January 31, 2009

Angela invited us over for dinner at the International living center (ILC) where she is staying :) finally some homecooked food!
the chefs proudly presenting their dishes!
sweet & sour pork
oohhhh bak kut teh!!! i miss it so much!!!
japanese pancake! sooo delicious...
spicy vegetables haha and salad too!
me and angela at the balcony of her apartment
the 8 of us :) me and yuko

January 25, 2009

Reunion Dinner

Chinese new year eve was spent watching a really cute movie "hotel for dogs" with my exchange friends, followed by dinner at some chinese restaurant a few minutes away from the university inn. Chinese food in USA really sucks, if not for the traditional reunion dinner, i wouldnt have wasted my money on lousy chinese food.
this hot and sour soup was so disgusting we asked for a change of soup.
the new bowl of soup was slightly better, but still not very tasty
fried rice was rather decent
cheese wanton and charsiew...not too bad
fried shrimp and popiah were pretty good
then the rest were generally bleah!
fortune cookie!

January 24, 2009

whale watching

I signed up for whale watching organized by UCSC recreation expecting to see lots of whales since this is the gray whales migration season. But it was a huge disappointment :( the cold wind was blowing straight at my face and my ears hurt, and after a while i got rather seasick. I only managed to catch brief glimpses of the whales and soon i decided i have enough and went inside to sleep so i wont puke. And i slept through the rest of the journey because sleeping is the best cure for seasickness...
sealions
that little black thing somewhere in the middle is the whale
after whale-watching we went for dinner at Shogun
overfried katsu
but yummy chicken teriyaki
thengyiu, me, kaifeng and brenda