Posts Tagged ‘Exotic’

March 3, 2009 4

Tsukiji Restaurant (Gardena)

By in 17: South Bay

Tsukiji Restaurant borrowed its name from the famous fish market in Tokyo. While this small hole-in-the-wall sushi joint at Gardena was known for their cheap and big portion sushi lunch set, we came here for their dinner Uni set. The sushi chef is very talkative, eager to recommend and very friendly. Our neighbors at the […]

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January 29, 2009 3

Asanebo (Studio City)

By in 18: Greater LA, Favorite Food Entries

I went back to the wonderful Asanebo (see old post) to celebrate the birthday of someone special. According to Seat in last post, Asanebo meant “oversleep” in Japanese. This time I’m also getting with the omakase B Course (ended up as $105 pp this time). 1st course as same as my 2nd course from last […]

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December 4, 2008 16

Dinh Thieng (Little Saigon)

By in 18: Greater LA, Favorite Food Entries

Food adventure time! A group of us ventured out to Little Saigon for Vietnamese pub food (Quán Nhau). Dinh Thieng is located at a mall. After 9pm, the lights inside would dim down with disco ball lights spinning and girls performing karaoke on stage. The clientele made up mostly of men, many were smoking inside. […]

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April 25, 2007 2

Casa Hevia (Mexico City: Polanco)

By in 02: Mexico

After a long day of shoot we were exhausted so there’s little effort put into restaurants picking. We usually just end up dining walking distance near the W hotel. It’s a pity since there are lots of interesting and good restaurants elsewhere. On our first day of shoot we end up in this Spanish/Mexican place […]

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February 11, 2007 4

Opus Restaurant (Wilshire)

By in 07: Mid-Wilshire, Favorite Food Entries

The update is a bit slow this past week because I had a computer crash scare. I finally got everything recovered and backup. Remember the Baco night? We went back to try Opus Restaurant‘s very tempting $30 three course tasting menu. Just like as David said, we got extra courses that rounded up at 7 […]

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