September 2010
5 posts
International House of Burgers
Kalbi Burger (www.kalbiburger.com)
We live in interesting times when I can march into a shack in L.A. and ask them to top off my burger with sauteed kimchi. While the Japanese Umami burger has taken the city by storm with its diminutive, yet powerfully flavorful hatch chile and truffle burgers, Koreans have counter-parried with their own culturally relevant short-rib beef patties at Kalbi...
August 2010
5 posts
Diabetes in a cup
Between Pizzeria Mozza and Jar Restaurant, which butterscotch budino is better? I don’t know, but I do know that I ate enough of Jars’ offering (pictured below) to put me into apoplectic shock. Instead of debating whether a mosque should be built at Ground Zero, can we instead focus on more relevant and important philosophical questions?
Ludo likes Asians
Even Ludo Lefebvre knows Park’s BBQ is the best. I wonder what his favorite pho place is.
It's about integrity, folks
Porto’s Bakery
The first question my friend Hayden lobbed toward the cashier-in-training was the following:
“Excuse me miss, but do you happen to carry Inca cola at this establishment?”
Casher-in-training [excitedly]: “Why yes we do!”
I didn’t have the heart to tell her that Hayden was just being a wiseass, but the delivery of sardonic wit tends to be the...
Sesame this, riddle me that
Is there anything better than a chunk of marbled shortrib rubbed with salt and sesame oil?
If you answered “yes”, please stab yourself in the eye with a fork.