1 00:00:01,960 --> 00:00:05,840 Speaker 1: Loca Radio is the radiophonic Novela, which is just a 2 00:00:05,960 --> 00:00:10,480 Speaker 1: very extra way of saying a podcast. I'm theos FM 3 00:00:10,480 --> 00:00:14,240 Speaker 1: and I am Mala Mios. Loca to Radio is your 4 00:00:14,280 --> 00:00:19,040 Speaker 1: Friema's favorite podcast hosted by us Mala and Diosa. We're 5 00:00:19,040 --> 00:00:24,320 Speaker 1: two ig friends turned podcast partners breaking down pop culture, feminism, 6 00:00:24,520 --> 00:00:28,800 Speaker 1: sexual wellness, and offering fresh takes on trending topics through 7 00:00:28,880 --> 00:00:33,600 Speaker 1: nuanced interviews with up and coming LATINX creatives known as Lasca, 8 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:40,080 Speaker 1: Las Mammy, Submit and Bullshit, A Next Store and Lasses. 9 00:00:40,320 --> 00:00:44,600 Speaker 1: We've been podcasting independently since twenty sixteen, and we're bringing 10 00:00:44,720 --> 00:00:48,640 Speaker 1: our radiophonic novela to the Micikura network to continue sharing 11 00:00:48,680 --> 00:00:53,880 Speaker 1: stories from the LATINXT community. Welcome to Locatra Radio season seven. 12 00:00:54,640 --> 00:01:01,880 Speaker 1: Take us to your network, Locamores, Welcome back to another capito. 13 00:01:03,480 --> 00:01:09,160 Speaker 1: I'm the Asa and I'm Mala. You're tuning into Squenta face. 14 00:01:10,480 --> 00:01:14,360 Speaker 1: Last time on Look Radio, we interviewed the Trs, a 15 00:01:14,440 --> 00:01:18,160 Speaker 1: band made up of sisters based in Texas. Go back 16 00:01:18,200 --> 00:01:21,039 Speaker 1: and listen to that episode. It's a really, really cute interview. 17 00:01:21,600 --> 00:01:25,360 Speaker 1: It is so cute. But today we're gonna be talking 18 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:32,600 Speaker 1: about some recent La food Twitter drama. Yes, girl, and 19 00:01:32,640 --> 00:01:34,679 Speaker 1: we're going to dive into it today because we have 20 00:01:34,800 --> 00:01:38,920 Speaker 1: had enough. We're diving in head first into this vat 21 00:01:39,080 --> 00:01:42,640 Speaker 1: of bad takes. Let me just say that for me, 22 00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:48,400 Speaker 1: once I start seeing like bad food takes about La online, 23 00:01:49,120 --> 00:01:51,920 Speaker 1: oh La has terrible food. La is not a food city. 24 00:01:52,040 --> 00:01:54,400 Speaker 1: Once I see that, because it happens every six months, 25 00:01:54,520 --> 00:01:58,360 Speaker 1: that's my own personal groundhog day. Yes, Like, when those 26 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:01,560 Speaker 1: takes start to appear, I'm like, okay, either spring is 27 00:02:01,600 --> 00:02:04,200 Speaker 1: coming or we have six more weeks of winter because 28 00:02:04,240 --> 00:02:08,000 Speaker 1: people are clearly losing their minds truly. For me, it's 29 00:02:08,080 --> 00:02:10,760 Speaker 1: my sign to get off of Twitter, right, get off 30 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:14,040 Speaker 1: of social whatever social media platform I'm on. I gotta 31 00:02:14,040 --> 00:02:16,600 Speaker 1: get off. I've had enough. I need to cleanse, I 32 00:02:16,639 --> 00:02:19,359 Speaker 1: need to go touch grass. No, that's a really good 33 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:24,840 Speaker 1: like way to gauge, like, okay, like what's going on 34 00:02:24,919 --> 00:02:27,720 Speaker 1: right now that these takes are happening, because they seem 35 00:02:27,840 --> 00:02:30,720 Speaker 1: to pop up every so often, we get like a 36 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:35,440 Speaker 1: random person sharing a very loud, very wrong opinion about 37 00:02:35,480 --> 00:02:39,400 Speaker 1: how La apparently has no good food, how La apparently 38 00:02:39,639 --> 00:02:43,720 Speaker 1: is not a destination food city, so on