friday food finds

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decided to go to jewel bako friday night (way too hot outside for ramen at ippudo). decor at jewel bako was fairly nice. we had:

trio of tartares blue fin tuna, salmon and yellowtail, served with lotus root chips. ex-cellent.
unagi with shrimp, golden tobiko, avocado and kaiware. really good.
scallops with yuzu zest, avocado, scallions and chive oil. meh.
salmon with shiso furikake, bonito flakes and white miso. only good.

i would go back just for the trio of tartares...it was that de-licious.

since we were in the east village anyway, we walked to butter lane for dessert. we tried:

vanilla cupcake with caramel frosting. too good.
chocolate cupcake with raspberry frosting. only good.

after, we checked out the japanese grocery store (conveniently on the way to the subway) that my cousin showed me the other night. i bought the usual things that i like, but also got some green tea tapioca balls and black tea mix to make bubble tea. the store also had my favourite aloe vera drinks (or at least a different brand of the aloe vera drinks i like).

original flavour.

and peach flavour.

i'm hoping they're good.