Tag Archives: California

Out In The Street

The Street Hawker truck- Singaporean street food Los Angeles County, California Street hawkers were once a thriving part of the Singaporean landscape, providing cheap and plentiful food from stalls on the street, as well as dysentery, ptomaine, salmonella and a … Continue reading

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Use The Fork, Luke

The Chosun One 8 oz. Burger Bar, Hollywood, California My friend and fellow unusual food writer Eddie Lin had been telling me for weeks that I needed to try what he loosely called a “kimchi burger” that was a featured … Continue reading

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Wish You Were Here

Mono Lake Mono County, California Mono Lake (pronounced like Sonny Bono, not like U2’s Bono) in California’s Eastern Sierra Mountains was formed over three-quarters of a million years ago, making it one of the oldest lakes in North America. Even … Continue reading

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The Times They Are A-Changin’

LA Times Celebration of Food and Wine Paramount Pictures backlot, Hollywood, California If you’ve been reading Los Angeles food blogs, you’ve already heard what the recent inaugural LA Times Celebration of Food and Wine was not. What it was not … Continue reading

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Paul Is Dead

Live octopus Korea Octopus Paul has been eerily accurate in predicting the World Cup winners; his cousins in fish tanks throughout Korea would do well to develop enhanced psychic abilities or they could end up segmented and writhing on a … Continue reading

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