and so forth, 39 00:02:43,760 --> 00:02:45,639 Speaker 1: and a lot of people seem to feel that way 40 00:02:45,639 --> 00:02:50,120 Speaker 1: and seem to agree. A lot of people agree. And 41 00:02:50,200 --> 00:02:53,160 Speaker 1: what I've noticed is like the ven diagram, it's always 42 00:02:53,720 --> 00:02:58,360 Speaker 1: what's always hitting is transplants and gentrifiers every time to 43 00:02:58,480 --> 00:03:03,440 Speaker 1: be or just tour that stay in touristy areas every time, yeah, 44 00:03:03,720 --> 00:03:08,720 Speaker 1: without fail. Yeah. And so before we dive into the 45 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:11,800 Speaker 1: different types of food and journalism and all the people 46 00:03:11,800 --> 00:03:15,480 Speaker 1: that make this amazing city have amazing food, we also 47 00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:20,080 Speaker 1: want to define all the different communities within LA and 48 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:24,680 Speaker 1: within La County that have their own little food worlds. 49 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:27,600 Speaker 1: And the reason why we bring this up is because 50 00:03:28,480 --> 00:03:32,079 Speaker 1: you literally cannot with a straight face say that LA 51 00:03:32,200 --> 00:03:35,600 Speaker 1: has bad food and then not like directly shit on 52 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:39,720 Speaker 1: all of these communities. Because Los Angeles is home to 53 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:44,520 Speaker 1: groups of people in high amounts and high concentration that 54 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:46,920 Speaker 1: maybe we don't see in the same way in other 55 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:50,600 Speaker 1: big cities. And I think that the food culture here 56 00:03:50,640 --> 00:03:54,920 Speaker 1: really depends on like where are you in the city, 57 00:03:55,320 --> 00:03:58,680 Speaker 1: in the county, what neighborhood are you in, because the 58 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:02,800 Speaker 1: cuisine is going to very so much based on are 59 00:04:02,840 --> 00:04:07,520 Speaker 1: you in downtown LA or are you in Artesia, Are 60 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:10,360 Speaker 1: you in the San Fernando Valley. Are you in Englewood, 61 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:13,280 Speaker 1: Like the food is gonna you're gonna see different landscapes. 62 00:04:13,320 --> 00:04:15,040 Speaker 1: So that's why we're gonna kind of go through this 63 00:04:15,080 --> 00:04:17,560 Speaker 1: like a little map here. Yeah, and so our little 64 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:21,240 Speaker 1: look at map and this is not every single community, right, 65 00:04:21,320 --> 00:04:23,839 Speaker 1: this is like a lot, might I say, but just 66 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:27,240 Speaker 1: to get started, we have little Ethiopia. Yeah, we have 67 00:04:27,279 --> 00:04:29,760 Speaker 1: little Ethiopian and I don't think that people realize that 68 00:04:29,839 --> 00:04:34,080 Speaker 1: we have a little Ethiopia. And there are like Ethiopian 69 00:04:34,200 --> 00:04:38,080 Speaker 1: Orthodox churches. You can get traditional Ethiopian food if you 70 00:04:38,200 --> 00:04:41,480 Speaker 1: take like Pico, if you go down Fairfax like kind 71 00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:44,040 Speaker 1: of on the west, sort of like mid city ish, 72 00:04:44,080 --> 00:04:47,120 Speaker 1: like this is where you're gonna find Ethiopian cuisine and 73 00:04:47,560 --> 00:04:52,320 Speaker 1: other places. But in particular right there's a Chinatown of course, 74 00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:55,159 Speaker 1: Oh my god, delicious. I've had some of the most 75 