L.Y.L. Garden Seafood Restaurant in Monterey Park

Decoration is a bit dated and not a big restaurant, but the food is nice. Like many restaurant in the area, they have deals on lobsters ($3.99 each), prawns and pigeons ($2.99 each). In order to take this offer, you will need to order over $25 for the dinner. We were impressed with the Scallops on Tofu, black chicken soup and fried fish. $60 for 5 people, reasonably priced.

Tea Station Alhambra

Tea Station is a chain cafe/restaurant. We came here today for a late lunch. The food was surprisingly good as we weren't expecting that at a tea house. We ordered shredded beef noodles and fried fish fillet with rice. From the long list of tea on the menu, we chose Taro milk tea. The tea was yummy! We will definitely come back to try other types of tea. Service was rather slow though. Still highly recommended.

Big 3 Seafood BBQ Chinese restaurant in Alhambra

Big 3 Seafood BBQ aka New Macau Street... Another day, another lobster. This restaurant offered roasted pigeon and lobster for $2.99 each. We opted for the lobster and 4 other dishes for our dinner. Food was delicious. Restaurant's relatively small and there's queue when we arrived at 8pm. They also have lunch special - buy 4 get 1 free, and night time special (from 9:30 to midnight) - buy 3 get 1 free. Service... so so.

Alejo's Presto Italian Restaurant in Westchester

My uncle brought us to this fine busy Italian restaurant in Westchester. We were served bread with garlic, which's different to those that served olive oil. House red wine was good too. Their Pizza weren't the typical American deep pan pizza, they were just like what we used to have in Europe - thin crust. The Spaghetti was creamy and delicious. The photo didn't do justice to the food. Halibut was a let down though, dry and rather fishy. All in all, good service and we will come back for more.

New Capital Seafood in Rosemead

Like most Chinese restaurant around Monterey Park area, this restaurant has special offer on lobsters. We came to this Chinese restaurant for lunch. However, in order to get our hands on these lobsters, we had to order at least 6 dishes of dim sum. You can get the lobster for $7.99 each, also it's buy one get one free. What a deal! Just look at that picture, isn't it yummy? You also get dim sum ladies pushing trolleys in this restaurant.

Surah Korean BBQ in Buena Park

A nice Korean BBQ restaurant. Loads of side dishes and meat were tasty. The cold noodles were great and the peaches compliment well with it. Maybe a bit pricey but worth the money I guess. Service was good. The restaurant has a TV showing my favourite channel - Gol TV! There is a Korean supermarket in the same complex, handy if you want to stock up some groceries on the way home.

Harbor Kitchen in Alhambra

A Hong Kong style cafe in Alhambra. Loads of dishes to choose from. After 3pm, they serve afternoon tea menu, which is much cheaper. But we were there before 3pm. We ordered shredded pork rice noodle and Japanese grilled unagi rice today, but they were not as good as the other dishes we had before. Disappointment.

Arirang BBQ Resturant in Irvine

We like this place. More authentic than yesterday's Shik Do Rak restaurant. We ordered BBQ set A, that came with 4 types of meat, pot of steamed egg and a bottle of my favourite Korean beer - OB. Price is slightly more expensive - around $70 (included 10% discount voucher), but there were plenty leftover to take home. We will definitely go back. Very friendly and welcoming, good service.

Shik Do Rak Korean BBQ in Irvine

A busy Korean BBQ restaurant, always seems to have a long queue outside. Today we came here earlier, around 5:30pm and managed to get ourselves seats without any waiting. We ordered a combo set #2 - a mixture of beef including two types of beef, dinner was about $55 for 3 people. Meat's good and we were all full. Queue was building up by the time we finished our dinner. We were given the bill even before we asked for it, tried to get rid of us asap. Anyhow, I guess it is one of the good Korean restaurants in Irvine, still prefer restaurants in K-town though.

Curry House Irvine

We tried out the Curry House for the first time tonight. It is located at Culver Drive, off Freeway 5. Many choices on the menu and not just curry on offer. Three drinks and three dishes for 3 people cost $50, reasonably priced. I had Pork Katsu, as seen on the photo, and tasted good. But the portion is relatively smaller than those in other restaurants in the US. Nonetheless, this Curry House reminded us of the family restaurants in Japan. We filled out a customer survey form at the end of the dinner as well. Curry House has other branches in SoCal - Little Tokyo, Torrance, Cypress, Gardena, Puente Hills, Cupertino and Monterey Park.

California Pizza Kitchen in Tustin's Market Place

After watching a movie at the Edward Cinema Tustin Market Place, we had dinner in the nearby restaurant called California Pizza Kitchen (aka CPK). Price is okay, 3 people for $40 - 1 starter to share and 3 main dishes. We were given a 'Thank You Card', basically a prize winning ticket inside, it could be anything from a 4-night stay at the Four Seasons Hotel at Beverly Hills to cash reward. However, the catch is... you cannot open the envelope and reveal the prize yourself as it becomes null and void; so you have to go back to the restaurant to let the CPK manager to open it for you in your next visit. So tempting to tear it open!

99 Ranch Market in Irvine

We went to the 99 Ranch Market in Culver Plaza for the first time. A variety choice of fruits to choose from. There are two '99' in Irvine and we chose this one as it looked newer and cleaner. There are also shops in the complex where you can get Chinese cakes, roast duck, roast pork etc.

Cho Dang Tofu & Korean B.B.Q. in Irvine

We went to Cho Dang Tofu for dinner tonight. Reasonably priced and friendly atmosphere. Lady owner kept talking to us in English and explained everything. $30 for 3 people. Free ice cream as well. Resturant is inside the Northwood Center. There is a Korean supermarket nearby as well.