One Dollar Double Cheese Burger

Today, I had some Mc Donald’s. It was about 2 o’ clock in the afternoon and

I have not had anything to eat, so I ordered two double cheese burgers, two mc

chickens, a large fry, and a big Mac for my little sister. When we got back home,

the first thing I bit into was the double cheese burger and it tasted delicious. The

mix of ketchup, mustard, and grilled onions gave an excellent taste to the two

greasy meat patties that were placed between the glossy buns.


I thought to myself, “Whoever invented this is a genius.” Mc Donald’s double cheese

burger has two meat patties instead of the normal and plain burger that just has

one. It is small enough where it fits perfectly into an average size person’s hand

and well put together so there is not any real mess to clean up. For example, those

burgers that person orders at a five star restaurant hoping for it to be good

because he or she just paid ten bucks for it. (Mc Donald’s double cheese burger only

being one dollar, which is affordable and tastes great.)


In the end, the person leaves unsatisfied because the five-star burger fell apart

and the person ended up eating it with a folk. No one wants to eat burgers and fries

with a folk. When I was holding the double cheese burger in my hand, I felt the

softness of the bun and knew when I took the first bite it was going to be good. The

reason why people prefer finger food over using utensil is because when people feel

their food they are using one of their five senses, touch, to make a deep

connection. The connection comes from touching the actual food that brings back

familiar feelings from past memories.


Overall, I was satisfied eating some Mc Donald’s for today. I know it might not be

as good as eating at a restaurant, but it is affordable and me being a college

student work out great. I got plenty of food for a good price that filled up my

stomach, which makes my day happy.

Dim Sum

A few days ago, I went with a couple of friends to get some Dim Sum. For those who

have never heard of Dim Sum before, it is a type of Chinese restaurant that serve a

variety of food such deserts, fruits, vegetables, meat, and mainly seafood dishes.

Most of the dishes are light dishes meaning that there is not a lot of one item on a

single plate. People that eat at dim sum can have a variety of food to choose from.

Since I have not had Dim Sum in such a long time, when I first bit into the steamed

meat dumplings it brought tingling sensation to my taste buds.


I think everyone should try dim sum because it will be a perfect eye opener

for people to experience a part of the Chinese culture. There is no other restaurant

experience that can match it. The restaurant hires old fragile Chinese women to push

around these heavy food carts around the restaurant, so the customers can see and

pick the type of food they desire right there and then. No other style of restaurant

that I know of offers such a unique service, where I can see what I like and have it

on the table in a matter of seconds. I call this great service. One of the most

impressive things about Dim Sum is having a huge variety of food to choose from.

People can choose from wontons to lotus leaf rice or egg tart to sesame seed balls,

but I am going to talk about one of the more popular dishes called Sui Mai.


Let’s start with the most dish called steamed meat dumplings or in the in the

ancient language, Siu Mai (sue my). Steamed meat dumplings are made by pressing a

thin round egg-and-flour wrapper around a bite-size meat filling, which is usually

pork, and leaves the top of it expose. For my personal opinion, the reason for it

being very delicious is because it is juicy, soft and gives off a good meaty taste.

Also, a very important thing about them is that they are bite size. This is

important because when eating people do not want troubles such as having to pick and

spit out bonds or even use a knife cut into the meat. People generally like easy and

simple task. Therefore, besides steamed meat dumplings being extremely delicious,

they are also easy to eat which makes them reasonable to be one of the most favorite

dishes of dim sum.


Overall, I always have a good time eating at Dim Sum because having a good selection

of food to choose is always a plus. Also, it is typically the norm to eat five

different dishes because they are so tiny, which is a good to try different kinds

foods. Finally, I would recommend anyone who likes to eat Chinese food and seafood

to go and try Dim Sum.

What is it Called? Thai Iced Tea

Since the beginning of my life I have been integrated into the Asian

culture. To be more specific I have been raised in a Vietnamese and Chinese

household where plenty of chow mein, fried rice, and pho dishes have been created

and devoured. I must admit that people raise in an Asian culture do have a good

section of food to eat, but one of my favorite items to choose when I am at a

Vietnamese or Chinese restaurant is not a dish, but a drink. Thai iced tea is one of

the must have that I always choose when I have the chance to have with my meal.


The other day my friend John, who is Caucasian, and I went to eat at Pho 79,

which is located in Orange County on the intersection between Brookhurst and

Hazard. This Pho restaurant has been in business since my dad came to Southern

California more than 25 years ago, so food must be good since it has been in

business for such a long time. As the food that we ordered came and was placed on

our table I asked, “John, have you ever tried Thai Tea before” and he said, “No, I

never heard of that before. What is it?” A part of me knew that he have never tried

it before, so I ordered us two Thai Iced Teas. When the waiter brought out the Thai

Iced Teas he gave a confused look and said, “Why does it have a orange and white

layer?” As I laughed quietly, I told him, “Just mix it together with your straw and

try it.” As he began to sip the drink his face started to light up as if he was

watching fire works for the first time. At that very moment I knew that he loved it,

but just to make sure I asked if he liked it and he responded by saying, “I love it,

I have to get another one…What is it called again?”


