Andy Gavin's Blog, page 139
June 19, 2014
Lucky Ducky
Restaurant: Beijing Duck House
Location:6420 Rosemead Blvd.San Gabriel, CA 91775.(626) 286-5508
Date: June 14, 2014
Cuisine:Beijing Chinese
Rating: Tasty stuff
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This is my third time this week out to the SGV for scrumptious Chinese. My mother apparently ate a lot of Chinese when she was pregnant with me (true) and I’ve loved it ever since I was a kid.
Tonight’s entry is Beijing Duck House which is funny enough, a Beijing style restaurant specializing in… you guessed it… Peking Duck!
The room is typi...
June 17, 2014
Melisse Madness
Restaurant:Melisse [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
Location: 1104 Wilshire Blvd.Santa Monica, CA 90401. (310) 395-0881
Date: June12, 2014
Cuisine: California French
Rating: Awesome in all ways
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It’s always a challenge to come up with a new spot for my birthday dinner. I tried a couple new places and after struggling with annoying policies and restrictions came back to proven slam dunk Melisse. They have the private room. They have the food. They can handle all the wines effortlessly.
I brought a lot of good...
June 15, 2014
Game of Thrones – Episode 40
Genre:The Children
Watched: Episode 40- June 15, 2014
Title:The Watchers on the Wall
Summary: Great ep, sad to be done for the year
ANY CHARACTER HERE
This episode has a lot to wrap up. Pretty much every story line is in flux and it would make sense to visit them all and close out (or at least position) their position. I’ll break them down thread by thread for convenience.
Jon and the wall – picking up where last week ended, Jon wanders out through the field of corpses (including the...
June 12, 2014
Hedonists at Shanghailander
Restaurant: Shanghailander Palace
Location:1695 South Azusa Ave.Hacienda Heights, CA 91745. 626-839-7777
Date: June 7, 2014
Cuisine:Shanghai Chinese
Rating:Excellent
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Hedonist tripsto the SGV and its requisite Chinese adventures are among my favorite dinners. Shanghailander specializes in Shanghai style cuisine (obviously). On the downside, it’s far — in Azusa — almost 40 miles from my house!
The atmosphere may not be the fanciest, but these big communal dinners are great fun.
2005 Dönnhoff Oberhäus...
June 10, 2014
Naughty Dog at E3
What would E3 be without a Naughty Dog trailer?
Oh, and there’s another one too, The Last of Us remastered!
Sauvages – East Borough
Restaurant: East Borough Fraiche Vietnamese
Location:9810 W Washington Blvd.Culver City, CA 90232.(310) 596-8266
Date: May9, 2014
Cuisine:Vietnamese
Rating:Fantastic Modern Vietnamese
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In recent months I’ve had quite the education in Vietnamese food — centered around a two week trip to Vietnam (and the lengthy catalog of my dining adventures). But East Borough isn’t so far afield, being located in busy downtown Culver city.
This is a casual spot, presumably mostly taking advantage of the lively Cul...
June 8, 2014
Game of Thrones – Episode 39
Genre: Historical Fantasy
Watched: Episode 39 – June 8, 2014
Title:The Watchers on the Wall
Summary: Awesome fight, awesome ep
ANY CHARACTER HERE
Episode 9 is always a doozy in Game of Thrones. First it was Ned’s head attachment problem, then Blackwater, then the infamous Red Wedding. This week isn’t quite so shocking (even compared to last week), but for only the secondtime (since Blackwater) we have an episode with only a single main arena of conflict: in this case, Castle Black a...
June 5, 2014
Eating Hanoi – Green Tangerine
Restaurant: Green Tangerine
Location:Hanoi
Date: March 30, 2014
Cuisine: Vietnamese
Rating:A tad too experimental
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Our final meal in Vietnam. Cry.
Green Tangerine serves what its website calls “French food with a Vietnamese twist.”
The usual big menu.
Shrimp salad.
Duck pastry mixed with eggplants, tomatoes, curcuma, onions on a red berries sauce.
Sliced beef cooked in oven topped with 2 kinds of chutneys: red pepper and pineapple in curry, served with homemade pastas and Gouda cheese.
Fish in saffron r...
June 3, 2014
Eating Hanoi – Madame Hien
Restaurant: Madame Hien
Location:Hanoi
Date: March 29, 2014
Cuisine: Vietnamese
Rating: Excellent neighborhood Italian
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For our final dinner in Vietnam we head out to another “high end street food” restaurant, this time part of a group of establishments run by Didier Corlou a French chef who married a Vietnamese woman.
The chef says:
�This restaurant is a dedication to my wife’��s grandmother and to all Vietnamese women of the past and the present. It is also a tribute to their way of cooking, their...
May 30, 2014
Game of Thrones – Episode 38
Genre: Historical Fantasy
Watched: Episode 38 – June1, 2014
Title:The Mountain and the Viper
Summary: Wow, what afinish!
ANY CHARACTER HERE
Joff bit it (or drank it) in episode 33, but we’ve been waiting half a season to see how this all falls out for poor Tyrion. Then we even had to wait an extra week without an episode. Now the moment is at hand.
As usual, I’ll break down the threads into their sub plots for discussion.
At the wall- The moles town brothel might be loud, but the girl...
