Benjamin Franklin High School Los Angeles Yelp Reviews
Travel Channel's Andrew Zimmern: thehungrydude's hero!
Howdy anybody!
I got an e-mail in September from a member of the online community that helps out with Andrew Zimmern(host of Travel Channel: Bizzare World) and information technology was a request to spread the word out for his prove that aired in September. Due to the fact that our blog concluded Season i, neither I or thefooddude was able to respond in time to their electronic mail.
For those of you that do not know him, check out the links below to get an idea of who he is and what he does. So you'll see why he's my hero. Andrew Zimmern, you're the human being!
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Til side by side fourth dimension, ciao!
thehungrydude
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thehungrydude'southward Kryptonite #2: Burgers
Seriously, I absolutely Honey burgers. Buffalo burgers, regular beefiness burgers, sirloin burgers, turkey burgers, veggie burgers, spam burgers(ooo spam…await til thehungrydude's kryptonite #3…coming shortly), and ostrich burgers(don't knock it until you've tried it). My Kryptonite #two is a nice juicy burger with all the fixins.
Simply to name a few burger joints:
- In-n-out : Cheeseburger with creature way fries and vanilla shake.
- Apple Pans: Hickory Burger with fries and assistant cream pie.
- Begetter's Role: I but listed this identify considering a lot of yous relish it. For me, it'southward just ok.
- Fatburger: Fatburger with eggs, and steak chips.
- Carl's Jr: Guacamole Six Dollar Burger and fried zucchini.
- Tommy'due south Original World Famous Hamburgers: Chili burger and chili fries.
- The Set up: Ostrich Rodeo Burger with sweet irish potato chips and oreo milkshake. As Cindy would say, " BOMB.COM!!! "
When I can't recollect of anything to swallow, I eat a burger. When I wake up hungover and I'm peckish something greasy, I eat a burger. When I'chiliad short on fourth dimension and I take to consume in the motorcar, I eat a burger. When I'm short on greenbacks, I eat a burger. When I only want to eat alone, I eat a burger.
Think nearly this way, one of my fondest memories in elementary schoolhouse was when my grandma would take me to McDonalds and I would order 3 Big Macs with large fries. Then I would ask for some sugariness and sour sauce and then I can dip my fries in it. Equally I got older, I establish out about their honey mustard sauce. So I even got more advanced and poured sweet and sour sauce onto my Big Mac. Basically I grew upward on McDonalds from elementary school to high school. After loftier school I found out about the other burger spots and expanded my burger noesis. Unfortunately, it wasn't simply my knowledge that expanded. Moving correct along!
Couple weeks ago, my friend Sunny called me up and invited me to a BBQ(it was this past Sunday). She's entering a burger contest so she wanted me and some other friends to try out her recipe. I didn't even give it a 2d thought. I immediately asked "When and where?" I started to immediately salivate and fantasize nearly what kind of burger she was going to make. If yous ask those around her, they will all say that she is a great melt. I personally think she should go to a culinary school just she said she only enjoys cooking for friends and family. I tin respect that(yay for me!).
It took effectually 45 minutes to drive over to her house. I spent the whole drive there daydreaming about stuffing my face with her burgers.
*Yoda's voice* Hungry creature, I am. Hmmmmmmm?
Seriously, I exercise a mean impression of Yoda. If I wasn't so lazy, I would upload a video of myself maxim that. That would be crawly. Or possibly not. My friends would probably disown me. I'd go into depression and eat burgers all mean solar day and night. My fingers would become too fatty for me to blazon, thus ending Food-Fu. Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! I won't do it! I tin't imagine the day that I press the letter "i" and I see "uio". Oh haiiiiiiiil no.
[Composing myself]
Ahem…that was interesting. So dorsum to Sunny's burgers.
As before long as I got there, I saw this.
Sunny grillin the patties with cheese on top
Who said women can't grill?!?!?!? Seriously those patties were grilled to perfection. Perfect grill marks and the taste…..good lord! I'll explicate afterwards. The patties are marinated with her hugger-mugger sauce and she used 2 types of cheese. One was white cheddar and the other was gruyere cheese.
Since I collection 45 minutes through traffic, Sunny let me go ahead and eat beginning.
