tea~ Or in my case, strawberry ice milk with pudding and honey boba.

Flavors: earl grey, rose, strawberry, passion fruit, raspberry chocolate, lemon grand cru, mandarin chocolate, vanilla, violet cassis and matcha.

They first opened their doors in 2007.

I'm in sweets heaven and I just want to try everything!!! ♥ Just like in Yumeiro Patissiere

Heading back to Anaheim and our last stop was Tebo Tebo Tea Lounge for their version of brick toast. There were a selection of different toasts you can get but I chose "Paris in a Box" only because of the name, strawberries and macaron I get with it. The condense milk was a nice touch and different from other brick toasts I've tried closer to home.

The day ended with my tummy full of sweets that could make one diabetic but we only get to do this once in a while so it won't kill us . A vacation for me is trying out the local food, being a tourist where I get to take pictures of everything I see, spending time with Pooky and making many kodak moments~

 

have a sweet day everyone,

Yumi

Bridal Shower & More Weddings!

Congrats to Tammy & Minh!

I was honored to be part of their wedding and I have to say that the big day occured on the hottest day of the summer. I had to sleep early the night before to even get up at 1am for our 3am hair and makeup appointment. It was a hectic day but everything worked out well.

Santa Clara University Church where the ceremony will take place.

The wedding party.

 

Now that things with my friend's wedding are all wrapped up, it's now my other friend's turn!

My gift for the bride-to-be

Our mini tea party.

I love my berries!

We were all admiring the pretty bridal cake~

Pastel colored cakepops.

The bridal party

Congrats to Anthony & Linda!

I was asked to be Linda's bridesmaid for one of her biggest celebration, her wedding. We just had to be part of the craze and got to dance to PSY's "Gangnam Style" as our entrance music.

Experienced finger cramps here witht the cakepops...it was quite tedious!

The wedding party.

Here comes the bride all dressed in white~

"I Spy" game for our guests to play.

I liked how we each had our own personal vase for our bouquet.

The wedding cupcakes that I helped with.

A photo of me and Pooky. I was able to camouflage my sunburn! ( ~_ ^ )b

Our elementary/middle school/high school friends! The bride was MIA taking pictures with guests at the door.

 

 

Countdown to Tammy's wedding

As a bridesmaid, my duty was to help plan a bachelorette party/bridal shower for our bride-to-be. I was mainly in charge of afternoon tea. Here are just a few photos of our day, mainly food porn lol.

 

I got the monthly special "French Impressionists' Tea":
- chicken and asparagus tea sandwiches
(poulet et vinaigrette d'asperges sandwiches de the)
- cucumber and lemon tea sandwiches
(le concombre et citron sandwiches de the)
- butternut squash quiche with parmesan cheese and creamy custard in a flaky handmade crust
(quiche aux butternut courgette)
- white chocolate -lavendar scone
(chocolat blanc lavande scon avec conserves de fraisess et creme fraiche)

Broccolini flatbread - aged cheddar fondue, roasted garlic, goat cheese, chile flake and preserved lemon infused olive oil

Truffled French Fries -shallots, parsley, grated grana padano cheese, chipotle aioli.

These were so addicting!

Soba Noodle Wraps - shaved apple, fennel confit, chipotle aioli, fried shiitake mushrooms, cilantro-mint vinaigrette, bibb lettuce cups.