Vivi March 2013 Scans

Hi Japanese fashion lovers!

I love Japanese fashion because they’re always able to take a cute spin on all the latest trends and make them super girly XD.  Here are some scans from the latest Vivi magazine to get you guys thinking about spring fashion trends and makeup and hair tips!

 

Lots of neons and bright colours this spring!

 

Neon accent pieces are probably easier to wear than full neon garments.

 

 

Flowers are always a must for Spring.

 

Garments with cutouts are sexy and cute at the same time!

 

For the monotone lovers.

Makeup tips to open up your eyes.

 

Spring is all about looking youthful, easiest way to achieve a youthful look is fuller brows!

 

Momofuku Shoto

Happy Valentines everyone!

My boyfriend and I decided to go to Momofuku Shoto last week to celebrate Valentines to avoid the rush on the 14th. They serve a tasting menu that’s priced at $150 per person and beverage pairing is also available for $50 or $80. Their menu is based on market availability so will change from time to time.

Our menu for the night.

We started off with 4 amuses.

Some sort of fresh Alberta yeast bread..? lol

Uni with walnut.

Rice friend in pork fat.

Forgot what this was called >_<. Some sort of mushroom dish…

One of the chefs and the view from our seat.

The pictures below are all in order of the menu, so refer to that for what each dish is XD.

 

This last dish didn’t seem to be part of the menu, but I don’t remember it as one of the amuses.. not quite sure what it is haha >_<

Overall I enjoyed the dinner, but not quite sure if I would go again… I’d rather just use that money for a really nice sushi/sashimi meal haha. But I really wanted to try because the restaurant has had sooo many good reviews.

Dota 2 Beta Key Giveaway

Hello fellow gamers!

Recently I’ve been playing a lot of Dota 2. It’s still in the beta phase so it’s not publicly available yet.

I was a Dota player before I started playing LoL. I always preferred Dota over LoL (sorry LoL players =P) but the old Dota was too hard to join games to play with friends, so we all made the switch to LoL. Now that Dota 2 beta has been released, I’ve gotten back to playing Dota XD.

But games like Dota 2 are way more enjoyable to play with friends! The more the merrier! But beta keys are still somewhat hard to come by. So, I’m giving away 3 beta invites. How do you win? Simple, just comment below with your Steam ID and tell me your favourite hero! First come first serve!

Good luck and happy gaming!

Kingyo Izakaya

Hello food lovers!

I went to Kingyo Izakaya today for dinner. It’s a restaurant similar to Guu where you order small dishes to share and to go with drinks.

The menu items are small and are meant to be shared.

Cow tongue stone grill.

You cook the tongue on the stone which is pre-heated *0*.

Spicy chicken hotpot with cabbage and bean sprouts. Sort of like a Japanese take on a Korean dish. Not a lot of chicken as you can see.. lol.

My drink, melon white wine sangria! Super yummy XD.

Uni and scallop stone bowl and karaage. the uni and scallop stone bowl was probably the best thing I tried there.

Toro and avocado sushi. Very thin slices of Toro…

Scallop carpaccio. Scallops were small, pretty sure they cut each scallop in to 2 pieces…

Green tea macha creme brulee. This was really good, I wish I ordered a second one XD.

Frozen grapes, they give you these when you get the bill.

The price point of this place is similar to Guu Izakaya. We had 4 people, we each ordered a drink and shared about 8 dishes and 2 desserts. The total came to $50/person. I wasn’t exactly full after the meal but I wasn’t hungry haha.

Personally I feel the portions are way too small and probably would not go to have dinner, but it’s a nice place to go to have some drinks and some food to go with the drinks with friends.

Dolly Wink Liquid Eyeliner Review

Hello everyone! Today I want to review my favourite liquid eyeliner so far: Dolly Wink’s liquid eyeliner.

I’ve mentioned Dolly Wink before many times for my love of their false lashes. They not only make nice false lashes but also really nice liquid eyeliners! (I didn’t find their pencil liners to be anything special though, which is sad because the packaging is so cute XD).

Currently they have 2 lines out in the market.

The polka dot packaging is their first version of their liquid eyeliner, which I’ve used for about a year and a half now, and the daisy packaging is their second version of the liquid eyeliner. In terms of staying power, water resistance, and and length of wear, I’d say the 2 are about the same, I didn’t notice much of a difference. However, I found the second version much smoother to draw on the eyelid. The first version was also smooth but would dry out after a few months making it hard to draw a nice smooth line, where as the second version seemed much smoother in comparison.

Both liners are felt-tipped, very easy to use even for beginners, creates nice smooth lines of varying thickness, and easy to draw cat-eyes with. The colours are also very pigmented, the black is a true black, great for a more intense look and the brown is great for a natural look.

What I love about these eyeliners is that they dry fairly fast and are water resistant and rub resistant. However, they come off very easily with warm water making removing it a very simple process. Oh and of course the cute packaging XD.

