Archive for September, 2009
Eddie Lin’s Extreme Cuisine – the Intense Review
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 10:52 16 CommentsMany of you avid foodblogging fans will already be familiar with Eddie Lin’s Deep End Dining, a fascinating website where nothing is too freaky or disgusting-sounding for his brave palate to sample and his blown mind to appraise.
Ever the intrepid ingester, Eddie has just brought out his own book, in conjunction with the Lonely [...]
Chinese Breakfast Showdown 4: Si Hai Restaurant
Monday, September 28, 2009 9:14 2 CommentsHow fitting that showdown #4 is about a restaurant named ‘Four Seas’ in Chinese. This place is not to be confused with the restaurant of a similar name in Hacienda Heights. When I arrived at Si Hai around 11am, I was hoping that the breakfast rush would be over, but the line that went [...]
JTYH (aka The New Heavy Noodling)
Saturday, September 26, 2009 16:14 5 CommentsTipped off by this post on Sinosoul, I was eager to try the new and confusingly named JTYH. (The seemingly random acronym may be easier to remember if you, like me, just think of it as Just the Young Hos.) I was sad to hear when the original Heavy Noodling on Garvey ws closed, so [...]
Extreme Cuisine, A Book By Deep End Dining’s Eddie Lin
Friday, September 11, 2009 15:27 6 CommentsMy friend Eddie Lin over at Deep End Dining has his first book coming out in October. It’s called “Extreme Cuisine” and captures Eddies expertise — putting stomach turning edibles into his mouth and in writing about those experiences in a way that actually makes you envy him. The book is only $9.99 at Amazon, [...]
Life is like a box of produce…
Tuesday, September 1, 2009 21:52 7 CommentsA month and a half ago, I wrote about attending Extravaganza for the Senses. One of the booths there was a new organic produce delivery service. Now, I’ve heard of these services, and it seemed very convenient, but I was always a little turned off by price. Then I talked to Farm [...]
Henry’s Hat — a fantastic Valley gastropub
Tuesday, September 1, 2009 11:36 4 CommentsBaseball, Football, Soccer, Car racing, Golf, Boxing, Volleyball – if you are a sports fan of any kind, then your goal should be heading over to Henry’s Hat. Situated close to Universal Studios, in the old Minibar space on Cahuenga Blvd. West, this new Valley venue is a fun place to chill and immerse yourself [...]