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Paris Banh Mi Cafe & Bakery

Posted on June 1, 2026 by Ching under Food and Drink.

A couple of months ago I won a one year membership to Rainier Arms Firearms Academy in a silent auction at a Blood Cancer United fundraising pickleball tournament at TapNPaddles; so last month Brian and I finally got around to activating it. I think he was grateful for his gun range membership because he let me try a new place.

We had dinner at Paris Banh Mi, down the street from the range, on our way home.

The restaurant is not very big inside but well-lit and they have this cute, very Instagrammable photo wall. We had to take a selfie obvs.

Here are some pictures of our food.

We shared some crab rangoon and Brian had a banh mi sandwich.

I had some pho for dinner. I just love pho!

Theirs was pretty good but we have a great pho place just down the street from our house called Kim’s Noodle so when I’m craving pho, that’s where I usually go.

I also had a boba drink. I mean, when in Rome, right?

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We Tried a New Coffee Shop

Posted on May 27, 2026 by Ching under Food and Drink, Travel.

Brian and I walked over to Mildred’s while in the Crossroads district of Kansas City earlier this month for the Hummel-Ward wedding.

It’s a cute little place within walking distance of our hotel.

Their breakfast pastries looked delicious but we both opted for a breakfast burrito.

They were pretty darn good.

I love this wall.

We had to selfie in front of it, naturally.

Here’s a pic of my latte.

We loved the convenience of being able to walk to Mildred’s and back to our hotel. It was a lovely morning for a walk.

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Brian’s First Time at Lulu’s

Posted on May 22, 2026 by Ching under Food and Drink.

We had dinner at Lulu’s Thai Noodle Shop in Crossroads while we were in Kansas City earlier this month. Somehow I was convinced that Brian and I had been there before. Brian insisted he had never been but I knew for sure that I had. Anyway, I dug up this post from ten years ago. Long story short, I suggested that we go over there for dinner and he said no but then I got my wish a couple of months later when I ate there with some coworkers.

Fast forward 10 years later, he finally got to try it. Also, you know it’s good because it’s still around. Few restaurants survive the test of time.

We walked to the restaurant from our hotel so we enjoyed a few drinks and didn’t even think twice about it. LOL.

Here are some pictures of our food.

I decided to have soup because the walk was a little chilly and I was unprepared for cooler weather. I didn’t even bring a hoodie. Anyway, this is the Tom Kha Gai which is not quite what I had expected. I feel like I had Tom Kha Gai at our local Tup Tim Thai here in Wichita and it was different. Different or not, it was good and I still enjoyed it. I slurp, slurp, slurped it.

Speaking of walk. I took a couple of pictures of Brian in one of the alleys we walked past on the way to the restaurant.

Here’s the funny thing. Ten years ago, when I asked to eat here, Brian refused citing that he thought the area looked “sketchy” and here were are ten years later — not only are we eating there, but we walked to and from the restaurant even. Either the Crossroads District has come a long way in the last ten years or we have.

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Another Broken Egg

Posted on May 13, 2026 by Ching under Food and Drink.

Brian and I found another brunch spot to add to the regular rotation. Honestly, the first time we checked out Another Broken Egg a year ago or so, Brian was not all that impressed. He thought the food was just okay and the wait was ridiculously long so it really took away from the experience. I do like their food and their coffee cocktails though so, a long as you don’t have to wait forever, it’s actually quite good.

We’ve been back a couple of time since (twice in the last month, actually). We went last month on the day of our nail appointment because we had a tequila and mescal tasting after nails and we wanted to make sure we didn’t go on an empty stomach. At the same time, we didn’t want to be too full and ruin are appetite for dinner. We decided we would go to brunch and skip lunch that day.

PRO TIP: If you sign up for their rewards program, you get free beignets.

I need to try their other coffee cocktails but my go-to has been the spiked caramel cold brew. You can’t go wrong with Baileys and Kahlua.

Here are some pictures of our food.

And, of course, a picture of us.

One of the best things about Another Broken Egg is that it is right next to TapNPaddles. So we were back again last weekend. Brian and I had brunch there and then he dropped me off at TapNPaddles for my InPickle Nation event (a mini tournament that I run on Saturdays). We had tickets to Banana Ball (more on this later) so it made sense for him to drop me off and then just come back and get me immediately after IPN and then pick up Chris and go to Banana Ball. It saved us at least 30 minutes, instead of waiting for me to come home and then the two of us go get Chris. Or if I met them there then we would have two cars and have to pay for parking twice. Carpooling made so much more sense.

The main thing about Another Broken Egg, as with most of the breakfast spots in Wichita, is that you have to go early on the weekends. If you go before 9 AM, the wait is shorter and the service is also better. If you go around 10-11 AM, you’re looking at a minimum of an hour wait for a table and then the food takes forever. Thus was our experience this past weekend.

I do really like the place and I love the spiked caramel cold brew. I’ve seen some of the other coffee cocktails which also look amazing so I’m dying to try them. We probably have several more visits on the horizon.

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Oakes Farms – Seed to Table

Posted on May 11, 2026 by Ching under Food and Drink, Travel.

I never thought going to a supermarket would be one of our trip highlights, yet here we are. Our friend Laurie suggested we check out the Oakes Farms Seed to Table market at the suggestion of a couple of other friends of ours so we decided to go there for dinner one evening.

This was, hands down, the wildest supermarket experience I’d ever had. I don’t even know where to begin y’all. I guess let’s just start with the parking lot. We went on a Wednesday night and there was absolutely no parking. This place was packed like Armageddon was coming and everyone was stocking up for an apocalypse, except they brought their fancy Lamborghinis, Ferraris, and Bentleys — to the grocery store. Laurie told us that this was apparently THE grocery store for single ladies to hang out and meet rich dudes. So the meat section is quite literally a “meat market” – LOL.

The inside reminds me of Gucci Dillons (for the unfamiliar, Gucci Dillons is what we call the Dillons Marketplace at Central and Rock – it is the fanciest Dillons in Wichita – probably fancier than Whole Foods, even) but on steroids. I don’t even know how to describe it. They had multiple restaurants INSIDE the grocery store and they had a live band playing music — on a Wednesday night. Unique is an understatement. It’s the craziest thing I’ve ever seen. I’ve never had a supermarket experience quite like this one.

We explored the store for a bit to take it all in. Obviously, we had to, before settling for having dinner at one of the restaurants on the upper level.

It was so busy that night, we barely got a table.

Here are some pics of our food.

The food was sooo good. I would totally return on our next trip to Naples. Also, I forgot to mention that the store also had multiple bars scattered throughout like this one. This place is something else entirely.