Global Food Adventuring, one dish at a time. Favorite cuisines: New American, Filipino, Japanese, Korean, Chinese. Based in Los Angeles.
It’s a beautiful Saturday morning, so I decided to make breakfast sisig with happy eggs! I love serving this on top of baked sweet potato instead of the traditional Filipino garlic fried rice, as it serves as a sweet counterpoint to the spicy-salty-sour complex flavors …
Empire City Peking Duck is a beautiful gem of a restaurant tucked inside the K11 Art Mall on 18 Hanoi Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon. One of the more gorgeous meals I’ve had in Hong Kong, and quite delicious. The Peking Duck is crisp, they provide all …
My brother dragged me to the Salcedo Saturday Market because he knew I loved going to Farmer’s Markets in California, and this community market did not disappoint.
We have been going crazy with a tub of Gochujang that we found at a local Korean market, and we’ve been going crazy with it! This spicy red pepper paste has been growing in popularity in the last few years, however Gochujang may not always …
The idea is simple: start by getting a few friends from different circles together, start with a few cocktails, eat some good home cooking, enjoy crossing the streams. Hopefully our dinner party series works as well as we hope. Our first dinner party successfully brought together three different …
For lunch today we dined at the newly renamed Summer Rolls for Mother’s day. We had the combo platter, the soup, and the steamed rice cups (they all have pictures on the menu thankfully). This is a roll your own spring roll specialty shop. Dunk …
Dinner tonight, Singapore curry, was an emergency dinner box special. We collect flavor packets and keep them in a box in the pantry, and we play dinner roulette with the packets to see what we would come up with tonight! I usually get my flavor …
Today we went out to Culver City to make use of the community shred day (got rid of 4 bankers boxes of paperwork that needed shredding!). Since we were in the neighborhood and hungry, we decided to give Plan Check a try. Anna had been …
For Anna’s birthday, she requested that we organize a Xiao Long Bao crawl of the San Gabriel Valley. Ten hours and eleven stops later, this is a summary of our journey through the San Gabriel Valley. Fortune Dumpling Gathered the beginning of the crowd. Got …
Tonight’s dinner was nice little pork tenderloin seasoned with Hog Heaven Spice mix Anna bought off Amazon. Â Hog Heaven is a mix of fennel pollen and complementary herbs chosen by Pollen Ranch to highlight the sweet flavor of pork. Recipe: Preheat over to 350F, convection …
For Anna’s birthday, she requested that we organize a Xiao Long Bao crawl of the San Gabriel Valley. Ten hours and eleven stops later, this is a summary of our journey through the San Gabriel Valley.
Fortune Dumpling
Gathered the beginning of the crowd. Got an order of Xiao Long Bao and Pan Fried pork meat pie. Menu looked really tasty, however was not that special. UPDATE: Yelp reports Fortune Dumpling is now closed. The SGV is a cutthroat place to open a sub-par Chinese restaurant.
Wang Xing Ji
Sweet and savory Xiao Long Bao. Famous for large Xiao Long Bao that you drink from a straw. Also smoked plum juice and hot and sour soup. Soup was heavy on the black pepper. Smoke plum juice is really Smokey. Dumpling have good skin, sweet filling. UPDATE: Yelp reports this has been renamed to Long Xing Ji.
J & J / Jin Jiang RestaurantÂ
Mmm. Still my favorite xlb. Crab and pork has a ball of crab surrounded by pork.
Flavor Garden
Highly recommended by a friend of ours. Kinda slow. Eat the beef pie, Xiao Long Bao not the best.
Dim Sum Express
While waiting for Qing Dao Bread Food… bonus stop walk up dim sum.
Qing Dao Bread Food
Take out. 10 minute wait for the fried dumplings.
Din Sin World
Small restaurant, such that our party of 12 took over the entire place. Solid Xiao Long Bao.
Emperor Noodle
Got Shanghai rice cake. Xiao Long Bao. Pan fried pork dumplings were both beautiful and tasty. Jonathan Gold agrees.
Luscious Dumplings
Pan fried are king here, though the Xiao Long Bao is definitely something you should also order. The tofu appetizer was pretty tasty, too.
Hui Tou Xiang
The end is in sight! Kimchi went well with their Xiao Long Bao. The dumplings seemed pretty similar to those from Dean Sin World.
Sin Bala
Boba to top the crawl off. And some sausage with about a head of finely minced garlic on top. We recommend the Kumquat lemon slushie, but honestly all their slushes are top notch.
Map of all the places we went during the crawl:
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