Best hotpot place in NYC🍲

#Hotpot is trending this season due to the cold weather and there are many different restaurants serving different type of hotpots. The question is: Which place is the best that can offer a unique experience with great food choices? Over the weekend, my cousin and I went to brunch at #99 Favor Taste for their amazing hotpot. 

Pros: Served both hotpot and BBQ, authentic food & soup base options, featured two sauce stations with a variety of dipping sauce, free desserts (2 choices of tong sui), spacious setting with 2 floors, offer individual hotpot (optional choice to get a small individual pot instead of sharing a big pot with your group), accept reservations, friendly service and tech-savvy (earn points for free drinks and birthday freebies through the QR Code reader app).

We ordered fuzhou #fish balls (fish balls with meats inside), beef, quail eggs, lamb, crabs, squids, fish tofu, straw mushrooms, and other veggies.
In terms of sauce, I would recommend trying the seafood pancake sauce and chive sauce.

chinese herbal, kimchi and pig bone soup base

chili sauce, chive sauce and seafood pancake sauce

Fuzhou fish balls and quail eggs

 

Meats and veggies

Oscars Popcorn Party 🏆 🌽

We've been all waiting for the Oscars Award show tonight. Let's gear up some yummy popcorn and enjoy the show with your friends and family. If anyone looking for some exotic #popcorn flavors check out #Popkarma in the lower east side. I went there with a friend yesterday and they have some great popcorn flavors. Personally, I am not a big fan of popcorn but these popcorn totally took my breath away...amazingly good:p  We tried the #cajun, #kyoto mix and the #caramel. My favorite is the cajun one and it's not as spicy as I thought. The kyoto one tastes like seaweed and the caramel is the only sweet one we got. So yeah we got spicy, salty and sweet popcorn all together:)
                                                                                                                                                                   

Cajun and kyoto mix popcorn

pure caramel popcorn

Panna Cotta 🌸

Pretty Panna Cotta dish decorated like a flower ✿♥‿♥✿

It was my friend's birthday and we went to dinner in this little italian place called Malatesta Trattoria around the west village area. The place was small but the food and drinks were amazingly great.

This is the best panna cotta I ever had in my life so far. If anyone looking for a pretty & yummy panna cotta dish you should definitely check out this hidden gem italian restaurant;-)

Tiramisu ♡

A well-made pretty tiramisu for dessert last ♡♡☺

One of my friends and I went to this nice Italian restaurant, #Davio's for dinner last night. The service was excellent and very accommodating. We both did the three course pre-fixe menu but I wasn't really impressed by their dessert options until I saw a server brought out a chocolate look a like cake that completely took my breath away lol We asked the server and we decided to upgrade our dessert to this pretty looking tiramisu. We love the chocolate, ice cream, and everything  about this dessert dish.

& Pepperoni Pretzel &

Filling and delicious afternoon snack....#pepperoni #pretzel from Auntie Anne's!

This is one of my favorite pretzels I have tried from Auntie Anne's so far. It definitely remind people of pizza with the taste of pepperoni and yummy cheeses:p
Personally I am not a big fan of pretzels but I would make an exception for pretzel like this one;)

RAMEN Burger 🍔 ( ˘▽˘)っ

I finally gotten a chance to check out this eatery called #Ramen Co. in the Financial District today. I believe they are the only place that sells ramen burger in the Manhattan borough.

I was so excited to try their burger and I ordered the Original one with their homemade chips. The ramen buns were chewy and a bit crispy. I also like the sauce they used in the burger.
For those who are not meat eaters, they have the tofu steak one (tofu patty)=D

Ethiopian food!

My first time trying Ethiopian food in this authentic restaurant called Queens of Sheba. The dining experience was quite different that you supposed to eat it with your hands instead of utensils. I honestly never been to a restaurant with no utensils provided and I found it unique.They provided hand sanitizer wipes so you can clean your hands first before you start eating. My friend and I ordered the Taste of Sheba Combination Sampler with both meats and veggies and it also came with injera (thin flatbread with spongy texture).

So... how do you eat it?

First off, you tear off pieces of injera then use each small piece of injera to scoop up the meat/and or veggies from the platter. Then finally you EAT:)


It is definitely a fun sharing plate with your group of friends.
I'm not sure if this restaurant provide any utensils if you request it but I wouldn't recommend using utensils because it will ruined the whole Ethiopian dining experience.

#Margarita Monday 🍹🍹

Happy National Margarita Day everyone!

 I saw this picture on the train when I was on my way to work this morning.



 Where should we go celebrate this fun holiday since we have an excuse to drink?;)
Check out this link for all the margarita  deals.
http://www.delish.com/food-news/a46087/margarita-deals-national-margarita-day/

Quick 15-20 min dinner recipe

Anyone looking to make a simple, quick and yummy dinner?

I made a Chinese/American fusion noodle dish for dinner tonight.

