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Oxymoron? – Upscale Street Food

April 25, 2014 | 1 Comments

Our first meal in Hanoi is a doozie with a dazzling array of “fancy street food”…

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Hedonists go to Beijing

April 22, 2014 | 4 Comments

Beijing cuisine serves up delicious homestyle cooking from a doughy spicy palette that has almost nothing to do with classic Chinese American fare…

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Game of Thrones – Episode 33

April 20, 2014 | 2 Comments

Let’s see how things shake out in the wake of last week’s Purple Wedding…

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Adventures in Street Food

April 18, 2014 | 0 Comments

For those of us whose intestinal floral aren’t quite up to genuine Vietnamese street food, there is always this marvelous upscale recreation…

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Eating Hoi An – Riverside

April 15, 2014 | 0 Comments

Our second breakfast of the trip shows that the Vietnamese really know how to put on a spread…

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Game of Thrones – Episode 32

April 13, 2014 | 1 Comments

Finally we arrive at that next wedding. A little less intense, but perhaps more satisfying…

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Burgundy at Providence

April 10, 2014 | 3 Comments

Montrachet, Bonnes Mares, Richebourg, Batard and a 2 star Michelin food. How can you go wrong? You don’t…

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Better than Tangiers

April 8, 2014 | 1 Comments

Tagine in Beverly Hills serves a “modern upscale” take on traditional Moroccan cuisine. Mille-feuille Bastilla?

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Game of Thrones – Episode 31

April 6, 2014

Finally, it’s back!

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Eating Hoi An – Brothers Cafe

April 5, 2014 | 1 Comments

After a few days in Saigon, we move on to Hoi An, an ancient city famous for its food…

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Enter the Mandarin

April 3, 2014 | 0 Comments

Chinese have long been an important economic and cultural presence in Vietnam, and well, with Chinese comes Chinese food…

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Game of Thrones Honest Trailer

April 1, 2014 | 3 Comments

Honest Trailers do a hilarious job of mocking popular movies and shows in a trailer style format. Now they’ve hooked their barbs into Game of Thrones…

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Time for Everything

March 31, 2014 | 2 Comments

A film in which I explore the mechanics of time travel shallowly, but in far more depth than the screenwriter…

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Apocalypse Dhou

March 28, 2014 | 0 Comments

A trek down the jungle river river leads somewhere — fishy — in a totally delicious way…

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Eating Saigon – Hoa Tuc

March 26, 2014 | 1 Comments

The saga of my Indochine dining being with this lovely Saigon dinner…

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Good Morning Vietnam

March 23, 2014 | 2 Comments

The Hotel Intercontinental brunch sets a standard for the day. Or the week. Or the month!

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Chinese at 20,000 feet

March 21, 2014 | 11 Comments

My 2014 Asia trip started out in style with some first class Chinese and a whole lot of view…

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Totorakuly Epic!

March 13, 2014 | 6 Comments

Our most epic night ever at LA’s best “steakhouse”. Chef Kaz cooked up all sorts of specials for us, including Spanish Mackerel, Bacon, and the ultimate lamb chops!

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Game of Thrones Draws Near

March 9, 2014 | 0 Comments

Tonight HBO released yet another Game of Thrones season 4 trailer. Ah, looking forward to more weddings…

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Valentino – 2006 White Burgundy

March 8, 2014 | 2 Comments

And this concludes my Burgundy Blitz week with no less than three giant tasting diners — tonight being a comprehensive look at 2006 White Burgundy…

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