A Week in Cell Phone Food Pictures #3

In an effort to eat healthier I have a serving of vegetables topped with low fat cheese and a sunny side up egg for breakfast.  Usually it's accompanied by a cup of espresso from our new cappuccino maker.

My husband's mom stopped in at Los Olivos to buy these ginormous strawberries from the local farm.  They were huge, delicious and juicy.  I am ruined for all other strawberries.  Half a flat eaten in less than a week.

Dolphin Bay in Artesia is a Taiwanese cafe that serves food and boba type drinks.  This is the spicy popcorn chicken over pork topped rice.  The veggies were delicious and the other side is a steamed egg that is so popular in Chinese cuisine.

This is my other favorite breakfast that is a cinch to whip up.  It's a portabella mushroom seared on both sides, low fat swiss and an egg over easy with a bunch of grapes.  Yum.

Original Thai BBQ is one of the best values in Thai food in the neighborhood.  Above is the Beef Panang which is all high quality beef and sauce unlike the typical Thai place that uses more potato in the dish.

My favorite aspect of Thai food are these fat rice noodles.  Heck, they're my favorite in Chinese food too.  these are the Drunken Noodles which I assume is drunk because of the Rice Wine.

Tom Yum Soup is yummy as always!

A local Asian Seafood Buffet, aptly named... wait for it... Asian Buffet serves sea snails, fresh oysters, shrimp cocktail, fresh alaskan crab legs.  Really and amazing seafood value!

A Week in Cell Phone Food Pictures

At the Ostrich Farm in Solvang I picked up this Emu egg to bring home to my egg loving family.   Here it's pictured. It's equivalent to 8-10 regular eggs.

On St. Patrick's day, to celebrate my married Irish roots, we met up with friends at the Crab Pot in Alamitos Bay where the Corned Beef and Cabbage was $1 a plate, green beer $2 a cup and Guiness for $3 a bottle.

My family went to China without me 2 years ago.  They came back with tales of Xiao Long Bao, the Shanghai Steamed Dumplings that come with a signature broth held in the thin packaging of dumpling skin.  Canaan Restaurant in Cerritos, a Taiwanese place, is one of 2 restaurants in my city that offer it.  My brother and sister said it was comparable to the Chinese version, just less greasy.

My brother insisted on getting what they thought was a crispy chicken dish: Black Pepper chicken.  It was neither crispy nor spicy.  And quite honestly, it was overshadowed by the Typhoon Soft-shell Crab below.

This was delicious.  Deep fried with an airy batter, crispy with onion, chili deliciousness.  A whole plate for only $12.95.  A steal I tell you!  The only problem was that the tender nature of the crab and the large amount of batter made it hard to distinguish what was flour and what was crab.  Plus, no roe :(