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Gosh, I didn’t know that bad stuff goes down in the O.C. The worst thing I ever saw happen was Mischa Barton throw a chaise lounge into a large, perfectly skimmed pool. Apparently, however, there’s a big turf war going on in the Southland between competitive ice cream vendors.

Several weeks ago, after an evening of Korean barbecue for dinner, Mom put down a bowl of what looked like little, fat pink and yellow dragons in front of me. Eat them! They were for dessert, but I had no idea what they were nor how to attack the little spiny monsters.
They were lychees! Up [...]

LA Downtown News: Best of 2005 released their top pick restaurants (among other things like Best Place to Meet Singles, Best Live Music Bar, and Best Little-Known Lounge) in this week’s issue. Their 17th annual Best of Downtown list highlights what readers and editors think are the “leaders among downtown destinations and diversions” (p.6). [...]

Anthony Bourdain’s new show “No Reservations” is a characteristic stomach churner. In the first epsiode he does his typical Bourdain shtick: he packs his maw with questionable food items and imbibes illegal substances. This time he’s doing his ‘bourish’ thing in Gay Paree. Next week is Iceland followed by New Jersey.

The 80’s party is over, and sadly it’s not coming back - but this’ll be a fun place if they can manage to get a less zombie-like crowd in the door.

When I moved from Los Feliz to Koreatown, I knew I would miss Electric Lotus and the proximity of Paru’s to my apartment. Paru’s is still relatively close by and I’ve celebrated my birthday there on the outdoor patio for the last two years, but when it comes to close-by Indian food, I’ve found [...]

It’s always fun to find restaurants that are tucked away in a corner where you’d never expect one to be. My moment of enjoyment came when I found Il Moro, which is on the ground floor of an office building on Olympic Blvd. Because of its secluded location, one might expect that Il [...]

I’ve lived in the San Gabriel Valley (SGV) all my life and have seen the rise and fall of many, many Vietnamese Pho restaurants. I remember indulging in my first bowl of pho at Pho So 1 on Valley & Del Mar, next to Hawaii Supermarket, when I was 8. And when you’re 8, anything [...]