Dinner is Served!; The Ashes of Oakridge; Sushi Zen; Sushi 101; I Eat Ramen, Here Me Roar!; Would You Eat Granny?; Urban Survivalist; El Pollo Chino; Seven Spicy Seas; No Frills B.B.Q.; Umami=Yummy; The Best Milkshake in Riverside; Too Fresh Fish; Sushi Delicacies; Your Own Sushi Chef
These Korean athletes--in town for the 1932 Olympics--are ready to eat, and we hope you are, too. We're serving up our favorite forays into LA's food scene. Bon Appetit!
Last week, we revisited "The Ashes of Oakridge," an Off-Ramp documentary about a wildfire's devastation of the Oakridge Mobile Home Park in Sylmar--the "Beverly Hills of Mobile Home Parks." Please contact us if you have comments about the documentary. And feel free to pass along the doc to those who may have been affected, or to anyone who wants a fresh look at the impact of Southern California wildfires. Thanks!
John speaks with Trevor Corson, author of The Story of Sushi: An Unlikely Saga of Raw Fish and Rice, at a sushi bar.
Still scraping your chopsticks together? Expert Trevor Corson dishes on the sushi etiquette and history.
Queena Kim met with Alexis Wong, who's agreed to order the Special Number Two. He brought some friends to cheer him on. His friend Nina makes a surprise entry.
Off-Ramp commentator and marine biologist Milton Love says if you eat old fish, there may be no fish. (And he's not talking about the fish that's been sitting in your refrigerator.)
Off-Ramp spent a few hours with urban survivalist Christopher Nyerges learning how to eat lizards and foxtails.
LA Times' food critic Russ Parsons takes you to a live chicken mart in Chinatown. The chickens are to eat.
Off-Ramp food adventurer Steve Wasser goes to Silverlake's El Siete Mares. He says order the molcajete, a riot of seafood and other odd bits.
"Big, tasty and messy." That's what one reviewer says of the food they turn out at Glencrest BBQ in Venice. Brian Watt takes Off-Ramp to the hole-in-the-wall family joint.
Why does sushi taste so good? Many say it's the "Umami"--the elusive fifth type of taste that complements sweet, sour, salty, and bitter.
Jeff Girod, the Inland Emperor, takes Queena Kim to find the best milkshake in town.
The aged fillets are the best, according to Trevor Corson.
Sea urchin gonads, anyone?
Before the sushi explosion, the intimate bar was the norm.