Archive for the ‘18: Greater LA’ Category

July 6, 2005 4

4th of July BBQ

By in 18: Greater LA, Food: Kitchen

We had BBQ party at Johnny’s place for the July 4th weekend. It’s a lot of fun, I finally learned how to play poker! 😀 Johnny bought the BBQ stove in the morning and then we went to the market to buy the meat and sauce. We got steak, chicken, sausage, corn and zucchini. The […]

July 4, 2005 2

Chocolates (Brandy Cherry, Wasabi, Orange)

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It is dangerous to lunch at Abbot Kinney, because my collegues and I would ritualistically stopped by the World Gourmet Market and grab a bunch of Chocolates. Here are more: brandy cherry, wasabi and black seseme, Crystalized Orange peel and Ginger. All good except for the ginger one, no ginger flavor and texture too flakey.. […]

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June 30, 2005 28

Ole! Tapas Bar & Spanish Restaurant (Studio City)

By in 18: Greater LA

Another Tapas entry! It’s in Studio City, an area I’m not too familiar with and never really been to. It’s a nice pretty area, even the apartments by the freeway are sooo nice! Electric Magarita, there’s a masquito in it, we asked for another one, and it’s still there (either they didn’t really change it, […]

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May 9, 2005 Off

kombucha

By in 18: Greater LA

It’s became quite a trend in the office to drink this healthy oragnic drink called “Kombucha”, so out of curiousity I got one to try try. As far as I know you can only get it at organic markets like Whole food or Wild Oats. So according to the label, it’s some sort of handmade […]

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April 4, 2005 Off

Dark Chocolates

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There’s an advantage (or disadvantage) to work dangerously close to Abbot Kinney, where import gourmet markets are in abundance: you have easy access to fine exotic chocolate bars from the world. It’s probably one reason why I’m feeling more and more bloated. ^^;; I’m a dark chocolate addict. The Earl Grey one is very luxury […]

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