coffee

Meet me at the coffee bar

January 3, 2012 eating out

There’s something nice about having a place you can frequent, almost as though it’s your own hang-out spot. Some people go to bars. They have their favorite bartender to whom they pour out their woes and blabber about their day. For me that is Cafe Demitasse in Little Tokyo. Despite the seeming prevalence of alcohol [...]

Tagged as: cafe demitasse, chocolate, coffee, cookies, little tokyo, marshmallow, tea

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Christmas Cookie Exchange Party

December 23, 2011 dinner event

My friend Tracy’s parents were gone to Hawaii for a week, so she did the most appropriate thing for a girl left alone at a big house in the Hollywood hills: throw a party. But since we’re no longer in high school and fascinated by the idea of irresponsible drinking and sex, the party was [...]

Tagged as: christmas, coffee, cookies, wine

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Afternoon Tea Like the Hobbits

December 13, 2011 blog meet-up

Today, I finished my last final. I feel relieved, but mostly I feel regret because I know I bombed a couple of them. The fault was entirely mine; my attention drifted in the middle of my examination week and I just didn’t prepare enough for them. Confession: the day before a final, I had an [...]

Tagged as: beach, cheese, coffee, hotel, santa monica, Shutters, tea, wine

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A Little Tokyo Day Trip

November 14, 2011 eating out

It’s a silly running joke between my internship director and me that I’m obsessed with Little Tokyo. I’m really not. I do love Little Tokyo, but I somehow hang out a lot there just because all the new hip restaurants somehow seem to cluster around that little neighborhood north of downtown Los Angeles. Also, it’s [...]

Tagged as: cafe demitasse, coffee, croquette, curry, deep-fried, dessert, dinner, fat spoon, fu-ga, ice-cream, izakaya, Japanese, little tokyo, lunch, pasta, rice, scallop, sea urchin, seafood, shrimp, sushi, uni

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Wine & the City, Part I

October 24, 2011 eating out

It’s been a crazy, mind-fusing week, and my schedule is going to continue to fizz and foment like an over-shaken soda bottle until this semester ends. You know that feeling. It’s like you’ve been injected with some kind of hyperactive drug and your bloodstream is pounding superhuman energy through your body and your mind is [...]

Tagged as: chocolate, coffee, friends, fruits, lasagna, pasta, pastry, santa barbara, smoothie, vegetarian

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Jewel in The Yellow House

July 25, 2011 blog meet-up

This is the last week of my internship. I’ll be completely honest—I’m relieved. I’m breathing a sigh of relief, but there’s also sadness and reluctance mixed in there. Last week was horrible. It started out horribly, actually. I came to work early in the morning, and received an irate email from a camp director. I [...]

Tagged as: banana, cappuccino, christianity, coffee, dessert, ice-cream, Korean, latte, shaved ice

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