Tag: food
Why Christians eat pancakes and sausage on Easter?
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@ churchHappy Easter! So, I was wondering why the 2 most popular churches in Orange County (California) served pancakes and sausage this Easter, and here’s the answer from my query on AI-powered Perplexity— Churches often serve pancakes and sausage on Easter for a few reasons: Pancakes and sausage are traditional Easter foods that symbolize the end…
Food Tours in San Gabriel Valley, aka 626
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@ journalThought I’d share what I’m finding while researching an informal foodie tour in Southern California, Los Angeles, San Gabriel Valley, where’s there’s many great foods and flavors from many cultures and cuisines. Before I share my research, here’s my quick foodie hack when I don’t have time to research or I’m travelling to a different…
Where to get 酸梅汤 Sour Plum Drink #suanmeitang
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@ journalA wonderfully delicious Chinese beverage known as Suanmeitang 酸梅湯, aka Sour Plum Drink, is traditionally popular in parts of China and Taiwan, and you’d think it’d be available somewhere in popular Chinese areas here in the OC (Orange County, California). Since I don’t read Chinese characters, it hasn’t been easy to find the restaurants and cafes that…
Singaporean rice noodles – is it yellow or is it not?
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@ dialogueWe went to a Singaporean restaurant in Monterey Park, California, because the line was too long at the more popular place voted up by Yelpers. We ordered the famous dish known as Singaporean rice noodles, and to our surprise, it was not curry yellow! The real authentic Singapore rice noodles dish that has become popular in…
Difference between snow bubble and icy or snow smoothie and icy slush
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After extensive research about these specialty drinks*, the definitive difference is creamer (or milk) :: snow bubble or snow smoothie = flavored drink with crushed ice plus milk or non-dairy creamer icy or icy slush = flavored drink with crushed ice (no milk or creamer) And, of course, you could all kinds of yummy goodnesses…
What is Boba Royal Milk Tea? At Lollicup anyways..
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@ journalLollicup is a franchise boba tea cafe in SoCal and a bunch of other locations nationwide and going international; formally known as Lollicup Coffee & Tea according to the corporate site. Here’s how 2 Yelp’ers describe what their Boba Royal Milk Tea is:: [Jen T] … Royal Milk Tea: Im a fan! Not as heavy as the regular milk tea,…
New Scoop at Yogurtland with Bugs Bunny & Friends
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@ journalNext week kicks off a buncha new flavors at Yogurtland, the awesome self-serve FroYo shop that’s now in 200+ locations. On July 8th, Yogurtland will kick off a summer promotion featuring six flavors inspired by Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Tweety, Road Runner, Taz and Marvin the Martian, my favorite friends and yours from Looney Tunes!…
The best Chinese hot sauce is called Laoganma
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@ journalWithout knowing the name, this hot sauce was elusive to find. I searched high and low all over the Internet. I had tasted it before. There are hot sauces spanning the whole range of that Scoville scale heat index. Most are just plain straight heat. Most are either plain liquid or whipped into a puree…