Archive for September, 2009

Eddie Lin’s Extreme Cuisine – the Intense Review

Tuesday, September 29, 2009 10:52 16 Comments

Many 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 [...]

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Chinese Breakfast Showdown 4: Si Hai Restaurant

Monday, September 28, 2009 9:14 2 Comments

How 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 [...]

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JTYH (aka The New Heavy Noodling)

Saturday, September 26, 2009 16:14 5 Comments

Tipped 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 [...]

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Extreme Cuisine, A Book By Deep End Dining’s Eddie Lin

Friday, September 11, 2009 15:27 6 Comments

My 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, [...]

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Life is like a box of produce…

Tuesday, September 1, 2009 21:52 7 Comments

A 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 [...]

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Henry’s Hat — a fantastic Valley gastropub

Tuesday, September 1, 2009 11:36 4 Comments

Baseball, 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 [...]

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