On Sunday morning we finally got to sleep in a bit. Well not really. The sun is so bright in LA that it was hard to sleep in any day. But at least we didn't have to be anywhere. So after we got up and lounged around for a bit, we met up with my parents at the Farmer's Market in town. (The Palisades has a little town area where there are supermarkets, drugstores, businesses, etc. Kinda like Coolidge Corner, but a bit bigger).
I really like the Sunday Farmer's Market in the Palisades. It's not as large as the Santa Monica one, but it has a more neighborhoody feel, and they still have a great selection of food. Plus you can people watch by dining at one of the restaurants lining the street. My parents decided to have breakfast at Mort's Deli, which has been around forever. Tom and I decided to have a light breakfast since we had been invited to brunch with Tom (Jeany's husband), his family and Jeany's family. So Tom just bought a few pastries and a pint of strawberries at one of the stalls. Meanwhile, I got this delicious tamale at the tamale booth.
They actually had a wide selection of tamales which skewed to the non traditional, gourmet flavors. (Like bbq chicken). I picked this one cause it's made with blue corn. It also had mozzarella and a roasted green chili inside and was topped with a tomato sauce. It was pretty simple but great.After our snack, we said goodbye to my parents and headed over to my sister's where we carpooled to Universal City. Our destination was the Universal City Hilton for their Champagne and Seafood Sunday brunch. It's actually a pretty well known brunch, popular among Chinese people because they also serve Asian cuisine like various types of shu mai and dumplings along with a sushi bar. (This is in addition to the traditional omlette station, carving station, etc.) The funny thing is, I normally only go home for one week, once a year, but I had also been here the previous year for a wedding. Here's a pic of the exterior of the hotel. We took it after taking a break from all the eating and felt like we needed to walk around a bit.
And here is a sequence of pics from the actual buffet. Here's the carving station:
The seafood station:
The fruit area:
The chocolate fountain (what's a buffet without a chocolate fountain?):
One of the two dessert stations:
And Tom's (Jeany's Tom's) plate of chocolate dipped fruit:
I'm leaving a lot of stuff out. Like the sushi bar, the hot stations, the salad stations, etc. Needless to say, we ate ourselves silly. Like until it hurt. I could have easily gone without eating dinner that night but my mom had prepared a massive pot of shabu. So we ate that, too. Overall, it was a great New Year's Eve, filled with far too much food. But we were on our way back to Boston the next day, so we could purge ourselves when we returned home.
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