Kanz’s Culinary Crusade (no longer updated)

Since both 2020 high schoolers and college students are graduating this year, Krispy Kreme decided to give out a dozen free donuts for all seniors. I’ve never had their donuts before, so I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to try some and since they’re free there was no risk.  When I got them and opened the box I was immediately pleased by how they looked. The colors were so vib...

Like many people, the last few months I’ve become somewhat obsessed with watching TikToks and because of that I’ve been trying a lot of the trending foods. This week I decided to try the pancake cereal bowl. Basically it’s just mini pancakes in a bowl with milk but I thought it would be gross so I didn't add the milk. I made my mini pancakes, put it all in a bowl and topped it with a bunch of syrup.  ...

I enjoy eating dessert, but there is one dessert in particular that I don’t eat often, and that is cinnamon rolls. A lot of people do really like it so I decided to make it homemade, hoping that I would like it more.  My sister really likes cinnamon rolls and the ones she usually makes at home comes from the recipe by Tasty.  This was my first time making cinnamon rolls and it was actually fun...

Anyone who knows me knows how much I love coffee. A few weeks ago there was this trend on TikTok on how to make whipped coffee and everyone was making it and I finally got around to doing it. In a bowl you put 2 teaspoons of instant coffee, 2 teaspoons of sugar and 2 teaspoons of hot water and mix with either a fork or an electric hand mixer. The first time I did this I did it was just a fork, an...

A dessert place that I’ve been meaning to go to lately is Ninja de Cream. It’s such an aesthetically pleasing shop with so many good dessert options. I finally went there and tried their berry roll up ice cream.  I love ice cream and I love berries, so there was no doubt in my mind that I would absolutely love this, and I was right. It was so creamy and soft. The syrup that was drizzled on top made the fl...

One vegetable that I consider my ultimate favorite is cauliflower. I love snacking on it all the time. I usually eat it raw cause that’s how I prefer it, but I wanted to try it differently so I decided to fry it.  The mixture that I dipped the cauliflower in before frying it was eggs, flour, corn starch, salt, black pepper, garlic, paprika, cilantro and water. Then I decided to make a second m...

Like many people, Chick-fil-A is one of my favorite fast food restaurants, so I’ve been there quite a bit but there are many things on the menu changed that I have yet to try. This week I decided to go and try their grilled chicken bits.  My friend loves these so much which is why I wanted to try them, I wanted to see if they were really that good.  The initial first bite was great. I tho...

For a while now I’ve been really obsessed with bubble tea and every chance I get I try something new, so for this week I decided to go to Sucre Cafe to try their Unicorn Taro special. The drink is purple topped with whipped cream and mini mochi balls. The drink itself was super creamy which I really liked. But I thought it was a little too milky for my taste which also took a little bit away from t...

A known place that I’ve been writing a lot about is Starbucks because of their massive selection, so I decided to go back again and try something new.  I ordered a Strawberry Frappuccino, which I never thought would be a thing, but the barista that was working helped me decide when I told her I love strawberries.  It was really good and I really enjoyed it, but there wasn’t anything special to it. It just tasted like a milkshake, which is obviously way cheaper than a Starbucks drink, s...

Something that’s been really popular which I have seen a lot of posts on social media about lately is bubble tea. And I have had it a few times but not much so I decided to go to Vivi Bubble Tea to try something that I’ve never tried before. I ordered the Oreo Crème Brûlée, which I was really excited for cause I love creme brûlée and Oreos so I thought it would taste great, but it did not. It just tas...

For this weeks’ crusade I went to Olive Garden, which used to be a restaurant that got a lot of hype, but over the past few years I’ve barely heard of. Since I’ve never eaten there, I decided to go to see why people love it so much or do not. I ordered the Chicken and Shrimp Carbonara. It was really creamy which I loved. The shrimp was soft and crispy. The chicken was ok; there wasn’t a...

