Nail Polish Haul + BBT

I said I was gonna blog about the nail polishes I got and going to a place I haven't been to for years... So here is my entry... If you want to skip the nail stuff and just want to look at pictures of food/drink, keep scrolling down ^_^".

Sooo...
After going into Sephora and buying a bottle of extremely pretty nail polish. I have gone a search for sparkly, shimmering polish today.

This was the one I got from Sephora a couple days ago.

SEPHORA by OPI - Only Gold For Me

China glaze
Left: Skyscraper
Right: In the City

OPI
Left: DS Glow
Right: DS Reserve

OPI
Left: Up Front & Personal
Right: Passion

And then I wanted to try on these new babies so I decided to do some on-the-spot nail decoration LOL.
Turned out so Christmasy. Looks so bad on picture but it look super glittery and shimmery in real life. Very bright. You need sunglasses to look at these nails. I'm going to wipe these off tomorrow... Maybe I'll do these nails for Christmas this year, haha.

After trying on nail polish with my dear Chch, we started craving for tofu pudding (don't know if that what it's called in English), so we went out to get some...
Unfortunately, because it was a weekday, the place we intended to go to (好好豆品) was closed early =(
We decided to go to any dessert or bubble tea place to see if they had tofu pudding.

While we were searching for a place to eat, I saw this car's great parking spot.

See. That's when you know you are in Richmond. You have these Asian drivers making up their own parking spots... Parking wherever the hell they feel more convenient parking at. They also make up their own parking spots in the crammed up parking lot behind these restaurants, but I didn't take a picture of that. Honestly, as if the parking lot wasn't crammed enough, they have to go and park as they please.

Another reason why you know you are in Richmond is because of things like these:

 

LOL! Asianized Pasta.

Then, of course, we ended up at a bubble tea place because Richmond is infested with these little joints and there was really nowhere else to go.
We ended up going to Twinkle 2 - somewhere I haven't been to for years, literally.

They have their own little mascot thing now.

Lol. They even sell these figures of their mascot.

It looks like a mix of Doraemon and Spongebob Squarepants...

They had some interesting drinks where we don't see at other bubble tea places, so we tried those.

Here's mine:

Taro pudding milk tea

And Chch's:
Sesame tofu milk tea

I liked how they put the pudding and the tofu pudding on the side instead of having them in the cups already.
They even put the syrup on the side, which I also liked because both Chch and I don't like our food or drinks too sweet =]

Yes, I had to take pictures of us putting our puddings into our drinks lol.

Putting my pudding into the milk tea didn't taste anything special, and the hot milk tea just melted the pudding very quickly, so I decided to eat the pudding separately instead of dumping it into my drink.

We also ordered takoyaki.
These were some really good takoyaki. They put the Taiwanese garlic sauce into the takoyaki, which made the takoyakis really tasty.

In fact, the takoyaki was so good that we had to order another plate of them XD.

All these outings to places to eat midnight snacks are so bad for me... I need to stop doing this.
I just don't know why it always happens to be around midnight whenever I'm eating with people.

Anyway... that's it for this entry of nail polish and food, which has no relevance to each other lol.
Have a nice day lol ^u^

Bubble Tea Day

My day has been invaded by Taiwanese food today...
Started off by going to lunch. We were planning to go to a ramen place at first, but when we got there, it was closed. So we went to eat at Bubble World on Capstan Way.

Strawberry Watermelon Slush

Yummy. So refreshing on such a hot sunny day =]

Pearl Milk Tea

Meat Sauce + Noodles

Lol. Sorry for giving this such a lame name but I forgot what they named it at the restaurant.

It was good, though. And really cheap too.

After a filling meal, we had to digest it away. So NC and I went to take his dog for a walk.

Look how excited Honey is to be taken out on a walk XD

We walked Honey to the playground.

And we let him play on the slide.

Haha. He was so cute. He went down the slide himself!

After the walk... it was time for a second round of bubble tea =_=, but this bubble tea gathering was planned... not because we went there because another place was closed.

Rebecca and I went to Pearl Castle at Richmond Center to meet up with some friends we haven't seen for almost 10 years XD

Pudding Milk Tea

This didn't have the caramel-y taste that pudding milk tea usually has...

I think pudding milk tea tastes better with the caramel taste.

Passionfruit Slush

Meat Sauce + Dried Noodle

Despite its name, the noodles were not dry at all.

This dish was pretty good.

???

LOL I have no idea what this was... I forgot to ask my friend what he ordered.

But the cup was so fat and cute so I took a picture of it.

Fried Squid

I asked the server if the squid was squid tentacles or the rings of squid. She said they were the rings.

I ordered it and got these triangular shaped squid pieces... She lied.

Seafood Mini Hot-Pot

Green Mango + Grass Jelly

Another drink in those fat, cute cups.

Me + Dan

We used to be almost the same height...

He is so tall now! And I was wearing heels in this picture too >_<

Group pic!

Half of us were posers, I guess =P

It was so nice to see some old friends again... it's been almost 10 years... I feel old for saying this, but, time passes by so fast.

After everybody else left, Rebecca and I camwhored outside because my phone has an awesome app LOL

I look chubby in this one, but you look good. So I uploaded it. I am so nice.

And then, out of nowhere, we decided to go take sticker pictures.

I guess because we were feeling like having a nostalgic night (LOL sounds so retarded). Haven't done sticker pictures for such a long time, but it was so fun =D

Time for more pics of us. Yipee *u*

And of course, you can't end a night without having dessert.

We went to Leisure Tea to have more food after taking sticker pictures.

Tuna Crepe

She was having a craving for crepe instead of dessert, haha.

Ice Cream Waffles

Finally satisfying my craving for waffles after wanting it for the past week!

But their waffles weren't exceptionally good. I like the ones at What8ver and WE Coffee better.

End of night... We were both tired, but it was only 11:30pm - not even. Wtf. We are getting so old.

Magnetic Cafe Has Repelling Food

There's this bubble tea place called Magnetic Cafe, formerly known as Go-Go Tea. It's been opened for a while, but I never got the chance to try it. Then, strangely, I ended up going there two night in a row. (Don't ask...) Yesterday was my second time there.

First of all, I must say that their drinks are too sweet.

Strawberry & Blueberry Frappe

This was the drink I tried on the first night. It was WAY too sweet. I only drank about half and decided to just sip on water afterwards =_=

My Custom Drink

I wanted a mixture of mango and coconut, so I asked the server if they could make that, and they did ^_^.

I asked for the drink to be half sweet, which turned out to be the perfect sweetness for me.

Guess you could say this drink makes up for the bad drink I had from the night before.

And just look at the size of this drink!

But because I liked it, I actually finished the whole thing. LOL

Now the food...

Honestly, I have not tasted food as bad as this at any Taiwanese restaurant before, let alone a bubble tea joint.

Taiwanese Cold Noodle

Wow. This was some gross ass shit.

The noodles were so hard that they could probably pass as uncooked noodles. The overall taste was not impressive either. We took two bites and left the rest of the plate untouched.

After that horrible cold noodle dish, I was still stupid enough to order a bowl of ramen - maybe my hunger took control of me...

Pork Chop Miso Ramen

This was... interesting. The soup itself did not taste bad. However, it had no trace of miso whatsoever.

The ramen noodles were pretty hard, too. And the pork chops that came with it were also not the greatest.

I'd say that Magnetic Cafe has decent drinks (if you ask for half sweetened drinks) in very large portions - which is a good thing? They have horrendous food in my book so far... maybe I was just unlucky enough to have ordered their worst foods on the menu. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and maybe try another dish if I happen to revisit.
The service was very good, though. The servers, who were dressed up in cutesy, almost cosplay-looking, uniforms, were very nice and friendly =]

New Layout + Essay Hangover

After a brutal night last night trying to finish our 10-page paper for our class, Ching and I were having an essay hangover... Well, I'm not sure about her, but at least I felt like I was having a hangover, except I was dizzy and nauseous from not having enough sleep from writing an essay, not alcohol. How fun.

It was impossible for us to focus in class today with such little sleep... I just poked at my phone for the whole three hours of lecture.
Thank goodness, our friend was nice enough to drive us back from school when his class was over so we didn't have to bus.

When we got back to Richmond, we went to eat at 大頭仔 Bubble World. I didn't even know they've opened one up here in Richmond XP.

Milky Honey Tea (I think?)

Haha... I don't remember. It was Ching's drink. Pretty good.

I didn't really like the foam on the top, but she did =P

Milky Strawberry Mango Mix Slush

Whoa. This thing was so huge. Look at the size of the cup in comparison to my hand lol.

It was yummy too. And it was only $4.95 for such a big cup!

Ching and our friend ordered meals. I was way too sleepy to eat.

One of the side dishes that came with the meals was this cabbage dish thing...

It was cabbage soaked in vinegar?... I think?
I usually love sour stuff, but this was horrible. So horrible that I had to take a picture of it to point it out lol.

Anyway...

Aside from my day of exhaustion, I have also changed the look of the blog.
Gonna try out this new layout for a bit. I've also added "glasskiwi@blogspot" in fancy photoshop letters instead of just using plain text to see how that works out. If it's too distracting, I'll take it away XP.