00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:59,320 Speaker 1: incredible dim sum of my life right in Chinatown, Koreatown, 76 00:05:00,040 --> 00:05:04,559 Speaker 1: I mean Korean barbecue. Little Bangladesh. I have not eaten 77 00:05:04,680 --> 00:05:06,919 Speaker 1: in little Bangladesh. But the fact that we have a 78 00:05:06,960 --> 00:05:11,000 Speaker 1: little Bangladesh exactly like where else you're gonna get Bangladeshi food, 79 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:13,920 Speaker 1: I personally don't know. I'm sure there are other places. Yeah, 80 00:05:13,920 --> 00:05:16,320 Speaker 1: I don't know either, but yeah, I mean there's also 81 00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:20,440 Speaker 1: a Filipino town, Thai town, a little Indian and Artisia 82 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:23,880 Speaker 1: like you mentioned. Yeah, and you know, of course like 83 00:05:23,960 --> 00:05:27,800 Speaker 1: on the west side mid Wilshire, what have you. We 84 00:05:27,880 --> 00:05:31,840 Speaker 1: have large Orthodox Jewish communities and so we have delis, 85 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:35,960 Speaker 1: we have Jewish cuisine and Kosher cuisine, what have you. 86 00:05:36,360 --> 00:05:39,000 Speaker 1: There's literally a little bit of everything. And they also 87 00:05:39,160 --> 00:05:42,680 Speaker 1: was telling me about a place in Weiho that I 88 00:05:42,760 --> 00:05:45,560 Speaker 1: was not familiar with. So last year I took a 89 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:49,560 Speaker 1: food journalism class and one of my classmates was a 90 00:05:49,720 --> 00:05:53,080 Speaker 1: Ukrainian from Canada, but he lives in La and he 91 00:05:53,160 --> 00:05:56,640 Speaker 1: was telling us that he stumbled upon this strip of 92 00:05:57,040 --> 00:06:01,280 Speaker 1: Ukrainian restaurants and grocery stores in Weiho and he was like, 93 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:04,080 Speaker 1: I had no idea this existed, and he's been living 94 00:06:04,080 --> 00:06:07,039 Speaker 1: in LA for years, and I think it just shows 95 00:06:07,120 --> 00:06:09,880 Speaker 1: like sometimes you like people say that La isn't walkable, 96 00:06:09,880 --> 00:06:12,520 Speaker 1: and it's so true, but there are little areas that 97 00:06:12,560 --> 00:06:15,119 Speaker 1: are walkable, right, And like that's also how you find 98 00:06:15,160 --> 00:06:17,400 Speaker 1: new places, is just by getting out of your car 99 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:20,680 Speaker 1: and walking around. It's true, like if you can stumble 100 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:24,760 Speaker 1: upon a quaint little mom and pop that's not huge 101 00:06:25,080 --> 00:06:28,040 Speaker 1: on Yelp, Like that's a little bit of a gold mine. 102 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:31,440 Speaker 1: And I think some of the issues that I have 103 00:06:31,640 --> 00:06:35,080 Speaker 1: with LA food takes from people who are just visiting 104 00:06:35,240 --> 00:06:37,240 Speaker 1: or who have only lived here for like a couple 105 00:06:37,240 --> 00:06:41,160 Speaker 1: of years. Like La is massive, and it's dense, and 106 00:06:41,240 --> 00:06:44,200 Speaker 1: it's a slow burn, like you're not going to see 107 00:06:44,240 --> 00:06:47,080 Speaker 1: at all and figure it out in your first week, 108 00:06:47,200 --> 00:06:51,960 Speaker 1: your first month, your first year, you know, like slow down, 109 00:06:52,320 --> 00:06:54,720 Speaker 1: go for walk, like take it in. Let me just say, 110 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:58,360 Speaker 1: there are amazing Peruvian restaurants that I have not been 111 00:06:58,360 --> 00:07:01,320 Speaker 1: to that I have book art that I have written 112 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:04,200 