I’ve been so excited for this mini trip to Southern California for two reasons: to celebrate finally getting my dental hygiene license and to eat good food.
Seriously. My sisters, cousins, and I planned this trip mostly to visit our relatives and to eat.
My ultimate goal? To find macaron ice cream sandwiches.
So today, I wanted to share with you some of the places we visited. =)
We started out early on Thursday morning from San Jose and drove to Southern California. The road trip took about 6 hours. By the time we arrived, we were starving. Since our hotel room wouldn’t be ready until late afternoon, we decided that we would start eating our way through our extensive list of bakeries and restaurants that we wanted to try during our stay.
First stop? Boiling Point in Rowland Heights. Have you ever had Asian hot pot? Basically, you get to choose a soup base and pick a set combo. At this particular location, all the ingredients were already placed in a little pot for us over a flame.
As usual, I have a preference for a vegetable combo. I’m not a vegetarian, but I love vegetables in flavored soup.
This is my tomato vegetable individual pot, which comes with a side of vermicelli noodles and green or black iced tea.
My sisters and cousins ordered a Korean kimchi, a beef hot soup, and a fish curry hot soup.
Since I’m on vacation, I’m not the only one taking photos, so there will be more pictures with me in it.
My sister Angela on the left, me in the middle, and my cousin Linda on the right.
After we finished lunch, we ordered macaron ice cream sandwiches. We wanted to try all four of the flavors they had. I’m a little bit disappointed, although not surprised, that the macarons were harder than the regular ones.
Cappuccino macaron with coffee ice cream
Green tea macaron with strawberry ice cream.
Strawberry Macaron with green tea ice cream.
Lavender macaron with vanilla ice cream.
After lunch, we wandered around a little bit before heading to the hotel to check in. Once we were settled, we met up with a few of my cousin’s friends.
We had dinner at Pokinometry in Anaheim. I love their concept. Instead of rolling the ingredients to sushi into a roll, the ingredients are placed over rice in a bowl. It’s so delicious.
Of course afterwards we had to get dessert. We went to Anaheim’s Packing District. Gorgeous living décor and architecture.
In the Packing District, there are tons of little stores. One of them is Popbar, a place where you can customize your gelato bar or sorbet bar with the toppings of your choice. I ordered a pistachio gelato bar with half dipped dark chocolate and crushed pistachios topped with a white chocolate drizzle. Literally, one of the best things I’ve ever tasted.
This was a little peek in my vacation in Southern California. Hope you enjoyed reading and seeing the pictures!
Until next time!
Sounds and looks like a deliciously fun day!
It really was !
omg! those macaron ice cream sandwiches look awesome!
I know! I wish the macarons weren’t so hard though. But I don’t think it could have been helped since the ice cream is so cold.
As a native Southern California, I totally approve of this post. 😉 I didn’t know about Pokinometry, so I will be checking that out the next time I’m back in SoCal! What a great concept!! I’m not sure I see seaweed in that bowl though. Is there any?
Nope, there was no seaweed. They should have added some!
Looks like a great time… and those Macaron sandwiches look delicious! Thanks for sharing 🙂
You’re welcome!
Pokinometry caught my eye. I have never tried sushi in a bowl, looks yummy! Which of the macaron combos was the favorite?
I think my favorite had to be the strawberry macaron with green tea ice cream. And I’ve never had sushi in a bowl before either, but I might like it better. That way I can attempt to make it at home and not worry about rolling and wrapping in seaweed =)
Great post, Andrea! 🙂 A worthy goal! 🙂
Thanks =)
Y W, Andrea! 🙂 Wishing you a great week ahead! 🙂
Oh my, craving that lavender macaron ice cream sandwich! :). Nice post, thx for sharing
You’re welcome!
Oh my.. Looks like you are having a blast with your road trip hehe.. I’m curious to try out the macaroon with ice cream here. And the gelato.. Looks yummy!
Thanks, Cammal! They were really good! But I felt so guilty afterwards!
Oh man! I love soup and that hot pot looked incredible!
I am obsessed with hot pot! I can eat it every day and not be tired of it because there’s so many combinations!
A Sicilan Gelati maker put me onto coffee and lemon Gelato – scoop of each – it may sound a bit odd , but that coffee macaroon reminded me of it – yummo!
coffee and lemon gelato? That does sound odd. But I’ll give it a try the next time I go out for gelato =)