Hey I completely understand your predicament!! I mean I usually eat alone, which is a bit embarassing at first to take pics; if you go with friends you don't feel as self-conscious, but only friends who already know about my blog, or ML friends who take pics themselves using digital cameras or cameras attached to their mobile phones(it is quite a funny sight when I go out with ML people because the whole gang will be fighting and flashing their cameras on the food ^^;;;), but if I go out with friends who don't know about my blog, whom I have no intention of revealing my blog in the first place, like people from work, I would have to say ambiguous things like "oh I show the food pics to my friends in overseas countries because they are interested in Japanese gourmet" etc. Actually I went out with my boss(sort of) and the food was just too brilliant that I had to take pics and he found it very amusing and asked "do you take pics of convenience store bento too?", I said "no, only nice food", but the truth is, I don't eat convenience store food at all...haha. ^^;;;

seat | December 11, 2004 11:22 PM

Yeah the food section is too messy so I try to organized it by area like Seat your blog. ^^;; If the music and film sections are getting too big I might start categorizing them too (but I have other plans in mind for them...^^;;). The most are East LA (where we live), Hollywood (where Joan work) and West LA is catching up (where I work now). Oh in the 'Ramenya" entry (Kimchi ramen) there was this stranger comment on it, I dunno who she is (if you click her name it'll link to her blog) ^^';; I have no idea how that person found my blog. I guess it's through name of the place. Because sometimes when I search name of restaurant on google/yahoo, I came upon someone's blog that has an entry about that restaurant.

Ha RP it's a nice to fantasize about alternative jobs like being a reporter of magazine/TV how like "_insert city name_ Walker" or food critic or reporter of "shops we like" section in Lucky or something, though I'm not adventurous enough. Oh yesterday when I walked around main street, I saw this lady (holding a pen and bunch of notepaper) going inside every store, walk a bit and move on and wrote down something...hmm~~ ^^;;

The part that made me self-conscious is, everytime when I met someone new (friend of a friend) when we go to eat, I have to explain over and over why I took photos of the food (which sounded really absurd to some people) "Oh I put them up on my online journal" (sometimes my friend would help explaining) "Why?" Even if some friends who knew already, they'll start rolling their eye, "here we go again~" ^^;; Wanna give a pretentious answer "It's L'Art de Vivre~~" :D
Oh Seat do people you usually go out with used to it right? What about ML friends? Do they took pics too?

Freda | December 10, 2004 04:20 AM

Didn't try the bread from the bakery?

Hey you divided different areas under the food section(which is getting big, haha). Though you really have gone to so many places in only a few months, impressive!! But there seems to be no outsiders visiting?? I tried google different combinations of "L.A., gourmet, blog, food, restaurant" and your blog didn't come out. ^^;;

seat | December 10, 2004 02:37 AM

Oh, I should totally go there sometimes. Thanks for the coverage (maybe you should consider a part-time job as a reporter :P)

RP | December 10, 2004 12:42 AM