Speaker 1: down because they're in the San Fernando Valley and I 113 00:07:04,240 --> 00:07:07,120 Speaker 1: want to make the trek. Yeah, but I haven't gone. 114 00:07:07,279 --> 00:07:09,080 Speaker 1: But they are literally restaurants that I've been trying to 115 00:07:09,120 --> 00:07:11,800 Speaker 1: go to four years that I haven't gone to yet. 116 00:07:11,840 --> 00:07:15,200 Speaker 1: And so to your point, like there are places that 117 00:07:15,240 --> 00:07:17,160 Speaker 1: are just on the other side of LA and you 118 00:07:17,160 --> 00:07:19,760 Speaker 1: haven't planned your day around them, but they exist. Like 119 00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:22,360 Speaker 1: I know that there's amazing, proving restaurants in the San 120 00:07:22,400 --> 00:07:24,920 Speaker 1: Fernando Valley. Am I scared to go to the San 121 00:07:24,960 --> 00:07:27,680 Speaker 1: Fernando Valley and eat at a proving restaurant by myself. Yes, 122 00:07:27,720 --> 00:07:30,360 Speaker 1: I am for reason. You have your own reasons for 123 00:07:30,440 --> 00:07:33,000 Speaker 1: that has nothing to do with the quality of the food, 124 00:07:33,160 --> 00:07:35,280 Speaker 1: has nothing to do with the food. But there are 125 00:07:35,360 --> 00:07:37,880 Speaker 1: amazing ones out there. All you gotta do is like 126 00:07:38,360 --> 00:07:41,480 Speaker 1: read a paper, okay, and we'll get into that. I'll 127 00:07:41,520 --> 00:07:44,200 Speaker 1: get into that. La food. The La food scene has 128 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:50,320 Speaker 1: been written about and filmed and featured in the La Times. 129 00:07:50,400 --> 00:07:54,560 Speaker 1: In La Taco, I mean, Jonathan Gold's entire career. Anthony 130 00:07:54,640 --> 00:07:59,080 Speaker 1: Bourdain loved La Food like they're like people have already 131 00:07:59,080 --> 00:08:02,040 Speaker 1: done this worked to be honest with you, like it's 132 00:08:02,120 --> 00:08:05,640 Speaker 1: it's can't even really be debated whether or not La 133 00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:09,080 Speaker 1: is a food destination. Like the groundwork has already been laid. Yeah, 134 00:08:09,160 --> 00:08:12,240 Speaker 1: the groundwork has been laid. It's been done for years, 135 00:08:12,280 --> 00:08:15,920 Speaker 1: decades now at this point. I mean, And to continue 136 00:08:15,920 --> 00:08:17,920 Speaker 1: just to talk about some of the different communities right 137 00:08:17,920 --> 00:08:20,640 Speaker 1: like your Southeast Delay and the Valley like I mentioned, 138 00:08:20,640 --> 00:08:26,120 Speaker 1: that have amazing probean restaurants. You mentioned Pico Union, mid 139 00:08:26,160 --> 00:08:32,120 Speaker 1: City has Jamaican Belizian on Pico and Washington, there's like 140 00:08:32,240 --> 00:08:35,679 Speaker 1: tons of Jamaican restaurants, and there's Belizian food, Like there's 141 00:08:35,679 --> 00:08:38,560 Speaker 1: the L. Salvador Corridor. You can get bomb baboosa as 142 00:08:38,640 --> 00:08:41,880 Speaker 1: like all over La brick and mortars and like on 143 00:08:41,920 --> 00:08:44,200 Speaker 1: the street, you know. And that's the other piece of 144 00:08:44,200 --> 00:08:46,680 Speaker 1: it too, is like, yeah, sometimes the food is in 145 00:08:46,679 --> 00:08:50,520 Speaker 1: a backyard or it's a tha ghetto. It's a truck 146 00:08:50,640 --> 00:08:53,439 Speaker 1: like it moves around, you know, it's a pop up. 147 00:08:53,480 --> 00:08:57,120 Speaker 1: But it's still there. There is I have not found it, 148 00:08:57,160 --> 00:08:59,680 Speaker 1: but I know it exists. I was driving on the 149 00:08:59,679 --> 00:09:04,080 Speaker 1: freeway and there was a Puerto Rican food truck and 150 00:09:04,120 --> 00:09:06,960 Speaker 1: I was it was too far for me to really 151 00:09:07,080 --> 00:09:09,360 Speaker 1: see the name, but I could see like a social 152 