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Blogsoop Seven: Mikey Hates Everything
Yabu
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Inaba-Tei
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Mikey Hates Everything
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Restaurant Reviews, Variety
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Pirikara is a pork bun. Mikey, her kid brother, hates everything. One day, Pirkara brought Mikey a plate of food (Mikey is chained to a wall in her basement) and he actually liked it. Since that day, she's embarked on a mission to find things around LA that Mikey might like. It's not easy, but she tries.
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Strawberry Cones pizza (San Gabriel Valley)
Japan's lesser-known pizza chain Strawberry Cones just opened a couple weeks ago in a San Gabriel Valley strip mall and I'm super excited. Unlike most things Japanese chefs make, pizza is less artisanal than it is kitchy and artificial, yet devoid of rules. Anything goes: corn, asparagus, mayonnaise, white sauce, teriyaki chicken - you name it, they bake it. Though still in their soft-opening, Strawberry Cones' menu is fairly slim. I started off with the teriyaki mochi chicken pizza ((S) $11) and finished with California walnut and raisin pizza ((S) $9.80) for dessert: Speaking of weird, they sell a line of 'Ninja pizzas' with a...
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Chantilly (Lomita; South Bay)
Chantilly 2383 Lomita Blvd. #104 Lomita, CA 90717
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In the News: Ajisen Ramen Comes to Century City Mall
I just spotted this 'Under Construction' wall at Century City's Westfield mall this past week. Hit or fail? We shall see.
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Japanese Candy
(Double-click the photo for a description of all the snacks.) One of the best things about having family in Japan is that when I send them a gift, they'll send something in return. In this case, I sent them a pack of Trader Joe's lime and chili mixed nuts. Look at all the stuff I got! Now I feel bad so I'll probably send them something else in return. =P
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Marked 5 (Abbot Kinney)
Food trucks are swarming along Abbot Kinney like paparazzi at The Ivy. (Okay, so there were only 3 of them, but that's 3 more than last year.) For me, this sudden explosion of portable eateries had me blushing tonight at the realization that vehicles outnumbered customers. Though I was only here to check out one of them, Marked 5, a truck that serves rice-bun burgers nearly identical to those at MOS Burger, a popular Japanese fast-food joint. (Mountain Ocean Sun; not the green stuff) My perpetual nostalgia for Japan has a tendency to send me on fact-finding missions like these, so I absolutely needed to know whether or not Marked 5's...
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A Load of Vegetables
Here's a way to support local farmers and get a box full of vegetables for only $15. Just go to this site to pay, then select a location close to you to pick up your box. Depending on what's coming out from the ground there's different items each week. My box included: ZucchiniLong Neck Yellow SquashNice (Round) SquashScallop Squash Blue Kale Carrots Red BeetsGreen CucumberArmenian CucumberRed Potatoes Okra TomatoesGreen Romain Lettuce My personal challenge for this week is to cook each vegetable however it tastes best. Though if I get lazy I'll probably just make vegetable soup. =P
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Flying Hotteok! (Koreatown)
Congratulate me. I just stumbled upon the least talked about Korean roach-coach in Los Angeles. I've seen this yellow truck in Koreatown before and have heard whispers about "that stand that sells really good Korean pancakes" for years, but I only put two and two together after trying a hotteok in South Korea just recently. The crispy/fluffy bread combined with a gooey, black sugar filling got me dreaming about hiring my own hotteok peddler to follow me around all day. I found the truck in front of a shopping center (of sorts), on Western Ave, just north of Wilshire. There was no Kogi-line to deal with -- which was fine to me --but it...
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Asia's Sweet and Savory
I just got back from a quick trip to Japan and Korea. I had a lingering cold and I was coming from North America which meant I was stopped, questioned and had a thermometer stuck into me at every port of entry. But once that was over I got to see my family and friends and enjoy all the food I so dearly missed. Bacon-wrapped mochi was a new one for me, but it works. Juicy, crispy, chewy.... more yakitori shops need to put it on the menu. This honey toast was a homemade collaboration: They charged a whopping $6 at the mall food-court, so we instead bought a 1/2 loaf at the next-door bakery, gutted and toasted it, then doused it with...
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VIDEO: Fun with Eggs
Click here, if you use Internet Explorer. Yes, it's been awhile since I last posted. Truth is, I just started a new job. In the TV business. It's all new territory for me, so I've been busy, studying up on the industry and showing my colleagues what a hard of a worker I am (Blood, sweat, tears, etc.). Thus, blogging has been moved to the back-burner. But I love pouring out my thoughts, and especially about gastronomy, so as long as I have fingers and tastebuds I'm going to blog whenever I can. Just not as frequently as before. =( A few weeks back, I got this cool gadget from Japan. It helps boil eggs into different shapes: hearts,...
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Umami Burger (Miracle Mile)
Triple Pork Burger with Hand-Cut Fries "Umami." The word is like a mythical creature -- a unicorn -- that came about after some guy with bad eyesight saw a horse being chucked from a two-story building. Was that for real? Does it truly exist?! The word does exist in Japanese, but I think we food purveyors Stateside have managed to blow the description into Loch Ness-size proportions. The fifth taste? For reals? Real or not, the owners of Bottle Rock have done well melding this hip concept with a satisfyingly gourmet burger: a juicy patty layered with high-brow selections of cob-smoked bacon and aged manchego (Triple Pork Burger);...
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Shin Okinawa Izakaya (Torrance)
Considering the number of Okinawans living among the Japanese American population, you'd think a platter of sauted bitter-melon (aka, goya) would be served alongside teriyaki bowls here in Southern California. Yet only recently has Shin-Okinawa Izakaya hit Torrance's dining scene, dishing out a bountiful selection of crave-worthy comfort food like tempura-fried sweet potato, juicy chops of pork belly (rafutei), and a hot bowl of soba with sliced kamaboko (fish cakes). Soki-soba rafutei tofu tsukune I might've said this before and if I did then I really mean it this time: It's like you're in Japan when you're here, whether it be...
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VIDEO: Adventures with Takoyaki
I found this candy pack at Mitsuwa market the other day. It's really weird. It's made to look like a tray of takoyaki (panfried octopus balls), but is actually a gummy candy you make yourself. There's one glitch in this video. Can you find it? In Other News... Bento-ist AnnaTheRed is featured on Wired!I'll have what she's having!: Japan approves cloned pigs and cattle for consumption.
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Casa de Tree (Palms/Culver City)
Finally! You can have you vegan and enjoy it too. I'm one of those types who detest vegan joints that make a livelihood out of plopping wakame onto an uninspiring bed of lettuce and sprouts. Unbeknownst to their customers, wakame -- a seaweed high in calcium and healthy fatty acids -- is dumbfoundingly affordable; certainly not worth a $10 charge if all they do is give you a corn fork for it. That's why I applaud Case de Tree for opening a quaint Westside branch for their Japanese-inspired vegan dishes. They offer a handful of sandwiches, pastries (An pan and curry bread!) and soy drinks, but their pay-by-the-pound buffet is really the...
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Bento: My Second Attempt
My friend built me a new computer so in gratitude I made him a bento. AnnatheRed inspired my modest creations. Her blog goes into detail on how to make each component, though instead of cheese I stuck with white kamaboko. I learned how to make the chickadees from her, as well as the makkurokurosuke (dust bunny), and the mini-totoro. Oh, and the big Totoro, too. =P The chickens are mourning the loss of the poached egg. Underneath is a mound of oyakodon mixture. AnnatheRed is an amazingly prolific blogger. She makes bento-making look easy, but believe me it'll suck your life away if you let it. These two boxes alone took 3 hours from...
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