Restaurant Review
09 Jul 2019

Tsubaki – Los Angeles (Echo Park)

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Tsubaki - Los Angeles (Echo Park)

To celebrate our ninth wedding anniversary, The Astronomer and I booked a babysitter and a table at Charles Namba and Courtney Kaplan’s Echo Park izakaya Tsubaki. We also procured a tagine and cooked some lamb in it, in case you were keeping tabs on all the festivities.

Tsubaki - Los Angeles (Echo Park)

The menu of simply composed and deftly executed small plates didn’t let us down this evening. From pristine cuts of amberjack sashimi to start, to grilled chicken oysters somewhere in the middle and the finest pork porterhouse to finish, let’s get started on the rundown.

Tsubaki - Los Angeles (Echo Park)

First up were thick and cool slices of kanpachi ($26), which arrived topped with a ponzu gelee, an apple-ginger oroshi, and fresh shiso.

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Potpourri
02 Jul 2019

Jichan’s Onigiri-ya – Monterey Park

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Jichan's Onigiri-ya - Monterey Park

Jichan’s Onigiri-ya is a sweet little spot on the edge of Monterey Park specializing in Japanese rice balls called onigiri. Here in the shadows of Resurrection Cemetery, three childhood friends are sharing the nostalgic snack with the neighborhood.

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24 Jun 2019

{swoon} Spam Fried Rice at OMMA Rice N Chicken

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OMMA Rice N Chicken - Pasadena

The Slaw Dogs space on North Lake is now home to OMMA Rice and Chicken, a full-service cafe serving fruit smoothies and all manner of Korean favorites like kimbap, fried chicken, kimchi pancakes, and bibimbap. The food, prepared with care by the smiliest of cooks, delights with its simplicity. The Spam fried rice—glossy grains, scrambled eggs, and chopped vegetables, along with a fried egg and size-able slab of Spam—serves up pure comfort in a bowl. When the week’s been long and another marathon is on the horizon, there is no better fuel.

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