Mercado International 2000

Just a few minutes away was a Mexican market on the corner of Third and Orange...

Those of you who are from the South Bay might remember this market in its previous incarnation...

Return to Asi es Jalisco

Located in the strip mall NEXT to Aqui es Texcoco was the similarly named Asi es Jalisco...

How could we not pass this up, right? So we walked over to give some goat a try...

Aqui es El South Bay Food Crawl! First stop: Texcoco

This past weekend I had the pleasure of doing a food crawl with fellow friends and foodbloggers Cathy and Dennis...Our first stop would be very early...

We wanted to avoid crowds, so...

Bake This...or the Return to the Baked Bear

Despite my normal intense hatred aversion to driving in PB, or any beach area for that matter, I took my chances and headed up north from OB to PB...

The traffic gods were on my side as it was smooth sailing the whole way through, even when stuck behind this rather slow, but vintage Airstream trailer on Mission Blvd.

I'd only been to this place once before but with two young 'uns in tow, was glad for a revisit...

Hodad's with the Teens

It was such a beautiful day yesterday. TC's friend, KDD would be over and what better reason than to go to OB...

to soak up some sunshine and also to enjoy the ocean breezes, right?

Plus, I had a coupon burning a hole in my wallet screaming, :"Use me before I expire!"...

Exploring Zion Market with Astroboi & dessert at Paris Baguette

From my visit last week, I noticed that there were even more "new" signs under the new "Food Plaza" sign!

A couple of the places are not yet open, Cocohodo and Spotted Cow.

Astroboi was excited to check out the new Zion so off we went...

Return to Pho Fusion

Yesterday's lunch out was with my very good friend Astroboi...

We met up at the Mercury Village stripmall on the corner of Clairemont and Mercury. He suggested Vietnamese...

Master Blaster - Ice Blast

[Update - Closed as of late 2015]

After hearing about several bloggers' visits to a new Hawaiian shave ice place on Convoy, we thought we would check it out...

It's in the same strip mall (Convoy Plaza) as Phuong Trang and Big Joy Bakery...

Return to Crispy Fried Chicken

Yesterday we took TC and her friend Sherlock ice skating at the Joan Kroc Center...

where this lovely painted utility box is located (corner of University Ave and Salvation Army Way or Drive). Yours truly along with Bert and the two girls all enjoyed ourselves on the ice where we worked up an appetite...

Return to Mien Trung and dessert at K Sandwiches

Yesterday TC and I met up with Paul (sans Darlene) for a quick dessert meetup at Da Shack for some Hawaiian style shave ice. I thought it would be efficient if we had lunch near the proposed site.

We parked in the K Sandwiches parking lot, which was hella crowded during the lunch hour.

Food gifts

A few days ago when I met up with Cathy of mmm-yoso, we exchanged a few food gifts...

Wrapped in the wax paper was a baked delicacy I'd never had before...