Ingredients:
-chinese egg noodles (from hong kong market)
-olive oil
-shrimps
-seafood cocktail sauce
-siracha sauce
-salt, pepper and ginger powder
-Vegetable blend (frozen veggies from Trader's Joe)



1. Boil some hot water in a pot. When the water is ready, put some salt before adding the egg noodles.
2. Stir the egg noodles until it gets pliable.
3. While waiting for the noodles to be ready, prepare and defrost some frozen vegetable blends and shrimps by soaking into hot water.
4. Seasoned the toppings (shrimps & veggies) with salt, pepper, ginger powder, seafood cocktail sauce and a little siracha sauce then mixed it up with a spoon or knife.
5. Heat up the toppings in the microwave and while you're waiting it's time to take the egg noodles out from the pot.
6. Finally you take the toppings out from the microwave and pour it on the egg noodles. Now you can eat:p

Boboa Sunday ⅽ[ː̠̈ː̠̈ː̠̈] ͌

Boboa Sunday ⅽ[ː̠̈ː̠̈ː̠̈] ͌


 

 There is a very popular bubble tea place in the city called Vivi Bubble Tea. The closest one near me is on 43rd St/9th avenue (the newest location opened since Sept, 2014). For those who are not familiar with bubble/boboa tea, it is basically a drink with tapioca pearls in it. The pearls are chewy and it has almost no flavor. I know most people are always concerned about those little black dots in the drink and some of you guys may even think it's weird. But everybody has their first time of trying it. You either love it or hate it. But of course, if you are not a big fan of the boboa (tapioca pearl) you can always request one without it. In general, the original boboa drink is made with tea and milk=milk tea. Then they started to do tea with fruit flavors or even smoothie only made with fresh fruits. It depends on the place you go.  Vivi Bubble Tea sells the regular milk tea, tea with fruit flavors and some appetizers such as taiwanese bbq sausage, popcorn chicken, ramen and sushi. I recalled I went to another location and they even sell macarons...（＊〇□〇）……！ My favorite bubble tea flavors are passion fruit, honeydew and lychee. 
 

Sweet Saturday ∩(︶▽︶)

Did anyone ever tried the #trufflelata from #Godiva? It was so good! They have other flavors but I decided to try the strawberry one. I ❤ it...very creamy similar to a milkshake. I believe it cost about $6 so it wasn't too bad especially in Manhattan. I also got some stares and compliments when I was on my way back home from Rockefeller Center. I guess maybe it's the bright color haha

 

Heart shaped sushi ❤

TGIF:)
I was looking for a local sushi place for lunch in the hells kitchen area since my co worker and I were both craving for sushi.We went to this japanese fusion restaurant called Ajisai located on 9th ave between 43rd/44th Street. It is a nice casual japanese place with a big sushi menu and good choices of sake.

I ordered the sweet heart roll, miso soup and the tempura bento box.
Nom nom....so yummy:-p

Happy National Drink WINE day everyone!


Hmmmmm..now I'm starting to think what kind of wine should I drink tonight?
I am a wine lover but more of a white, rose or fruity wine person.
I just checked my fridge and I'm planning to open the pineapple wine to celebrate National drink wine day tonight. I got it from my friend who recently visited Maui, Hawaii.
I never had pineapple wine so it would be my first time trying it:)

Also check out this site if you are looking to get some good quality wine for a reasonable price. They also do delivery:)
https://www.clubw.com/midgz75e4y

Free cupcake!!!

Who wants free cupcakes?























I'm pretty sure everyone don't mind getting a free cupcake for themselves. Ever heard of Sprinkles Cupcakes? Now they are giving out 1 free cupcake for those who sign up their Sprinkles Perks & another one for their birthday.
Check it out:
https://sprinkles.myguestaccount.com/guest/enroll?card-template=gz6U71JdL9Y%3d&referral_code=AgKimJPBHrdQePpRgQDKqiMRfakBgnQMa

Happy Almond Day everyone:-)

CLIF Bar is giving out a free Clif bar for those who sign up to be apart of Skosay's Sample VIP Text Club. Text Clif to 84700 and get your free dark chocolate cherry almond bar now:D
















 How much do you know about almonds?
Well besides it's a type of nut, they are also dry fruit that is very beneficial to our health and rich in vitamin E. There are different types of almonds e.g. green almonds, marcona almonds, chinese almonds, blanced almonds, etc.

50 Cents Sandwhich....Seriously???

Guess what people, Subway is doing a special promotional deal and it's ending tomorrow.
All you need to do is:
text OFFERS to 782929 and they will text you back with a link with instructions to redeem your 50 cents sandwhich. It's ok if you miss this deal because they will text you more deals soon. They also do $6 footlong sandwhich only for this month:)

I just redeemed the 50 cents sandwhich today. Italian herb bread with buffalo chicken, lettuce, green peppers, tomatoes, pickles and chipotle southwest dressing...nom nom

Happy President's Day everyone!
Look what I got for breakfast this morning. I finally gotten a chance to check out this macaron place #Macaron Cafe in my neighborhood. I heard they offer a great variety of flavors and I decided to go with the 6 sampler box deal. I got the vanilla, pistachio, rose, cassis, chocolate & passion fruit and lemon.

Valentine's Day pudding ❤ ❤

Ever seen a heart shaped pudding in a dim sum restaurant?

My friend and I went to this Chinese restaurant called Ping's Seafood in Chinatown, Manhattan for dim sum earlier yesterday. Besides yummy dim sum we also stayed for the Lunar New Year parade which held once every year on a sunday. This is my third time going there and I always had a good time.

Let's take a look at these puddings!