When Food Meets Heart

During my spring break a couple week ago, I visited the southern part of California, or for short 'SoCal'. If you haven't known, 'SoCal' is known for being 'Asian'. To me, it was a paradise because I was able to feel like I was home again. All the food I was craving for could be found there.

One of the days when I was down there, my really good friend took me around to different restaurants to eat. Indeed it was a fattening day but it was well worth it.

Our first stop was Tea Factory Bar (TFB for short). The place was more like a cafe and it had a really nice atmosphere. People that do not know this store would not have known what's inside. For those of you that are Wong Fu Production fans, Wong Fu filmed there for their series "When It Counted" in the episodes when Tammy was hanging out with her friends.

I ordered their 'Nom Nom Milk Tea' and I have to say, it was really good. The milk tea was like a mixture of smoothie and milk tea, with pudding and boba inside.

(Left: Boba or Pearl Milk Tea; Right: Nom Nom Milk Tea)

Along with that, we ordered the Taiwanese popcorn chicken (盐酥鸡). It tasted almost like the authentic ones that you get in those Taiwan night markets. 

The main purpose that my friend bought me here was to eat their brick toast. We got the caramel flavor and it was a bomb. I love how the caramel flavor was not overpowering and it had a hint of honey flavor to it. I highly recommend their brick toast, though just a warning it may be too sweet for some of you~

Next stop was a small taco place. If you were to drive past it, you will never think to stop and try the food. It looks indeed really ghetto but that taco is actually pretty amazing. The taco was pretty small ($1.50) though it was good. 

Just FYI, those are cheese not pasta. When I was taking the photo, my friend and I both thought it looked like pasta salad or some sort. I got the chicken one, though they also offer beef.

My friend knew I miss eating Taiwanese beef noodle soup (牛肉面), and so she took me pretty far to a really amazing beef noodle soup in Diamond Bar. The store was called Bull Demon King Cafe. The food itself is pretty spicy, around $11 a bowl, though the more spicy you get it the more it will cost. 

Since I have been deprived of beef noodle soup back where my university is, eating this was amazing. In my opinion, it tasted pretty authentic and the meat was really tender. I think this restaurant won some kind of competition so in my opinion, it is definitely worth checking out~

We concluded our food adventure by eating Shaved Ice at Class 302. If you live in SoCal and have NEVER been to this store, then you are missing out a lot~! There are three stores in SoCal, one in Cerritos, one in Rowland Heights, and one in Irvine.  The concept of this shop is super cute. They make the shop like the classrooms you see back in Taiwan. 

My friend and I ordered the Mango and Strawberry Shaved Ice. It was pretty good, though since it wasn't manga and strawberries season, they were not sweet. I heard their boba was pretty good too~ There were a lot of people and I have heard my other friends say that the wait can be up to several hours long. I'm glad I didn't have to wait for that long~

ADDRESS:
Tea Factory Bar
Address:
323 S. Mission Dr.
San Gabriel, CA 91776

Number: (626) 872-2969

Bull Demon King Care

Address: 

1155 S. Diamond Bar Blvd.

Ste E.

Diamond Bar, CA 91765

Number: (909)718-9877

Class 302

Cerritos Address:

11446 South SCerritos, CA 90703

(562) 924-1315

Rowland Heights Address:
1015 S Nogales St
Ste 125
Rowland Heights, CA 91748

(626) 965-5809

Irvine Address:18090 Culver DrIrvine, CA 92612

(949) 552-0555