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Mexican without Mexicans. Yeah. This place is amazing. Manhattan Beach Mexican food. El Sombrero #2. I hope the #2 doesn’t mean anything weird! It’s a neighborhood Mexican place that I can tell is well loved. It’s packed, it’s good, and people there seem happy. That’s David and Sun-min. So glad to have caught up with them. It’s been ages. Look at their burritos! Whoa. I opted for 2 chicken tacos. Pictured is only 1 taco. All so good. This was a tough one. It was chef Mina’s turn. She cooked us up noodles, chicken in spicy sauce, and ice tea. I don’t know why I feel the need to blog my ear, but see that scratch. Imagine this. My cat, put one claw into my ear. It was stuck. I was trying to get it out and in the process, sliced through my own ear. That line goes through. The below is my article on David Choe in the current Juxtapoz. I wrote it on the morning it was due. I think it came out pretty decent.
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The Strangers Crew at the LA Asian Pacific Film Festival. That's Bill Poon, Robert Burke, Michael Aki, Eugenia Yuan, and Pryor Praczukowski. Bill Poon is the Assistant Producer! Robert Burke plays the perfect dirty loser underworld guy. Michael Aki's character is the Asian Kimbo Slice. The master of the gun. A killer. Eugenia Yuan is the subject. Pryor shot it nicely. Strangers screens sunday 9pm...
The Strangers Crew at the LA Asian Pacific Film Festival. That’s Bill Poon, Robert Burke, Michael Aki, Eugenia Yuan, and Pryor Praczukowski. Bill Poon is the Assistant Producer! Robert Burke plays the perfect dirty loser underworld guy. Michael Aki’s character is the Asian Kimbo Slice. The master of the gun. A killer. Eugenia Yuan is the subject. Pryor shot it nicely. Strangers screens sunday 9pm at the Sunset 5 in LA. Instead of watching the opening night movie. I ate dinner with the group. Eugenia and Michael Aki. The carpet might not be red, but this is the red carpet area. Amy Hill was there! Thomas Nakanishi should join Kiss.
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Neighborhood spots. The tasty of the tasty. I had omakase type of dinner at Hanaya in Asagaya. You get the drift. Great foods, amazing presentation. Nice people. This type of spot has your back when you want something really nice to eat. You can't go there daily, or, can you? It's not out of the control pricey, but at the same time, it's not super inexpensive. There's plenty of nice spots to eat...
Neighborhood spots. The tasty of the tasty. I had omakase type of dinner at Hanaya in Asagaya. You get the drift. Great foods, amazing presentation. Nice people. This type of spot has your back when you want something really nice to eat. You can’t go there daily, or, can you? It’s not out of the control pricey, but at the same time, it’s not super inexpensive. There’s plenty of nice spots to eat in this area, this is just one of them. Toro and uni above. a small fish and eggplant dish. porco rosso egg tofu and daikon with ikura This is the drinker set of snacks. daikon and gobo The next day. cat #1 cat #2 cat #3. This cat looks really beat up, but I really like the cat’s face. I hope this one recovers fully by the time I come back to Japan. Yasukuni shrine images will end out this blog post. Except for this image. I really like how the caramel box is integrated perfect into the handle on the train. Someone was thinking.
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