My Last Meal Before I Die

It's official! I've decided what my last meal before I die will be... SASABUNE! Yes I've mentioned this before! Omakase at SASABUNE!!! Drool! One of my first meals upon returning from Hong Kong was this lovely place. Sushi melting in your mouth. Yum, yum, yum. They also have some awesome signs that tell you they only serve real Japanese food here which makes me all warm and fuzzy inside. I won't bore you with the details so see here and here for my previous posts on Sasabune! But in short, you give all your trust to the chef and they choose whatever the best sushi of the day is.

That's right. No chicken teriyaki or california rolls or any of that bull shit. Here was the bill. And this was with a coupon! I better hope my family still has some Chinese New Year money they haven't given me yet.

Happy Eatings!

Thanksgiving Wrap-Up

Thanksgiving means lunch at Du Pars at the Grove in Los Angeles. This year's meal was a total downgrade compared to last year. Their stuffing was mushy, turkey was a bit overcooked as well. Also, we made our reservation at 12, but we didn't get in until at least 30 mins after. This happened last year too.  But food is food and Thanksgiving is all about eating your face out, something I obviously approve of!

Thanksgiving lunch

 We got to choose between soup or salad. Sweet pea soup or chicken noodle. I chose the chicken noodle and it was yummy! 

 Our platter of turkey

 Mash potatoes, string beans, cranberry sauce, yam, carrots, 

 Blueberry pie. Yummy! 

You can check them out at 6333 W 3rd St. Los Angeles, CA 90036. 

Dinner Time  was spent at a family friend's house with this fancy meal. 

 Turkey, honey baked ham, mash potatoes, corn, veggies

This meal was the day after Thanksgiving at Stonefire Grill in Woodland Hills, CA. They have many locations all over. Check out my garlic lemon chicken, mash potatoes, prime rib, BBQ ribs

Dinner after Thanksgiving

This was our dinner at LYL Garden Seafood at 500 W Garvey Ave. Monterey Park, CA 91754. The service was seriously bi-polar. We walked in and asked for a to-go menu and they were like get it yourself! Then after they got all attentive. Ssh! 

 Old traditional Chinese soup. Base was made for over 5 hours. 

 Soup

 Chinese chicken goes with garlic and ginger sauce

 veggies

 Butter garlic clams 

 Pork and string beans

 Homemade turkey, yams with marshmallows, and mash potatoes. 

 My favorite biscuits!!!  

 Baked yams and marshmallows! My favorite!!! 

This is at Salju Dessert, a newly opened shaved ice shop at 35 W Valley Blvd. Alhambra, CA 91801 Shaved ice with mochi, strawberries, red beans, green tea! It was great though, and even a bit expensive!

The next day

 My lovely uncle has a Lawry's reciepe. He made me a big can of spanich soup! It has cloves and cloves of garlic inside. So yummy! I find myself heating this up as a midnight snack!

 Uncle also bought a $150 slice of rib for Thanksgiving. He brought me a slice to eat on our own time!

And last but not least Spam Musubi! Yum B-Man's in San Marino has a some awesome musubi. Only $1.75 and they add teriyaki sauce to it. It's a must have! Try at 3007 Huntington Dr. Pasadena, CA 91107. 

I definitely pigged out. Lots and lots of food! Feel free to try these places and tell me how you liked it.

Happy Eatings!

How I do Pho

I'm a Vietnamese food snob. Regular pho has never done it for me. I'm a snob and I only take Pho Bac-Northern Pho aka Pho using Filet Mignon. I like my beef pho raw where I cook it in the both slowly. I like my beef balls and tripe to go with my pho. I rarely ever ever ever-order pho if it's not filet mignon. The soup is light and flavorful. 

 Here's their #14. 

 Here is my bahn xeo- Vietnamese fried pancake. Rice flour, fatty pork, shrimp, diced green onion, and bean sprouts. Southern-styled banh xeo contains coconut milk and certain Central region skips the turmeric powder altogether. 

One of my favorite fruits is soursop and they had it as a milkshake here. It tastes like pineapple and citrus and a pina colada flavor. 

