Category Archives: Food

TGIF! – Alex Di Peppe’s Italian Restaurant, Arcadia CA

We love Italian food.  Unfortunately, there aren’t that many Italian restaurants in or around our area that we can regularly go to for good pastas or pizzas.  The other night we decided to get on Yelp to find one.  We noticed a place called Alex Di Peppe’s Italian Restaurant on the top of the list and...

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tgif! The Open Door – Monterey Park, CA

We have been making more of an effort to go out on mini date nights, happy hour or a quick dinner without the kids.  It keeps us sane, especially after a crazy month of the kids being sick, a busy month at work and month full of weddings and photo sessions!  We’ve heard about The...

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TGIF! Hot Pot Hot Pot – Monterey Park, CA

We love hot pot!  We often make it ourselves at home, given that it’s fairly easy to prepare and it requires no cooking skills at all.  =)  Food prep is very time consuming though.  We’re always trying to find a hot pot restaurant that is clean and serves fresh food.  It wasn’t until a couple...

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tgif! Newport Seafood (Tan Cang) + Half and Half Teahouse

We eat out a lot.  The other night we ordered take-out from Newport Seafood – their House Special Lobster is SO GOOD. Milk Green Tea and Mango Green Tea from Half and Half Teahouse – currently our favorite boba teahouse! That was our 11pm dinner!  Lobster and boba.  I can’t think of anything else that...

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TGIF! Seafood Night At Home

We’re so fortunate to have good friends who spoil us rotten with food.  And you know we LOVE food.  :)  Cupcakes, bakery from Porto’s, boba milk teas, baked catfish, sushi…I can go on and on.  So once in a while, we’ll host dinner at home and treat some of our friends to a nice homemade...

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