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:11,720 Speaker 1: media handle, and I was like trying to like get 153 00:09:11,760 --> 00:09:13,880 Speaker 1: to it because I'm like, what is the name so 154 00:09:13,960 --> 00:09:17,000 Speaker 1: I can find it and follow and eat there. Yeah, 155 00:09:17,040 --> 00:09:22,840 Speaker 1: because obviously, yes, there's an amazing like a Kutrama Smorgisburg 156 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:25,640 Speaker 1: of food here, but they're like some of the things 157 00:09:25,640 --> 00:09:27,080 Speaker 1: that I would say some of the types of food 158 00:09:27,080 --> 00:09:28,640 Speaker 1: that are probably a little lower. It would be like 159 00:09:28,880 --> 00:09:32,600 Speaker 1: Caribbean food, right, Yeah, there's essentially no Puerto Rican food. 160 00:09:32,800 --> 00:09:35,880 Speaker 1: I haven't seen any, right not to say that doesn't exist. 161 00:09:36,080 --> 00:09:38,280 Speaker 1: I have not encountered any except for this one food 162 00:09:38,280 --> 00:09:40,800 Speaker 1: truck that I saw that I was trying to track down. 163 00:09:41,160 --> 00:09:45,040 Speaker 1: And so with that, I know that it's here. I'm aware, 164 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:47,920 Speaker 1: Yeah it's here in La it is yeah. So And 165 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:51,040 Speaker 1: my grandfather is from Puerto Rico, so he cooks at home. 166 00:09:51,520 --> 00:09:54,000 Speaker 1: But since I've been alive, I have only heard of 167 00:09:54,080 --> 00:09:58,000 Speaker 1: him going to one restaurant, and I think it's somewhere 168 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:01,360 Speaker 1: in North Hollywood. My uncle will take him sometimes, but 169 00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:03,320 Speaker 1: he didn't like it very much. I don't want to 170 00:10:03,320 --> 00:10:06,839 Speaker 1: like no shade, but it's like when there's only one, right, 171 00:10:06,960 --> 00:10:09,680 Speaker 1: you know. I think that's the other thing about like 172 00:10:10,120 --> 00:10:13,200 Speaker 1: when we talk about food in LA, think like Korean food, 173 00:10:13,280 --> 00:10:18,280 Speaker 1: Mexican food, Salvadoran food, like I think Chinese tie. I 174 00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:21,440 Speaker 1: think there's so much of it that you're gonna get 175 00:10:21,480 --> 00:10:24,800 Speaker 1: a range. You're gonna get different levels. You're gonna get 176 00:10:24,800 --> 00:10:27,400 Speaker 1: like Michelin Star, and you're also going to get like 177 00:10:27,440 --> 00:10:30,719 Speaker 1: the mom and pop or the truck what have you. 178 00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:33,760 Speaker 1: And I think that like makes all the difference when 179 00:10:33,760 --> 00:10:37,120 Speaker 1: we talk about like the experience totally, I mean, and obviously, 180 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:40,000 Speaker 1: like you're in Los Angeles, you're gonna get Mexican food. 181 00:10:40,040 --> 00:10:43,959 Speaker 1: You're gonna find amazing Mexican food and also like La 182 00:10:44,080 --> 00:10:48,200 Speaker 1: California Mexican food. I was eating at a restaurant and 183 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:50,480 Speaker 1: I had it was like a breakfast burrito, and it 184 00:10:50,559 --> 00:10:53,120 Speaker 1: had French fries in it, and I was like, okay, 185 00:10:53,200 --> 00:10:55,240 Speaker 1: that's different. No, we didn't have French fries. It had 186 00:10:55,280 --> 00:10:57,760 Speaker 1: chi Lucky lives in it. And I was like, that's different. 