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Koreatown Series: Bull’s penis and mutton kebabs

April 23, 2012 eating out

Every time I tell someone that I’m a Korean living in Koreatown, they ask me whether I’m been to so-and-so barbeque joint or such-and-such galbee jips. I’ve never been to a single Korean barbeque restaurant in Los Angeles’ Koreatown. Yes, that is the truth. Every time I respond that I’ve never been to any of [...]

Tagged as: BBQ, bull's penis, chicken, chosunjok, eggplant, Feng Mao, Korean, Korean-Chinese, koreatown

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Eats of Kindness in Vienna, Virginia

April 20, 2012 eating out

My friends and I’s New York City trip may have been over, but we still bounced into some pretty sweet adventures afterward. We arrived midnight from NYC to Washington, D.C., and my dad picked us up on his way home from his Wednesday night service. While my friends slugged up to my room to clean [...]

Tagged as: bread, British, cake, chocolate, Cornish, cupcakes, frozen custard, Great Harvest, Nielson's, pie, Pure Pasty, Sweet City Desserts, Vienna, Virgin America, Virginia

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NYC Landmarks: Folded pizza on Brooklyn Bridge

April 16, 2012 eating out

We started our trip with a classic New York bagel at a historic New York deli…it just only felt right to end it with a classic New York-style pizza at a beloved New York pizzeria. Now. We took our NY pizza very, very seriously. We even almost planned a full day of mostly pizzas. But [...]

Tagged as: Brooklyn, Brooklyn Bridge, DUMBO, Grimaldi's, New York, pizza

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Weekend ED Post: A song I love

April 16, 2012 eating disorders

***** This post is for the individuals who emailed me about the controversy of struggling with faith and an eating disorder. I have yet to respond to some…mostly because I didn’t know how. And then I heard a praise song today in church…and it all came back to me. This is my post to them. [...]

Tagged as: christianity, eating disorders, faith

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Passing by the Hasidic Jewish community of Brooklyn

April 11, 2012 eating out

What’s the first thing you do when you open your eyes in the morning? Though this is kind of sad, the first thing I do is reach for my cell phone (which sits, charging, next to my pillow) and check my email inbox with blurry eyes. It’s probably not the best thing to do the [...]

Tagged as: baked good, bakery, Beford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, Clinton Hill, Concrete, donuts, dough, downtown Brooklyn, frozen custard, Hasidic, Jewish, Korn's bakery, New York, rugelach, Shake Shack, Williamsburg

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Hipsters: Love or hate them?

April 9, 2012 eating out

For our last day in NYC, my friends and I decided to dress Bohemian. Well, yeah. That’s our definition of “Bohemian”—I think we dressed more LA-hipster instead. The unexpected warm weather really messed us up. That was our conceived theme of the day, because we were going to hit up the two most hipster areas [...]

Tagged as: bagel, banana, Boubouki, Brooklyn, cream, cream cheese, Essex Street Market, Greek, hipsters, New York, nutella, pie, Pies N Thighs, spinach, subway, The Bagel Store, Williamsburg