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Here's a preview of the 5 Re-ment sets that will be coming out in November or December. The Disney ice cream cones are keychains that are also pens. The cats are keychains. Re-ment is doing another zipper pouch series with the Toy Story characters (can't wait till they do a Hello Kitty or Rilakkuma zipper pouch series)! The Hello Kitty pieces are all magnets (I like the sewing machine)! For the Rilakkuma set, those are regular miniature food items. I 'm definitely going to get the Hello Kitty magnets and 3-4 complete sets of the Rilakkuma bakery!

Just received my set of keychains. They're mostly candy charms with either Hello Kitty, My Melody, Little Twin Stars or Patty & James on the packages. What I didn't like about some of the charms is that the material is the same cellophane wrapper as real life candy wrappers. As you know, cellophane wrappers are smooth and glossy when new but once you fold or crumble it, the wrapper gets dull and wrinkly. So as keychains, I don't think the charms with the cellophane wrappers will not be able to withstand gentle use. I would rather hang them on my purse so my keys won't rip the delicate wrappers. The other candy packages are vinyl pouches so they will be slightly more durable than the cellophane wrappers.

Yeah!! I finally received my birthday cake set from the Re-ment Toy Story Happy Birthday Party series. The birthday cake was the only set that I wanted. The other sets had more non-food miniatures and I'm not really in to that. I think Re-ment did a wonderful job with the cake. Look at the textures of the icing and cake! It's o realistic. All the cake decorations are movable so you can take decorations from other sets to mix and match. I also went to Kingdom Cake today to get some cupcakes. Kingdom Cake is just a take-out window so all the cupcakes are pre-packed in fours, eights or twelves and flavors of the day are limited unless you pre-order in advance. These are miniature cupcakes but slightly larger than Mission Minis. They're $2 per cupcake so it's a little pricey but all the cupcakes are really moist. The blueberry lemon and lemon cupcakes are really good. They're sweet and extremely tart at the same time! I somehow didn't like the red velvet as much bec...

Today is the Mid-autumn festival so the moon is suppose to be the fullest & brightest tonight. Peko's eyeing the moon cake but to bad she doesn't realize it's only a cell phone charm! Happy Mid-Autumn festival!

Gathered a few pieces to compare. All the ones on the left are Re-ment and all the ones of the right are Mimo.

From left to right: Peanut Butter, Aztec Chocolate, Red Velvet, Horchata. These are my favorite flavors from Mission Minis. The ones w/ a chocolate cake base are moist but the Horchata and Red Velvet are always kind of dry. But I still get them whenever I have a craving because this shop is the closest to work. Also, I prefer mini cupcakes over regular sized ones because the icing to cake ratio is perfect and I can just pop the whole thing into my mouth. These are from the Mimo Hong Kong Style Dessert series The one on the left is a durian cake and the one on the right is fruit filled mochi From left to right: mixed fruit w/ jellies, mango + grapefruit + sago in coconut milk, mixed fruit + sago Durian in the back .

It came with a matching memo pad but I gave that away. You can put bandages, candies or miniatures in it and has 2 compartments. The bottom compartment The top compartment The whipped cream and strawberry stem is too glossy so it looks kinda fake. I like the matte macaron cookies but the berries are to0 shiny. My favorite cake from the Disney Deco cake set.

Got this from the dollar store. Each clear case can be stacked together and larger pieces of miniature can fill up the case nicely (like the rice cooker on the top). They're acrylic so they're cheap looking but I'm trying to see if I can cover the backs, sides and the bottoms with pretty scrapbook paper to make it look  presentable. Great way for  temporarily displaying "favorite items" of the week! This is from the Re-ment Teddy Bear Helps Out series. I don't have every set, just the ones with food. I gave away all the teddy bears that came with this set. Besides a Hello Kitty pancake, I know there's a Winnie the Pooh and Mickey Mouse pancake (a keychain version). I wonder if this is really possible in reality. That's 8 thick pancakes there! Protein packed breakfast on the right VS a plate of carb-filled sugary breakfast on the left. Look at the texture of the nuts!

This is 1 of the special set from the T For Candy Dim Sum series. I was told that this beef ball set was only available in the Hong Kong market. The Dim Sum set I previously bought had Japanese text on the package so I didn't realize there were 2 special sets to collect. The other special set was a chicken bean curd roll. I didn't buy that set since it looks pretty similar to the crab bean curd roll that came with the original set.

This set is suppose to be the Asian Style Tea with a few dim sum items like egg roll, BBQ pork pie and egg tart. There's so little food in this set so I took other pastries/cakes from other sets to fill up the platter. Both sets are titled as Asian style so I grouped them together for this pic. The lids of the tea canisters are removable. I have to be careful when storing the 3-tier pastry stand. The pastry stand comes in 1 piece so each plate is not removable. The pastry stand is slightly smaller than Re-ment's 3-tier stands so not all Re-ment cakes will look nice here. Check out the details of the food below: