Mini muffins, sushi, and more for my niece's party!

Late last month, I joined my dear relatives at my niece's 4th birthday party celebration in the seaside town of Half Moon Bay. My older sister asked me and my mother to make tuna with egg and vegetable sushi, vegetarian soy bean curd sushi, pigs in a blanket, miniature green onion mixed with ham rolls, and two varieties of mini muffins. One of them was carrot and the other poppy seed. We prepared most of the food a week in advance except for the sushi, which I helped make the night before. My sister and her husband made really yummy spaghetti with meat sauce, and fried chicken katsu cutlets (from Costco) as seen in the first pic below.

Sister's homemade Spaghetti with meat sauce

Chicken Katsu, ham and green onion rolls, mini bite size pigs in a blanket

When it was time to sing "Happy Birthday" to my niece I made sure to take a picture of my niece's cake before it was cut into. My sister bought my niece's Italian buttercream chocolate Disney Tangled themed celebration cake from a bakery in North Beach.
 

On the left: Sweet coconut sticky rice wrapped in foil and the mini poppy seed/carrot muffins of the left. I will post muffin recipes soon.

I had a blast at my niece's birthday catching up with relatives such as my aunts and cousins. After the party my sister, husband, and their friends took us to grab some Peet's coffee, then around Half Moon Bay for bargain shopping. Later on they also treated us for dinner in the same area at a Greek restaurant, Rainbow Pizza!  There was a bit of a wait, but the owner warmly greeted us saying he would get us a big table for all of us and the wait turned out to be well worth it. I had the lamb gyro sampler which was beyond huge in portion. The tzatziki sauce mixed in with the thickly cut fries, red onions, tomatoes, and lamb was very tasty and filling. I couldn't finish it there so I took the rest of my gyro sampler for to go. If I lived in Half Moon Bay I would frequent Rainbow Pizza all the time. They are very family friendly, and portions are huge like Cheesecake Factory in comparison.

Rainbow Pizza's delicious gyro sampler ($11.99, thick cut fries with long slices of lamb, onions, tomatoes and tzatziki sauce) On the right is their garlic three cheese bread.