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April 18, 2013
Shanghai #1 Seafood Village
Restaurant:Shanghai #1 Seafood Village
Location:250 W Valley Blvd.San Gabriel, CA 91776.(626) 282-1777
Date: April 13, 2013
Cuisine: Chinese
Rating: Very authentic Shanghai style
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The San Gabriel Valley is averitabletreasure trove of Asian dining, particularly regional Chinese.Shanghai #1 Seafood Village is the LA branch of a high end Shanghai chain specializing in banquet dining.
The decor is Stark meets Chinatown. Interestingly, as cheesy as it is, it’s fairly authentic.
As this is a Hedonist/Food...
April 16, 2013
Untimed for Cheap!
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About Untimed
Charlie’s the kind of boy that no one notices. Hell, his own mother can’t remember his name. So when a mysterious clockwork man tries to kill him in modern day Philadelphia, and they tumble through a hole into 1725 London, Charlie...
April 14, 2013
Game of Thrones – Episode 23
Title: Game of Thrones
Genre: Historical Fantasy
Watched: Episode 23 – April 14, 2013
Title:Walk of Punishment
Summary: Hands off to Weiss and Benioff!
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There is a lot going on in this episode. Several of the threads are very brief, while others are vital, plus there is a substantial chunk of character development. Like last week, I’ll break stuff down by narrative thread instead of by segment.
Robb/Cat – Uncharacteristically, we don’t begin were we left off (exactly), but with the...
April 11, 2013
Hedonists Noodle over Hoy-Ka
Restaurant: Hoy-Ka Thai Noodle
Location:5401 Hollywood Blvd.Los Angeles,CA90027
Date: April 8, 2013
Cuisine: Thai
Rating: Really tasty!
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This Hollywood Thai is in a sketchy neighborhood, but the reasonable price and excellent food more than make up for it. Plus, they have no liquorlicenseand let us bring our own wine with no corkage. Always a plus!
Hedonist regular Penny, who is Thai, did the ordering, which didn’t hurt either.
2009 Jacques Bavard Bourgogne-Aligoté.Chardonnay gets the bulk of th...
April 9, 2013
Birthday Party, Hedonist Style
Restaurant: Shin Beijing
Location:3101 W Olympic Blvd – Los Angeles, CA 90006. 213-381-3003
Date: April 1, 2013
Cuisine: Chinese
Rating: very solid electric Chinese
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Hedonist regular, Penny, wanted to go out for her birthday, so 15-18 of us descended on Korea Town ChineserestaurantShin Beijing. As far as I can tell, except for the Kimchi, Korean Chinese is pretty much Chinese (food wise).
Birthday girl Penny on the right next to Hedonist leader, Yarom, who’s sporting his best Myspace pout.
In Chines...
April 7, 2013
Game of Thrones – Episode 22
Title: Game of Thrones
Genre: Historical Fantasy
Watched: Episode 22 – April 7, 2013
Title:Dark Wings, Dark Words
Summary: Lots of great scenes
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There is a process ofnarrativeseparationhappening with GOT, inherited from the novels. The first book of the series begins with two story threads and fractures into four. With the second, and increasingly so as the series progresses, the number of plots grows and grows. They interweave, split and merge. For good reasons of pacing and tens...
April 5, 2013
Burghounds at Melisse
Restaurant:Melisse [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Location: 1104 Wilshire Blvd.Santa Monica, CA 90401. (310) 395-0881
Date: March 21, 2013
Cuisine: California French
Rating: Awesome in all ways
Melisse is a real standout in LA for many reasons. It’s almost the last of the European style hautcuisinerestaurantsand it maintains an ever evolving cuisine at the highest level. Food, presentation, and service here are all top notch. Tonight, I returned (for what must be the 20th time) with a bunch of Burgundy loving fr...
April 3, 2013
The Last of Us – Red Band
Naughty Dog and Sony released an awesome “red band” (uncensored) trailer for their upcoming postapocalypticsurvival game, The Last of Us:
Looking cool! Damn, those people look realistic.
Find the previous batch of teasers here.
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April 2, 2013
Burgundy at Bouchon – Faiveley
Restaurant: Bouchon Beverly Hills[1, 2, 3]
Location: 11712 San Vicente Blvd.Brentwood, CA 90049 310.826.9222
Date: March 14, 2013
Cuisine: French Bistro
Rating: Good, but expensive
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Through my recent Burgundyaficionadodinners I was hooked up with a series of winemaker dinners that Wally’s Wine and Spirits throws. These seem to be at Bouchon and feature great wines from a particular winemaker as well as an intimate opportunity to meet the winemaker himself.
This particular dinner features Faiveley,...
March 31, 2013
Game of Thrones – Episode 21
Title: Game of Thrones
Genre: Historical Fantasy
Watched: Episode 21 – March 31, 2013
Title:Valar Dohaeris
Summary: Excellent start
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Right off the bat you can feel a difference in pacing. Season 2 suffered from the crunch required to compress a gigantic book into 10 hours, and given that A Clash of Kings is even longer, the decision to split book 3 into two seasons is clearly a smart one. Valar Dohaeris has some leisureto establish (in many cases reestablish) the situations for it...
