Los Angeles

My high school best friend

April 9, 2013 eating disorders

***Just a warning that this post will have some pictures of the past, back when I was sick. Please avoid if you are easily triggered by pictures. My high school best friend, Wen, came to visit me in Los Angeles this past weekend. We had not seen each other for seven years. The last time [...]

Tagged as: alcohol, downtown, Edison, fu-ga, little tokyo, Perch, santa monica, So Kong Dong, soon dubu, Wen

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Churched

March 27, 2013 eating out

A church is a strange miracle of an institution. As a daughter of a deacon-turned-missionary/pastor, I grew up in a church. According to my mother, my brother and I spent our first two years audaciously crawling up to the pastor’s podium while he was preaching. The pastor let us crawl around his feet until we [...]

Tagged as: church, fried rice, Hakana, Japanese, little tokyo, Los Angeles, Mitsuyasu Shigeta, ramen, Shin-Sen-Gumi, wontons

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A story about a North Korean restaurant

February 21, 2013 eating out

Occasionally in your life, you meet people who immediately make your heart bleed with tenderness. I’ve met several people like that. Some of them, I got to know better. Others disappear after just a brief encounter. I wonder if you know what I’m talking about. They are people who for some reason, instantly fills you [...]

Tagged as: dumplings, interview, kimchi, Korean, koreatown, maeuntang, North Korea, pancake, seafood, soondae, Yu Hyang Soon Dae

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Happy Black Day!

February 15, 2013 eating out

I’ve never celebrated Valentines Day before. I have no animosity towards it. I don’t feel blue about my singlehood during that day when my girlfriends plan romantic dinners and receive roses at their doorstep. So what if I don’t get flowers or chocolate? The next day I can boo-yah on 50 percent-marked down heart-shaped candies. [...]

Tagged as: beef, Black Day, dinner, jajangmyun, jjambbong, Korean cultue, koreatown, meatballs, seafood, Shin Beijing, Valentines Day, White Day

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The new breed of Mexican American food

November 6, 2012 eating out

Before I moved to the United States, everything I knew about Mexicans and their culture were filtered through the media. You know the stereotypes—handsome mustaches, sombreros, and the nonsense screams of “Andale, andale, andale!” Of course, those are extremely warped images of Mexico. But even while living in a suburban neighborhood in northern Virginia for [...]

Tagged as: Armando De La Torre, Boyle Heights, chicharrones, East Los Angeles, Guisados, Jeffrey Pilcher, mexican, Planet Taco, taco, taqueria, tortilla

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I suck at hip hop (but I can eat a teenage ninja mutant dumpling)

October 22, 2012 eating out

Whenever I’m at my hip hop class, I feel like I’ve missed my calling. I love it so much. The class is about an hour-and-a-half long, two times a week. I look forward to it every weekend. My instructor, Bradley “Shooz” Rapier, is this super chill dude in his early 30s (or late 20s?) with [...]

Tagged as: chinese, dumplings, egg, eggplant casserole, hip hop, San Gabriel Valley, spareribs, usc, Wang Xing Ji, Wuxi, xiao long bao

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