Dinner at J Zhou Oriental Cuisine

Well, J Zhou Oriental Cuisine is now so famous for their dim sum. Let's try dinner today. I am too tired to cook, so this may be a good reason lol.

There are several dishes in the daily special menu they don't serve anymore, such as the last one. I didn't ask for reason. The photo of fried shrimp dish (12) in this menu is misleading. Actually it looks like in my photo (a little bit disappointed). However, the quality of shrimp is amazing! I'd rather to eat here instead of buy shrimp and cook at home (at this size, it should cost the same price in supermarket, e.g. whole food).

Here is the soup from crab meat and fish with bean leaves. It costs $17.8, pricey ha~~~ It can be enough for 3 people (2 bowls each). If you have only 2 people, don't order soup, it's HUGE!

Another $8.99 dish: roasted duck. All we can say about this one: AMAZING. If you buy a pack of duck legs from whole food, around $8.5, you still have to cook, and not sure the outcome is the same or not. I will come back for this one definitely!

The most impressive dish today is stir-fried sea cucumber with green onion. The seafood is fresh, not frozen, and imported from Mexico. I am afraid of frozen sea cucumber from China which you can find in 99ranch (That one is smelly and black orzzz) but I can't find the fresh one at market, so this restaurant is the best place to enjoin this seafood.

At the end of your meal, they will serve dessert: sweet soup of red bean and red date (Hong kong style).

Meiji Seimen

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Potato salad

Tonkatsu

Curry udon

Udon with bean curd

Tempura

Marinated octopus 

Seaweed

Soba with wild duck

Tempura with rice

Fried chicken rice

Red bean soup with mochi

Sutha thai kitchen

This Thais restaurant is fantastic. Though the space is very small, there is only less then 10 small tables, but they are always busy busy and busy because of take out orders. Within 30 minutes, we counted there is at least 10 people came to take their food. If you are not too hungry, it's worthy to wait.

Sutha Thai kitchen 1161 Irvine Blvd Tustin

Finally, our food arrived. All the dishes are not salty but very tasty (I guess they don't use much MSG). The seafood tom yum are AMAZING: sour enough, hot enough, and sweet enough. The ingredients are very fresh and good qualify (also quantity for $13.00)

Curry fried rice

Red curry with roasted duck

Otafuku noodles house

The store locates at 16525 S Western Ave, Gardena, its own parking lot is behind the restaurant.

Rice with Aji and vegetables: A must try! 

Cold udon with sea eel tempura $13

After you finish the noodles, they will give you the soup (in this red pot) to mix with the remain dipping sauce

Hot soba with sea eel tempura $13

Rice with shrimp tempura

Yamadaya ramen

The restaurant locates in a small plaza, at 1175 Baker street, Costa Mesa. At dinner, if you are lucky, you don't have to wait.... The price is very reasonable. around $9 for a bowl of ramen, or you can add ~ $5.00 for an extra bowl of rice with tofu or curry. If you don't like oily soup ramen, just choose the ramen with fish-based soup, the one with soy sauce is suggested.

Spicy ramen

 

The best spicy ramen I've ever eat in America. They don't use Vietnamese spicy sauce as the other stores. Here is the soup after mixing the hot sauce.

mapo tofu rice

Curry rice

Cold (not really cold) noodles with fish-based soup

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