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Food... alcohol... music... and red silk boxers. These are the good things in life. So I leave you with yet another compilation for your listening pleasure. Jeni and I will be in Hawaii and I've got to be on my best behavior since it's the first time meeting her family there. And of course, we'll be eating. It's been four years since I last went and I have a lot of catching up to do there. Enjoy. Tracklisting (1) Little Dragon - Feather (2) Dirty Projectors & David Byrne - Knotty Pine (3) Gruff Rhys - Just War (4) Bat For Lashes - Daniel (5) Miike Snow - Burial (6) Burial & Four Tet - Moth (7) Black Moth Super Rainbow - Gold Splatter (8) Nouvelle Vague - Road to Nowhere (9) The Field - A Paw in My Face (10) Passion Pit - The Reeling (11) Hudson Mohawke - Overnight (12) Phoenix - Lisztomania (Classixx Remix) (13) I Monster - A Sucker For Your Sound (14) Ra Ra Riot - Can You Tell (15) The Field - The Little Hear Beats So Fast (16) Grouper - Heavy Water/I...

My favorite beer bar in Glassell Park has been doing a Sunday summer thing. Every Sunday at 1 pm, there's beer, BBQ, beats and boredgames. If you haven't been here and enjoy beer, get ready to fall over and passout. This place is a regular meet up for the beer geeks of Beer Advocate.com - a collective of twenty-forty something men chatting about beer.

A while back, I spent some time checking out the Highland Park food scene . And by now, it's quite obvious that I see tacos the way Pac-Man sees those yellow pellets. I was attending Art Center for some night classes and by the time I've been thru an hour and a half of traffic – I'm hungry . I didn't want to give into fa(s)t food restaurants and eventually started driving on the surface streets looking for food, since it is quite difficult to locate a restaurant from the freeway. And that's where I ended up in Glassell Park and Highland Park – two parts of the Northeast side that I feel, along with East LA and the 710 freeway area, deserve a 'taco town' nickname. But I can't eat always tacos... I eventually found myself driving further east on York Blvd. until I hit Figueroa. My eyes lit up with the numerous latino restaurants – mainly Mexican and Salvadorian cuisines. I was getting hit left and right by them. Here are my thoughts on a few o...

Just kidding... they aren't THAT small.  Just wanted to bring to light, some of my favorite soup noodles from the Thai Town area in Hollywood.  When I was writing the Noodle Whore blog, I started out researching the Thai Town area – places like Yai, Sanamluang, Sapp Coffee Shop and Rodded were definitely popular.  In a matter of 5 years, my dad (Noodle Whore Sr.) and I have seen Thai Town change quite a bit.  A few changes in ownership and new chefs really kept it dynamic.  So it's not a wonder that I, maybe you as well, jump around the restaurants a lot in Thai Town.  In my opinion, one thing remains true though.  Besides the spicy curries, hand-mixed food, soups and stir-fries, the Thais are outstanding at producing tasty soup noodles.  And it's why I continue to eat here at least twice a month.   It was only a few years ago that Thai Town introduced their version of a Jack-in-the-Box/Burger King slider, or as they call it Mini Sirloin and Burger Shots.  My Dad said that...

I think my appreciation for ramen came after my friends and I went to Japan for the first time . We weren't particularly hunting for ramen, but more so, let the smells and signage of a ramen shop attract us.  And we fell in love. Japan made it really easy for us to find food through one simple principle: cook nothing but delicious food .  Every shop we went to was simply solid.  From light, salt-based and soy sauce-based soups ( shio and shoyu ) to thicker-stock soups ( tonkotsu ), they were all good.  For a while, the ramen shops on Sawtelle row represented the ramen capital.  And it wasn't until coming back from Japan, that we realized that those noodle shops just didn't cut it.  We reminisced and lamented for a while.  We tried to find a place that offered a more rich-style broth other than salt and miso paste.   Then came Shin Sen Gumi (Gardena, Costa Mesa & Rosemead) and Daikokuya (Little Tokyo) opened, creating this pork-bone soup craze that changed the Los Angel...