Many Asian cosmetic stores that carry Japanese drugstore products will mostly likely carry Dolly Wink products in North America. However, do expect to pay a premium for it. I bought mine in Hong Kong for around $15. Sasa also sells these for around $17.

Overall, I give Dolly Wink eyeliners a 5/5. There’s nothing that I dislike about them, great product in nice packaging ^_^.

Iron Chef Japanese Steak House

Last week, I went to Iron Chef Japanese Steak House in Mississauga for a get together with some friends. The restaurant is a good for groups since they have large tables for both the teppanyaki side of the restaurant or if you just want to side in the regular dining room. We all had teppanyaki so we were seated around a teppanyaki grill.

We were served with salad and soup as we waited for our chef to cook our main courses.

Our Chef starting on our meals.

First up is vegetables. We were each given a ginger sauce and a mustard sauce, but I found the veggies to be pretty nicely flavoured already when he served it.

Coco’s main course: scallops. They were very well cooked, I was impressed. Not a bit over cooked and nicely seared on the outside.

Cooking the sirloin steak.

Again, very well seasoned and tasted great!

Lastly is the friend rice, he made it into a heart shape!

There were a lot of tricks that the chef did which I couldn’t really capture with pictures. Overall, a very entertaining dinner with better than expected food. I normally don’t expect food from teppanyaki to be too great because it’s mostly for the show. Iron Chef however served us delicious food as well as provide entertainment XD. The dinners cost us around $30 – $35 each after tax and tip.

Overall I would give it a 4/5 for food and entertainment, however, the cost is slightly steep for the food.

Taipei Pictures

Happy New Year everyone!

Taipei was the last destination of my little Asia trip. We went to a hot springs in Beitou and spent around 3 days in Taipei city site seeing and eating. Lots and lots of eating.

View from our room in Beitou. We stayed at Radium Kagaya Hotel in a traditional Japanese style suite with tatami mats.

We were all given yukata to wear XD.

Our stay included a very extensive Japanese meal. This was our dinner menu, it’s in Chinese but as you can see, there were tons of courses…

Pictures of a few of our courses. Everything was super tasty, but there was so much food I had to take a break in between eating >_<

Taking a rest because I was so stuffed lol.

After dinner we went back to the hot springs, but I decided to only soak my feet.

Then we headed off to Taipei after our mid-trip relaxation at the hot springs! Nightmarkets is a MUST at Taipei.

Tons of different kinds of food, snacks, games, and random things to buy.

This was super yummy, it’s deep friend milk!

More food XD.

Can’t leave Asia without getting my nails done…

I decided to get this gel nail set.

Leaving Taipei, we had to stop over in Tokyo, and we were lucky enough to get the Hello Kitty flight!

The plane was so cute, everything was Hello Kitty. I really wanted to take that pillow, but I already had too much stuff to carry =(. My friend took the puke bag as a souvenir though =__=.

That’s it for my Asia trip! I think my favourite part was the hot springs hotel. It was so relaxing and food was really good. We even had a butler to serve our room =O. I definitely wanna go back there again XD.

Pictures from Macau and Hong Kong

Hey guys! This is continuation of my previous posts with pictures from the next 2 destinations on my Asia trip: Macau and Hong Kong!

 

Looking down from Ruins of St. Paul in Macau.

 

Night time at Senado Square in Macau.

 

Light show at the Venetian in Macau.

 

View from Avenue of Stars in Hong Kong.

 

High-fiving a piggy XD.

 

Desserts in Hong Kong.

 

More desserts in Hong Kong ^__^

 

At the wax museum at the Peak in Hong Kong with the Queen.

That’s all for now! Taipei pics coming next, stay tuned!

Pictures from Seoul Trip

Hey everyone! I was travelling last 2 weeks around Asia, so I haven’t posted in a while >_<. I made a small post from Seoul 2 weeks ago, here are more pictures from my trip while I was at Seoul!

 

Giant bowl of spicy udon!

 

Lots of snow in Seoul =O

First meal and only meal in Seoul with fresh vegetables.. didn’t know it was so hard to find in Korea lol.

Hello Kitty cafe! Yes, I was freezing >_<

Some of what they sell at the cafe.

My friend and I got the tiramisu and a sweet potato latte. Both were ok, not spectacular but presentation was very cute!

Even the washroom was cute!

Hand made popsicles from Molly’s Pops. Some were 19+ because of alcohol content lol.

Shopping in Myeongdong!

View of Seoul from Namsan Tower.

 

Lotte World! It’s an indoor theme park, was still super busy even though we went on a weekday >_<.

Will be posting more pictures of my travel from Macau, Hong Kong, and Taipei soon!

Greetings from Seoul!

Hey everyone!

I’m currently in Seoul on vacation! It’s kinda hard to post from my phone so I’ll just be posing some pictures that I took on my phone for now XD.

Outside where I’m staying. It’s a part of the detached palace that was converted into a guest house.
Climbing Bugaksan mountain.
Yummy food!
The main street that faces one of the palaces.
At the fish market with my catch for dinner.
Found Riot Games in the palace museum O_O