Valentine's Day Gift or Chinese New Year extravaganza: Return of Pinkberry's Coupon

Here is something that you can give instead of a box of chocolate for Valentine's Day or a Hong Bao (red envelope) for Chinese New Year. Running again this year is another "Buy One, Get One Free" coupon from Pinkberry.

The yogurt shop that rises to the top during the days of Atkins's diet (coincidentally watching Krispy Kreme taking a noise dive at the same time), are offering their loyal customers a freebie with a purchase of the same item.

A little add-on this time around... free toppings on your free yogurt. Any available toppings according to the coupon. Hence, don't be surprised if the yogurt shop mysterious ran out of mochi or something like that. Get them while it last as offer ends Feb. 19.

Bon appetite!

ps. Link to the corporate site, in case people need proof of the existence of the coupon

Breaking News! : Pinkberry Coupon

Apparently I got this today in my email from Pinkberry (Yes, I do like Pinkberry and I subscribed to their newsletter). To celebrate their 4 year anniversary, Pinkberry is offering a free small yogurt with one topping if you buy one yogurt with the same or greater value. The coupon is good from Jan. 10 to Jan. 25.

So get it today!

A Dessert to forget @ Bon Gelato (Cerritos)

No new info to offer on shaved ice to anyone. However, I just want to show everyone what I got for dessert in my recent trip to my old neighborhood.

After a very dissatisfying meal at a Shabu Shabu place, a couple of my lovely dining companions and I decided to cleanse our tongues from an unfortunate disaster. We hoped that by ordering desserts at an ice cream shoppe that was about 20 steps away will end the night more properly.

Boy, when our luck is bad, it continues to go bad.

Bon Gelato as it was called was more of a tea shop/ice cream/whatever desserts they can come up with for their teenage clientele. Everything from frozen yogurt to shaved ice would be sludge away for our fine young future minds. When I walked inside, a fear hits me that there's a possibilty that I will be the oldest citizen in this establishment. Luckily for me, no one else was here except for our party.

Then it did get me nervous on why we're the only ones here at 8pm when the shop would be closing at 10pm. We will find out why very quickly.

Looking at our shaved ice below, you can see that it comes in a Pyrex measurement cup. The monstrosity included Pebble cereal and some chewy candy mixed in with fruits (strawberries, watermelon, melon, kiwi, and mango) and a scoop of ice cream being lavished by slob of condensed milk. You say "yummy", I say "wow".

Actually I was speechless.

It was an utter disaster that lacked creativity in making this shaved ice. Yes, there is creativity involved and some real thought process on constructing a shaved ice with more plausible ingredients than a Pebble cereal that Fred Flintstone would not approved on a shaved ice.

It only cost me $6 to find it very unpleasing. The two lovely gals didn't want to finish that as I was the only trooper that didn't want to waste his $6. One of us also ordered a frozen yogurt that was no way near Tart. That was very forgettable as well.

I can't say this was the worst dessert I ever had in 2008, but it was such a weird concoction that only a picture can speak for itself.

Bon Gelato
13309 Artesia Blvd
Cerritos, CA 90703
(562) 407-2474

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