Jagabee Fries

My mom brought home some snack for me. This was from her co worker and apparently this is new in Japan. 

I have no idea why it's called that.. it doesn't mean anything. It just sounds goofy. 

The packaging is so cute, it's like a little cup noodles but packaged better. 

These look like real fries and tasted like real fries. They are super crunchy. I wouldn't be able to tell the difference between these and the real fries. They even have potato skin on them still. 

BESTEST CAKE IN THE WORLD

The cake! Her Cake was the best thing about her birthday!! We had 2 cakes. One cake my dad bought for my mom. It was vanilla ice cream cake. It was okay. I wasn't really a big fan because it had stale brownies on top. The second cake shown below, came from our family friend. Apparently this lady only bakes for her friends and people she knows. So we got the exclusive cake.

This cake came in a box like this. This was super cute and convenient to carry. 
Apparently this lady only uses fresh fruits for her cakes. This was honestly the bestest cake I've had in my life. This was sooooooo good. It wasn't tooo chocolat-y and it was just right. The texture, the flavor, the fruits she chose for the cake. It was just perfect! In between layers are bananas and chocolate. I honestly think I can eat the whole cake myself.. I really could, in one setting. 

I took 2 pieces. 

Mum's Birthday at Somboon's

For my mom's birthday celebration we went out to a seafood place called Somboon. The seating at this restaurant was my least favorite. It looked like a school cafeteria. This place was soo plain. The atmosphere at this place was horrible. There were more workers standing around all over. There were more staff working there than people eating there. They were just standing right behind us watching each of us eat. 
I ordered the 'mango freeze' it's just mango smoothie. This was sooooo good. Then right after my mango juice arrived our oysters showed up like this... on ice. This was really good. I don't normally eat oysters raw but this was good. 

These are garlic shrimp. Obviously they are called that because they are cut in half and stuffed with a whole lot of garlic. I honestly wasn't a big fan of this. I like my shrimp plain rather than having them smell and taste like garlic. 
Yes, these were actually pretty huge. We ordered the steam kind because I don't like my crab tasting like other things. The natural taste is the best. 

and the typical seafood salad. I'm just so addicted to them. This wasn't as good as the one I had at the other place though. 
I'm not really a big fan of fish so I wasn't so crazy about this one. I just thought it had a really cool fish shaped burner thing. The fish didn't taste too fishy though. 

Scallion Pancakes

Right after the No.8 Ramen we decided to get some more food because we don't stop eating in this country.  These are one of my favorite things to eat. They are scallion pancakes, not like the Chinese food, this is Thai style. They deep fry the doughy thing on the outside and they stuff them with scallions inside. These are so good with some spicy soy sauce dip. 

Ramen #8

I have been eyeing this place called Hachiban Ramen for the past 2 weeks. This is a chain restaurant and I see it everywhere. I scoped out the menu before and it looked so good. We finally tried it out today. Hachiban means No.8 in Japanese. I have no idea why it's called that.. wouldn't you want to name your restaurant No.1 instead of No.8 if anything?This is their logo. Horrible, I know. But the food was much better than the logo. Honestly... My mom ordered their signature ramen. This was really really good. The soup tasted like super authentic Japanese broth for ramen. The portion was great for the price. 

I ordered green onion ramen. This came with miso broth underneath. The broth was really good but they could use a little less salt though. I think the number 8 thing in the center of everything is cute but it's a little cheesy. We don't really want No. 8 in our food. 

Ian ordered yakisoba. This dish.. I really think I could make better yakisoba. This was very salty and mushy. The noodles were over cooked so it was super soft and the sauce they used for yakisoba was just not good. 

Cooking With Mom

Today we made grilled marinated pork with Thai dip. The pork has this light flavor that goes perfect with this Thai dip. 

This dip is spicy, salty, and sour all at once. Kinda like the Thai salads but this is more intense in flavor. You dip the pork in here and it's tasty.

