If you’ve been living under a rock this past month, then let me tell you something: the long drive to the south bay for handmade udon is now obsolete. Newly opened next to the always crowded Daikokuya in Little Tokyo is a small restaurant called Marugame Monzo that will satisfy your chewy Japanese noodle needs. [...]
A few blocks from the touristy strip that is Pike’s Place Market, University street ends in a wide set of stairs going down. Lecosho is the small restaurant perched halfway on the stairs, on your left if you’re walking down. The menu, which ranges from different ways to serve pork to seafood to pasta, and [...]
Disclaimer: This was a work-sponsored lunch and the burger might have suffered from the 20-second walk from the restaurant to my office. For months, my colleagues and I were awaiting the opening of Pono Burger. A casual restaurant right next door from our office that was even closer than Bay Cities? Yes please. Well, Pono Burger [...]
After passing by this place several times on our way Pizzanista! I finally convinced Will to take me to Bestia. We were apprehensive because the chef also used to work at Osteria Angelini, where I had the most underdone plate of pasta in my life. My pasta at Angelini was not a “Oh, this must [...]
A tiny Burmese restaurant opened just a stone’s throw away from Yoma in Monterey Park. Two Burmese restaurants within blocks of each other — was that just a coincidence? Unlike Yoma’s dark and dank interior, Daw Yee’s is bright and colorful with vibrant seat cushions, gold-colored table ornaments hiding toothpicks, and still glossy menus. Will [...]
Spicy City opened up semi-recently in The Great Mall of China aka 99 Ranch Plaza on the corner of Del Mar and Valley. I believe it took the place of a fairly old Taiwanese o ah mi sua (oyster vermicelli) restaurant. Will and I visited for a spur of the moment lunch this weekend [...]
The first thing I said when I drove by this restaurant was, “What the heck Kalimantan cuisine??” This restaurants gets the award of most curious name of 2012. When I got home, I immediately did some internet research and realized that it’s Indonesian, but different. It seemed different than the usual banana-leaf wrapped fragrant rice [...]
