Shopping
I had dim sum today for lunch, and went to Century City for shopping. Dim Sum is about the same as HK, but fortune cookie is given after meal. Fortune cookies are always common in Chinese restaurants anywhere besides Asia. In fact, I did have Japanese meal three days ago but didn’t take photos of it. I didn’t buy much stuff as most of stuff is quite expensive. They are nothing good price without sales. Most of items are similar to what we have in HK but they are more expensive when tax included. I only went to few stores, which we don’t have in HK such as Banana Republic and Victoria Secret. Century City is nice as it’s an open shopping area. California sunshine is certainly great as I never sweat no matter how hot it is. 
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Have you been to one of those outlest centers yet? Perhaps ask your friends take you to a prime outlet where they have Banana Republic outlet (Victoria Secret does not has any outlet store). When my friend came here, I took her to a outlet center and she loved the place, bought so many goods back home. She found the American name brand goods were expensive in HK, had good deals at the outlet stores.
To shop like a local, you may want to visit a Target store or a Wal-Mart store (or a Sam Club or Costco if your friend has a membership). For designer clothing, you may find good bargain at an outlet mall. If you visit Legoland, not too far away there is a great outlet mall known as “Carlsbad Premium Outlets.”
When there are huge sales, like high end shops equivalent to Joyce in HK, the items can be unbelivable inexpensive, much cheaper than in HK. Usually after Christmas or after Thanksgiving, or after New Year when they have really great deals in all stores. I like Banana Republics, most of my clothes usually end up from there and I only buy during sale as regular prices are too expensive for the kind of quality. The high end you might have heard of are Neiman Marcus, Bloomingdales, Saks Fifth Avenue, one step lower is Nordstroms.
You have to come to Northern California next time, you would like San Francisco as it feels sort of like a European city. Bring your friend too.
You notice how dry the air is in california, or the west coast in general? That’s why you don’t sweat buy you need extra moisturizer!
I highly recommend Target VS Wal-Mart, you might like it that it is more upscale among all the other discounted stores. And for Costco, it will be an advanture shopping trip where you will find huge store space with jumbo packed merchandises. Costco has good deals on wines.
I too prefer Target to Walmart and agree that Joyce, as a tourist, probably won’t buy anything in bulk from Costco. To understand America, I think it would be interesting to see how average Americans shops and dines. Seeing the menu and operation in a Denny’s restaurant will be interesting.
Thank you for all suggestions. I guess I need to visit those you said next time.
I have been most of shopping malls in LA already. I guess the best is to buy things in sales.