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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Sweethoney Dessert, 410 W Main St. #110, Alhambra, CA 91801
Sweethoney Dessert started in Hong Kong and specializes in HK desserts, 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 menu they handed me didn’t seem to have everything that I saw on the menu board posted outside.
The dessert soups looked smaller than the ones you’d get at Meet Fresh. I believe most desserts are made to order.
Strawberry & cream eggette ($8.95): The HK eggette waffle looked perfectly made with well-formed puffs. The areas between the puffs were extra crispy. The puffs were softer in the middle but slightly crispy on the outside. The waffle was a little sweeter than I’m used to but also more flavorful. The fresh strawberries were thinly sliced. The cream was odd though – denser than whipped cream. It tasted more like sweetened whipped topping than whipped cream. I didn’t like it. Would get a plain eggette next time.
Classic milk tea, no sugar added ($5.50): This was good, not too creamy and the right level of sweetness
Sweethoney is a bit more expensive but it’s nice inside. It looks like a modern dessert place with striped wallpaper and comfy seats.
4 out of 5 stars
By Lolia S.
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Two-Faced Jewel: Thunderbrush 15
Never Call It Piss Magic Again
A conwoman disguised as a noble and the delegation of university students studying her have arrived in the jungle city of Thunderbrush, ruled by ancient dryads and organized crime. Will they manage to stay uninvolved in shady conspiracies?
(No.)
Story so far | Session log index | Previous session
Last time, the players extricated themselves from an awkward situation with some ghost dryad mafia protection racketeers, and hurried off to the local brothel to go cure a vampire of her vampirosity. They did a bang-up job of it, despite some close calls- and now it's time for them to decompress after a job well-done.
Also grapple with the nightmarish implications of Saelhen's powers. And drive Looseleaf to the brink of a complete mental breakdown vis-a-vis backstory trauma. And receive extremely troubling news about the Stump conspiracy's agenda. And have nightmares.
So, first order of business: the party needs to flirt with some NPCs. Saelhen manages to apologize for all the craziness that's been going on during this sports-watching date... while also being the smoothest operator in the world somehow. This prompts...
After some further ruthless ladykilling, Zzaiya flees the scene in a fit of embarrassment, unable to process the idea of someone being romantically interested in her. Allegedly, her house is nearby.
Meanwhile, Oliver is trying to put the moves on the recently-shirtless Sam Sweethoney...
...but runs into a brick wall of total obliviousness. Sam Sweethoney is seemingly incapable of realizing that anyone is ever being serious about anything, and takes incoming flirtation as a hilarious joke that he's in on.
While Oliver is striking out with the world's densest shirtless halfling tattoo artist, Looseleaf and Saelhen try to have a serious conversation about... all that shit that just happened.
The thing is... Saelhen's invested a great deal of emotional attachment into this thing that lets her turn invisible- for reasons that she'd prefer not be discussed in mixed company.
While they're in the middle of discussing how dangerous their personal magic powers are, and whether it's ethically permissible to use them at all... Oliver shows up, very curious about Looseleaf's magic powers.
Looseleaf is set on edge by this question.
Oliver is surprised about the apparent deadliness of teaching spirit magic- and has a billion follow-up questions, none of which please Looseleaf to hear.
Oliver keeps pressing... and Looseleaf explodes.
Looseleaf: "I don't fucking know, okay? I'm not a specialist in this! I was supposed to be an anthropologist before everything happened and now I am a mage wielding a near-extinct line of magic because nobody else can do it and so I have to figure out how to do all the things that THEY were supposed to be responsible for doing!"
"I don't know! I'm relearning this from scratch! You want answers but I don't have any!"
"Nobody has answers anymore!"
By the end of it Looseleaf's speech is seeming… weirdly discongruous and jilted, each syllable coming out jerky and staccato.
"You know what, you want it so badly, maybe you can actually learn and then I can go do other things with my worthless life-"
Oliver Highhollow-Selby: Oliver is stepping backwards and looking scared/worried/horrified as Looseleaf is basically suddenly unraveling.
Saelhen du Fishercrown: "Okay, well, it appears that question time might be over, pleasure to meet you, Mr. Highhollow, I think we are going to get something in your stomach, dear heart, and perhaps a nice bath and — save everything else for later, yes? Sounds good?"
Oliver tries to apologize and calm her down, but it doesn't go well.
Saelhen diplomatically defuses the situation, drawing attention to her own role in today's debacle to reduce tensions. Looseleaf apologizes to Oliver for her outburst, an olive branch is proffered... and then Looseleaf remembers she needs to change the subject.
Right! That situation! Looseleaf still doesn't divulge how she knows this, but Oliver's on the back foot and kind of has to trust her about this. He intends to report in to Evelyn at his nearest opportunity.
