
Apologies for not updating the blog, but here’s a post to push its revival into the New Year. Here I come, 2016! This week, I’ll be posting a round-up of sorts on 2015 and noteworthy dishes at noteworthy restaurants.
In any case, feel free to catch up with a few of my freelance articles, and my comments forthwith, that I wrote for other online publications the latter half of 2015 here. Also, a plug to follow me on other social media channels, which I’ve been updating pretty regularly: Instagram, Twitter, and eventually Snapchat (@estar_la)!
- A personal essay I wrote for Eater National. It’s crazy how ever since Fresh Off the Boat aired, we’ve gotten Dr. Ken and Netflix’s Master of None as far as Asian American representation on TV. After a lifetime of not seeing hardly anyone who was even the same shade I am on TV, 2015 felt like jackpot:
- During Eater LA’s Cheap Eats week, I culled a memory from my college days, commuting from Westwood to Alhambra just for boba milk tea and fried pork chop. For Cocktail Week, I rounded up some sherry-based cocktails as well as cocktai
- I did a few round-ups for Time Out Los Angeles, a couple of which were on the sandwich beat. We’re talking extensive, exhaustive research, here. Let’s put it this way: I haven’t had a pastrami or banh mi for quite awhile. Dim Sum? Plenty.
- I did a couple stories for Thrillist Los Angeles on the illustrious L.A. Armenian chicken institution that is Zankou Chicken and a story about a whole bunch of Bloody Marys around the city:
How ABC’s ‘Fresh Off the Boat’ Tells a Familiar First-Generation Story
The Fried Pork Chop at Old Country Cafe Taught Me to Embrace My Taiwanese Heritage
How L.A.’s Top Bars Are Using the Spice Trade to Their Cocktail Advantage
13 Fine Sherry-Based Cocktails in Los Angeles
The Best Pastrami Sandwiches in Los Angeles
The Best Dim Sum Restaurants in Los Angeles
The Best Banh Mi in Los Angeles
Fifteen Things You Didn’t Know About Zankou Chicken
L.A.’s 12 Best Bloody Marys
Happy reading. I’ll catch you guys with another 2015 update tomorrow.
Bánh Mì My-Tho
304 W Valley Blvd
Alhambra, CA 91801
Phorage
3300 Overland Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90034
Catch & Release
13488 Maxella Ave
Marina Del Rey, CA 90292
Langer’s Delicatessen
704 S Alvarado St
Los Angeles, CA 90057
Wexler’s Deli, GCM
317 S Broadway
Los Angeles, CA 90013
Old Country Cafe
2 E Valley Blvd #1e
Alhambra, CA 91801
Shanghai No. 1 Seafood Village
250 W Valley Blvd
San Gabriel, CA 91776
Zankou Chicken
5065 Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90027