I was raving about Beard Papa’s, the Japanese cream puff bakery chain last month, but then I finally got the chance to eat there over my Christmas break and let me tell you: what a disappointment. My cream puff was served cold, almost frozen like those mini cream puffs that you get at Costco. It [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Southern California’
January 15, 2009
Oh, I Totally Forgot to Tell You That Beard Papa’s Was A Total Bust So Don’t Eat There, Kay?
January 6, 2009
My Bavarian-Themed Gingerbread House — Well, It’s Actually Hungarian, But That’s Too Obscure
July 31, 2008
Here’s a Secret: I Want to Be a Maid at a Maid Cafe
Not to make any broad generalizations or anything, but the Japanese so get off on the whole cutesy cartoon culture thing (well, duh, I guess). Nothing symbolizes this phenomenon more than the maid cafe to fulfill the fantasies of lonely otaku, anime nerd boys, of the country. Well, they’ve moved to the States. A few [...]
June 6, 2008
Food Erasers…Only the Japanese Would Think of Something So Cute
Last week, I went to Marukai, a Japanese supermarket, with my high school, Japanese-culture-obsessed buddy Albert and we poked around through all the weird foodstuffs they had at the store: ramen noodle chips, squid jerky, various yogurt drinks that claimed they increased libido, toys that came with free candy instead of candy that came with [...]
May 22, 2008
Tant Hoda’s Recipe for KOFTA!
I recently visited my lovely aunt, Tant Hoda, and she gave me the recipe for her amazing kofta, an Egyptian recipe for grilled ground beef. Serve this in a pita sandwich with tahina, cucumbers and tomatoes or with rice and a bit of yogurt sauce. She’s an amazing cook and was kind enough to share [...]
December 30, 2007
Shabu Shabu Restaurant Boom in Cerritos
It used to be that the only place you could get good shabu shabu was in Gardena’s Japanese neighborhood near Marukai (a gigantic Japanese supermarket) or Little Tokyo all the way in Downtown L.A. Or maybe if you were lucky, you could eat it in your own home, using a hot pot that you bought [...]
December 21, 2007
Sul Rong Tang: Korean Oxtail Soup
My grandpa has high blood pressure and he keeps eating dim sum for lunch every day, so today, I suggested that we try something a little less MSG-errific. He said, let’s eat sul rong tang. Sul rong tang is a soup made of noodles, very thinly sliced pieces of beef and a broth made with [...]
