LA food diary.
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@skinnylatte there's no balance, lol -- original Tsujita is still my tsukemen jam
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@skinnylatte are you going to continue eastwards in your LA food journey, or will you mostly stay west of downtown?
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@skinnylatte serves me right for not checking mastodon regularly. I might have to scroll back in time and see where you went!
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6. DELICIOUS Turkish food at Muma Kitchen.
Truly one of the best Turkish meals I've had outside Turkey (high praise, because I'm frequently complaining Turkish restaurants outside Turkey do a bad job at showing how incredible their food is)
You must try the baklava. One of the best ones I've had *anywhere*. Everything is great here. The Turkish coffee is also fragrant, not bitter, and tasty.
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One of the signs of a very good pistachio baklava: are the pistachios bright green? If so, the baklava makers gave a shit enough and bought the best pistachios for baklava: antep pistachios (from the border of Turkey / Syria)
In SF, Baklava Story does. So does Simurgh Bakery in Emeryville
More info on baklava here: https://buttondown.email/skinnylatte/archive/surprisingly-delicious-baklava-in-sf/
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I took a 3-day cooking class in Merida, long ago. Heavenly!!
Then we took a week in Playa del Carmen, which had (I think it's gone now...) a Mayan restaurant call YAXCHE. Had dinner there three different nights, it was so delicious.
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@MarkRDavid i'm so lucky i live in a neighborhood that's got like, 5 Mayan restaurants. i can go to them in my pajamas.
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Taking the bus for an hour to K-town for Korean soup. It’s worth it. I’ve tried a few Bay Area spots for ‘shul lung tang’ (seollongtang) including in deep east and South Bay. It’s one of my favorite Korean dishes. Hanbat is still the best on this side of the world.
Korean food quality in general in LA is top notch. The atmosphere at Hanbat as you step into it in an alley also feels really feels like you’ve been transported to small town South Korea.
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@skinnylatte I don’t like a lot of American Korean. Too sweet! And Korean food has that mindfuck level of spice, in Korea. But SoCal is the absolute best for Asian cuisines in the states. Will have to hit LA K-town next time I’m out that way. Enjoy!
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@danluvsbeer yeah I think these sweetness is.. localization
I mean there’s some sweet stuff generally but not amped up the way it is here. Can’t go wrong with LA for Korean or Mexican or Thai or Chinese or Japanese. I was just telling someone ‘even the white people food here is excellent (unlike sf)’
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@skinnylatte SDG Tofu House in Santa Clara is where we go for Korean soup. I have no doubt that it's better in Socal though.
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@vincent Santa Clara is the best in Bay Area for Korean for sure
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@skinnylatte Interesting - I always consider the opposite with gelato. The brighter the pistachio green the faker the pistachio gelato.
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@uguisubari true. But in gelato you don’t really see the whole nuts (unless they sprinkle)
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@skinnylatte Oh man. The health department shut my favorite Thai place down when I lived out there. There were people lined up to get in the day it reopened. I know because I was one of them.
Mexican is good there, but it's good everywhere in the states now. (lotsa Mexicans) The big difference is access to ingredients, and California in general just wins that battle.
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@danluvsbeer my Mexican food writer friend from Mexico City who lived in LA steadfastly refuses to eat Mexican elsewhere in California coz she’s like ‘I can only get the same variety and quality in LA’. It’s pretty good in the Bay Area, but for just sheer and utter variety..
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@skinnylatte I find it hard to believe San Diego wasn’t on her list! I’m from the Texas Panhandle, which has its own thing, which can be quite good. I think the main point is you find the best in those places where such food has been local since before they called Mexico, “Mexico.”