Enjoying food and fun!

Well, last night I got into some fun and food!! Those of you that know me know that I'm about the biggest FOODIE ever!! Those of you that don't really know me, let me tell ya...I'm the biggest FOODIE ever!! LOL! I love good food, particularly ethnic food. I'm sure you can tell by my blog that I love food. I used to even have a favorite and that was Thai. But now, gosh! I don't even know because I love food so much so deciding what to eat on any given day is kind of crazy making! But last night I went out and hit up some Asian hot spots in Monterey Park and Alhambra. Well, they were hot for me anyway.

Don't ask how I didn't take pictures of dinner but I didn't. But Yelp helped me out a little there! At least I got me on the dessert! You'll see...

Dinner was at Dean Sin World. Here it is on Yelp: Dean Sin World. This is a little hole in the wall. And let me tell you how incredibly delicious their food is!!!! Oh man!!!! I really enjoyed it! As an appetizer they serve peanuts with seaweed and sugar - CRAZY good combo!!!

Seaweed peanuts

We ordered 3 things: spicy wontons, shrimp wontons (soup), and pork bean and egg noodles.

Pork Bean and Egg Noodles

They were all such simple dishes but the flavors were light and intriguing! I wish I could go back right now!!! They are that good. I don't know if they make their own noodles right there but they sure taste like they do. They're incredibly fresh tasting and ridiculously sublime!!! At any rate, this will not be my last visit to this restaurant as it is definitely divine and I clearly need to eat my way through the menu. In the future there will definitely be photos!!!

Then it was off to 168 Market to purchase my best friend KABOCHA!!!! Or as they write on their sign KAPOCHA! They had a lot of funky looking ones so I just made out with the 3 best looking ones!! And some seaweed of course! And guess what I made at 8:00 this morning? That's right! Roasted kabocha!!! My old friend is back...YAY!!!!!

After the Asian market it was off to find some dessert. I thought I wanted something chewy and lightly sweet but what I ended up with was some chewy things to be sure and sweet. Oh, yes...this is where Phoenix Dessert comes into play. We ended up ordering Iced Mango Dessert (at least I think that's what it's called) - an incredible combination of shaved ice, custard sauce I think, mango puree, and tapioca.

Mango Goodness

First Bite - Do I look HAPPY or what?!?

We also had the variety pack of mochi (green bean with black sesame seeds, mango, taro, and red bean). I thought for sure that my favorite was going to be the mango. It definitely wasn't.  The other 3 had fillings and the mango was just a chunk of mango in the middle and the actual mochi part tasted like flour and that was it, no flavor at all!  Of the other 3 the green bean and sesame was my favorite! It was so delicious! I don't even like red bean but that was actually pretty good and the taro was delish! I love that stuff!

Photo from Yelp, not mine but wanted you to see how pretty they are

Yes, I started eating them first!!! L to R: Mango, red bean, taro, green bean

 So it was a fantastic night and so much fun to eat food I really enjoyed! No, I don't plan on eating like this every week but have been dying to try some fun Asian flavors so that is what I did last night. And I thoroughly enjoyed it!!

Also I did end up working out yesterday. I trained shoulders and then did about 30 minutes on the elliptical which was really nice for a change. I really enjoyed it. And I also did fasted cardio this morning at 6am!!! Yep, that was early for me so I needed a nap later.

Today's food hasn't been nearly as exciting as yesterday but it's been pretty good.

Meal 1) Erin's Cranberry Orange Cereal Bar and 1/2 cup Voskos nonfat yogurt

2) 5 egg whites, 1/4 cup oatmeal and kaboch

3) Pork chop, spaghetti squash and kabocha gnocchi

4) Kabocha pudding and Kamut flakes cereal (how much? I don't know...but more than I should have had :-))

5) Salad with tilapia (any minute now)

6) Either a veggie omelet or Chocolate Protein Cake...hmmm?

That's about it! I didn't do weights today because I wasn't in the mood. How about that? Besides there's always tomorrow...hee hee!!

"No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut." ~Channing Pollock

“Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.” ~Socrates