If I were to pick a fast food restaurant that everyone I know knows and have eaten at least once, it would be McDonalds. I don’t eat there often, but whenever I do I usually order french fries and ice cream. My friend recently found out that I’ve never tried their Chicken McNuggets and she was shocked cause they’re her favorite nuggets ever. She even likes them more than Chick-fil-A’s nugget...

A very popular fast food restaurant, especially around this area is Chick-fil-A, and even though I’ve been to it a bunch of times, I haven’t tried many things really. I usually get the same thing over and over again, either a regular Chicken Deluxe or the Chick-Fil-A Nuggets but never have I ever gotten the Mac and Cheese, so for this week's crusade, I decided to go and get it. I tried to r...

Starbucks is still somewhat of a new thing to me since I’ve only ever tried three drinks from there so I decided to go back and try something new.  I ordered a Butterscotch Frappuccino mainly because I really like butterscotch. Excited to try it, I anticipated it to taste like butterscotch but for some weird reason all I could taste was mango. It was like I was drinking a mango frappuccino. I kept drinking it...

Pasta is a very common food, and I eat it almost every week, so when my friend told me about Piada Italian Street Food I decided to go to see what they have to offer. The restaurant and serving style reminds me a lot of Chipotle. Even though Piada looks classier, it's style of serving is the same: you pick a base for your bowl and go down the line picking toppings.  I decided to go with the Pesto Past...

Since ice cream is one of my favorite things in the world to eat, and I’m trying to be more open now to new foods, I decided to go to Sul & Beans to try the different flavors of shaved ice (also known as Bingsoo) they offer.  The first thing I noticed when I looked up the menus prior to going was how big the bowls were and the color of the toppings. After eating all the flavors, I realize...

Going to restaurants on a weekly basis is the norm for me now, but never have I ever been to a restaurant for breakfast. So I decided to go to a well known breakfast restaurant, IHOP. I decided to order the breakfast crepes, because I love crepes, eggs, and bacon, so why not combine them? The dish came with two crepes, and after eating half of the first one I was already full. But I pushed thro...

A few weeks ago while I was at Best Thai I tried a very common tea that you can find at many Thai restaurants, made of tea, milk, and sugar, served hot or cold.  The friend who I was with is a fan of Thai tea, so I decided to try it since she likes it a lot. Let’s just say I don’t share the same opinion as her. My friend claims she likes it because it’s sweet but I thought it was really bitter.  ...

Having a bit of a staycation over winter break, we stayed at the Hyatt Hotel in Dallas, where I had the expectation of having an expensive meal, and imagined the food to be great. I was wrong. The majority of the meals there were more than $20 and there wasn’t much of a variety of food options either. I ordered one of the cheapest things on the menu which turned out to be one of the best things in it. The other expensive stuff my family bought was either undercooked or overcooked, burnt or flavo...

For this weeks’ culinary crusade, I went to Best Thai on Preston Village to try their popular dish, Pad See Ew which is a Chinese-influenced stir fried noodle dish. Going into this, I somewhat expected not to really like it since the last Thai dish that I tried I didn’t enjoy. Fortunately, and surprisingly I was wrong, and really liked the Pad See Ew here. The big flat noodles had this slimy t...

Now that it’s December, I decided it was time to try my first Starbucks’ holiday drink. With numerous options to choose from, I decided to order a toasted white hot chocolate. I went on the day they were giving out cups to customers ordering holiday drinks, and with that cup I would be able to get $.50 off all my orders until January.  $.50 isn’t much at all, but I bought into it and ...

Recently one of my closest friends became pescetarian. So over the break I decided to go out with her and go to a restaurant the specializes in vegetarian food...but we ended up just going to Cheesecake Factory in Stonebriar Mall. Even though it isn’t a specialty restaurant, I still ordered food that’s vegetarian, which is actually something I’ve been wanting to order for a while but wasn’t m...

Living in Texas, a really diverse state, I was able to grow up having a lot of Indian friends but throughout all these years, I had never had Indian food. So for this week’s culinary crusade, I went to Malgudi Garden to try some Indian food. Going into this, I knew that I wasn’t going to enjoy the food mainly because I hate spicy food. However I decided to go to branch out and try Indian food.  But th...