One on bun she spread garlic mayonnaise. On the other bun she spread her own thousand island-like spread. So I added some apple tree smoked bacon.
And so added grilled onions and red onions.
Then lettuce and love apple.
Now that's a SERIOUS burger. I had a hard fourth dimension trying to fit that in my mouth.
As soon equally I bit into the burger, all sorts of thoughts flew around in my brain. I tasted the apple tree smoked bacon, both the delicious spreads, the crunchy lettuce, cold fresh love apple, caramelized onions, and fresh well-baked red onions. Where's the patty and cheese???? I looked at my burger and I didn't fifty-fifty graze the patty and cheese.
Next bite was ORGASMIC. My first thought was "Damnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn Sunnnnnnnnnnnnny! Volition you marry me?!?!?!"
If the saying "A style to a human's eye is through his stomac h" is true, then I'm hearing wedding bells. Sunny, go on those burgers coming. I'll exist saving up for a ringpop baby! What flavor you want girl?!? I got apple, grape, cherry…yous name it! I got chu!
But seriously, the patty with the two cheeses was SO good. And when you add together all the other ingredients, I can easily see her taking that trophy domicile real soon. This is by far one of the best burgers I've had. Peculiarly when it's grilled over charcoal and the ingredients are made from scratch at habitation, what can beat that? She put love into these burgers and my heart was pumping. *Middle throbbing uncontrollably*
Now normally I would post up the address of where y'all can get what we eat, merely not this fourth dimension. Sorry fellas. 😦 But! I am taking applications if you want to date her. Just remember to slip in a Benjamin Franklin with the application. I'll put in a good word for ya. 🙂
thehungrydude's kryptonite #3 coming soon to a blog near yous!
Til next fourth dimension, ciao!
I consume to alive to eat once again! – thehungrydude
My post from Yelp!: Pho 87 in Downtown LA
Pho with brisket (picture taken by Christina O. on yelp)
http://huggies.yelp.com – Christina O.'s Yelp page
Honestly, there aren't any skillful Pho restaurants in Koreatown that can compare to Pho joints in Alhambra and Westminster. I'k and so sick of koreanized Pho. I don't become to a Vietnamese owned Korean restaurant(I uncertainty it exists) so why become to a Korean owned Pho eating place? What the Pho, right?
The next best affair to Alhambra nigh Koreatown is Pho 87.
So, I walked in hither i day afterward a LONGGGGGGGGGGG night in Koreatown with my Vitamin Water(alleve and Pepcid AC) in one hand and my damaged liver in the other looking similar the deformed beast in 300.
Saturday down and ordered my Pho with Brisket.
Server: someshing to dwink?
Me: *groan* iced h2o. lots please. *caput on tabular array*
Server: ty sch bàn nàycái! (make clean this table!)
Honestly, I used an english to vietnamese translating website to write this. I have no idea what he really said but I saw some other guy come like a ninja and wash the next table. So I'one thousand assuming that's what he said.
*10 seconds later Pho arrives*
The server came walking down the aisle like he was my bride to exist. He held that bowl of Pho like a bouquet of roses. Quite the heavenly epitome correct?
*adding cilantro, edible bean sprouts, Sriracha hot sauce, and Hoisin Sauce*
I devoured that basin like a zombie chewing on fresh bodies in 28 Weeks After.
Excellent Pho. Cured the pho-king hangover. Happy zombie. 🙂
*smiling with brisket between teeth*
Pho 87
1019 N Broadway
Los Angeles, CA 90012
(323) 227-0758
I swallow to live to eat again! – thehungrydude
// Bankrupt da mout!
Broke da mout (pidgin, aka hawai'ian slang) – Delicious.
This past weekend was a blur. Coming together family member afterwards family member, it'due south a wonder I was able to get out and become a taste of local season before heading dorsum to LA. Thanks to my younger cousin tho, I managed to slip out and sample 1 affair that is definitely Hawai'ian. Kalua pork.
And then driving around, enjoying my few hours of freedom, I tell my cousin I wanna endeavor this local flavor. She takes me to this ane local joint called Kuhio Grille. Walking in, it doesnt seem like anything special. Pretty typical hawai'ian local eatery, complete with fairly minimal decoration and a few tables with large locals chowing down on their food.
