Showing posts with label Sushi Stop. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sushi Stop. Show all posts

Friday, November 7, 2014

HaynMade hits up Cali (again)

Man, 

I'm so long overdue for a vacation, and if you've been following my blog closely, you'll see when it was the last time I hit up California for some r n r.  Well, guess what, I took a week off for some much needed recharging and off to Cali I went.  

What makes this particular trip a special one is that for the first time ever I'm going to be checking out DCon, an annual predominantly urban vinyl event held annually in Pasadena.  For quite some time I've been wanting to check out this convention to meet some of my favorite artists and see their work up close and personal.  

The planets finally aligned for me to go.  With some friendly "pushing me along" by a couple of my fellow 808 collector buddies (shout out to Soljah52 n Lofa), my finances in check and reasonable airfare, I made the decision to go.


It was a pretty good flight, there was only me and this other dude sharing a 4-seater row, so yep, we both had quite an amount of space to move about and relax during our flight to California.  Our two in flight "meals" consisted of fresh fruit and then later a bag of Maui style potato chips.

I uploaded Maleficent and Transformers Age of Extinction on to my iPad.  Both were pretty good movies that took up just about the entire flight.

When I landed one of my Cali buddies picked me up and we headed over to Sushi Stop, one of my fav eateries right in Japan Town, yummerz...


After that whole ordeal of sushi madness, we headed on over jus' a couple of shops nearby to get some dessert.  OMG, there was every dessert sin to be served at BSweet.  From bread putting, to ice-cream sandwiches, to cookies to even their "sluttiest" brownie, there was sinful goodness to be eaten at this dessert bar eatery.  My friend and I got us their fresh Belgian waffle ala mode, complete with fudge, caramel AND maple syrup topping.  Hot damn, talk about food coma.


After our dinner adventure we had an immediate departure for my friend's crib and...crashed.  Another adventure awaits!

Wednesday, July 17, 2013

HaynMade hits the states part 2, Day 8...

While my friend went to work,

I walked on over to Little Tokyo to check things out there n kill some time.  There was a bunch of nurseries there, so I stopped by at one of em, n being that it was the nice n sunny day that it was I snapped a bunch of photos.



I also checked out Giant Robot2, and they had a fig exhibit for artist Dehara Yukinori going on.  With the store person's permission I snapped away with the camera...




After my little walk around the town, I was hella hungry and had one thing on my mind, yellowtail n truffle oil sushi (n chicken teriyaki) from Sushi Stop, so that's where I went...again, lol.

By now I was hella stuffed, so I walked back home n crashed out, lol.  Not too long after my friend came home and let me know that we had dinner reservations at a restaurant where one of my other Cali buddies works.  I changed my clothes n then we jumped in my friend's car and headed on over to Lukshon.  

It's a pretty hip place, and food wise, besides poshy and tasty, it infuses flavors to me which are asian influenced.

First off we got the Hawaiian butterfish (sashimi), which had a mild watermelon vinegary taste to it...

Then it was the tea leaf salad, with cabbage, almonds, nuts, etc...

Soft shell crab...

Black rice...

Beef n broccoli...

Dandan noodles...

And then there was dessert, damn, I can't remember the name of this one, but it was soooo, good.  It jus' had tons of flavors goin' on in my mouth, with peaches, yogurt, and get this, friggen pop rocks!

And then there was one more final aha bang, miniature blondie brownies and passion gelatin squares...

And you all know I rarely post photos of faces, but I felt the need to acknowledge some of the people who helped make the magic happen in my mouth, n I also felt these shots came out way to great to pass up...

Chef Ted Hopson (featured in Top Chef)...

My buddy...

 Some of the other team playas...

And then finally, as if that wasn't enough, we went to get some crepes afterwards, lol...