We usually have miso soup often when we eat in because my mom is all Japanese and she believes that miso soup is good to have with meals because it cleans out your system blah blah. Since okras are good for your heart we put them in the miso soup. They made the soup a little slimy but this still tasted pretty good. 

Otaya

Today Tomo (my brother) had a day off work so we decided to go shopping at this mall called Emporium to buy some school supplies for him. For lunch we stopped by this Japanese restaurant called Otaya located on the top floor of Emporium. This is also because Tomo lovesss Japanese food. Tomo recommended this charcoal grilled chicken over rice because he's had it before and he said it was really good. So we both ended up getting the same thing. 

 This dish was soo good. The rice was the real Japanese rice, sticky/fat/round. All the ingredients were fresh. Chicken was super tasty and being able to smell the charcoal-ness on the chicken just adds sooo much more to the food. 

Good choice Tomo!

Zen

Since today we felt like ballers we headed over to this area called Crystal.. totally white people spot and a whole lot of ballers chill here apparently. People around here were so snotty looking. I think people in this area are snotty because they have to pay over a hundred million baths to for some land in this area. We were too lazy to walk around with these snotty people so we just walked over to Zen-- a Japanese restaurant that was the closest to the parking lot. March ordered seasoned calamari, this tasted super good. The garlic scent in the food was super strong though.  Tomo and I ordered Beef Udon, this was delicious. I think the beef was a little over cooked though. We also ordered Takoyaki- octopus cakes. These was really good compared to the one I had at the mall the other day. They were super creamy and intensely flavored. 

This restaurant was super nice, the seating were awesome and it was totally clean. The portions were sooo small considering the price was so high. But I guess that's how rich bitches stay skinny. 

Down The Street

Right before we headed over to this club  called Route 66 we stopped in for dinner down the street from where we live. This place is called Saranrom, totally creative.. considering this development is called Saranrom. 

I ordered this seafood soup not knowing that this whole thing is gonna come in a pot. This tasted so good. They have seafood in this soup with vegetables, seaweed, and glass noodles. They come with the burner thing underneath. 

My brother ordered basil chicken with fried egg on top. It's sunny side up Thai style. They deep fry it. It looks ridiculous but it tastes pretty good. The basil chicken thing is really good. The rice comes in star shape. Totally cute. 

This is what I ordered. This is pork fried with garlic and pepper. My rice came in star shape too!! This was yummy. 

This dish totally murdered all of the dishes above. This was fried morning glory salad. The salad comes separately.  It's the standard sweet/sour/spicy/salty Thai seafood salad with the morning glory. The morning glory is crunchy and somewhat plain. Basically, you pour the salad on top of the vegetables. This was soooooo gooood. 

Octopus Cakes

These aren't considered Thai food. It's Japanese but they have them in Thailand for just as good as the ones in Japan. I guess the countries are close enough together that you can just get them here.These are called Takoyaki in Japanese. I have no idea what they call them in Thai. They are little creamy balls. It's crunchy on the outside, its creamy and they stuff the inside with huge octopus pieces. The sprinkle them with seaweed pieces. These are totally delicious as long as you don't look at the grill, it looks a little shady and messy.

Right after that we went over to this ice cream place called Swensen. Apparently this is from San Francisco I've never heard of it but obviously that's because I'm from the East Coast. The ice cream here is alright, not as creamy as Hagen Daz but I mean nothing can compare to that.
My mom ordered some green tea ice cream sundae with chocolate fudge.
My dad made me order this ice cream called 'Sweet Princess' he said this would suit me. I changed the strawberry ice cream to the green tea one because I hate artificial strawberry flavor, they always taste overly sweet and smell like dirty rags covered in canned strawberries. The green tea ice cream was good, I like it, it's never too sweet.
Ian ordered 2 scoops of ice cream with whipped cream topping. He got 2 coffee scoops. When he got his ice cream we all kinda laughed because they gave him whipped cream 'topping' on the side. It's like wtf?
Shouldn't whipped cream be ON TOP of the ice cream???  yeah... weird.