What makes Thai Iced tea such a good drink is that it is different from the

everyday soda, water, and juice drinks that I see every day on campus and in the

local American stores that I frequently visit. I do not think there will be ever see

the day when there will be vending machines or soda dispensers that has Thai Iced

Tea as a selection. Having its own originality because it consists of milk and Thai

tea makes it a hard drink to compete with because it gives off a sweet creamy taste,

which the majority of the population loves. Also, having Thai Iced Tea brings back

good childhood memories when I would eat with my parents and grandparents. Overall,

Thai ice tea will satisfy any person’s sweet tooth and make any Asian style meal

more enjoyable.

Greek Gyro

While at UCSD, I was walking around looking for something to eat for lunch. As I

walked into the Price Center I saw Panda Express, Burger King and Grilled Greek. I

have not had a Gyro in awhile so I thought to myself, “Why not, Greek food would be

something good and different.” When I ordered the Gyro plate I chose seasoned

French fries and rice for my side orders. It also came with Greek bread which was

cut up into four triangles and Greek meat. I could not tell whether the Greek meat

was either pork or beef, but it was delicious because each bite of it consisted of

a peppery meaty taste. It is the best way I can describe it.

Also, when I was ordering I thought it was interesting that Hispanic people

were cooking and severing me Greek food. I have never met a Greek person in my life

so maybe the people working behind the counter were Greek, but one thing is for sure

though is that they spoke Spanish pretty fluently. It just makes me wonder if I was

eating authentic Greek food because all the Greek food I have tried so far were from

either the dining hall at Cal State Long Beach or from little restaurant in shopping

malls severed by people who identify themselves as Greek during work hours.

When a different ethnicity serve another ethnicity type of food one thing

pops into people minds, “I am not eating authentic food.” Since people are thinking

they are not eating authentic food the business of the restaurant will go down the

drain. People want to eat different authentic food from other cultures because they

want to experience what other people eat in their daily lives. Only when ethnicity

serves different types of food within their own culture is when people will think it

is authentic food.

For example, having a Hispanic person serving orange chicken from Panda Express will

make people question the authenticity of the food. But having an Asian person is a

different story. It would not matter if that Asian person is Japanese, Chinese,

Vietnamese, and maybe even an Indian could pass severing orange chicken from Panda

Express and people will think it genuine Asian food. As long as it appears correct

people will buy into it.

All and all, my experience at Grilled Greek has been fantastic because I

have always loved biting into that peppery meat. Even though, I do not have anything

else to compare it to. The service of the place was great and I had no problems with

the workers. Just one thing to keep in mind when ordering food is that food of a

certain culture served by a different ethnic maybe not be authentic.

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LW Pizza

Today, I ate pizza in the dining hall and it tasted like anything other

pizza, nothing special. As I was filling my stomach with unsatisfying slices of

pizza, I kept thinking of the delicious pizza I had a few night ago from LW pizza.

At 11 o’ clock, my friend came rushing into my room saying, “Hey, let’s get some

pizza right now,” I was all for it, but I was not too sure if anything pizza places

was opened late at night. But sure enough my friend says, “Yeah, LW Pizza opens

until 12 AM” and I was like “Sweet!” We ordered two 16 inch pizza with two toppings

on each for only 25 dollars. One pizza had the pepperonis and pineapples and the

other had pepperonis and sausages. When we got back to the dorms, the first bite I

took out of the pizza was fantastic. It was overwhelmingly greasy, but I enjoyed the

flavor because I think the grease enhance the ingredients.

LW Pizza being opened during late hours is a smart idea because having to be

near a college campus will attract plenty of business. College students are always

staying up late doing homework, partying or probably just wasting time doing

something useless. When clock passes that certain time late at night, I assure you

that 9 out of 10 students who are awake are starving out of their minds. Another

reason that customers are attracted to LW Pizza is that people can taste the quality

of the pizza. Most of their pizzas are thin crusted. The fresh ingredients on the

pizza such as diced pineapples and clean cut pepperonis are more noticeable and

tasteful. Customers can enjoy the favors on the pizza rather than getting lost

inside the crust. A general reason people love to order pizza is because they can

practically put any toppings they want on the pizza. Toppings such as anchovy, green

peppers, olives, bacon, tomato, garlic, ham onion mushroom, chicken, and there are

tremendous amounts of toppings out in the world that I cannot name them all. The

idea of creating something of your own has been always been attracting society.