We sit down downward and get the bill of fare, and I immediately see this section.
Kanakatak it is. Simply the name of information technology makes information technology audio similar that plate will attack and destroy hunger! And so my cousin orders her keiki min (child's portion of saimin, or hawai'ian style ramen. Keiki is hawai'ian for "child"). Yea. I know. She, like the my all my other cousins (who happen to be women), doesn't eat much. All of my uncles consume like monsters tho, which explains a LOT.
Being a local restaurant and because of the location, I didnt expect much. I mean cmon, where the heck are they going to keep an cloak-and-dagger oven big plenty for a whole hog in the area? When the plate came out, I yet didn't know what to look so I tried to keep my expectations depression. Better to be pleasantly surprised than thoroughly disappointed, ya?
One Pound Lau Lau - The Kanakatak!
Keiki min. Hawai'ian twist on ramen. Notice the spam?
Yea. That's spam in the keiki min. I might add, Spam is CHEAP in Hawai'i. At the local walmart, the regular going price of spam was $i.67. On my plate to a higher place (in clockwise order), Poi (a starchy paste fabricated from a relative of the taro root), shredded beef, rice, kalua pork, onions, lomi salmon (salsa-ish mix, with chunks of salmon), and in the centre, haupia (a coconut based dessert with the consistency of jello).
Kalua Pork
Kalua Pork, up close and absolutely broke da mout!
I was very pleasantly surprised by every attribute of this plate with one exception. The poi (the imperial stuff) takes some getting used to, and I wasn't used to it. Only I tried it anyway every bit my cousin showed me, by taking an onion and dipping it into the poi. Interesting combination, interesting mix of flavors, but not for me. At least, not yet. The shredded beef was a picayune salty, but all the same expert. But the highlight of the plate was indeed the pork. I'thou drooling thinking about it every bit I type. Maybe I'll go hit upwardly this one hawai'ian joint in Monterey Park and try the pork there.
Afterwards, nosotros had to get some dessert. My cousin blurted out "Shaved ice!" I was asking myself "shaved ice? wth kind of dessert is just some ice in a cone with syrup?"
Nosotros become to this role of Hilo that'southward just a string of shops with tourist-friendly stores. Among which, nosotros walk in here.
I walk out with
If you've had shaved ice in LA, you'll know that it's smaller than what I'thou holding and that the water ice sort of globs upwardly into chunks of ice that y'all sort of have to chew through. Not so with this place. Every bite is like eating a slice of deject, with equally of soft ice melting completely to leave naught simply flavour on your tongue. No chunks! And if you lot become the deluxe cone, there'due south a scoop of vanilla ice cream at the bottom that y'all an enjoy mixed in westward/ whatever flavors you might've gotten. I got the strawberry and sour apple. Too, this was the Minor cone.
Day 2.
With my cousin having left for Honolulu that forenoon, I was left to fend for myself in exploring this foreign area. So I took my uncle's car, fired up Google maps and yelp mobile, and took off in search of another local eat. I ended up in the same area, and at this place called Hilo Cafe. Near reviews on yelp were pretty favorable, and walking in, the decor was pretty chiq, with a decent bar and layout that reminded me of some of the more lower-upscale joints around LA.
The menu was drastically different than Kuhio Grille's. Plate combinations reminded me of trends that could exist seen in LA. For case, here's the plate I concluded up choosing.
Kalua Pork with Side Salad
In that location are a couple things wrong west/ this picture though not all evident at first glance. First problem was with the pork. Traditional kalua pork should be roasted/smoked in an oven. Not grilled. The immediate problem with this was that while chewing through some of the pork, I ended upwardly biting into an entire section of raw pork. At present, I shouldn't need to go into particular about what'due south wrong with that. But at $17 for this plate, TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE. The salad, with it'due south bacon $.25 and blue cheese and greenish asian dressing, was actually the highlight of this meal. I left the identify in a hurry leaving the raw pork in the middle of the plate. I wanted to leave a negative tip if possible. And not to mention, service was mediocre at best. Yelp, y'all've failed me yet again, and Hilo Cafe, so have you.
