As much as I love cooking and baking, I love eating as well! I got to eat some scrumptious and not-so tasty food in the last couple of months (especially when finals were coming around the corner and I had to turn to take-out or frozen food… shudder). Lately, a lot of food trucks have been parking around USC. So far I’ve been a repeating customer for The Boba Truck and Wake N Bake (I’ll do a review on Wake N Bake soon. But seriously, a breakfast-food food truck is an awesome idea). But those two lovely trucks aren’t being featured today. No, today we are going to talk about Cheer Burger. I should have checked Yelp before buying anything, but it looked like the most legit truck that night and the pictures looked so good… what a fool I was. I got a salmon burger with garlic fries, which sounds good… right? I even paid more for salmon ‘cause I thought I needed my omega fatty acids. First of all, the price is too high. I think I paid about $12! And the sad thing is that I WAS TRICKED. So I thought fries came with the meal, but I wanted to double check. The man on the truck told me yes, so I decided I’d upgrade a bit to garlic fries (girl loves her garlic)—just a dollar more. Little did I know that fries were an extra two bucks more, plus one dollar more for garlic ones! After paying (I decided to just go with it… hoping I’d be blown away by my meal), I took my baggy home to eat. Unraveling the meal I saw fries that were covered in garlic powder and a sad looking salmon mush burger. I was super disappointed in the fries! I expected fresh minced garlic! Not this salty power stuff! And the salmon was ground up and couldn’t hold itself together. It was not a tasty burger. I ate the whole thing out of starvation (which by the way is suppose to make a meal taste even better… so that says a lot about this meal) and ‘cause I didn’t want to waste $12 “worth” of food. Sad day. If you want to taste awesome garlic fries, I highly recommend Red Robin. Their garlic Parmesan fries are delicious and hot, and… brace yourself… BOTTOMLESS.
Moving onto to better food, have you ever been to Bossa Nova? It’s in Hollywood and close to Reality LA (an awesome church I go to). I got to go with my sister recently and try their banana special pizza. Did you read that right? Yes you did. Banana on a pizza. I went to Bossa Nova last year with some friends, and saw my friend munching away at this bizarre sweet pizza. Basically, it’s a pizza with no sauce, but has mozzarella, cinnamon, and bananas. And I have to say… it’s gooooooooood. Nothing tastes weird or out of the ordinary. All the flavors work well together and the mozzarella doesn’t take away from the pizza, but enhances it. My sister got the pesto verde pizza, which is has a pesto sauce (we love pesto!) and it was delicious as well. Oh, and the bread they give you before the meal is so fluffy and tasty! If you can’t tell already, I highly recommend this restaurant. Their pasta is also nom-worthy (I had it last year and remember scarfing down the whole thing, no shame).
Have you had the best ramen in the world? ‘Cause I have! Okay, that might be a tad dramatic, but the ramen at Daikokuya is the best I’ve tasted so far. They only have one ramen dish: Daikoku Ramen. Now, you can get it either with the noodles in the soup or not (I opted for the noodles already in the soup while Christina—the lovely lady in the picture—chose the other), but it’s the same thing. All that’s in it is noodles, a boiled egg, bamboo shoots, bean sprouts, green onions, pork, and soup. It’s so simple, but oh-so good. The pork literally melted in my mouth. The wait was a little long, but it’s understandable why so many people wanted to eat there. I found out about this through my trusty eat.shop los angeles book. And what made this meal even better was that I got to share it with Christina. We got to catch up and the conversation was wonderful. After all, having a meal should be an experience, which includes the company you keep.
Last, but not least, J.Wok. Now, I’ll just tease you with these pictures ‘cause I plan on filming (that’s right… FILMING! I finally got my Canon EOS 7D and am ready to shoot!) at J.Wok. The vlog will include an interview with the owner, a critique of the food (not just mine, but other people as well), as well as mouth-watering footage. So until then, feast your eyes on this!
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