Since we stayed at downtown for our arrival night, I looked up restaurants in the touristy area and tried the popular tapas place called Purple Pig. As their name indicates, there’s pork in all their dishes. Even a bowl of almonds are fried in pork fat. Their menu sounds watering, there’s a intensive menu of […]
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August 5, 2011
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Lou Malnati’s (Chicago)
By Freda in 13: ChicagoWhile Joan is having her epic trip to Turkey, I went to the American Midwest for the first time. We stopped by Chicago for a few days, and the weather was hot hot hot! But the city is beautiful and vibrant, full of greeneries, public parks and festivals. One of the most obvious local Chicago dish […]
Tags: Pizza
May 27, 2011
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Publication: Lucky Peach
By Freda in UncategorizedMcSweeney has a new quarterly journal coming out that is all about food! It is called Lucky Peach and it’s created by Momofuku‘s David Chang, writer Peter Meehan, and Zero Point Zero Production (producers of the awesome Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations). Since Momofuku means Lucky Peach literally, and its peach logo is branded on the […]
May 27, 2011
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Event: Savor Los Angeles
By Freda in UncategorizedMore food events are happening as we head closer and closer to summer. July 2nd has an event called Savor Los Angeles. The theme is pairings or as they call it, BFFs – best friend foods! So it’s about food pairings. There will be complimentary drinks, raffles, music, a photobooth, gift bags, and a specially […]
May 24, 2011
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Spice Table (Downtown)
By Freda in 06: Downtown LAA new Southeast Asian (Singaporean and Vietnam) wine bar has opened up at Little Tokyo a little more than a months ago called Spice Table. The name gave me an instant dejavu of Jean-George NYC’s Spice Market (that I wasn’t impressed with), so I was wary. Is it likewise a chichi, overpriced, parody version of […]
Tags: Chinese, Singaporean, Vietnamese
