El Sarape: Yelp Leads Gringoes to Mariscos in Boyle Heights
El Sarape is one of my favorites in East Los Angeles (Boyle Heights) right now. I don’t know which family owns it, but it’s probably the same ones that owns the automotive junkyard/repair shop in the...
View ArticleCountry Koko Chicken: Korean Friend Chicken Revival
Bullet point: $20 gets a “whole chicken” at Country Koko — 3 drumsticks, bunch of dark meat, a wing, or two, and couple of pieces of chopped white meat (if you’re unlucky). Every piece has thin crispy...
View ArticleEl Coraloense: (562) Mariscos Powerhouse
There are couple of things you don’t need to do before driving down to Bell Gardens to eat seafood at Coraloense: you don’t need to sign-up for a lottery online*, you don’t need to hit the ATM, you...
View ArticleSoCal Burmese Association Thingyan Festival, April 14, All Day.
If you’re not at Coachella this weekend, and you love Asian food, you should be at the SoCal Burmese Association’s Thingyan Festival this Sunday afternoon. If you’re not a fan of Asian food, I’m unsure...
View ArticleStella Barra Sneak Peek
This is a total lazy post. I could write a counterpoint to the ’10 Best Hainan Chicken” piece on LA Weekly, I could dissect J Gold’s regional Chinese piece (I’m so far about 200 words-deep in), but...
View ArticleLAX-C Express: #jbfa THIS, New York.
The most graceful of blogditor in LA, Daniela Galarza, in her new role at LA Magazine, beared the world of pain bestowed upon this fair city by James Beard Foundation Awards like a champ. We’re not...
View ArticleHipsters: You Voted in Garcetti, Now Nominate Bludso’s for the Hoodies
Once in a blue moon, when I can’t stand another re-reading of NPR’s morning news, I starting flipping the stations via the steering wheel thumb scroll. Sometimes, I end up at Steve Harvey’s Morning...
View ArticleEater.com is Saveur 2.0
Yesterday, Eater posted an LA Times advertisement. Seen above. This morning, Eater National broke this gem: Ex-Village Voice critic Robert Sietsema joins Eater NY http://t.co/GqqGPZjOpb — Eater...
View ArticleThere Are Bad Tacos in Boyle Heights: Apaches Carne Al Carbon
I have to steal a pic from Yelp because I was too pissed about dropping $3 for this small wad of lifeless protein and corn: Just like there’s inedible Chinese food in Shanghai, there’s inedible Mexican...
View ArticlePizza Civil War: Fuoco Pizza, Fullerton, versus Wildcraft, Culver City
Fuoco recently opened in the “Downtown Fullerton” district. A gentle reminder: this is basically the corner where Fullerton PD beat a schizophrenic homeless man to death in 2011. I’ve had run-ins with...
View ArticleFortune Dumpling: Not That Bad
Welcome back, err’body. $4 basket for a middling basket xiao long bao shown above is a killer bargain, especially because you don’t have to suffer a BOGO deal of 2 baskets of middling xiao long bao at...
View ArticleShen Yang Monterey Park: A Circus Half Full of Oddities
Shen Yang Monterey Park is a bit of a mystery. What isn’t a mystery is my love for the “other” Shen Yang in San Gabriel. No one should ever have a problem recalling extreme flavors of Chinese food, in...
View ArticleTwo Shillings Worth: Le Ka, Fat Cow
Fat Cow is in the Grove. It carries a horrible name. It’s owned by Gordon Ramsay. That’s three strikes before the menu is even furbished. Yelp reviews bitch about the service, Fat Cow serves a Kobe...
View ArticleJuxtaposing Cheap Eats: Yiran Grill Monterey Park, Top Round Roast Beef
The run down on the new AOC LA (just brunch only) is coming, as is my multiple visits to several Larders. In the mean time, I have to admit: I kinda used to love Arby’s. I stopped eating Arby’s...
View ArticleAn $100 Apron is NOTALRIGHT
Everytime I see pics of these $100 aprons (average price of said apron is approximately $88, shipping is $7, plus tax is $100), AWOLNATION’s THISKIDSNOTALRIGHT blasts into my cranial space, and I...
View ArticleChengdu Taste: Eat what JGold Ate; Eater.com Addendum
Due to journalistic standards (and word limits), much of what I wanted to write concerning Chengdu Taste didn’t make the self-edit. The best tidbits missed the editor’s trim. I mean, you don’t want a...
View ArticleHonor Bar’s Salad Burger is a Trainwreck
Sometimes, you really just have to deal with the atrocious parking in Los Angeles in order to consume a fine burger. Becase if you give up after circling the block four times, you might find yourself...
View ArticleThere’s a BBQ “Thing” going on in LA: Horse Thief, Trace Arnold
… and I can’t quite grasp what it is. Horse Thief just opened recently, and everyone should be ecstatic about a locally owned place that offers consistently good brisket north of The 105. I love...
View ArticleHow to Pick from LA Food And Wine, Los Angeles Magazine The Taste
Rule Number 1 of summer booze and gluttony festivals? Pick night events. You’ll be drinking outside, in Los Angeles, during summer time. Granted LA weather has been a bit awkwardly cool for the last 3...
View ArticleEMC Seafood: The Red Pill Edition
Tasting Table was perhaps blinded by glimmering hope of fresh seafood in Ktown that is not hwal do. Zagat, as usual, bears zero relevance and misses all marks. LA Times (or, should I say, Stephanie...
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