~·̩̩̥͙**•̩̩͙✩•̩̩͙*˚~ Happy Lunar New Year! ~˚*•̩̩͙✩•̩̩͙*˚*·̩̩̥͙~
Here is my artistic contribution to Year of the Rabbit! 🐇🧧🎉 This sculpture is made from plaster gauze and modeling paste, painted with acrylics. The tiny treats are jujube flower cakes, fa gao, and nian gao, made of cold porcelain painted with acrylics and embellished with tissue paper and plastic wrap.
Wishing everyone good luck, health, and happiness for this coming year! 💕
Process video for this and my sketchbook work of the month are up on patreon ✿ Anka
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Sweethoney Dessert, 410 W Main St. #110, Alhambra, CA 91801, Score: 37/50
Sweethoney Dessert started in Hong Kong and specializes in HK desserts. It opens late and stays open late. It’s supposed to be healthier because they use fresh fruit and natural ingredients. The desserts are hand-crafted. The clientele is mostly Asian/Chinese.
Score: 37/50
Food: 5/5 – Lots of choose from, including eggettes, souffle pancakes, sweet dessert soups (with tofu, grass jelly, sago, red beans, black sesame, etc.), milk pudding, rice balls, etc. They also savory snacks and beverages (milk tea, fruit tea, fruit drinks, etc). The menu is extensive. The eggette was perfectly made and extra crispy but the cream wasn’t good.
Coffee: 4/5 – They don’t have any but the milk tea was pretty good.
Wi-fi: 5/5 – Free, unlimited, ask for the password
Ambiance: 3/5 – Upscale modern dessert house, striped wallpaper, wooden honeycomb style pendant lights. They were playing a Chinese movie.
Noise: 4/5 – Pop music but they turned the music off while I was there
Plugs: 0/5 – Didn’t see any
Parking: 5/5 – Parking in the back
Comfort: 5/5 – Padded comfy chairs, plenty of room
Bathroom: 3/5 – Didn’t go but I know they have at least one
Art: 3/5 – Nothing
Tips: Delivery available. Near lots of Chinese/Asian restaurants in downtown Alhambra.
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Tong Sui Desserts & Drinks, 2400 Broadway , Unit 110, Redwood City, CA 94063
Tong Sui is the Bay Area’s coconut pudding chain, founded in 2020 and now with four shops. The coconut pudding is handmade with young coconuts sourced from Thailand with seasonal fruit and no sweeteners or preservatives. And it’s organic. Some of the puddings contain dairy. The puddings are served in glass jars. They also have drinks, some of them made with coconut milk.
You can order at the register by talking to the cashier or from the tablet while at the store or order online for pickup. Popular flavors might be sold out. The puddings are made at one location in San Jose and shipped to their various shops. They have some interesting flavors that I haven’t seen at Southern California coconut pudding places, including persimmon mochi and roasted yam. The signature coconut pudding is $!0.95 and dairy-free.
Earl grey coconut pudding ($9.95): Interesting layered dessert. The top layer is a dairy-based Earl grey milk pudding adorned with flowers and the bottom their plain coconut pudding. Both layers were smooth and tender, like soft tofu. Both weren’t very sweet. Really liked both puddings and they went well together. I could really taste the floral tea notes. The glass jars seem smaller than the other coconut pudding places but I appreciate the quality and freshness of their desserts. They’re meant to be eaten the day of purchase and must be refrigerated. The layered puddings feel extra fancy.
Return 10 glass jars and get 1 free coconut pudding.
5 out of 5 stars
By Lolia S.
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Mooncake Festival - September 29, 2003
Traditionally consumed during the Mid-Autumn Festival in China, mooncakes are a type of Chinese pastry item. While moonwatching is allegedly related to the event and mooncakes are considered a delicacy, the festival is mostly about the harvest. While commemorating the holiday, mooncakes are shared among friends or at family get-togethers. As one of the four most significant Chinese festivals, the Mid-Autumn Festival is well-known.
I get way too much happiness from good food. - Elizabeth Oliver
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