Short North- North Market & Zen Cha

Halo. Before this, I never know Columbus has a pasar pagi or pasar malam and the North Market turns out to be the classy and super clean market where you can eat at each stall and buy some fresh produce and groceries.

Short North 

North Market is located along high street but it is a lower height building so you may not spot it easily.
Anyway you can take Cota bus #2 and stop at Swan Street.
Visit the incredible place with 35 distinct personalities, from Asian foods to cookies, chocolates, breads, Jeni's icecream, pastas, coffees and lots more. You can definitely go there for lunch, I was too full this time so I just tried on some little dessert.
http://www.northmarket.com/

The interior design which makes you feel homey

We stroll around and look at some food stalls. Let the foods talk. hehe.

Sample foods of Pastaria and they make their own pasta.
They look good and I must try them on the next visit. 

We tried this- the Belgium Waffle.

The good thing about North Market is that there are a lot of food samples.  (Taste for free~ hehe)
It's crispier than other waffles that I had before. 

We had chocolate and cream on it but it is pricey , costs around $5. 

We bought this $1 Rainbow popcorn and we had lots of fun popping it at home. ( share it on the next blog maybe)
Highly recommend everyone to get this. ^ ^ 

The MUST try : Salty Caramel Jeni's Icecream. 

Fresh produce

However, there is limited space to dine at the food stall. Hope they have more dining area in the future. From what I noticed, each stall may only occupy like 4-5 people. It was a fun experience with some good friends around. :)   I enjoyed it . 

OK. Next stop on High is Zen Cha Tea Salon. I am not really a great fans of bubble tea. But I did not have it for quite some time, so I gave it a try and it turns out great. It does not taste artificial like the one that we usually get in Pasar Malam, it is truly Passion fruit + green tea + milk. Really good combination with the chewy 珍珠 too - (is it call bubbles in English? hahaz. I have no idea. Do you? )You get the option to choose the flavor, tea and milk, make your own combination .

http://zen-cha.com/

You get to smell the tea leafs and see which one you prefer. 

My cup of passion fruit bubble tea. (good!) 

The scary monster with all the 珍珠 on his teeth... >.< 

Group photo with a cup of tea... ^ ^ 

I LOVE OUTING WITH MY SWEET FRIENDS.!
Tataz.

German Village - Part II

We spend our afternoon at German Village and North Market.

Don't miss out our first and second stop 

Third stop : 

Helen Winnemore Craft http://www.helenwinnemores.com/

The oldest store of its kind in the United States, since 1938. 

Nice book cover

put on the magnet as your pendant 

Mer mer yang 

My Dream Room :) 

Little table where you can draw and write whatever you want 

Big boy and big girl have lots of fun 

We get a little birthday gift for big bro too. It sounds when it is dropped.

We get the little frog at Callie's left hand

Perfect place to find a gift for someone you love ~ they have it all from scarfs, pendants, bracelets, bags, socks ...

Forth stop: St Mary's Church 

We imagine ourselves at another part of the world 

Fifth stop:

The Book Loft http://www.bookloft.com/

German ?

room full of books 

There are different types of books (travel, art, gardening, food... ) in 32 rooms.

I am sure you will find a book that you like or prefer and the books are cheap too. 

Last stop: Starbucks at German Village

Get a drink after a long walk and enjoy the canvas photos of Columbus. Then, I realize I am in a beautiful city.

spot the uncle :) 

Next post: North Market.
Stay tune :)

German Village

It's spring break, wohoo! It should be warm, but it was not. Anyway I decided to stay at Columbus and enjoy the week. I had a wonderful time, strolling around the city with friends. p.s. my friend- Siew Lee Lee came over to visit me ^ ^ We experience a different neighborhood of Columbus- German Village. I really recommend this place, it's really a relaxing neighborhood with good foods. We start off our day trip by taking COTA bus #8 which does not require any exchange of bus and it drops us right in front of the park in German Village.

The first stop : Schiller Park
Know more about it !

The Umbrella Girl being replaced after a mysterious disappearance.

Out of no where- spring turns into winter, snows heavily. 

"Bronze statue of German poet Schiller which had been cast in Germany
and transported free of charge across the Atlantic."

I want to come again when the flowers blossom. 

Walk to the next stop.

When there's letter inside the mailbox, the orange arrow will points up

Japanese feel. 

Second stop: Schmidt's Sausage Haus
I really love the buffet which includes 5 different signature sausage dishes, salads, soups, pastas, bread rolls and special price cream puff (REALLY REALLY GOOD!) and it costs only $11.98 (tax included) ! Very cheap and we were like did they charged us wrongly? LOL

Large size cream puff
From the left, chocolate, vanilla and peanut butter chocolate.
Guess I like which one the most? hehe 

  

O-H-I-O

Visit http://www.schmidthaus.com/
To be Continued ~
Check out the next post soon!
tataz.

Martini Modern Italian

It was Callie's birthday last Tuesday, East 8th gang decided to surprise her with a fancy and classy dinner at Matini Modern Italian Restaurant. So we dressed up nicely to the restaurant. Surprisingly, it was full house; luckily we had reserved our seats. When we walked in, we noticed we were the only age 20++ gang, others were like 50++ business men/ women cause it was a classy and $$$ restaurant. Anyway, the Restaurant is super Beautiful. Let the pictures talk.

p.s. There is a bar at the entrance

Good that we had special corner seats, not so crowded 

Special drinks:

Rocks Italian Grapefruit Gimlet  

 Dai lou  with  Up Classic Martini .

Good Foods :

The complimentary bread served with olive oil, balsamic vinegar and also green sauce *don't know what it's name. 

Veal Martini 

Marsala Chicken

I tried a simple one - Lasagna 

Group photo before makan (dai lou missing)

After having a nice dinner, here comes the birthday cake - Belle's Bread Mango Mousse- OMG! they are so smooth and absolutely delicious. hehe. Almost forget about the birthday girl, Callie!! Callie, once again Happy Bday.

Birthday girl - Callie and Mango Mousse Cake which looks so so so cute !! Callie looks sexy ~ hahaz 

I Love strawberry 

Me and the sweet girl . my eyes so small.. >.< 

I had a great time with East 8th gang! 

If you like to pay a visit to the restaurant and bakery, click on the following links. 

Belles Bread

Martini Modern Italian

Enjoy! Tataz.