Yi Mei (Monterey Park)

Went to Yi Mei for breakfast. There's a branch in Rowland Heights in the Hong Kong Supermarket building, of which I was quite the regular in high school--to the point of getting caught by a friend's mom when some of us ditched for lunch senior year. Thank goodness her son wasn't actually with us that time. Yesterday, we went to the branch on Atlantic in the same plaza as Elite Cafe.


Best dish of the day was daikon cakes coated with egg. Very fresh, tender, hot daikon cakes.

Beef in pastry was okay, but the pastry wasn't hot and flakey enough.

Chinese "tortillas" filled with eggs and green onions. Good, a hard dish to mess up.

Cold noodles with chicken. Very disappointing, with unappealingly large chunks of chicken and very thick noodles. Four Sea does this much better.

Savory soy milk. Yum.

Drove around downtown yesterday and saw this in a window. I really think this is the kind of gown my mom wishes I were going to wear. It's not horrible, but jeezus. So not me. And while I think giant sparkles are great if you're only going to be seen from far away, at a wedding where people are going to be coming up to you it's just too gaudy. I don't know. I'm getting a lot of "But you have to (wear huge jewelry, have sparkles on my dress, wear heavy makeup, put sparkles in my hair, carry an enormous bouquet) because it'll look great in photos!" I think I'd rather have a balance between great photos and not looking like I'm in a theater costume all day. "Gee, didn't Pei look like a clown today?" "Yeah, but the photos are going to be great." Shudder.