{Wednesday} 12pm: Lunch and catch up sesh with my friend at lemonade in Brentwood. This is probably my favorite location as it's never crowded and there's two hours free parking across the street. I get a portion of an old fav, chicken with green beans and a portion of a new fav, a seasonal shrimp salad.
{Thursday} 12pm: At the Claire Pettibone luncheon at Gracias Madre in West Hollywood, my favorite vegan Mexican restaurant, I dine on the grapefruit salad, the caesar salad, delish flautas de papas with generous heapings of guac, and cauliflower fritos while admiring the beautiful tablescape.
{Friday} 12pm: After taking a morning flight to Vegas to meet up M, I'm salivating for a Vegas buffet. At Bellagio, I get plates after plates of food and dessert and am floating on a food high. I always eat more than M at buffets. Must be the Chinese gene.
{Saturday} 12pm: We walk around and snack on Bouchon pastries and a protein smoothie from Jamba Juice before heading to the airport for our flight home. 6pm: We decide to go to Chengdu Taste for spicy Szechuan in the SGV. We order the boiled fish soup, string beans, toothpick lamb, mapo tofu, mung bean noodles, and fried rice and love everything. Although my mouth is numb from the spiciness, I can't help but wish we had equally good Chinese food in West LA.
{Sunday} 12pm: I have some yogurt and finish the leftover fried rice. 7pm: After working on the house the entire day and going on a short hike at Franklin Canyon, we head to Miceli's in Hollywood for some old fashioned Italian food. I get the spaghetti with mushrooms, onions, and meat sauce, a side of meatballs, and a side salad. The pasta is too salty but I love the ambience inside the oldest Italian restaurant in LA and the live piano serenade is just lovely.
{Monday} 12pm: M makes our first Acai bowl in the new house! It's the best bowl I've ever had as it's less sweet than the ones at the stores. He uses frozen Acai packets from Whole Foods and blends it with frozen bananas and coconut water. We top it off with frozen berries, hempseed, granola, goji berries, and coconut flakes. It's also much cheaper to make your own!
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