187 00:10:57,880 --> 00:10:59,680 Speaker 1: I'm going to try it. Yeah. I told my mom 188 00:10:59,679 --> 00:11:03,000 Speaker 1: and she was appalled. She was so appalled, and I'm like, Mamma, 189 00:11:03,160 --> 00:11:07,520 Speaker 1: was good. This is California Mexican food. Yes, rights not 190 00:11:07,559 --> 00:11:10,240 Speaker 1: authentic food. I'm not going to make this at home, 191 00:11:10,440 --> 00:11:12,240 Speaker 1: but I like ate it after a run. It did 192 00:11:12,240 --> 00:11:14,880 Speaker 1: the trick. It did the job. And so with that, 193 00:11:14,920 --> 00:11:19,120 Speaker 1: like there's also the La California Mexican food, which has 194 00:11:19,160 --> 00:11:21,800 Speaker 1: its own taste, and then there's more like the regional 195 00:11:21,880 --> 00:11:24,760 Speaker 1: Mexican food that you can find all over Los Angeles 196 00:11:24,920 --> 00:11:28,640 Speaker 1: various states that are represented their cuisine here in La 197 00:11:28,800 --> 00:11:31,040 Speaker 1: Oh totally. I mean, like you know, of course, it's 198 00:11:31,120 --> 00:11:34,319 Speaker 1: very easy to like poo poo, like hard shell tacos 199 00:11:34,440 --> 00:11:38,000 Speaker 1: and like shredded cheese, shredded lettuce and sour cream and 200 00:11:38,040 --> 00:11:41,120 Speaker 1: a flower tortillas. But like that's you know, yeah, that's 201 00:11:41,160 --> 00:11:46,720 Speaker 1: Mexican American, like working class, Like that's a Chicano food staple. Totally, 202 00:11:47,040 --> 00:11:50,160 Speaker 1: the hot Cheetos, all of that is in its own universe. Yeah, 203 00:11:50,280 --> 00:11:51,880 Speaker 1: very different than like if you go to get like 204 00:11:51,960 --> 00:11:55,280 Speaker 1: it's at and you're getting will Hawk in totally different, 205 00:11:55,360 --> 00:11:59,160 Speaker 1: totally different. There's also you know, different cuisines in like 206 00:11:59,240 --> 00:12:05,040 Speaker 1: South LA, the Crenshaw District, Inglewood, black chefs, black culinary 207 00:12:05,160 --> 00:12:07,679 Speaker 1: artists that have their restaurants, have their pop ups all 208 00:12:07,720 --> 00:12:10,360 Speaker 1: over Los Angeles. But you know also like the Crenshaw 209 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:13,599 Speaker 1: District is growing as well. Yeah, like blood Sow's is 210 00:12:13,640 --> 00:12:16,920 Speaker 1: really good. They just opened a second location. Everybody knows 211 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:21,640 Speaker 1: Rosco's Chicken and Waffles. That's like an La gem. The 212 00:12:21,720 --> 00:12:24,520 Speaker 1: one on Pico is closing, which is a sad thing 213 00:12:24,840 --> 00:12:26,679 Speaker 1: that one's been there for a long time. There's this 214 00:12:26,920 --> 00:12:29,120 Speaker 1: a vegan place I've gone to in Inglewood. I hope 215 00:12:29,120 --> 00:12:32,240 Speaker 1: there's Salpen. It's called stuff I eat Like, there's there's 216 00:12:32,280 --> 00:12:35,160 Speaker 1: a variety, whatever you want, you're going to find it. 217 00:12:35,880 --> 00:12:38,160 Speaker 1: I have been trying to make my way to Dulin's 218 00:12:38,280 --> 00:12:42,679 Speaker 1: in Inglewood. It's like soul food, and it's like on 219 00:12:42,679 --> 00:12:45,679 Speaker 1: one of those like best of type of list, and 220 00:12:45,800 --> 00:12:48,360 Speaker 1: there's been like news features of it, and it's been 221 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:50,000 Speaker 1: there for a very long time, so I've been trying 222 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:53,000 Speaker 1: to make my way out there. But yes, it just 223 00:12:53,040 --> 00:12:55,280 Speaker 1: takes a little bit of research if you really want 224 00:12:55,280 --> 00:12:58,319 Speaker 1: to like find a specific type of food. And luckily, 225 00:12:58,360 --> 00:13:02,080 Speaker 1: like the La Times puts out a listical an article 226 00:13:02,240 --> 00:13:05,080 Speaker 1: every year that's called the one hundred and one Best 227 00:13:05,120 --> 00:13:07,360 Speaker 1: Restaurants in La They put one out in twenty twenty 228 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:09,960 Speaker 1: two