belated Mother's Day post

Mother's day was last Sunday, but I've been tired yet still wanted to make this post. I've never did anything really special for Mother's day and felt that I should do something fun this year. Since my mom had work during the day, my lil sis and I went to visit my grandmother (who are also mothers!) in the nursing home. She didn't know it was mother's day or had forgotten since her memory isn't as good as it was before. We talked and laughed and took some pics so that we can later give them to her and not forget us. We also test her memory and she had forgotten who I was but at least she remembered my lil sis cuz of her darker skin. But she doesn't mind us when we correct her memory, which is real blessing since other elderly get real cranky when they feel that other ppl are correcting their memory. Then we said our good byes until nxt time.

While walking back to the train station, we passed by some vendor selling flowers. They had a sign up that wrote "Roses for $9" which isn't bad for a batch of them since they can sell that at that price for just 1 rose on valentine's day. We nvr gotten flowers for my mom cuz she thinks it's a waste of money, but we know she likes flowers. We didn't get roses cuz that is something my father should be getting, so we got some other spring-like flowers. I also stopped by THE FACE SHOP cuz I wanted to see their bb cream line and tried one out on my face. I can't find the name of it online for some reason but the result wasn't that bad except my lil sis could tell my face was whitened by the diff in skin color betw my face and neck. It was a hot day, but this thing kept my face looking matte.

using bb cream & concealer from The Face Shop

Then we headed out to Union Sq b/c there was this event going on called the 32nd Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Festival 2011. We got their mid-way to the event so there wasn't much left regarding free goodies and foodies.

Make a Wish

 

2 koreans dressed in their traditional wardrobe.
They were so pretty.

We bought these sweet potato sweets from a stand and they were pretty good even tho there were only 3 pieces but at least we were helping out the Japanese relief fund.

fresh cooked food for you to order

Shake Salad Raman from Hakata TonTon
they add sauce to this, shake it up, and eat.

selling jewelry

cosplay girl

even tho it's just art, isn't she seductive?

 We also watched this taiko performance, which was really good. I recorded a vid of it too but too lazy to upload >.<

the taiko sensei

We bumped into our cousin who took this pic for us.

as we were making our way to chinatown, there was this fair going on right next to the festival.

i finally found my cookie monster shirt in the right blue shade at this fair!

We stayed for a lil over an hour before going to Chinatown to pick up our omma. We decided to introduce her to korean food and the only k-resto in chinatown was Jup-She. When we got to the resto, it was closed?!!! I had made sure its store hrs on the yelp site and no reviewers has said that place was closed either. But I did see a food inspector sign saying "Grade Pending", but that doesn't mean it should be closed either. So we had trek our way to k-town on 34th st and went to Seoul Garden cuz I had a good first experience there before.

So we wanted to give a good korean food experience for our mom cuz we're always raving it when we get back home from our hang-outs. But my mom didn't like any of the 5 Banchans especially the Kim-Chi lols This was already turning out to be a lost cause in me trying to broaden her taste buds beyond Chinese food. For our appetizers, we got the Haemool Pajun (Seafood and scallion pancake) and Yachae Japchae (Stir-fried mixed vegetable and vermicelli noodle in special season). Our main course was the Soon Tofu + Beef Short Rib since I love love love their smoky beef short rib the most.

5 banchans

i don't usually eat bean sprouts cuz they're bland, but Seoul Garden made them SOOOO tasty!

Left: Haemool Pajun - Seafood and scallion pancake
Right: Yachae Japchae - Stir-fried mixed vegetable and vermicelli noodle in special season

 

 

This was my first Haemool Pajun and it was sooo delish!
My mom said this was her fav dish of the nite
and wanted to make it back home.
^_^

Soon Tofu + Beef Short Rib
We forgot to crack the egg into the tofu bowl until 10 mins later *fails*

trying to rock out the cookie monster shirt

yay!
you can tell how much my face got whitened by the bb cream.
first time looking so flawless like those korean stars
and this was taken 5 hrs later!!!

my complimentary dessert xP

We were soooo stuffed. All in all my mom still preferred chinese food over korean food any day, but she really enjoyed the experience esp us giving her flowers for the first time. I didn't know why I didn't do this before, but it was a lot of fun treating my mom cuz it is HER day.

Since were in 34th st, I had to make a stop by H&M and check out their spring collection and actually got some stuff I liked and they gave me this really pretty coral color bag which is the hit color of Spring 2011.

aww the color didn't come out right but it was a really light color