Category: Los Angeles
Dumpling House – Gardena, CA
May 29, 2013
On Memorial Day, we hit up the very newly opened Dumpling House in Gardena for lunch. I was super excited to find a place that made xiao long bao’s relatively close to me. Dumpling House just opened at the beginning of the month and despite the mixed Yelp reviews, I didn’t care. I had to […]
Sunsets and ocean views!
May 27, 2013
Happy Memorial Weekend, everyone! I spent a “lazy” Sunday running 6 miles + 1 mile walking = 7 total miles. Then, I ruined it with Indian buffet. hahaha After that, I passed out for a long nap in the warm afternoon sun. I grew up in the midwest where summer times meant humidity and heat […]
The Boiling Crab…wait, I mean Boiling Shrimp (a.k.a. The Boiling Crab knockoff) – Redondo Beach, CA
May 26, 2013
There is a magical place with multiple locations (all totally inconvenient from me in Redondo Beach) and it’s called the Boiling Crab. The seafood is fresh and perfectly cooked (most of the time) and the seasoning is overwhelmingly salty/spicy and swimming in garlic…just the way I like it… …this is not that place. This place […]
King’s Hawaiian Restaurant & Bakery – Torrance, CA
May 25, 2013
King’s Hawaiian makes the most wonderful buns. Sweet, soft and chewy!…Unfortunately, their restaurant really isn’t that great. BUT, Hawaiian food is generally meh. That’s not to say I don’t love eating Hawaiian food (actually, I probably could’ve just stopped at “I love eating.”). On the contrary, I love eating Hawaiian food. I’m just honest when […]
Torrance Farmer’s Market – Bowers Gourmet Sausages
May 25, 2013
I usually go to the Torrance farmer’s market on Saturday mornings. There are plenty of produce vendors there…but even better are the prepared food booths. Bowers Gourmet Sausages is one of them. They usually have 2 or 3 kinds of sausages on the griddle for you to sample. And they make monster breakfast burritos and […]
King Shabu Shabu – Torrance
May 23, 2013
Last night, we hit up one of our favorite shabu shabu places – King Shabu Shabu. This place opened fairly recently (a year ago) and speaks to everything I look for in a shabu shabu eatery. It’s clean, bright, has individual pots and the ingredients are all super fresh. They have their own slicing machine […]
Pho So 1 – Gardena
May 22, 2013
Asian people can and do eat noodles for every meal of the day…especially, breakfast! Yeah, I know, breakfast. My parents have been in town for the past week and before they left to go back to the Asian-barren midwest, they requested…yet another meal of noodles. So, we hit up my dad’s go-to noodle place, Pho […]
Musha – Torrance
May 22, 2013
For dinner last night, the parents wanted an ol’standby, Musha in Torrance. This Japanese small plates restaurant (izakaya) has 2 locations – one in Santa Monica (where all the stars like Owen Wilson (yes, he counts and yes, I saw him there once!) go and there’s usually a wait) and one in Torrance (where even […]
Days of decadence = Days of detox…BALANCE!
May 21, 2013
After a weekend of gluttony, I now have to go on a health binge…total oxymoron, I know. To kick things off, I’m going to no carb/low carb it for a while (29 days). And it will culminate with the David Chang / Roy Choi dinner at the Bel Air Hotel. I am not going to […]