Guitar Center + Irvine

After school we went to the Guitar Center in Sunset Boulevard and then to Irvine supposedly for dim sum but it was dinner time when we reached and there was no siew mai. =(

Anyway.

GUITAR CENTER!

Hollywood's Rockwalk

Faces of guitar legends


A case dedicated to Elvis Presley

This is one heck of a guitar!

The Guitar Center is some kind of enormous shop or if you wanna call it, museum, that sells and displays many many guitars of all types and appearance.

This is a wall of the classical guitars area.

And this is just a side of the room

Gibson

Being a guitar noob I was particularly amazed and scared at the same time when it comes to those pricier guitars.

Like seriously expensive

I tried a Yamaha classical guitar which was priced at USD 300+. And it was damn good! The sound was thick and mellow and the guitar nice to use!

The Yamaha

This is the USD 1179.99 guitar!

However I don't find the guitar nice to use. Just that it was damn pretty.

So glamorous!

Infinitely many electric guitars



Whatever you're looking for!

And a souvenir to bring home =D

Guitar Center guitar pick

And we continued our way to Irvine. Irvine's a city that's located south/southeast of Los Angeles.

Passed by this restaurant but we never got to try!

Where did you study?
Hollywood High School. How's that?

One of the many signs that tell you you're on I-5

The place where we were going in Irvine is at Jeffrey Road, but just next to it was Wisteria...Lane! No la, I'm not sure whether it's lane or road or avenue.

Where are the desperate housewives?

This place was where we wanted to have dim sum

This is the Chinese restaurant. 弘城

But we went in to find that there was no dim sum. Therefore we went to this Taiwanese diner.

Here's how it looked like

Chinese tea!!!

I was so happy to see (and then drink) the Chinese tea but after that I realised that it wasn't true tea leaves.

Braised egg

Preserved egg with tofu

I think I took a very nice shot of these disgusting tau kee

This is my beef 炸酱面
I don't like it 'cos it's beef

Wanton mee!

抓饼
This is some Taiwanese version of the prata but it was tasteless

锅贴 pot stickers
But there was no vinegar and ginger to go with it

I don't know how to say this in English.
葱油饼

After dinner we went to get boba tea.

What's boba tea you may ask.

It's bubble tea lo.

Just less fragrant. The tea they have in the States is not as fragrant as what we have in Asia!

They were selling bak kwa too. Known as pork jerky. But it's not as dry as how a jerky should be ma. Barbecued pork isn't a really accurate description too. They should come up with a new name for that. Like Not-so-dry-barbecued-pork jerky.

And then we hopped to Yogurtland.
The milk tea taken in Yogurtland


Check out the queue!

The system of Yogurtland is that you take a cup and put in whatever you want and then pay by weight.

So you dispense whatever flavour you want, out of like 10 or more flavours

Throw in fruits of your choice

The grains

And you put your yogurt onto the weighing scale

Ta-daaaa. We had two cups of those to share

And this was Irvine.