Southern CA (Day 11) - El Monte

12/31/11 (Sat.)

We woke up at the Wal-Mart (Anaheim) parking lot. Tom felt pain in the foot. I gave him 2 pieces of  aspirin to kill the pain.  We walked around the parking lot around 9:00 a.m. in the morning.  There was a big Forever 21 sign in front of us, it was a big store, and then I saw a Happy Dragon was also open, but no customer yet.  I took a few pictures then we went to McDonald for breakfast.  We had 2 sausage muffins, hash brown and small coffee for $5, after that I went into Wal-Mart. After that we drove to city of El Monte and exit Rosemead Blvd. We parked our trailer on the street.  We started walking around the area and looking for a good place to stay overnight. 

  We found one at the end of the road, street name Chico Ave.  It was a nice place to stay overnight, because it was enclosed and have water and dumpster nearby.  While we pulled over to the space, there was a Chinese man stood next to the building looking at us.  After we unhooked our trailer, we decided to stay little bit long to see if he would call somebody over.  We guessed since it was New Year Eve, the company next door would close half day, but we were wrong and we waited until 3:00 p.m. in the afternoon to see that they are still open. So we decided to leave and went to Yum Cha Café in San Gabriel Blvd.  We ordered 7 dim sum to eat and only able to buy 3 order (each order only 2/pcs) of Preserved Egg Pie for $1.49/ea .  We shopped at the same market where the cafe took up one corner. We bought salmon for $3.99/lb and cooked shrimp for $3.99/ea and other stuff.  Since we had fish and shrimp we needed to go back to the trailer. On the way back we saw a propane station. I stopped by and checked for the price.  The Mexican man told me that from 1 to 5 gallon of propane, it cost $14.99.  Tom drove me back to the trailer and check we still have some propane left , so we waited for the next day to fill it up. But we forgot the next day was New Year.  Then we went to the Hawaiian Market, we spent $66 for all kind of food. We went to the new Sam Woo and saw they had a lot of people waiting, so Tom wanted to go to the old Sam Woo. We saw they changed name to (Deep Well).  The food is “OK”, we had one chow mien and one rice noodle, they both was $8/ea.  The rice noodle is good, but the chow mien was not what I expected.  (I wanted deep fry chow mien, but they only have dry chow mien).  After dinner, we went over to the front door of 99 markets to get 2 gallons water and walked  back to our trailer.  We watched New Year Eve program until 2:30 a.m. in the morning before we went to bed.