HoneyMee, Los Angeles & Irvine

I'll keep this one short. I discovered amazing soft serve ice cream in Los Angeles.  This discovery was hot on the heels of being introduced to the concept of "milk" soft serve in Tokyo at Silkream, but, it blew away the soft serve from Tokyo (which, I thought was really good to begin with!) Honeymee makes only one flavor of soft serve: milk.  It is made from Californian milk, so, not quite like in Japan where the shops offering milk ice cream all rave...

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Mr. East Kitchen

What do you do when its 86° in San Francisco? Wait, rewind, what? Yeah, it happened.  On a Sunday no less.  To say I was thrilled is an understatement.  I couldn't wait to be outside, and to just enjoy it. Of course, after a few hours in the heat, I needed something refreshing.  Stat. I pulled up my latest "order pickup and get fun perks" app of the month, Ritual, and saw I was right near Mr. East Kitchen, a Vietnamese restaurant that is...

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Sushi Fantastic

Update Review June 2019 Remember Sushi Fantastic?  Nah, neither do I.  A casual sushi restaurant just a few blocks from my house, where I ventured years ago to use some free credits on LevelUp, to have some rather forgettable sushi. Side Salad. $2. "Iceberg lettuce with miso dressing." The side salad is a small size, as you'd expect for only $2. It wasn't quite as advertised, which isn't a bad thing. It wasn't just iceberg lettuce with miso...

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