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• Farmers Markets, Santa Monica, Street Eats

  Fruits, Oysters, and Sashimi at Santa Monica Farmers Market – LA

  04.09.12 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Our trip to the Santa Monica Farmers Market happened on Day Four, but it wasn’t until Day 7 (the last day of our first LA trip!) we got to try the most interesting purchase of the trip. Seriously, it was mind-blowing and completely legal, within California and beyond. MORE »

• Restaurants, Santa Monica

  Happy Fat Tuesday – LA

  02.21.12 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  

  Happy Fat Tuesday! What does that mean to all of us outside of New Orleans? Not much, except another excuse to indulge in excess. If you’re looking for excess of the fried variety in Los Angeles, recently (Day Four of my LA trip), I had a mighty tasty oyster po’ boy at The Lobster, a restaurant situated right on the Santa Monica Pier overlooking the Pacific. MORE »

• East Village, Home Cooking, Palisades Park, Restaurants, West Village

  NYE Weekend Bites – Palisades Park & NYC

  01.06.12 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  As if you haven’t heard it a million times already, Happy New Year! No New Year resolutions for me this year. I decided resolutions are bullsh*t (c’mon, you all know it’s true), so without further ado, let’s talk food! MORE »

• K-Town, Restaurants

  Oyster Soondubu & Galbi at BCD Tofu House – NYC

  11.19.10 | Permalink | 10 Comments

  For the longest time I resisted cooked oysters. Why cook something when it tastes perfectly good raw? Then a few years ago I started to appreciate cooked oysters. Gently cooked so the meat is set like a soft boiled egg, oysters take on a creamy quality raw oysters don’t possess. Sure, I still prefer raw oysters, but I understand why people like oysters cooked too. Done right, they’re delicious. Overcooked, you might as chew the piece of gum you spit out hours ago. It’ll be just as tasteless and chewy.

  One place where they do oysters right is B.C.D. Tofu House (북창동 순두부) on 32nd Street in K-Town. The specialty at BCD is soondubu jigae (순두부 찌개), soft/silken tofu soup which can be ordered in varying degrees of spiciness: plain/not spicy, mild, spicy, or very spicy. My regular order is the Oyster Tofu Soup (굴순두부), spicy. MORE »

• Fast Food, Hawaii, Oahu, Small Shops

  More Plate Lunches – Honolulu

  08.18.10 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Lots of plate lunches were had in Honolulu (some good, some bad, all humongous), but my favorite plate lunch was at Monarch Seafoods with Yummy Korean B-B-Q coming in at a close second. Monarch was great for incredibly fresh seafood, and Yummy Korean B-B-Q for surprisingly good galbi (갈비, Korean beef ribs, also spelled kalbi) from a fast food court. MORE »