Last weekend this weekend! This might not even need its own post in hindsight because last weekend (the first of March, right?? I could have looked at a calendar in the amount of time it took me to type this sentence, oh well) wasn’t really that exciting, but I opened WordPress and now I’m committed.

If memory serves, Henry spent most of Saturday working on the NCT127 pins for the concert we went to on Friday – he was on a roll after making the Taemin ones so I took advantage of his craftiness and put some NCT faces on his plate. He is such a good Kpop Dad!

I let him take a break in the afternoon and we went to Mango Mango for some Hong Kong-inspired desserts. It was SO FUCKING COLD that day and I was not dressed for it. I for some reason didn’t anticipate that we’d have to walk to the place because to be frank, I actually had no idea where this place was, but Henry knew so he preemptively parked on another street knowing that it would be tough to find something closer, and I was such a little baby on the walk  there. I was cold and not dressed for it!!

But that didn’t stop me from getting a cold dessert, lol. I got the mango pomelo sago bowl with mango ice cream – it was perfect: refreshing and not overly sweet!

Henry’s had red bean and lychee jelly and was also really good. I want to go back and get one of the hot desserts which look porridge-y and similar to what I had at the tea house in Gyeongju, maybe?!?

Then we went to our fave Asian market in the Strip for some produce and I was on the hunt for more Korean candy to include with the NCT freebies. There were a lot of white people doing the whole “grocery tourism” bit and look, I know I too am a white person, but it was annoying and I didn’t the people working there to lump me in with those rubber-neckers.

I am also notorious for my gatekeeping, which Chooch loves to point out. :)

Came home, ate dinner, watched G-Dragon reaction videos, and this is where I want to give Henry a shout out because he truly gets it. It is so much fun to have something to obsess over together – yes, he actually is excited that G-Dragon is back; yes, he actually truly likes G-Dragon; yes, he actually looks forward to the new content that G-Dragon has been gifting to VIPs. And no, he doesn’t say anything judgey when I pay for GD fan club membership, panic over getting tickets for the upcoming world tour, or openly weep about how much I love him. Henry apparently had even quietly looked into going to Korea for one of the concerts there, but they sold out within minutes. And they’re also less than a month away, so that would logistically be a headache with requesting time off, etc.

Henry has even said that G-Dragon’s 2017 concert was one of the best ones he’s ever been to, and THE best one in the Kpop category. And he’s watched G-Dragon’s 2024 MAMA comeback performance video like 88 times since it came out.

THE POWER OF G-DRAGON.

Penelope, exhausting from us fangirling over G-Dragon and BIGBANG all weekend!

On Sunday, I met Janna for lunch at the new Blue Flame. You might remember that the original Blue Flame closed last year right around the time we went to Korea to get married, and I found out when my brother sent me an alarming and cryptic text which was totally uncalled for!

It has new owners now and was rebranded as the Steel 51 Grill or something generic. They didn’t really change a thing inside  – it still has that old Blue Flame stench when you walk in and the one section off to the side was still closed off as usual. So weird. The menu wasn’t much different except that now inexplicably have shrimp tempura as an appetizer and avocado toast for the millennials, I guess. I got the avo toast, lol.

Negatives: it felt very much like being in enemy territory IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN. Lots of men that looked like they stopped there on their way home from hunting, some old men who looked like they have certainly said the words, “women belong in the kitchen” more than once in their lives and definitely hate they/them pronouns, and some brassy-haired moms who looked like they have pictures of Majorie Taylor Greene as the background on their phones.

You know, if you know what I mean.

So, we had very hushed conversations about the crumbing state of the country. I mean, all I truly wanted to do was talk about G-Dragon but I understand that not everyone gives a shit about these things, so bashing President Musk and his puppet Trump it was!

Positives: I really liked our server. She was very friendly and just gave good vibes. She also complimented my Seventeen credit card, LOL. My avo toast was really good and the fruit cup it came with was full of fruit that was actually edible! They also have a full coffee bar now which was cool. I got a cinnamon latte and it was good!

Then I was trying to total my bill but couldn’t remember what 5+7 was so I had to ask Janna for assistance lol.

Then Henry and I went for a quick walk in some really small and uninteresting cemetery in the North Hills before hitting up another Asian market out that way because I struck out on the candy tip at the one on Saturday.

Then then then.

We came home. Ate dinner. Watched more G-Dragon stuff. Sometimes that’s all I really need for a weekend to be good – G-Dragon back in my life!

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