Arcadia

A Taiwanese bakery on South Baldwin where the breads are the point, taro buns and pork floss rolls and milk bread, pulled from the oven through the morning and stacked on trays you walk past with tongs. Coffee and tea are at the register and there are a few tables to sit at. Mooncakes take over the front counter for a few weeks each autumn.

Daily, 8am to 8pm

A hundred and twenty-seven acres on what was Lucky Baldwin's ranch, with his 1885 Queen Anne Cottage still standing by the lake and the descendants of the peacocks he imported from India walking the paths. More than two hundred of them live on the grounds and they are loud. The planting runs by continent, so you can cross from Australia to Madagascar in twenty minutes, and the whole loop takes about ninety.

Daily, 9am to 5pm. Last entry 4:30pm. Closed December 25

A wood-and-brick ale house on Huntington Drive in downtown Arcadia whose back bar was salvaged from a bar over a hundred years old. It serves breakfast from eight in the morning and keeps the kitchen going to close, with burgers and a long tap list in between. Happy hour runs three to six every day. It is the one place within walking distance of Arcadia's main street that is still serving at eleven on a Friday.

Sun to Thu, 8am to 9pm. Fri and Sat, 8am to 11pm