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L.A. & S.F. Eats Day 5 - Taiwanese Breakfast
My friend was nice enough to take me to the airport for my flight to San Francisco. Since my flight was around 1pm she picked me up from my house around 10am to get Taiwanese breakfast. I never really had Taiwanese breakfast before I just know they serve sweet soy milk (甜豆漿) and [...]
L.A. & S.F. Eats Day 4 - Maxim Cafe & Birthday Meal
Haha another day and another Hong Kong style cafe. This time we went to Maxim in Rowland Heights. Straight translation, Maxim means “beautiful heart”. Since I was not craving for anything specific I went for my usual baked ox-tongue over rice. The baked ox-tongue over rice is a very common dish in HK style [...]
L.A. & S.F. Eats Day 3 - Boston Cafe & Home Cooked Meal
Craving for food is such a weird feeling especially when there was nothing to trigger it. A sudden crave for McD’s chicken nuggets will only be satisfied by McD’s chicken nuggets. So on Day 3 of my LA trip, I woke up to find myself craving for curry beef stew, specifically curry beef [...]
Yee Eng Home Cooking
Sometimes a little spontaneity will result in big or positive rewards. That’s what happened with my friends and I with Yee Eng Home Cooking. So it all started out with me craving for cheap fried dumplings at the Dumpling House since we were in the area. I never know the exact street [...]
Fish Balls Rice Rolls
Fish balls and rice rolls with sweet sauce, peanut sauce and sesame seeds from a street vendor in Chinatown for breakfast. I remember when I was a kid, there was something similar in my elementary school cafeteria. During break time I would be so tempted to buy a skewer of delicious fish balls [...]
Red Hot Returns
Many Park Slope residents were shocked a few months ago when Red Hot, a great Chinese restaurant on 7th Ave, unexpectedly closed with no notice. Especially mystifying was that Red Hot was always busy and full. Many of us figured the rent had just gotten too high.
Then the other day I walked by [...]
