A cheating day here on Monday as I stopped at a Korean dessert shop called Somi Somi and indulged with a bun shaped like a fish, stuffed with custard, and topped with vanilla soft serve. I could have opted for matcha, tea, or ube (purple yam, pictured) soft serve flavors along with a host of other fillings such as Nutella, red bean, or taro. Happily, nothing was too sweet nor too big. While I tried the most “bland” concoction, I’ll have to bring Caroline over here as I’m pretty sure she’d enjoy trying the ube and taro in her fish pocket.

Convoy Street here on the northside of San Diego is a mecca for all things Asian. I can’t begin to count how many various Asian restaurants and bakeries dot this street and some of the surrounding streets carry on the theme. With the diversity come options for tasting things I’ll never find in Lebanon, Kansas, where the 200 people that live there have but a small grocery store and really about nothing else. Of course, to afford options in America where flavors and the culture of the world are found you’ll pay for the luxury of living there as the cost of living is usually exorbitant.