Thanksgiving in Asia, sorta: Railroad Bento, San Gabriel
Make no mistake, a lot of people do not like turkey. By “a lot”, I mean Asians. The only way a turkey is going into my stomach is in the form of a burger. Knowing how much I love beef, it’s easy to...
View ArticleXiang Wei Lou: Yet another Hunanese find in the Western SGV
An Israeli biker, a Japanese product designer and a Korean girl step into a Hunanese restaurant… Not a prelude to a joke, I swear. Cuz I don’t tell funnies, only tastees. A sign of becoming a...
View ArticleBattle for the worst pho in SGV: Pho Kim V vs. Pho Bac
One taste like a bowl of MSG’d dish water. The other taste like a bowl of oily water with scallions in it. Both are worse than a bowl of bad sullungtang. It’s difficult to describe how much I hate even...
View Article[Racist] B.A.D. & Crap I like: Oriental Express, San Gabriel
Eileen Eats wrote about this joint years ago, as far back as ’06, in Chinese no less. This barren strip mall store front is a few hundred yards south of Las Tunas, on the East side of the street. Blink...
View Article“This shouldn’t be served in restaurants”: Stinky Tofu at Mama’s Kitchen, San...
This dish is 20 years in the making. No wait, I exaggerate, maybe 7 years in the making… The last time I had steamed non-spicy stinky tofu was somewhere in Flushing, NY, circa mid 2002. There, on Main...
View ArticleIt’s Fall & 102°F. Time for: Monland Hotpot, San Gabriel
To celebrate the first day of fall, we hotpotted. It was 80 degrees outside, 120 degrees in my mouth. Hotpotting at such temperatures doesn’t just bring a party to your mouth, it brings pain. Plus a...
View ArticleThe Best Chinese Beef Soup Noodle and Expresso Pairing: Fresh Roast, San Gabriel
Preface: dear newly found readers who happen to be Vietnamese, please do not hate me, just go eat it. Not quite sure how to say this but.. Fresh Roast is the defacto coffee at my household. It’s not...
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