Overall, my first experience with LW Pizza has been great so far and I plan

to go back real soon. I recommend anyone who wants to try good quality pizza go to

LW Pizza because their service is great and the ingredients that they use are fresh

and can actually be tasted. My friends and I enjoyed the pizza very much that they

plan to make LW Pizza a weekly event, which is great. I can enjoy good quality

greasy pizza every week now!

Chipotle - A Higher Quality of Mexican Food

I just woke up from a food coma I had from eating Chipotle. I see Chipotle as a

higher class of Mexican food because the environment of the restaurant is pleasant

to be in, it’s well lit, and there are chairs for the customers to sit inside the

restaurant. As oppose to the regular Mexican stands or trucks where the location are

not in the best location in the world and a customer’s option of seats at night are

sitting on sidewalk in the cold or sitting in the car with the heater on. I can see

people choosing Chipotle over authentic Mexican food because the atmosphere is

better, quality of the food looks better, and customers can custom make their own

burrito.

I love Chipotle because they allow customers to make their unique type of burrito.

It’s like a Subway, but for burritos. I ordered steak burrito. The lovely cilantro

lemon rice is the first ingredient that they add to the burrito and it is amazing.

Coming from a Asian family that eat plain old rice everything makes rice seem little

boring, but when I tried the cilantro lemon rice from Chipotle for the first time it

was like rice and ecstasy mixed together. Then additional ingredients were added to

complete my burrito such as black beans, marinated steak, fresh tomato salsa, green

chili-salsa, sour cream, grated cheddar cheese, and romaine lettuce. Altogether, it

became a fulfilling and satisfied meal to eat.

This craze of custom making your own food has really caught on today. For example,

say someone did not like black beans so they still have an option of choosing pinto

beans or no beans at all. Another option Chipotle offers is having guacamole with

your burrito. Even though, I did not choose to have it this time other customers

also have the option to having their burrito with or without it. Ultimately, what

I’m trying to say is that Chipotle offers the element of picking and choosing the

different kinds of ingredients to satisfy different customer’s preferences.

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Home Cook Food

Home cook food has different meanings for everyone. What it means to me is the family sitting around the table trying to have a comfortable conversation with each other without having to tear each other throats out. Anyways, there are always three main elements to our family dinner: rice, soup, and a main dish. During my childhood, I hated eating at the table with the family at dinner time because I eagerly wanted to watch my Power Puff Girls cartoons while having dinner. Also as a kid, I’ve always wanted to be like those Americans family like the ones I saw on television with their plate stand, which held their food, in the living room eating their meal and watching dinner at the same time. But as I get older I started to realize that eating with my parents is very important because it’s not always going to be there.

My dad was the fabulous cook of the family. My all time favorite dish that he made occasionally during my childhood was the sweet and sour chicken. I loved that plate so much! It was one of the memorable things from my childhood. The chicken was sliced up into bitable size then pepper and salt was added to give it more of a lively flavor. Next, it would be hand powdered in flour, so that when it was fried it will have that crispy taste to it. But what made me really love the dish was the sweet and sour sauce. Oh my god, Mr. Tsuyuki you’re so right. The sauce had tiny amount of vinegar which you couldn’t taste at all, diced green onions, smashed oranges which made the majority of the sauce, and sliced pineapples. I remember which eat bite I had it had to be with a slice pineapple. It was delicious. It brings back memories and makes me want to become a kid again. I’d always thought I would be a kid forever.

These home cook meals we have with our families is important because it’s the one time out of the day that we spend quality time with each other. Where we share our daily experiences and make those key moments that we will remember for a life time. Even though I had it all my life, every time I drive back home I still enjoy eating rice and my dad’s cooking because it’s one of those things that will always be a part of me.

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Sushi For Sushi

Today, I went to eat the a kind of food that I think that nine out of ten people will have this kind of food as their top three food to eat. Sushi, I don’t think or recall ever hearing anyone saying, “I hate sushi, it’s the nastiness thing in the world”. Since I haven’t had sushi in awhile that first bite of T.N.T roll I had was amazing. It was like the first time I heard the Beatles. Excuse me. I’m getting a little ahead of myself right now. Sushi tends to be people favorite food because it’s not a part of most people’s daily diet. Being bite sizes and made easy to eat makes it amazing. People can either devour their California Roll in one bite or bite a quarter of it and savior that mouth-watering crap meat.

My friends and I were eating at a locate sushi restaurant that’s very close to Cal State Long Beach called Niko Niko Sushi. If you never heard of the place before it’s in the same shopping center as Ralph, Yogurt Land and Cha For Tea, which is on the 7th and Bellflower. I never eaten there before, but it was a good experience. What makes sushi appealing to most people is because there are several different varieties of sushi. Some made with just chewy raw meat and sticky rice, but the more extravagant ones are made to attract the customers like a pretty walking down the street trying to make money. Besides the sushi, there’s orange fish eggs, tiny green onions, watery pink shrimps, white mayonnaise, and blackish brown soy sauces all combine together to create a fantastic sushi dish that attracts called the T.N.T. I’ve forgotten how many different kinds of sushi dishes there are, but Niko Niko Sushi had some dishes I had never heard before such as Hungry Roll, Sexy Salmon, Dragon Roll, Funky Roll, and several more. I wish I could have tried all of their forty-one different kinds of dishes, but it would have been too expensive for my wallet.

