Macaroons at bon epi, irvine koreatown (jamboree and alton)
Macaroons at bon epi, irvine koreatown (jamboree and alton)
oh, polyethnic LA: “Polka” polish cuisine and gourmet cooking next door to Toto’s Lechon / Manok, home of unlimited rice! Verdugo and York, Adams Hill, LA
californians seem to think they invented both health food and smoothies, but this “mexico city style” smoothery has some amazing stuff more obscure than goji berries and royal jelly for all your wingnut dieting ideas. strongly recommended and dirt cheap! figueroa and… 49th? 51st? in highland park, home of the best restaurants in LA.
nahuatl-themed hipster graffiti, echo parque, LA
isn’t it queer? a “4/20 friendly”, LGBT friendly, and delicious taco truck at the epicenter of white bohemian gentrification in echo park: sunset and alvarado.
cab driver confessions
the cab that took me to the airport came with a surprise bonus: a cabby’s biography, told in surprisingly broken english from a man who’d been here over 50 years. he came to australia after the war (my father’s family was fascist) without much schooling and worked for many years cutting sugar cane. he spoke at length about garibaldi, politics, and italians living outside italy. he told me italians in italy love america more than americans do, and told an anecdote about visiting his mother in italy in the 60s, surprised to see a framed portrait of JFK hanging next to one of recently-passed Pope John II. he also told me that without my beard i’d look like frank sinatra (why do proud italians all over the world tell me this?).
all available LIVE. boston chinatown.
brooklyn by night
pupusas served by dominicans that tasted like cornmeal, with plaintains and decidedly dominican blackbeans! cheap, curious, new. brooklyn flea market (at new winter indoor location) .
abfab dinka cattle herders, sudan. (brooklyn museum)
colonia waldense, uruguay
great little homestyle place off carabobo, soso sundubu but amazing shellfish champon! and i love any place that puts beans and flecky things in their rice.
mezze at the sirio-lebanese club, downtown santa fe (highly recommended!)
gauchito gil shrine, puerto iguazu
parque lezama, san telmo, BsAs: russian orthodox onion domes perk up the skyline
