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Tomato egg or 蕃茄炒蛋  is a humble but delicious dish. It's home style Chinese recipe therefore it's easy to do and just using few ingredients that everyone has in their kitchen.  Get ready to cook a really tasty dish in just few minutes! ٩(•̤̀ᵕ•̤́๑)ᵒᵏᵎᵎᵎᵎ


 

  •  Egg
  • Tomato
  • Taiwanese noodles
  • Salt
  • Soy sauce
  • Honey
 

 First we cut the tomatoes in eight pieces each. For two people we used six tomatoes.



Break and mix the eggs. Throw them on a non -sticky pan. Stir until the egg is cooked.


Prepare a big pot with water and bring it to boil.

Mix the tomatoes, egg and add a little bit of honey. Stir.

Add the noodles to the boiling water and cook for four minutes aprox.


 Add soy sauce to the egg and tomato mix and and stir. And it's done!







As an extra we cooked Chinese sausages. They look like butcher's sausages but they taste sweet ! How to cook them? Just let them boil for 15 minutes ! Don't get confuse since the taste is really different !

 


Hope you enjoyed this recipe and you'll try it at home! (๑•͈ᴗ•͈)







Moving to the most further country and state I could ever think of, adding that the culture and customs of my SO are completely different to mine, this made everything a little bit more exciting and also, difficult.

There's a list of the most noticeable changes I've felt; 
  • You don't go anywhere without a car.  This suburb and I guess all the USA was made for riding cars. You won't find anyone waking on the streets. No one walks to their job. Are you going to high school or even to the theater?  You need a car. 
    The roads in this city have approx 4 lanes each side. Parking lots are an extended thing, they are huge and placed everywhere. There are no roundabouts, not even one.
    The good thing compared to Spain is that everyone respects the traffic lights, and for a simple reason; skip and you'll have 100% possibilities to get smashed  by a car. ヾ( •́д•̀ ;)ﾉ Also no one is allowed to stop on the road, not even inside towns, this and picking people is completely forbidden. Roads are for driving fast to home not for stopping.



  •  The fridge is now filled with Asian leftovers.  Boxes of pig ears, tendon with peanuts, Taiwanese rice with beef, red bean pancakes, kimchi rice,  Korean seafood pancake, baozi and zongzi from 99 Ranch, frozen mochi ice cream, all kinds of Indian curry and the list goes on. Since this weekend we celebrate his birthday with his parents more dim sum left overs will come, I'm sure (∗॔꒪⺫ॢ꒪)

  • «Take your shoes off!»  I'm not sure if this is because of the wooden floors or because It's how people do it here. But even in his parents house, our apartment or friend's house no outdoor shoes are allowed inside. Period.  They will always offer you slippers to walk inside, each house usually has more than one pair or size available. 



  • California is the state with the more Asian population Nothing wrong about it, since I have use of memory  I liked Asian culture, their food, felt curiosity for their culture and got fascinated by their pop culture. And the difference is overwhelming. For instance, where I live there's luckily 2 "Chinese" restaurants and I never got to try real Asian cuisine until I came here.  Here you can get to try all kind of Asian food and all kind of stores with goods you could think about it. And that's a thing I always wanted to try, eat different foods, go to the famous Daiso or those stores with huge rilakuma stuffed animals ꒰⑅ᵕ༚ᵕ꒱˖♡

  • Swiping credit cards, taxes and tips.  This is the most stupid thing ever, I swear. The difference is that in Spain you have to give the shop assistant the credit card, they insert it and unless you have to enter your secret code you don't really do anything whereas in the USA you have to be the one who swipes the card.  Sometimes I just stood there waiting for them to ask my credit card, or give it to the shop assistant while getting some weird looks.  Taxes, your new best friend. All the prices here for food, clothing etc don't have the tax added. For example; see a nice shirt for 9$, you only have 10$ and think "oh, I got the exact money!". Nope, after they add the taxes you won't have enough.  Tiping is now my new enemy,  I never had to tip anyone, even at a restaurant, you just pay the food an leave, if you want to tip that's awesome for them but is not obligatory like in the USA.  If you tip in Spain it might be that euro coin you don't want or few cents if the price is close to a round number, but never a 15% - 20% of the price. I still think it's crazy. ( ｣｡╹o╹｡)｣


Those are some of the changes I felt while living here, I'm sure there are more I can't think about them now. I'll might add If I can think about a good one.

Hi people! How are you guys doing  today? Here's such an amazing sunny day, I can't wait to go swim!




Today I' ll show you two pair of shoes I bought here. I came without summer shoes since the ones I have are old. So, I headed to the mall searching for nice summer shoes but without being super expensive.  After checking some stores I found "Shiekh" honestly I thought I wouldn't find anything since it looks like a basketball shoe store, but they also sell women shoes. 

The shop assistants told me that there was a deal " Buy one sandal and get another one for just 5$". That was my opportunity! After looking at the few sandals they had I decided for a german sandals and a jelly wedge sandals.  



It looks like the German sandals are trendy nowadays thanks to the brand "Birkenstock". While I was checking shoes in the mall I already saw them in few stores.  When I was little and over few years I already owned a few pairs of this style of sandals, they are awesomely comfortable and if they have a nice design they can fit with a lot of looks.  And for the jelly ones, well, they were silver and I wanted one pair of this style for so long.




 I got the white pair since it was cheaper than the rest of colors and it fits with everything. And here it stared the "chaos" at the store.  Making my math in mind, both shoes would have been around 30$ with taxes. When I went to pay the receipt said "48$". What.  I checked it again and the white sandal's price was more expensive.  After telling them that the price was wrong and they telling me that that was the price, I went to grab the sandal and show them that the price was wrong. The sticker in the sandal showed 22$ instead of the 27$ they were making me pay.


 They looked at the shoe box, and it seemed that the original price of the white sandal was 40$.  They looked extra confused. The good thing is that this already happened to me before and they have to apply the cheaper one, so I was pretty calm. And that's what happened, I got both sandals for 30$.   I have to say that the shop assistants were always super kind and understanding, we clarified everything in a friendly mood.  I would totally go back.



I still haven wore the jelly sandals since every time I leave I have to walk a lot and those are not shoes for walking farther distances. And also,  they are made of plastic. I have to figure out how to wear them.

Last Tuesday was my SO birthday! When I met him he was two years younger, time passes so fast ! It's amazing that last year we couldn't celebrate our birthdays together but this one we are able to!  Doesn't it make it even more special?  We decided to have a light lunch since we were going to have Korean BBQ at night. After waking up and I gave him the presents, nothing really fancy but useful! 

In the evening, both hungry, headed to " Tobang" - yes, I thought the same - it seems to be a really tasty place and famous, and effectively, there was a line to enter. On a Tuesday night. Line. I don't want to know what happens on weekends. 

We got a Family 1 menu with 2 choices of meat, kimchi stew, kimchi rice a seafood pancake and a dish of deokkbokki! And this is all supposed to be for two people, but it's a lot of food. 
L to R: Radish, kimchi, seasoned bean sprouts, spicy stir fried tofu,  japchae, steamed egg, Rice wrappers, sauteéd sea plant, braised potatoes (Gamja jorim), Juipo (fish jerky) .

 


Chadolbaegi (Grilled beef brisket)


 Ddeokkbokki


And for drink, to the health of him, we got yogurt soju. What I think it was those Korean yogurts mixed with soju. I totally recommend it. It's super sweet and tastes like liquid yogurt.



Lastly we went to Yogurtland. You can choose any flavor and quantity of frozen yogurt and all the toppings you want. You just pay how much it weights.








That's all! Hope you liked it!
Last Saturday we went to Berkeley. It's an hour north from where we are, really close to Oakland. The main reason was to see a concert from Belle and Sebastian and go check one of the few Spanish importation stores in the bay area.

I found it a really unique city since it's mainly for students due to the university.  And that means; cheap food and second hand stores. There were a lot if "fast food" places and records and clothing stores. We wanted to try some ice cream from "Cream"  but there was a long line outside and it was just a rip-off  "Diddy Riese" in LA. I highly recommend Diddy Riese; amazing cookie ice creams for less than 2$ and cookies. (☆ゝ3・)σ






Then we headed to "Spanish Table" a big store with all kind of products from Spain. They also have some from Portugal and Mexico, but it's mainly Spain.

It felt really nostalgic to find all that food from Spain. They had all kind of sausages, jamón, canned seafood, beers, candies, spices, paella pans.... I liked it even though I didn't recognize the majority of the brands they were selling and everything was overpriced.

 For instance, they were selling a big chocolate powder pot for 21$ this costs less than 5$ in Spain.  I understand they have to make money ...  I'll bring it from Spain myself, thanks.  
Despite of that,  I could by some meat stuff and candies my really wanted my SO to try. 

Now we can enjoy our Christmas in summer saying "Zaragoza" with our mouths stuffed with polvorones.  Try it, it's 100% sure fun.

Polvorones, nice brand turrón, all kind of pots and paella pans, honey and chocolate, Maria cookies and also pastries from Mallorca.

And now the concert ! I started listening to Belle and Sebastian few months ago and I really liked their music style. 

The concert took place in the Greek Theatre in Berkley's university. After spending 2h listening to the opening bands under a frying sun - thank god I bought sunblock- and actually, Real State were really good also!

Then hungry headed to a kind of food plaza were we bought a "Canadian" dish which is a mix of fries, meat and whatever you can think about it inside a box. It was okay but not a huge fan of that. After that we found a donut store called "King Pin Donut"  were you could see how they did the donuts.

 



 They tasted really good, the dough was super crunchy like if it was a churro and they were just made. 10/10 would go again.












1.Do you have a middle name?   Yes, and I love it!
2. What was your favourite subject in school?  Arts and English. Although I did pretty well in Arts, English was not really my thing but I really enjoyed it.
3. What’s your favourite drink?  Fruit juices and lemon sodas. I'm starting to know which fruits blend together and sour fruits are my favourites. I could drink just squished lemons.
4. Favourite song at the moment? Love illumination - Franz Ferdinand.
5. What would you name your children? Too far to start thinking about them .
6. Do you participate in any sports?  Lifting weights counts ?
7. Favourite Book?  Compilation of Poe Stories.
8. Favourite Colour?  Grey, red, pastel colors....everything but green, purple an orange.
9. Favourite Animal? Hamsters, rabbits, alpacas, goats, crocodiles, sharks etc.
10. Favourite perfume? "Ralph" by Ralph Lauren
11. Favourite holiday? Christmas, best season ever! Holidays, presents, ugly sweaters, family meetings, nice dress codes and chocolates! yay
12. Have you graduated High School?  yup, in 2007
13. Have you been out of the Country? Outside Spain, yeah, I've been to Prague, USA ( California, Las Vegas, and New York)
14. Do you speak any other Languages?  Apart from Spanish, my mother tongue language Catalán, English, and learned Italian, German and Russian, even though I don't remember much about them.
15. Do you have any siblings?  Two old sisters and an old brother.
16. What’s your favourite store? I've discovered Daiso here and I think it's amazing, everything is super cute, cheap and hazardous. It has the best of each world. Also Urban Outfitters, I could decorate our apartment with stuff from there.
17. Favourite Restaurant?  Kikusushi and Orenchi. Yummiest places I've been introduced to and wow. I could go there everyday.
18. Did you like school?  I hope I will !
19. Favourite Movie? The Man in the Iron Mask
20. Favourite Tv show? Family Feud
21.What phone do you have? I have two, the one in Spain is Sony Xperia Tipo and the one for America is a iPhone5.
22. How tall are you? Around 5'7 - 5'8 inches.

1. What do you order at Starbucks?   Why you want to go there having Chinese bakeries and bubble tea places?
2. One thing in your closet you cannot live without? My loafers, my fluffy white short sweater and my black jeans !
3. What’s one thing most people probably don’t know about you? That I have a skin stain :(
4. Name one thing you want to do before you die…travel to Asia!
5. What’s one food you cannot live without?  Jiaozi, sushi and my mom's rice.
6. What quote/phrase do you live by? "don't do to others what you don't want done to you"
7. What’s your most listened to song on iTunes?  Drama by Nine Muses  haha
8. What kind of style would you define yourself as having? huh...not sure
9. Favourite number?  8 !
10. Two Hobbies?  Drawing and discovering new places.
11. Two Pet Peeves? Fake strawberry smells as ice creams, candies, bubble teas and people who doesn't put back in place the dumbbells and weights at the gym.
12. Guilty Pleasures? Reese's chocolates and everything that has a stripe pattern.




Hey

I've arrived "few" days ago ! Yay. After a 11h plane non stop from Madrid to Dallas, and running to everywhere with a fast pass since the place was delayed.

 
This was mostly the views I had during 11h. White clouds and a gorgeous blue sky. 



I arrived safe to San Francisco. It was a really nice trip although it was always sunny and got some jokes on the plane since we flight on April's fools. It seemed that the weather in San Francisco was horribly cold, windy and with a lightning storm and we woudn't be able to depart. Luckily it was just a joke.



Really, what would you guys do if you were 11h on a plane? I don't really know how I did it. I was sleeping and trying to sleep most of the time  (。-ω-)zzz

Just after I landed we went to a chinese restaurant close in Millbre. I missed chinese food so bad! I can't wait until I learn to cook something!


I'll be posting some updates about the things we have been doing here!