Asian Fusion

Today D and I went to an event called "Asian Fusion". It was sponsored by the Asian Business Association of OC and held at Ford's "Premier Auto Group" building. Since Mazda is partly owned by Ford, Mazda employees were invited to attend.

D is now driving a 2006 MX-5 (formerly known as the Miata) because his Mazda 3 hasn't come in yet. So, we zoom-zoomed along the 405 with the top down to Irvine.


Then, D gave me a tour of his office building--pretty nice.


Afterward, we headed across the way to the Ford Building--very nice. We were able to sample a lot of food. D was surprised that it actually filled him up! We tried sushi, chocolates, green tea shakes, chocolate shakes, samosas, iced ginseng coffee, Thai chicken curry and chicken wing with rice, shrimp cake, cold noodles, Italian pasta (not sure why this was there), lumpia, mango and saffron ice cream, and non-alcoholic pina colada, strawberry and kiwi lime frozen drinks.

We also listened to a couple of presentations--one by the sommelier of the Napa Rose (D tried some white wines) and another by Ken Cruz, voted #1 sushi chef in Southern California. Here is Chef Cruz:

D won a $35 gift certificate for brunch at his restaurant called Riptide in Mission Viejo. He won by answering the question, "Where was sushi invented?" (Correct answer: China!)