Still- it's getting late, and they happen to be at a place that is technically an inn (and brothel and live music venue and bar and grill and lesser temple of Karou), and the Sweethoneys are happy to put the party up for the night. But first... dinner! Vampire surgery is hungry work.
At the bar, they meet Dall, who's beyond relieved that her girlfriend is alive despite the odds. She treats them to drinks, and- after Looseleaf invoices her to the tune of two hundred gold- begins explaining the Iron Section incident that led to this whole vampire issue.
The Iron Section, Dall explains, was a mining division. Specifically the iron mining division, as the name implies.
Dall tells you, with increasingly slurred speech, about the Iron Section incident. They had a mineshaft that was going deeper than usual- the kind of dig that risks unearthing monsters. As a result, the mineshaft was completely sealed off, and the workforce quarantined to the dig site for the duration of the expedition- until the entire shaft was cleared out and warded and declared safe.
This isn't that unusual for dwarven mining companies- it's akin to going out on a lobster boat for a while, you get paid handsomely for the long and arduous multi-day work shift.
The dig site was sealed off to ensure no one would come or go, besides the iron carts- and because of this, there wasn't much oversight, besides the foreman in charge and his subordinate management.
Which means when the foreman somehow became a vampire- and was the first to become a vampire- there was no one above him to countermand his orders. Gelly had explained to her- the foreman cared about his workers, he didn't want them to die, so he didn't feed on them to the point of exsanguination- but when a vampire feeds on you without killing you, you get thralls.
And he wasn't as heartless as Cabana Jim- when his thralls hungered, he didn't starve them half to death to keep them compliant. He fed them.
And so it proceeded until the entire Iron Section was vampirized- and then they were out of blood.
And so they got increasingly hungry and desperate and left the quarantine mine, in a sudden attack on the surface.
This got the attention of the Ecumene of Harmony, led by bishop Celeste Yonder.
The ecumene led a cleanup crew and killed them all.
Yeesh.
The party asks a few questions about the monster issue- which Dall isn't super knowledgeable about. Apparently if you dig deep enough, monsters can just spawn in the depths, in any sufficiently large hollow space deep underground. There's ways to block this from happening, but Dall can't quite remember what kind of magic is involved.
Afterwards, they hit the hay. Looseleaf, through a soul link, detects that Oyobi is coincidentally also in this establishment, upstairs in a private room with someone. Weird.
Looseleaf also takes some time to contact Miriko Watchwood via telepathy. Apparently, Miriko has "disposed of" Jess Chainer- by which she means, locking her up in a cell underneath the ghost dryad Ana, to have her life force fed upon. Miriko's met back up with her employer, and everything seems hunky-dory for her... but Looseleaf detects a wrong note.
Like... shouldn't Miriko be mad at her boss? The one who knew she was enslaved at Cabana Jim's, and used that as an opportunity to extract information from rich tourists instead of, say, rescuing her?
Miriko denies this.
Looseleaf gets a crit roll on Something's Fishy.
Trauma aside, the party tucks in for a good night's sleep.
Looseleaf has a dream.
Looseleaf has this same dream for the next few nights- each time a bit less obscured and difficult to remember. There is a last time that she has this dream, later on- at which point it is fully revealed. She's yet to discuss it with anyone, though.
Saelhen, by contrast, has this same dream, revealed from the very first time- but she can't remember it when she jolts awake in panic.
:) :) :)
Next time. Looseleaf and Oliver go to school and have a nice time and learn some things! That's all! Don't worry!
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a day in the life of a humble fudanshi ^_^
oki so i woke up at 8 am and jacked off to call of duty fanfiction
then i brushed my hair, put on my bathrobe, and took a piss
i then proceeded to make myself a bagel for breakfast and i sat around in the living room for a while
i actually ended up taking a nap from 10-12 pm because i stayed up pretty late last night :3
at 12:30 i got ready super fast because i had plans to go to kinokuniya!!! (i live in houston and the closest kinokuniya is in katy, it's a 30 minute drive)
i was specifially looking for fedya-sama merch and the loveless manga but i didn't find any?!?!?!?!?! ((゚□゚;)) so i got some random stuff instead
afterwards i went to a nearby cafe called sweethoney dessert!! i ordered the matcha souffle pancakes. THEY WERE LITERALLY PERFECT, THIS WAS MY FIRST TIME TRYING SOUFFLE PANCAKES AND I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT BUT THEY MELTED IN MY MOUTH, THE FLAVOR WAS DIVINE, IT WAS LIKE EATING A SWEET GOOEY CLOUD one of the people i was with got some kind of vanilla ice black rice mango thing which was sooo good (we all shared)
now i'm going to a thrift store :3 byee!!!
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