Anni Adventures

I'm starting to get into a routine with school and what not. Although it isn't easy. Because a couple of my classes start at 6:30, I don't get off until 9:30. I always think that I can last and make it home to eat, but by break time, I'm always starving. So the other night, after class ended, my dad picked me up in Burnaby on my way home from class. Gotta love him <3. We went to Estea. Estea as my family likes to refer to it as our second kitchen. We don't actually cook there. no. However, we eat there so often, that it has essentially become our kitchen. The owner is a nice lady that gives us a permanent 10% discount. Come to think of it, I don't think I've eaten at home in a long time due to classes and church and time spent with niu.

In the olden days, we'd come every Friday night and order our staple food of marinaJimited platter, siu mai, and thick toast with peanut butter. Tonight, because I was really starved, so we ordered a braised beef noodle soup, a thick toast with peanut butter (for my daddy) and a milk tea.

It was actually my first time trying the noodle soup there, and I was actually surprised it was quite good. The soup is light but rich in flavor. The noodles are al dente just like it should be. Had they been more generous with the beef portions and the beef flavor, it would have been perfect. But when you're as hungry as I was, you aren't going to complain and will eat anything :)


I actually have to say for me though, the milk tea isn't the greatest. But that is a personal preference. It has too much of a tea flavor and not enough of the milky flavor. This isn't to say its bad. It just isn't my preferred taste.

A couple of days ago (Friday), a group of friends and I decided to try out one of the new escape games in town. There's so many now I've lost count. Unfortunately for us, the time slot we wanted was completely booked. So we were only able to book for the 9:30 slot. Since the escape game was in Richmond, we decided to eat in Richmond after work as well. Initially we decided to cook pasta at my co-worker's place, but then we ended up trying out a ramen place called Yah Yah Ya.

This restaurant is Japanese owned and even has locations in Tokyo. The location of the restaurant used to be a Taiwanese place, which I actually quite liked. The inside of the restuarant was redecorated and really had a ramen restaurant feel. We all ordered ramens. I ordered the Shoyu ramen this time and also got the mini chasu donbori on the side.

The Chasu in my opinion wasn't as good as Ramengers, but isn't considered bad either. The soup was rich in flavor and the noodles were al dente. I didn't end up finishing the noodles though as I was already somewhat full from before dinner.


After dinner, we went over to my co-worker's place to kill some time before heading to the escape game.

This escape game location was unique in the sense that it only had one room. No themes. You were given an extended amount of time of 1 hour and at the end of it all the person goes through explaining all the puzzles with you. We had a group of eight with us playing. I won't go into details about the room but I will say we started it off handcuffed to a partner. In the end, we managed to escape from the room with 2 minutes and 15 seconds left to spare. Talk about close timing. The guy told us we were the second group out of roughly 8 to succeed. And for succeeding, we all could choose a key off the wall and write our names on it. All in all, the escape game was interesting as it was not all numerical questions and required more thinking, but it wasn't particularly hard. However, that could be because we had 8 minds.


We ended the night grabbing drinks at Pearl Castle several blocks away. We didn't get home till 1 am that night! But it was definitely a fun night.

Yah Yah Ya
8388 Capstan Way
Richmond, BC

Escape Key
5951 Minoru Blvd
Richmond, BC

I received the Dead Sea Mud Spa Mask by Montagne Jeunesse a few months back in the influenster voxbox. I have tons of face mask so I haven't had the chance to get this one. That is, until the other night. I've personally never tried a mud mask before so I was quite interested to see what it was like. This mud mask only uses Dead Sea mud, Dead Sea salt and seaweed.