That’s another thing about sushi; it’s pricier than other foods out there. My dish cost about ten dollars which is reasonable for sushi, but if I were to pick the restaurant I’ve would have picked Onami sushi because it’s all you can eat and I love all you can eat. It’s about sixteen dollars for lunch and twenty dollars for dinner, which I think is a great price for a sushi buffet. At this instant, I don’t actually know the reason why it’s so expensive. I can assume several possibilities such as the seafood that they buy is high quality, it’s made for presentation and taste, or maybe because customers love it so much that they can rack up the price and make a killing off of it.

Well, the sushi I ordered was delicious. It was a T.N.T roll that consisted of shrimp tempura, California rolls and special sauce. When the dish came out it had 7 rolls and I was surprise how full I’ve gotten off of it because it was gone in two seconds. I really enjoyed it. My friend had my second choice which was the Hungry Roll. When it came out the rolls were in single filed line and placed on top of aluminum foil. The aluminum foil was only there to hold it together because it was huge. It had Unagi (eel), avocado, crab meat, cucumber, salmon, and fried shrimp tempura, which I think was amazing how they presented that dish.

Overall, I had good time eating sushi once again. Niko Niko Sushi’s atmosphere was very pleasant and enjoyable because the displays were well put together having the usual Japanese sculpture, symbols placed on the walls, and the furniture that gives a Japan feel to it. People are attracted to Nkio Niko Sushi because they can experience a delicious part of Japanese culture without having to travel too far for it.

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Frozen Greatness

Every couple of years people are looking for new ways to satisfy their taste buds with different types of foods, deserts, or drinks. First there was boba. Honey dew milk tea, slushy almond milk tea, and etc. Then there was crepe, a thin slice of pancake folded into a shape of a cone holding delicious fruits such as mangos, strawberries, and kiwis together with the classic vanilla ice cream and topped off with whip cream. And today, the new rage is frozen yogurt or as the cool kids like to call it, “fro-yo”. We seem to be falling into different kinds of food treads every so often. Is it because our lives are plain and boring and we jneed that little taste of excitement in our lives? Or can it be that we are tired of the everyday menu and that we just want to try something new. Whatever the reason might be, there is no doubt that we do find ourselves caught up in these food treads every couple of years.

Today, frozen yogurt has been the number one dessert to eat. One of the reasons we allow ourselves to eat this frozen greatness is because we heard it is healthier than other desserts. Frozen yogurt is made from yogurt rather than cream, which is why people see frozen yogurt as a healthier treat to eat. I’m sure most people do not know the actual details why yogurt is better than cream, therefore people just believe what they hear so they can enjoy eating frozen yogurt without feeling guilty.

Frozen yogurt has become such phenomenon that there are endless flavors to choose from. There are several flavors such as green tea, pineapple, raspberry, pomegranate, plain tart (my favorite) and more. With such a variety of favors to choose from there will be a flavor to satisfy everyone’s taste buds. It doesn’t just stop with the several different flavors of frozen yogurt. There are also toppings!

Yes, toppings, tons and tons of toppings. Toppings are one of the major reasons why people go out and buy frozen yogurt. Why just have a frozen yogurt plain and boring when anyone can add practically anything that their taste bud desire to it. The possibilities are endless. There are regular toppings such as cereal and fruits, but there are toppings that are so delicious that I would have never imagined. One of the greatest topping invented for frozen yogurt is bite size cheese cake. Whoever thought of putting frozen yogurt and cheese cake together is a genius.

Also with many different frozen yogurt locations being made people practically can eat it any time they want. There are different types of frozen yogurt places such as Yogurt Land and Sierra Cup. The difference between the two is that one is self serve and the other one is not. I have a friend that use to worked at Sierra Cup, a frozen yogurt place that sells yogurt behind the counter. She says that the non self serve frozen yogurt locations had better quality yogurt than the self serve frozen yogurt location such as Yogurt Land, but that is her opinion and truthfully I can’t actually the difference. People probably do pay a little more for better quality frozen yogurt, but in the end it’s all the same. Having a person serving you frozen yogurt or creating it yourself has really no difference because in the end it is still your ideas that puts together the frozen greatness.

Frozen yogurt having such a variety of flavors and toppings it’s going to be the number one dessert to eat for a while. And as time goes on boba and crepe stores will close down and new stores will open to follow the consumers’ demand, which is frozen yogurt.

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