I’m not much of a donut eater but I decided to go to The Donut Tree to try donuts other than the basic flavors to hopefully make me enjoy donuts. My choice of donut was strawberry cream cheese and on the side of that I ordered one strawberry flavored macaron and two donut holes. I decided to go with the strawberry cream cheese donut because strawberry is one of my favorite flavors and s...

As far as I can remember I don’t think I’ve ever tried Mongolian food and so for this week's crusade I decided to go to Genghis Grill. This was a buffet where you pick the size bowl you want and then select the toppings you want. Some of the stuff I picked were shrimp, bean sprouts, corn, bell peppers, and crab bites. And after that you pick whatever sauces you want. Once you get to the end of th...

For a while now I’ve been wanting to try an açaí bowl which is basically a smoothie served in a bowl. So I finally went to Nekter Juice Bar to try their popular bowls. An Açaí Berry Banana was my choice of bowl, it's filled with a lot of flavors I love, like blueberry, banana and strawberry. I was super excited to order this and finally try it, but then I had my first bite and I thought it ...

I’m not much of a Starbucks drinker, my only order is an Iced Vanilla Latte and so to get into the spirit of fall, I decided to go to Starbucks and finally try their Pumpkin Spice Latte. The main reason I decided to try it is because I’m a huge coffee enthusiast. I drink it as much as I can, and as often as I can, so I thought it was about time to  try it. The first thought that came to mind ...

For the past year, a lot of my friends have been telling me about Kura, a revolving sushi bar-restaurant. So even though sushi is something I indulge in every once in a while, I still decided to go there to see what it was all about and try different types of sushi that I’ve never tried before. How it works is you sit at a booth and sushi plates come to you from a revolving bar that goes throu...

For the longest time, I’ve wanted to eat shabu shabu. It’s a Japanese nabemono hotspot dish of thinly sliced meat and vegetables boiled in your choice of soup. And so for this culinary crusade, I went to Shabro Hot Spot shabu shabu in Frisco.  I went into the restaurant and overwhelming shock came over me, there was so much happening.  First I stood in the buffet line and put vegetables such as cabbage and bean sprouts on my plate. The next st...

Chipotle has always been a restaurant that lots of students around here enjoy. However, Mexican food has never been my forte of expertise and I have never even had a burrito. And so it was off to Chipotle for my latest culinary crusade. The first time I went to Chipotle I chickened out of getting a bowl and got a quesadilla instead. I was severely judged by my friends to say the least. And for m...

For the past year I’ve been seeing a bunch of people posting pictures on Instagram from SomiSomi, an ice-cream shop that serves ornate fish shaped cones with your choice of filling and ice-cream. I decided to go there to try the black sesame flavored ice cream because there has been so much hype around it.  The cone features perfectly swirled black sesame and milk tea ice cream and immediately...

When it comes to Middle Eastern food I’m pretty knowledgeable, but there are still things that I have yet to try, and so Turkish Cafe & Lounge was the choice of destination, with Chicken Beyti the menu selection. The dish is a seasoned ground chicken breast, skewered and wrapped in thin dough, topped with garlic yogurt and tomato butter sauce. There wasn’t anything really special about it, it was basically just chicken wrapped i...

I’m not one for sweets but when it comes to ice-cream I’m always first in line. Hiccup & Churroholic has been on my list of endeavours so I decided to go there to try their famous churros. I ordered a cup of unicorn ice-cream and since never having tried matcha before, I decided to top the ice-cream with matcha coated churro and covered with fruity cereal.  Honestly it wasn’t that good bu...

Life as a picky and unadventurous eater can be a challenge. Eating the same food at the same place can get a bit tiresome, so this year, I am embarking on a culinary crusade that will test my limits and push me out of my comfort zone. To kick off this journey, I decided to go to Burning Rice where I ate bibimbap, a Korean rice dish topped with kimchi, choice of meat and vegetables and a final toppin...