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January 13, 2005 2

Cafe Pierre (Manhattan Beach)

By in 17: South Bay

Research is the key. I found this supposedly Cal-French restaurant (more like American), even though it’s listed as $$$, they have casual business lunch menu. The place looks sophisticated, the waiters dressed in black silk and all…but they were playing lame-ass pop songs ^^;; They gave us bread (good) and olives (too soaked and mushy). […]

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January 12, 2005 3

Old Venice (Manhattan Beach)

By in 17: South Bay

Drove out to the nearby Manhattan Beach today, it is beautiful~ It’s a beautiful day and so nice to see the ocean. There’re lots of cute shops and nice beach houses. We venture inside this Greek cafe called Old Venice as a random pick. Unfortunately it suck (stepped on land mine right away). ^^;; Sausage […]

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November 22, 2004 1

Spoon House (Gardena)

By in 17: South Bay

Mushroom with sea urchin cream sauce $8.50 It has all kinds of mushroom: button, shitake, enoki, portobello, oyster, girolle…etc. in very strong sea urchin flavor cream (though I only saw stingy little 2 bits of actual sea urchin). Yum~~ Bolognese with Egg and Bacon $6.25 Basic is good, yum~~

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October 24, 2004 9

Spoon House (Gardena)

By in 17: South Bay, Favorite Food Entries

Recommended by Yan, we tried this Japanese spaghetti house called Spoon House on saturday. It is SO good! I’ll never ever eat Japanese spaghetti at other places again. 😀 The kitchen is open with table surrounding it, we got the best seats that enable us full view of how they cook. This place is packed. […]

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September 18, 2004 2

Alpine Villege (Torrance)

By in 17: South Bay, Shopping

German mugs! Went to Alpine Villege today, a little-German+Swiss+Austria area with market, shops, restaurant and cultural events at Torrance. Turns out it’s Oktoberfest right now! The waitress in the restaurant gave us a pack of coupons for 50% discount but as we don’t care for beer so we didn’t go/nor plan to. So why the […]

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