While attending Gamex 2013, a local gaming convention here is Los Angeles, I came into contact with several people advertising a new cafe, the GameHaus Cafe. Will be ready to open in a couple of months. The interesting think is that it will be a board game cafe. They will have, as they put it: "from Mouse Trap to Here I Stand." I am looking forward to the Cafe as they will be serving pies and sandwiches and grilled paninis. I did an interview with them. Here it is, my YouTube video, in which we here it from Teri and Rob themselves.
I have been going to Ten Ren's for a several years now and I have mixed feeling about going there. It is not the fact that they are bad, it is the fact that they keep changing how they cook things. Take the stewed pork I had today. It is something that I have had for years, but I got the pork and it came with two pieces of fried tofu. Now I like tofu but not in my pork and when I asked a server about it, he said it has always come with tofu. I know for a fact that it doesn't because I had many times over the years and it has never came with tofu. Go figure
Now the meal was good, as the stewed pork cam with rice and two sides that change from day to day. Today I had some potatoes and vegetables. The stewed pork was good as the pork was cooked until it came apart but it still kept its shape because it had the fat still connected to it, fat that practically melted in your mouth.
The original reason I went to the place all those years ago was the fact that I went to a milk tea. They make all sorts of teas, coffees and other drinks. You can get them with boba or not.
So if you are looking for you fix of Taiwan, Ten Ren's is the place to go!
Today I went to Midoh for lunch. The Midoh is part of the Bishamon Group, a group of restaurants that are under one umbrella. What I had was a hamburg steak with demi-glace, two fried shrimps and some vegetables that included carrots, green beans and some potatoes. I got some rice, miso soup and a salad to go with the it and I ordered some pickled cucumbers as well. It was a big lunch! I was kinda surprised at the hamburg steak that sat on a bed of julienned onions. It was still juicy despite is being cooked all the way through. The shrimp I suspect were were frozen but still tasted rather good in their panko coating. The only thing I was not liking was the tartar sauce that they put on the shrimp. Didn't need it in my opinion. The vegetables were good, even though the carrots were too well cooked. Overall a pleasant lunch. I will have to go back and try out their curry.
I remember when Jamie and I first thought about doing this site. It all kinda started off as a joke, but it bloomed into something. Now we are doing it every two weeks and are having fun with it. This was the second episode we have done during our first season. We went to a place called Heroes and Legends. It is a sports bar of all places, with peanut shells on the floor and multiple TV screens on the walls. Now I have been here before and most of the food is pretty good. The southwestern meatloaf is rather good and their nachos are absolutely huge! The drinks come in huge mugs and the service is rather good in keeping them filled. There are somethings you would want to avoid. You ask for a medium rare burger and it comes well done. They come with a rather lame excuse as to why. And I would stay away from their artichoke. It looks freaking fantastic but utterly fails in taste. Service: 3 out of 5. Service is good while you order something and fall off when they bring out the last thing you orders. Price: 3 out 5. You get what you pay for. Atmosphere: 4 out of 5. If you are looking for a cool place to hang and have a beer, this place will do. Food: 3 out of 5. It is good but not great.
I went out with my friend Kay for lunch today. We went to Daikokuya in Little Tokyo, and both had the ramen with the kotteri upgrade. It was just a we bit on the salty side, but the pork that came with it was very tender. It also had a soft boiled egg, bean sprouts and bamboo. The sauce was pork based and sorta thick and creamy. Kay was telling me that if you let is sit and cool that the pork fat in the juice would congeal. mmmm It was a cool place set up like a ramen shop in Japan. Small and intimate. There was a line at the door, owing to the greatness of this place.
