Food, Food, and More Food Thread

bmwracer wrote:
Hah, I didn't make the connection there.

BTW, I love Lomo Saltado: I order it time and time again from El Rocoto. :victory:

Man, I FINALLY ate there about a month ago...the one in Gardena. It was great. The Lomo Saltado there is pretty good, but I enjoyed their Ceviche even better. Big hunks of raw halibut "cooked" in lemon and lime juice. Dayem that dish is awesome!

Tu_triky wrote:Man, I FINALLY ate there about a month ago...the one in Gardena. It was great. The Lomo Saltado there is pretty good, but I enjoyed their Ceviche even better. Big hunks of raw halibut "cooked" in lemon and lime juice. Dayem that dish is awesome!

There's also one in Cerritos, but the parking there sucks.

Yeah, my brother likes the Ceviche and the Saltado de Mariscos. :victory:

bmwracer wrote:
There's also one in Cerritos, but the parking there sucks.

Yeah, my brother likes the Ceviche and the Saltado de Mariscos. :victory:

Oh yeah I heard they have one in Cerritos as well. In any event, I would definitely go back. The food is delicious.

Tu_triky wrote:Oh yeah I heard they have one in Cerritos as well. In any event, I would definitely go back. The food is delicious.

It is.

One unusual thing that I noticed: the owner is Chinese... But he speaks Spanish and has a Spanish accent... I suppose he's from Peru or somewhere nearby. :)

bmwracer wrote:
It is.

One unusual thing that I noticed: the owner is Chinese... But he speaks Spanish and has a Spanish accent... I suppose he's from Peru or somewhere nearby. :)

Yeah there is a large ex-pat community of Chinese and Japanese in Peru. Remember they even had a president who was of Japanese descent.

In K-town there is a Peruvian chicken place called Pollo a la Brasa that is owned by a Peruvian of Japanese descent that speaks both Japanese and Spanish. They actually have a branch in your neck of the woods. You should try it out. It's a rotisserie chicken cooked over a wood fire with Peruvian spices. It is so dayem good! The smell is unbelievably enticing. Incredibly moist and tender.


http://www.yelp.com/biz/pollo-a-la-brasa-gardena

Tu_triky wrote:Yeah there is a large ex-pat community of Chinese and Japanese in Peru. Remember they even had a president who was of Japanese descent.

In K-town there is a Peruvian chicken place called Pollo a la Brasa that is owned by a Peruvian of Japanese descent that speaks both Japanese and Spanish. They actually have a branch in your neck of the woods. You should try it out. It's a rotisserie chicken cooked over a wood fire with Peruvian spices. It is so dayem good! The smell is unbelievably enticing. Incredibly moist and tender.


http://www.yelp.com/biz/pollo-a-la-brasa-gardena

Nice... Sounds like a variation of El Pollo Inka. :)

bmwracer wrote:
Nice... Sounds like a variation of El Pollo Inka. :)

:say_yes:

Exactly. Good call.

LA WEEKLY food critic Johnathan Gold's take on San Gabriel Mayor's Arrest:

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San Gabriel Mayor Arrested: Or, More Fun With Xiao Long Bao
By Jonathan Gold, Mon., Oct. 18 2010 @ 2:24PM

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When we heard that the mayor of San Gabriel had been arrested on Valley Boulevard late Thursday night, our thoughts predictably lingered less on the details of the alleged crime - purse-snatching and assault, apparently - than they did on the identity of the restaurant where he had been eating. If there was a place good enough for Mayor Albert Y.M. Huang to eat at 1:30 in the morning, we wanted to know where it was.

The first report, in the Times, said only that the restaurant was on the 300 block of West Valley, which narrowed it down to, like, a million - that stretch is probably home to more Chinese malls than all of Shanxi province - and the police report said that the incident occurred at a cafe called Dumpling House, which didn't narrow it down much more. The mall at 301 W. Valley, the U.S. epicenter of the soup dumplings called xiao long bao, has no fewer than three or four places that might answer to that name, including Chowhound-favorite J&J, plus the dumpling-intensive Shangainese restaurant Mei Long Village, which may have the best XLB in town. Early betting was on Happy Kitchen, which stays open late. I was kind of thinking it was pan-Chinese newcomer New Taste Dumpling House, a guess that turned out to be correct.

"Police confirmed.'' tweeted my friend Daniela Gerson, who runs the hyperlocal news site AlhambraSource.org "I think this investigation will need to involve some dumplings for lunch.'' New Taste was soon crawling with reporters, who were drawn to a story involving dumplings -- and a mayor out with a woman, not his wife, at 1 a.m. -- the way that beat cops might be to a doughnut-shop robbery.

The alleged crimes themselves were non-trivial: Mayor Huang is said to have grabbed his companion's purse and keys after an argument, jumped into his SUV, and sped off up Prospect Avenue at 45 miles an hour while the woman clung to the side of his car. But the incidents leading up to the event, as New Taste owner Bao Gang Li told Alhambra Source reporter Tina Zeng, were like something out of a Chinese soap opera: She hit the mayor with a full steamer of xiao long bao. He sloshed a dish of black vinegar back at her. For a brief, lovely moment, I like to think, at least one soup dumpling met the arc of vinegar midair, becoming briefly but miraculously seasoned before joining its sisters on the floor. Huang was released Friday on $100,000 bail.

^ See what Chinese food does to you??? :beaten:

bmwracer wrote:^ See what Chinese food does to you??? :beaten:

:hehe:

Dumplings and late night politics don't mix.

Tu_triky wrote:Dumplings and late night politics don't mix.

Dumpling dispute. :beaten:

bmwracer wrote:
Dumpling dispute. :beaten:

Hehe. Some ppl take food a bit too seriously. :sweat:

I better keep my hands on my murse next time I roll through the San Gabriel Valley.

Tu_triky wrote:

Hehe. Some ppl take food a bit too seriously. :sweat:

I better keep my hands on my murse next time I roll through the San Gabriel Valley.

Murse?

Man Purse? :hehe:

Seinfeld called it a "European Carryall." :mrgreen:

bmwracer wrote:
Murse?

Man Purse? :hehe:

Seinfeld called it a "European Carryall." :mrgreen:

:hehe:

Behold the mighty murse. A genetically necessary fashion accessory for all metrosexuals to survive in Earth's atmosphere.

From HuffPo:

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Duckfat is the sister restaurant to Hugo's, for which chef/owner Rob Evans won the 2009 James Beard Foundation Best Chef Northeast award.

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I'll bet it didn't win any awards for restaurant names. :bleh:

bmwracer wrote:From HuffPo:

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Duckfat is the sister restaurant to Hugo's, for which chef/owner Rob Evans won the 2009 James Beard Foundation Best Chef Northeast award.

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I'll bet it didn't win any awards for restaurant names. :bleh:

I doth protest...it must be a great vegan restaurant.

Breakfast of champions.

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bmwracer wrote:Breakfast of champions.

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Man, that looks like it has so much sugar you best be a ritalin sniffer to come down from the sugar high.

Tu_triky wrote:Man, that looks like it has so much sugar you best be a ritalin sniffer to come down from the sugar high.

A lifetime's worth of sugar in a bowl.

bmwracer wrote:
A lifetime's worth of sugar in a bowl.

A bit much. :sweat: