Post #8 – Tapas y Paella

Post #8 – Tapas y Paella

Here in LA, we live among the Mexicans. Mexican food is pretty easy to come by. However, the food from Mexico is not the same as the food from Spain. To little avail, I’ve been searching for outlets in LA that serve authentic Spanish food. By Spanish food, I don’t mean tacos and burritos, but stuff like jamon iberico, tapas, and paella.

Post #7 – Bizarre Foods – LA

Post #7 – Bizarre Foods – LA

Beef? Chicken? Pork? Fish? Take your pick…. Here in the developed world, there’s usually not much else to choose from. Occasionally, lamb is on the menu, and we eat turkey twice a year. For the more adventuresome, there’s this other stuff called “seafood”… oooh
I’m bored of it….

Post #6 – Fugu Part 2 (+Video)

Post #6 – Fugu Part 2 (+Video)

Continued from Post #4. I just got back from New York and i had the oppertunity to try FUGU- or poisonous tiger blowfish (what is fugu? See blog #4)

On Christmas day my brother and I ventured to Restaurant Nippon in Manhattan on the corner of Park and 53rd… This place is known as the first sushi bar to…

Post #5 – Sushi at Home

Post #5 – Sushi at Home

You get your rice, strain it and add 1.5 cups of water for every cup of rice…
Bring it to a boil, then leave it to simmer, covered until it soaks up the water…
Here we have Sushi-grade Albacore tuna from Fish King in Glendale…
i’m making two cuts to to sear and a couple cuts to serve [...]

Post #4 – Fugu

Post #4 – Fugu

Raw fish… The thought of eating a dead, uncooked fish scares away many. Haunting visions of the goldfish won as a kid at third-grade school fair appear… of the day you found it floating, dead in the jar….

Let me introduce you to a particularly interesting fish known as “fugu”. Better known as…

Post #3 – Vito’s Pizza

Post #3 – Vito’s Pizza

So I hear all this hype about New York pizza……. about how it’s so much better than the garbage they have here…. well, i’ve been on a quest to find the best pizza in Los Angeles, and i think i found the spot…

It’s a tiny place on La Cienega called Vito’s Pizza.. These guys are originally from Italy, and used to own a pizza place on Vermont a couple years back. When you walk into this place,…

Post #2 – Swedish Festival

Post #2 – Swedish Festival

I’d been looking forward to this for quite sometime. I had missed the orange county Swedish fest two weeks ago, and this would be my last chance to experience Scandinavia in LA until next april….

We got to the shrine around 1PM and went right in through the entrance to be welcomed by women in their traditional Scandinavian outfits. A bunch of…

Post #1 – Nozawa Sushi

Post #1 – Nozawa Sushi

I’m bored with very few classes and lots of free time, so i’ve decided to do a food blog kind of thing… and so, here’s my first post:

I’ve been looking for “the best” sushi in los angeles for quite some time and i think i’ve found the second-best place… First, let me tell you about what consensus holds as the “best” place for sushi in LA– It’s this place called…