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<a href="http://www.muginohousa.com/">Cream Puffs.</a>





I thought it was just another Crispy Creme like food fad, until my sister in law brought us a half dozen. The flavored ones were ok, but the original style creme puffs were excellent.





And color me surprised: if you don't want to wait for the Irvine store, there's one at Main Place in Santa Ana, and one at the Marukai market in Costa Mesa. I had no idea that we had any locally.
 
Ajisen Ramen, nice. I had their ramen in San Gabriel a few years ago and it was pretty decent.





Beard Papa....... For the longest time I didn't know what they served, until a friend told me they have the best cream puffs and the shop near her (in SF) always has lines out the door.
 
Is that custard in those Beard Papas?

<p class="MsoNormal">Don’t forget to head up stairs and visit Dr. 92606 in Suite 235 after consuming some of those. Show them your receipt and receive 20% off your lipo, I mean “body sculpting” procedure. </p>
 
Second floor offices and businesses in a retail center doesn't work well for most American style shopping centers here, except for maybe enclosed shopping malls. It has a mixed success rate with ethic centers. For example the Diamond Plaza in Rowland Heights (off Fullerton Rd) has businesses on 2nd floor. The restaurant and arcade (on 2nd floor) does well, but the lingerie store went out of business.





So, anyone want to bet on how hard it'd be to find parking at this new shopping plaza?

 
<p class="MsoNormal">The Diamond Plaza in Rowland Heights is a zoo. Getting in and finding parking was a total nightmare. </p>

<p class="MsoNormal">A few months back I was dating this girl (Asian) and we went to the Boat, a restaurant over there. Great food, even better prices. Afterwards we went and had coffee over at one of the cafés. I was the only white dude within a three-mile radius. It felt a little uncomfortable at first, some of the Asian guys were less than thrilled to see me. </p>
 
The problem with Diamond Plaza (Rowland Heights) is that the place has no spill-over parking nearby. You have 1 entrance/exit and the whole place is fenced off. You couldn't park in the neighborhood streets or at another shopping center across the street. Sometimes I get lucky parking in the back, or underground.





However, the dim sum restaurant there on the 2nd floor has excellent late-night deals after 9pm. And the tea ren place has some girls waiting for their drinks that you can chat up, if you got the charisma (or if you look like Bae Yong Joon from Winter Sonata).





I have a big, tall, Irish trans-gender friend who speaks some Chinese (she used to teach English in China). I take her to Diamond Plaza once in a while for a late night snack and catch up. We get weird looks from the patrons, but the waiters are quite de-sensitized from years of encountering unusual patrons.
 
"big, tall, Irish trans-gender friend who speaks some Chinese"





got a picture? (before and after) sorry couldn't resist...
 
<p>Wow. They're opening this summer. I have been dying for late night Asian dining in Irvine. LOVE IT, LOVE IT!!</p>

<p>Korean food, Japanese food, Chinese food, Thai food, and hopefully Vietnamese too!!</p>

<p>As long as the restaurants stay open til midnight, I'll be one happy camper.</p>
 
Second floor retail and offices will only work in an Asian retail center. I posted that sometime ago regarding that. Asians came from urban cities where retails and offices are often located in the most obscured and awkward locations. This center will be a success because the owner/developer is an Asian woman (dragon lady) who switched career to RE from a surgeon. She understands Asian culture than the western retail landlords of Irvine. The tenant mix is cleverly composed to feed off each other for business success.



Capital Seafood recently received a “c” rating from LA County Health but the loyal patrons kept going there anyway. Her Diamond Plaza in Rowland Height was a working prototype for many years with high visual exposure along the freeway corridor as well as proximity to the big box brick and Mortar retails on Gale near City of Industry. Likewise she picked this location with similar strategy with Jamboree as the high traffic corridor as well as the proximity to big box retails at the District.



Cecilia is currently building her home in Shady Canyon.
 
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