Hi. I’m Yifei. I’m going to be a Junior next year in Mechanical Engineering. This summer, I’m doing a SURF on the beautiful Caltech campus, but in these three weeks of summer, it seems like I have only accomplished one task: EAT.
Recognize this? Last weekend, a few Lloydies and I went to a Dim Sum restaurant for lunch. At Dim Sum restaurants, waiters walk around with little carts filled with little trays of food, and you just point to what you want and they put it on your table. The portions are small, so the point is that you try almost everything! For somebody like me whose mouth starts watering at the first smell of deliciousness, Dim Sum is perfect because you don’t have to order and wait for food. This is Kristen relishing her pork bun:
Dim Sum was amazing, but my favorite type of food is easily dessert. The weekend before Dim Sum, I went down to San Diego and met up with Lloydies that live there. I had never been to BJ’s so I was completely blown away by their Pizookie. Ernest and I were super excited about our Pizookie:
Pizookie (peh-zoo-key) noun. A “pizza cookie.” Fresh from the oven cookie topped with two scoops of ice cream.
As if that wasn’t enough, I also went to this place called Extraordinary Desserts. Mouthwatering desserts EVERYWHERE!
Not only do Lloydies like to eat desserts, we like to take matters into our own hands and make them too. The first week of summer, we made a two layer chocolate cake with chocolate ice cream to celebrate the end of the school year. Making cake with cake mix is usually very simple, but somehow, ours turned out a bit… lopsided. Nevertheless, it still tasted amazing!
Matt frosting the chocolate cake.
Why is one side higher than the other?! D:
Steven cutting the cake.
We also made chocolate covered strawberries last week. In my opinion, these are the desserts with the highest deliciousness-to-effort ratio. Just follow these simple steps. Demonstrative pictures courtesy of Lloydies:
First, melt semi-sweet chocolate chips in a glass bowl above a pot of boiling water.
When the chocolate melts completely, dip dried strawberries in chocolate and put them on wax paper.
Put the strawberries into the fridge and wait for two hours. Take them out… and Voila! Done! (Warning: Chocolate covered strawberries are so good that they may make your friends act like monkeys :P).
Mmm. Writing about food is making me hungry. Time for a snack! Ice cream or brownies? Welp. The Nomnomnom song might as well be my summer theme song.
