Last weekend I ate at one of my favorite restaurants, California Shabu Shabu in Costa Mesa. It’s a fantastic shabu shabu restaurant with great service, fantastic food, and incredible decor. This location features awesome paintings all over their walls along with a cool collection of custom vinyl toys and other toys. I love it.

As we approached our seats during this last visit, one of the employees commented that we must be tokidoki fans. Of course we are! We each had a tokidoki shirt, and I was wearing a tokidoki hat. We made a couple more comments and proceeded with our dinner. At the end of our evening as we were leaving, he talked to us again. He mentioned WonderCon, and we spent a minute talking about that. Then he got on the subject of the artist behind tokidoki, Simone Legno. Apparently his girlfriend (or maybe it was his ex-girlfriend) once dated Simone Legno. That’s pretty cool! He mentioned that Simone was a cool guy, but I’m not sure whether they know each other personally or just through mutual friends. Regardless, I thought it was fun to run into someone who knew Simone!