in December, and it has in a array of 229 00:13:10,080 --> 00:13:14,480 Speaker 1: restaurants all over LA County, including Long Beach. There's amazing 230 00:13:14,520 --> 00:13:16,520 Speaker 1: restaurants on there. A couple of my favorites that I 231 00:13:16,559 --> 00:13:19,040 Speaker 1: go to are included on there too. So if you're 232 00:13:19,080 --> 00:13:22,640 Speaker 1: like visiting or you want to try new restaurants, you 233 00:13:22,679 --> 00:13:25,560 Speaker 1: don't really trust yelp, because sometimes yelp can be a 234 00:13:25,600 --> 00:13:29,800 Speaker 1: little much. Sometimes the yelpers, especially if you're going to 235 00:13:29,840 --> 00:13:34,080 Speaker 1: like a quote ethnic restaurant, you know, people can be 236 00:13:34,360 --> 00:13:38,360 Speaker 1: really harsh, and so I don't always trust yelp reviews 237 00:13:38,840 --> 00:13:42,000 Speaker 1: to be honest, but I think that sometimes it can 238 00:13:42,040 --> 00:13:44,680 Speaker 1: be helpful and sometimes not so helpful. Yeah, I think 239 00:13:44,760 --> 00:13:49,000 Speaker 1: it's like anything user generated, right, so like the user 240 00:13:49,080 --> 00:13:52,880 Speaker 1: is leaving these reviews. Sometimes people like get really personal. 241 00:13:53,160 --> 00:13:55,360 Speaker 1: Sometimes people get mad about things that are out of 242 00:13:55,400 --> 00:13:59,160 Speaker 1: the restaurant's control. Yes, you know. Yeah, And I never 243 00:13:59,200 --> 00:14:01,839 Speaker 1: like to judge sir on a from a restaurant if 244 00:14:01,840 --> 00:14:05,480 Speaker 1: it's my first time, because like sometimes things are off 245 00:14:05,559 --> 00:14:08,800 Speaker 1: that day, people called out, you know, and so I like, 246 00:14:08,840 --> 00:14:10,559 Speaker 1: if I'm there for the first time, I'm not about 247 00:14:10,559 --> 00:14:11,800 Speaker 1: to go and leave a y'all review and be like 248 00:14:11,800 --> 00:14:15,400 Speaker 1: the service it's terrible. Restaurants can be super busy, wild places. 249 00:14:15,720 --> 00:14:20,800 Speaker 1: I also just like, you know, the whole like obsession 250 00:14:20,880 --> 00:14:25,600 Speaker 1: with like service is very American. It's so American, and 251 00:14:25,640 --> 00:14:28,920 Speaker 1: nowhere else in the world like everywhere else, Like I 252 00:14:28,960 --> 00:14:33,360 Speaker 1: actually love eating in other countries because the servers gonna 253 00:14:33,400 --> 00:14:37,640 Speaker 1: like ignore me, not check on me, not refill my water, 254 00:14:38,040 --> 00:14:41,400 Speaker 1: maybe even be rude or totally straight up tell me 255 00:14:41,480 --> 00:14:46,280 Speaker 1: no um. And that's that's that's that's it. That's the 256 00:14:46,320 --> 00:14:50,040 Speaker 1: experience my food and say thank you and then leave 257 00:14:50,080 --> 00:14:52,200 Speaker 1: and pay my bill and then leave. You know. So 258 00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:55,000 Speaker 1: funny because when my Budimo was going to Padu, I 259 00:14:55,080 --> 00:14:58,240 Speaker 1: was like, FYI don't expect the service you're going to 260 00:14:58,320 --> 00:15:00,800 Speaker 1: get here in the US, just I'm prefacing it now. 261 00:15:01,280 --> 00:15:02,880 Speaker 1: And he texted me while he was there and he 262 00:15:02,920 --> 00:15:04,560 Speaker 1: was like, Okay, yeah, I'm glad you let me know 263 00:15:05,120 --> 00:15:08,600 Speaker 1: because you will be waving someone down for like twenty 264 00:15:08,640 --> 00:15:12,400 Speaker 1: plus minutes. But it's like time, it works differently there, 265 00:15:12,520 --> 00:15:16,280 Speaker 1: service works differently there, And so yeah, I also agree, 266 00:15:16,320 --> 00:15:20,480 Speaker 1: like people get very like obsessive with service here and 267 00:15:20,560 --> 00:15:25,120 Speaker 1: sometimes there's there's other things to focus on. I feel, yeah, 268 00:15:25,160 --> 00:15:27,920 