More than 1 year later...

Hello folks...if any of you are still out there reading blogs instead of doing Instagram or some other micro platform.

I am back...It has been more than one year since my last blog post which was dated June 18th, 2019....

LASA LA

[Retroactive post - 6/26/20, heh heh]

We made it to our hotel in Burbank to unpack and freshen up....

LA's Chinatown looked so close on the map, but traffic was going to make this "fun"...

Tatang NoHo

[Retroactive post - written and posted on 6/26/20]

FYI - With the pandemic, this place may not be doing in-house dining. Instead, they are doing Takeout according to the four lettered site.

In a small strip mall with a nearby Mexican market is a new (at the time) Filipino eatery...

Tilt Coffee, DTLA

[FYI - This is a retroactive post...dated 4/14/19 but written and published on 6/26/20]

Due to Covid-19, this coffee bar is most likely operating quite differently than when I first visited in Spring 2019. Take heed.

After our quick snack at Sari Sari Store at the Grand Central Market...

we took a walk to find this "hidden" coffee bar...

Sari Sari Store at the Grand Central Market in L.A.

The publish date for this post may say April 23, 2019, but really... it is June 25, 2020.

Yes, I am posting retroactively...

Birthday Highlights - I'm now 25 x 2

Well now...

I remember when my parents hit the half century mark...

Summer Road Trip 2018 Day 3 - Anthony Bourdain mural at the Gramercy, Santa Monica

As we all know earlier on June 8th...

the world lost a culinary icon and travel documentarian, Anthony Bourdain...

Summer Road Trip 2013 Day 3 - DK's Donuts, Santa Monica

Heard about this place and was curious.

Although we already had doughnuts earlier at Sidecar...

Summer Road Trip 2018 Day 3 - Father's Day Lunch @ Santa Monica Seafood

We were actually here earlier, waiting for the place to open at 9 am...

Unbeknownst to me, the market was only open and the restaurant would not be serving food until 11 am...

Summer Road Trip Day 3 - Good People Coffee Co., Sawtelle

We headed east on Santa Monica Blvd. for our fix...

to four month old coffee shop, Good People Coffee Co.

Summer Road Trip 2018 Day 3 - Sidecar Doughnuts & Coffee, Santa Monica

Bright and early...

Graced with the ginormous, "Beach Day" mural by bumblebeelovesyou, this building housed our first stop of the morning...

Summer Road Trip 2018 - Day 2: Visits to Giant Robot, Giant Robot 2 + Coffee Tomo

It was cool to see the Giant Robot store still around...

For those that don't know, Giant Robot was a bi-monthly Asian American pop culture magazine that ran from 1994 up to 2011....

Summer Road Trip 2018 Day 2 - Dinner Part 2: Sushi Stop

The ramen place on the corner, Tsujita had a long ass line out the door...

Sushi stop a few doors down, no line...

Summer Road Trip 2018 Day 2 - Dinner part 1: Big Boi Filipino Comfort Food, Sawtelle

Fast forward to a few hours later...we hadn't been on this street since TC was a toddler and Giant Robot had the now defunct hipster-before-hipster-was-a-thing at GR Eats back in 2003...

We parked at an overpriced lot with a mafia looking dude collecting money...

The new House Roots Coffee + a quick stop at THH before heading home

In another strip mall not too far from Ninong's Pastries...

is the new location for House Roots Coffee...

Return to Ninong's Pastries

[Note - Ninong's Pastries has since relocated to Northridge. This post is at their original but now closed Granada Hills location. The current business in this old spot is another Filipino bakery/cafe, "Hopia Like It"]


We are hardly ever in this area...

so we could not pass up another chance to visit this shop...

Old Town Calabasas

See this tree?

Little did we know that this would be its last month of existence in Old Town Calabasas...

10 Speed Coffee, Calabasas

We'd never been to Calabasas before...

TC knows it as the "substitute swear word" my late Ninang Edith used to say...

Summer Road Trip - En route to Carpinteria

Finally...the start of our Carpinteria posts...

(strip mall with Starbucks and El Toro taco shop at the Red Hill Exit, Tustin)

which happened in late June but am just posting about now...

D's Bday Crawl - Return to Mae Ting's, LAX-C, LA's Chinatown + Dinner on Convoy St. @ Hui An Garden

Funny..this post is being written on 10/22 but backdated to 8/26...

I'm trying to finish D's birthday crawl posts and this one...