Sentosa Asian Restaurant and Bakery
107 Lake Street
Kirkland, WA
(425) 889-0689
Cuisine:
Dim Sum, Chinese, Bakeries
July 2, 2007
miserably awful shaved ice
It was worse than miserable. For $6.50, I got the worst shaved ice ever. I feel so robbed.
The restaurant is very fancy looking with the main restaurant on the left and a bakery section with a small seating area on the right. Looking for a quick recharger, I went to the bakery for some shaved ice that they advertised on their window.
After the shaved ice disaster (details below), I have no intentions of coming back here. I just have no faith in their food. What restaurant in the right mind could possibly serve kidney and pinto beans in sugared milk and pass that off as shaved ice?! Not only that, it was expensive (for shaved ice)! I just hope they aren’t passing off other disasters as ‘fine asian food.’
Dishes I tried:
Shaved Ice with Red Beans, Lychee, and Sweet Condensed Milk
I ordered a bowl of shaved ice with red beans, lychee, and sweet condensed milk. That’s a super standard shaved ice order.
After a fairly long wait, my bowl of shaved ice came with kidney beans, PINTO BEANS, and freshly peeled lychees swimming in a bowl of milk with sugar. No red beans. No sweet condensed milk. PINTO BEANS?! KIDNEY BEANS?! The lychees were the only things redeeming about the shaved ice as they were freshly peeled. It tasted awful. It was salty, beany, and melting in watery milk. I could totally understand if a restaurant was out of certain ingredients. I would expect them to let me know instead of using bad substitutions and charging me for them (if they even were substitutions). This mishap is as bad as a restaurant serving mashed stale bread to a customer who ordered mashed potatoes.
Blue Onion Bistro
5801 Roosevelt Way Ne
Seattle, WA
(206) 729-0579
Cuisine:
American, Comfort Food, Breakfast
April 18, 2007
Warm and Fuzzy Feelings
This is my favorite place to go to spend some quiet time with the BEST comfort food in town. It’s a small place with maybe just over 10 tables. Not the best place if you want a quickie dinner. Service is very friendly, very good. The food is amazing! Their recipes are a tad bit different than mom’s, which makes them really exciting. My favorites are their Chicken Fried Steak, Blue Cheese Macaroni and Cheese, and Hot Cocoa. They never skimp on decorating my hot cocoa. :)
Paul's Place
7012 Orangethorpe Ave
Buena Park, CA
(714) 522-5050
May 4, 2007
Quickie burger joint
Saturday noon yielded a fairly long line at the counter, but it didn’t take more than 3 minutes to get through. I had their chili cheeseburger. It was okay. Not exactly the same gut-lubricating chili that I love in my burgers. If you like drier mild chili, you might like it. But! They do have Orange Bang and service was super fast considering how many people were inside. Lots of good sized tables and seats inside. The drive thru was packed.
Dishes I tried:
Chili Cheeseburger
Chili dry and mild. Okay.
Arturo's Puffy Taco
15693 Leffingwell Rd
Whittier, CA
(562) 947-2250
Cuisine:
Mexican
Zono Sushi
230 S Lake Ave Ste C
Pasadena, CA
(626) 795-3898
Cuisine:
Japanese, Sushi, Asian
Roscoe's House of Chicken & Waffles
830 N Lake Ave
Pasadena, CA
(626) 791-4890
Cuisine:
Soul Food, Southern/Soul, Breakfast
Cafe Juanita
9702 Ne 120th Pl
Kirkland, WA
(425) 823-1505
Cuisine:
Northern Italian, American, Italian
Taipan Kitchen
1629 S Azusa Ave
Hacienda Heights, CA
(626) 581-8531
turtley
07/02/2007is that how it looked when you first got it? i’d totally demand my money back.