To make upward for the disaster at Hilo Cafe, I walked over to the vii-11 about my grandma's pad in Hilo and picked up a katsu spam musubi. These are pretty clutch when you demand a snack.
Unfortunately, that's all I got to try of the local flavors during my trip. Too the above, I was mostly fed typical korean food at my aunt and uncle's place. And at the wedding, typical catered food, so cipher new.
Knowing I take relatives in Honolulu I can stay with on trips, in that location'll definitely exist more isle editions (hopefully sooner than later).
If you're ever in Hilo, I would definitely recommend Kuhio Grille and y'all definitely need to try the deluxe shaved ice at Wilsons by The Bay.
Kuhio Grille
111 E Puainako St# 106A
Hilo, HI 96720
(808) 959-2336
Wilsons Past The Bay
224 Kamehameha AveHilo, Hullo 96720
(808) 969-9191
Eat well, Live Well
-fooddude.
Orochon vs Daikokuya: Battle of the Ramens! Fight!
Orochon Ramen
Daikokuya Ramen
– This was a post I put up on Facebook a couple months back. Just wanted to share this mail with the residuum of you, our FoodFu family unit –
[Don't forget to have the poll which is located at the end of this entry]
When I starting time stepped into Orochon, I was amazed that people actually waited in line for ramen. For me, ramen was a bag of Shin ramen or Neoguri ramen cooked in my kitchen added with eggs and spam. Sometimes I garnished it with some dark-green onions or added rice after I had finished the noodles. That was my idea of ramen. Orochon changed my Ramenology. I ordered the Miso Ramen Hyper 1. As soon as the server placed the steaming ramen in front of me, I knew this would modify my life forever. My first bite sent signals to my brain that it was hot. So the spice started to creep downwards my throat and somewhen started to make my lips throb. I sneezed hard! But information technology was a goooood sneeze. The type of sneeze that forced me to clear my nose and have another bite. Before I knew information technology, I had gulped down the soup as if information technology was my last meal. Since then I've been an Orochon spokesperson. Writing on http://www.yelp.com, blogs and uploading pictures onto Facebook, I have become a self-proclaimed food critic. Alias: thehungrydude.
One day, a japanese/korean friend named Hideo suggested that I try Daikokuya. He said it was to dice for. At beginning I was thinking, what does this little male child know nearly food? But then once again, who am I? Danny Zagat? I decided to try it.
Both located near Downtown LA, people take been raving well-nigh these two spots for years. After being a loyal Orochon fan, I've decided to put Daikokuya Ramen to the test. Some cartel to claim that Daikokuya is ameliorate than Orochon. My taste buds needed proof. So I ready out today with my food buddy Aaron to come across what all the hype was about.
At kickoff I got really frustrated trying to await for parking. I decided to park in the structure (toll me $6 bucks…grrrrrrrr…this ramen better be worth it). Walked inside and sat at the bar. As before long as I sat down, I saw a carte with a picture of the infamous Daikoku Ramen. It looked like ramen in beef broth soup. Nosotros were seated right side by side to the fryer so my pores began to open up upward, releasing the last drops of my sweat. As I waited, I decided to read the description of my presently-to-be ramen lover. The soup base is fabricated out of pork bones and they cook it for a whole day. Then they add this egg that has been sitting in soy sauce all twenty-four hours mixed with onions, bamboo shoots and ur bones ramen noodle.
Finally the cook brought over my lover. My kickoff bite: hmmmm interesting. My 2d bite: ooOOooo swell. My third seize with teeth: O GAWD NOOOOO! Am I cheating on my showtime dearest Orochon?!?!?! Quaternary bite: slurpppppppp. *downing soup*.
*10 minutes afterward*
WOW! That seriously hit the spot! Orochon who?
Seriously, I actually can't compare the 2. Both are unique in its own mode. How tin can you compare a spicy ramen with a ramen with day old pork os soup? They're in two totally dissimilar categories.
MY VERDICT: Describe
I accept Nonetheless to eat at some other place that will tiptop these two lovers of mine.
Orochon, practise you mind the threesome? I think non! There's always room for two in my adulterous stomach >:)
Orochon
123 S Onizuka St
Los Angeles,CA 90012
(213) 617-1766
www.orochonramen.com/
Daikokuya
327 E 1st St
Los Angeles,CA 90012
(213) 626-1680
www.daikoku-ten.com
Til adjacent time, ciao!
"I consume to live to eat over again!" – thehungrydude
Korea's Answer to Pho
Before Pho, There Was Han Bat Sulung Tang
Sulung Tang - Korean Beefiness Broth Soup with meat slices
Ggakdugi - Daikon flavored with ginger,red chili pepper,table salt & other ingredients
Baechu Kimchee - Spicy Cabbage
Before Pho infiltrated every corner of Koreatown(Los Angeles), every local K-towner(Koreatown resident) enjoyed a basin of Sulung Tang @ Han Bat Sulung Tang(Located @ 4163 W 5th St., Los Angeles,CA 90020). Sulung Tang is a broth that is cooked with bones(usually with ox tail) for several hours. It'due south sort of like Daikokuya(located in Japanese Town Los Angeles) but Daikokuya is made with pork basic.
You can order the regular Sulung Tang with brisket but they likewise accept a mixed ane with liver, stomach, brisket and intestine for the daring.
The last time I came here was a year ago after a long nighttime of Soju(Korean rice liquor) and beer. I remember my head was pounding, body dehydrated, common cold sweats from alcohol poisoning, stomach turning and jiff stinking like an one-time sweaty pair of underwear.
Main Tip For Yous Drinkers
Sleep + Hot Shower + Smart Water(h2o w/ electrolytes) + Alleve + Pepcid Ac + Han Bat Sulung Tang = Excellent Recovery
Call up this combination. You can give thanks me subsequently.
[back to the blog]
As soon as I walked in Han Bat Sulung Tang, I saw all types of people. Hungover ones. Grandpas and Grandmas. Ajushis and ajumas(korean term for middle aged people). Kids with their parents. They all have come for the same purpose. To get their fill of this delicious beef broth. I just sit down down at any table without even existence asked to exist seated. This is how it is for nigh mom n popular restaurants in Koreatown. You but sit down and wait for your server. Or you lot tin phone call out "Ajuma!"(A term that Koreans call the female servers) or "Yuh Gi Yuh!"(significant "Over Hither!").
As I look at the menu posted about the cash register, I detect the mixed beef broth soup. I don't even read what the ingredients are because I experience a bit adventurous today. Hey, if Andrew Zimmern from Bizzare Foods tin can swallow stomach and intestines in Korea, I tin can upwardly it a notch & throw in some liver. Take that Andrew!(Past the way, I dear your show. Much respect. I bow down to the other things you swallow.)
Alongside my basin of Sulung Tang comes kimchee, Ggakdugi, and chopped dark-green onions. There is a process to all of this. Read on.
Sulung Tang Procedure
- Add table salt and pepper to desired taste. (Exist conscientious with the table salt. Since information technology is good quality salt, a niggling will do the magic)
- Take several spoonfuls of the sauce from the Ggakdugi and put it in the broth.
- Add the chopped green onions.
- For more spice and flavor y'all tin can add the red chili paste but honestly you lot don't demand it.
- Add the bowl of rice.
- Consume a spoonful of the rice with the meat and accept a bite out of the Ggakduji or Kimchee.
The brisket was delicious. The stomach was good also. The intestines were okay simply I don't actually like the gushy stuff inside the intestines. Took a bite out of the liver but once over again, I still do not savour eating liver. As I scraped the concluding remaining rice I had left into my bowl of soup, the server asked me "Would you like more rice?". I must have looked so hungry and poor because her face had a look of concern. Her face basically read: I'll give yous more rice and I won't accuse you lot because you expect so hungry and sad when you scrape your rice from the edges of the metal basin.
Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!!!!!!!!!!!! She has no idea that I was raised as a child not to waste matter any rice. I believe this is where my OCD developed. I made certain that not a single grain of rice was left in my bowl. I made absolute certain that when someone saw my basin, they would think information technology was a new i. Or maybe I only did that because I'one thousand a gluttonous pig. OoooooOooooo glutinous rice. Focus thehungrydude, focus!
[Back to the entry]
After I ate near of the moo-cow parts & rice, I downed the rest of the soup by grabbing the bowl with 2 easily and pouring information technology down my throat. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! This is what I was craving for. This is exactly what I needed on a hot 90 caste California day.
One interesting fact about Koreans : They advise that you eat sulung tang or any other hot korean soup on a hot 24-hour interval to cool yourself downward. They say that you sweat out the estrus in your body. Personally, I don't buy it. I terminate upwardly getting more than hot and creepo upwards the AC. But hey, our Korean grandparents and parents grew up thinking this way so maybe they are correct in some odd way. Like how they make me become become an acupuncture or accept herbal medicine. I don't desire to knock these medical methods just I don't think I experience any different from using Western methods or Eastern methods. Anyways, back to my food entry because this can become a heated contend and I don't want that. 🙂
[Over again, thank you A.D.D. for the side tracking moments in my entries]
Summary
Experience: five stars
Sense of taste: 5 stars
Price: 4 stars – Information technology cost only ix dollars just information technology is more expensive than Pho. Hey, still nether 1o bucks though.
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Til adjacent time, ciao!
"I swallow to live to eat again!" –thehungrydude
This Week's Notice: Boiling Crab
thehungrydude Feel: Crawfish & Shrimp Sky
Sunday is my "consume whatever I want" twenty-four hour period. I used to conditioning iv-5 times a calendar week and a trainer told me once "Make sure y'all have one day out of the week to swallow any the heck you want. If you don't practise that, then yous'll eventually cavern and end up eating whatever you want every single day." Basically I engrained in my encephalon that Sun was the day to eat whatever I desired.
Today is Sun and I'm on a mission to notice the tastiest, easy on the wallet, and enjoyable meal ever.
Telephone Conversation:
Me: What do yous feel like eating?
A.Yard.: Permit's get to Boiling Crab.
Me: Is it any expert?
A.Thou.: OMG y'all haven't tried Boiling Crab??!?!? Nosotros have to go! Information technology'south then good!
Me: How much is information technology per person?
A.M.: I checked on Yelp and information technology has ii dollar signs. One dollar sign is really cheap. Two dollar signs is ok.
Whatever what "ok" equals into a dollar amount, my mind was fix to get. And then CY, CC, AK and I headed out to Alhambra, CA for some Humid Crab. Ane piece of advice, permit someone that drives safely drive. The manner back dwelling might brand you desire to puke after you eat all those shrimps and crawfish.
[At our destination in 15 minutes. HUGE crowd waiting outside]
Me: What the hell? Bustle up and put our name on the list. I need to pee!
[After 45 minutes server calls us in and we get seated]
The olfactory property of the seafood overwhelms me. My tummy begins to make hunger sounds. My oral cavity waters. My nose flares. My eyes popular wide open to see what people are eating. My ears attentive to what others are ordering.
Tips and Rules for Humid Crab
one. Clothing the bib. You'll need information technology. Perhaps you're an expert crawfish cracking primary but do you trust those you came with?
2. Prepared for your hands to be completely drenched in butter, garlic, and seasoned sauce.
3. There are no plates.
four. Seafood comes in a pocketbook total of seasoning, butter and garlic.
5. Don't get the sweet white potato fries.
6. Be prepared to look a long time.
As soon every bit I posted on Facebook that I was going to Boiling Crab, I had firsthand responses and tips for this joint. I listened to all of you and I thank each and every 1 of you for the communication.
Among the 4 of us we ordered 2 pounds of shrimp, 1 pound of crawfish, 1/2 dozen oysters, cajun chips, and 5 corns(they throw the corn in the pocketbook with the seasoning. soooooo delish!)
The cajun fries were well-baked and seasoned to utter perfection. Killed more half of the handbasket before our food came out.
Then the server brought a plastic purse full of shrimps and crawfish with "the whole shabang" seasoning. There are 4 types of seasoning. Rajun Cajun, Lemon Pepper, Garlic Butter and The Whole Shabang(combination of the kickoff three seasonings and most recommended). We asked for medium spicy simply quite honestly, it wasn't spicy plenty. For yous spice experts, ask for the spicy seasoning.
[Alarm: The post-obit content is inappropriate for readers under eighteen. Please skip to the lesser of the blog.]
The crawfish was quite a bit of work for that little piece but it was well worth it. I dipped the crawfish into the pocketbook full of seasoning and tossed it into my rima oris. Every bit my tongue was introduced to all 3 seasonings, spices and garlic my face began to flush red. I felt a blitz through my spine from my neck to my lower dorsum. I was in utter flavour euphoria. Is this what crack addicts experience when they take their first hit? I instantly became an addict to the sauce. Without knowing I began to lick the sauce off my fingers and dug my hand into the pocketbook for more.
Before I knew information technology, my hands were drenched in sauce and my face up was splattered with crawfish guts. Then I tried the shrimp. Delicious, juicy, tender and steaming hot. Simply the way I like information technology. Am I in seafood sky? Quite possibly.
Then we ordered a basket of sugariness potato chips. Don't order it. It doesn't become well with the seafood. Stick with the cajun fries. The oysters were average. Nothing to rave over.
[Tapping out]
Bag full of shrimps, seasoning, and corn
Within the bag. Shrimps, crawfish and corn.
Cajun Fries
Half Dozen Oysters
Summary
Feel: 4 stars: Waiting well-nigh an 60 minutes dropped it 1 star
Taste: iv stars: Would accept been 5 stars but didn't enjoy the Sweet Potato Fries
Toll: v stars: It toll u.s. $15 per person(including the tip)
Overall, you lot can't beat the combination of the toll, taste, and quantity of food compared to other seafood restaurants. Yous actually get your moneys worth hither.
The Boiling Crab
742 Westward Valley Boulevard
Alhambra,CA 91803
Boiling Crab is currently located only in California and Texas.
– Special thanks to Ann for suggesting the Humid Crab –
Til next time, ciao!
"I eat to live to swallow again!" – thehungrydude
This Week's Highlights: Food, food & more food!
Yakiniku & Craven plate with cabbage salad & rice
On Midweek I decided to endeavor Kuishimbo Restaurant for the first time with Crystal Due south. Kim(she wanted her full proper noun on the blog). Week before I was her good samaritan and jumped her machine(not actually crush it upward, merely juiced up her dead battery). In return she treated me out to some Kuishimbo. We were then excited to go. Everyone has been hyping it up for the past 2 weeks and I came with heightened expectations.
We ordered the Yakiniku(beef) & Chicken Plate. Information technology came with cabbage salad(delicious dressing) and rice. Every bit I ate my meal, I began to think "Then whats so swell most this? Am I missing something? Am I eating this incorrectly?"
[Crystal takes a moment to taste and ponder]
Crystal: I think were supposed to mix the rice into the plate with the salad.
Me: Are you sure? That'southward just gonna taste like salad with rice mixed in it.
Crystal: I read on yelp somewhere that people did this.
[We both expect around to see how other people are eating it]
Crystal: Wait behind me. The person behind me is eating it simply similar united states of america.
Me: I retrieve she saw us do it and probably thinks thats the fashion yous eat it.
[Both laugh and continue to eat]
Summary: I don't become it. I actually don't. What'southward all the hype near? I finished the plate but felt empty inside. Information technology's like eating Bristles Papa'southward without the filling. It's like eating a Filet-o-fish without the tartar sauce. It'southward similar eating a california roll without the artificial crab meat. It's like watching a movie that everyone hypes upwards before you picket it and subsequently you sentinel it you're left thinking "that's it?!?!?!" Don't get me wrong. It tasted good. I only expected more cheers to all of you lot! Thanks for hyping it up! Just kidding. I love you lot guys. 🙂
Kuishimbo
3407 West. 6th Street #101A
Los Angeles , CA 90020Side by side FEW STOPS: South Bar & Pipers Restaurant
Maui Pizza @ S Bar & Arang
For my best friend's birthday nosotros decided to hit upwards S Bar located in Koreatown(Los Angeles) and order the usual "Maui Pizza". You're thinking "hmmm..korean bar…maui pizza…suspicious". But practise not fear! It really tastes pretty darn good. Thin crust topped with cheese, green peppers, cherry peppers, onions, pineapples and shrimp. It actually goes quite well with their Kiku Sake(720ml – $28). I oasis't met a single person that doesn't like it. But then again I merely hang out with a bunch of lards. 🙂
Later, we headed on over to Piper's. Popular 24 hour diner for drunk party animals and cops. Foreign, but true. At this bespeak, I was really peckish some pancakes only I too wanted hash browns, eggs sunny side up and steak. So I got it all.
Pipers Steak, Eggs, Hash Browns & Pancakes
We came here considering thefooddude said they have a Steak, Hash Brown, Eggs & Toast special for $8.99. GOOD Deal! I but added the pancakes for $2 more. Moments like these I say "What the heck why not?!?"
I'll cull Pipers over Denny'due south ANYDAY.
Past the way, they have a drinking spot right next to Pipers. Excellent selection of beers. Nifty food(of form considering its from the Pipers kitchen). Owned by the same owners of Pipers.
Pipers Eatery
222 Northward. Western Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90004
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Til next time, ciao!
"I eat to live to eat over again"
– thehungrydude
//Curry Style
I ended upwards at UCLA today earlier tonight having to scope out a location for an outcome this Saturday. After all that traffic and walking effectually the UCLA campus with my brother, hunger happened similar whoa. DUN DUN DUNNNNNNNNN. Well, honestly, you might inquire "Aaron, when does hunger Not happen to you?" which is true. I'chiliad always at differnt levels of hunger. But what to eat at the moment? Westwood has a myriad places to eat, all of them good to varying degrees. Noodle Planet? Saks? Yamato? In Due north Out? Corner Cafeteria? Zankou? Furaibo?
Subsequently driving around for a bit, earning glances from eager meter maids and overzealous cops on bicycles, I thought "F this bullcrap!" and headed over to good ol' Sawtelle.
It's always a toss-upwards when it comes to curry on Sawtelle. Hurry Back-scratch or Back-scratch Business firm? Information technology didn't assistance that I passed by the parking entrance to Hurry Curry while thinking nigh this. Curry Firm it was.
I thing I appreciate about Curry House is that they normally has a rotating menu of experimental curry combinations. Some are a hit, some are a miss. Here's today'southward experiment. Seafood and Sausage curry (actress hot, of course).
Seafood and Sausage Back-scratch, Extra Hot
Strips of squid, scallops, beans, thai chili peppers, and sausage all topped with shredded green onion, corn, and love apple. Interesting mix, but sadly not too interesting tastewise. Not to say this wasn't proficient; Curry House back-scratch is pretty skillful. This combination was a daring step into the unknown, and I appreciate this place for taking those steps. And no, this place'southward "extra hot" tries but fails to annals whatever real heat to me, even with eating the thai chili peppers.
My brother got the Menchi Katsu Back-scratch, which is basically hamburger katsu with back-scratch. Basic plate that can't go incorrect. No description necessary (or so I think. If yous want more detail, let me know and I'll gladly go "refresh my retentivity" by paying Curry House some other visit).
Menchi Katsu Back-scratch
Their regular curry is up in that location, though my personal preference is more than towards Bustle Curry. The firsthand difference betwixt the two curry houses is the portion size. Curry House gives you just a petty more, or then I believe. The service here is spotty sometimes. Today's service was awesome. Terminal time I went, our group of 8 was backside this translucent wall and we were hunting for servers all night. As far every bit parking goes, Curry Firm'southward plaza has underground parking which makes it a picayune more easier to go to.For y'all dessert freaks, there's also a Yogurtland and Beard Papas in the same plaza.
Skillful ol' Sawtelle. Not as well much variety though and so I tin can't head in that location ofttimes. If you lot like curry, there'due south a Curry House in Niggling Tokyo likewise (along with orochon, daikokuya, shabu shabu, zencu, fatville lil tokyo, etc). The surround is different out on Sawtelle. Something about that area makes eating the aforementioned thing a different experience, and for that I'd gladly have a brusk trip out hither, even if information technology'south only for some curry.
And Apologies for not being able to post in a while. It's been a busy week, and it'southward merely getting busier. I thought I'd take a break and drib some sense of taste on you in the form of a rich golden sauce commonly known as curry. My thoughts have been all over the place these days so pardon if this entry jumped around a flake.
Curry House
2130 Sawtelle Blvd # 200
Los Angeles
(310) 479-8477
Eat well, Live well.
-tfd
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