Overall, I think the filet mignon pho was decent but my favorite place for that is still Pho Kimmy in Garden Grove. 

If you want to try this pho, you can go to Pho Filet at 9463 Garvey Ave South El Monte, CA 91733.

Happy Eatings!

Peruvian Party

Have you ever wanted to eat many types of food and shop for random crap all at one time? Then you must check out Mo-Chica for Peruvian food! Amazing! For the win! Mo-Chica was seriously a hidden gem in a small ghetto Latino food court. And when I say ghetto I mean ghetto FABULOUS! I love going to the unexpecting places and searching for food. Yum, yum, yum!!! Seriously the last place people would go to, but this lovely place was hidden there. My lovely friend Katherine was nice enough to drive. We had a great meal!

 Here was their menu and entire restaurant. I couldn't decide what to eat since my friend I were on a break from class and had to make my decision fast. 

 But then I saw passionfruit on the drink menu! YES! As you may know... I am obsessed with anything passionfruit. But what should I get to eat? Tick tock tick tock.... I asked the waitress for her opinion. 

Waitress: Are you afraid to eat anything?

Me: Of course not! Bring it!

 I ended up getting the ox tail. 'Oxtail Risotto' -Braised oxtail, barley huancaina risotto  for $14.00. This was a very rich dish.  The oxtail was very tender and delicious. Yum, yum, yum. The salad was delicious too!! So so good!! It was quite heavy though. I felt like rolling my way home after I was done. I seriously started to fall sleep after this. 

The sauces were the best! Heavenly! The yellow sauce was a nice mustardy sauce. The red sauce was a delicious spicy sauce and the green sauce was my favorite!!!! Must try!

To try for yourself check out Mo-chica at 3655 S Grand Ave

Los Angeles, CA 90007.

Happy Eatings!



PS I was told you'd need a token to use the bathroom. Awesome! I didn't have the pleasure of going though. Will do next time!

Hola! Have a dose of Vietnamese food today!

My motto has always been the dirtier the restaurant the better! Look at this baby... if this isn't ghetto fabulous then I don't know what is! Welcome to Thien An in Rosemead. Ah, bo 7 mon, literally means 7 courses of beef in Vietnamese. Love it! 7 ways to have beef. Unfortunately, we didn't get all 7 ways. 

 Raw beef slices were the first to be brought out to the table!

 The different sauces!

 Raw shrimp!

 Egg rolls!

 My mother cooking my food! Seriously... muahaha it's me being spoiled. 

 Beef in grape leaf I believe. This is one of the courses of beef. One of the seven. 

 And here was our main dish: baked catfish! Honestly I've never had catfish in Vietnam but this is what I have all the time in the US of the A. 

Close up of that fabulous meat!

Tien An is known for their 7 courses of beef. They even have a shop in Westminster for all the folks near the Orange Country area. Yum!

Happy Eatings!

Exotic Foods 101: Alligator and Snake Edition

(In line for snake & rabbit and alligator and pork hot dogs with the boyfriend. The line went all the way out the door.) 

So if you haven't noticed by now, I have a slight obsession with food. I have a very, very long list of must-try restaurants that just keeps getting longer and longer. BUT-luckily I recently was able to check one of those restaurants off my list. Meet Wurstküche- A German hot dog place that is also a bar. It's most famous as a LA hipster joint since it's located in the Arts District. You must be thinking hot dogs? What's the big deal? Well, I braved the 40 min. drive to try Alligator  & Pork hot dog and a Rabbit and Snake hot dog. 

Excited me! 

Nom, Nom. So how it works is first-you order that type of sausage you want. Don't worry they have normal ones too. My friends got veggie hot dogs. Then, you choose your 2 toppings such as spicy peppers or bell peppers. 

Close up of my hot dogs. 

But the most famous dish here was supposed to be the truffle fries, which we thought were just okay. It did smell very good though!

The alligator tasted like beef and the snake just tasted normal to me. I definitely enjoyed the snake more. 


Exotic Foods 101! Would you do try it?


Happy Eatings!


You can try it at 800 E 3rd St. Los Angeles, CA 90013