Speaker 1: it's like this, it's a it's it's very power trippy 269 00:15:27,960 --> 00:15:31,440 Speaker 1: because here, you know, the tipping system and so the 270 00:15:31,600 --> 00:15:34,120 Speaker 1: and the whole the customer is always right thing that's 271 00:15:34,200 --> 00:15:38,400 Speaker 1: very American, and so it's like the customer has almost 272 00:15:38,440 --> 00:15:41,960 Speaker 1: too much power, right, you know, because they can hold 273 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:46,000 Speaker 1: those tips hostage, which is just not true really other places. Yeah, 274 00:15:46,080 --> 00:15:50,240 Speaker 1: but yeah, so I think so like that, like user 275 00:15:50,320 --> 00:15:52,960 Speaker 1: generated reviews like on Yelp, I think we take with 276 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:56,200 Speaker 1: a grain of salt. But also I feel like a 277 00:15:56,280 --> 00:15:58,640 Speaker 1: lot of people maybe get their food recks on Instagram 278 00:15:58,640 --> 00:16:02,320 Speaker 1: and TikTok now because there's a lot of food influencing, 279 00:16:02,440 --> 00:16:06,160 Speaker 1: which is fine and good and dandy, but I think 280 00:16:06,200 --> 00:16:10,000 Speaker 1: like a lot of that stuff is visually driven. Yeah, 281 00:16:10,040 --> 00:16:12,360 Speaker 1: so some of it is, like the food's kind of gimmicky. 282 00:16:13,360 --> 00:16:16,120 Speaker 1: The food has some like it's pretty to look at 283 00:16:16,240 --> 00:16:19,240 Speaker 1: or weird to look at, or there's something you know, 284 00:16:19,280 --> 00:16:21,560 Speaker 1: there's like there's a gimmick to it, what have you. 285 00:16:22,280 --> 00:16:24,520 Speaker 1: And I think like that type of stuff is like, 286 00:16:24,560 --> 00:16:27,240 Speaker 1: if you're getting your food recks solely off of these 287 00:16:27,280 --> 00:16:31,720 Speaker 1: like trending visuals, you might be setting yourself up for 288 00:16:31,800 --> 00:16:35,280 Speaker 1: some disappointment as well. It's so true because sometimes like 289 00:16:35,320 --> 00:16:38,240 Speaker 1: the restaurant aesthetics, like y'all know me, I love a 290 00:16:38,240 --> 00:16:40,720 Speaker 1: good aesthetic. Oh yeah, I love if I can take 291 00:16:40,720 --> 00:16:44,160 Speaker 1: a good photo there, But restaurant aesthetics don't always equal 292 00:16:44,200 --> 00:16:47,480 Speaker 1: good food. Like if it's trendy and gimmicky, if there's 293 00:16:47,480 --> 00:16:50,720 Speaker 1: a photo of like it can be cute and lovely, 294 00:16:50,960 --> 00:16:53,520 Speaker 1: but it doesn't also sagify there's going to be amazing 295 00:16:53,560 --> 00:16:57,760 Speaker 1: food food. It's so true. I was right before we 296 00:16:57,840 --> 00:17:00,560 Speaker 1: got together today to record for Look at the I 297 00:17:00,680 --> 00:17:04,920 Speaker 1: was conducting an interview with his sustrej for Muddy One 298 00:17:04,920 --> 00:17:08,879 Speaker 1: at a podcast for Podheads, my solo show, and something 299 00:17:08,880 --> 00:17:11,080 Speaker 1: we talked about is like when you see a taco truck, like, 300 00:17:11,240 --> 00:17:13,719 Speaker 1: how do you tell that the food is gonna like 301 00:17:13,880 --> 00:17:17,600 Speaker 1: be amazing, it's gonna slap and so like hey, Su said, well, 302 00:17:17,600 --> 00:17:21,080 Speaker 1: you know they always have those signs with that neon 303 00:17:21,320 --> 00:17:24,800 Speaker 1: like poster paper and it's always handwritten sharpie, and there's 304 00:17:24,840 --> 00:17:28,280 Speaker 1: that font that's like all caps but then sometimes lowercase. 305 00:17:28,720 --> 00:17:31,119 Speaker 1: Like if you see that like that custom font, like 306 00:17:31,200 --> 00:17:33,879 Speaker 1: they drew it themselves, that's going to be a bomb truck. 307 00:17:34,160 --> 00:17:36,320 Speaker 1: And he asked me what my tell was, and my 308 00:17:36,400 --> 00:17:38,439 Speaker 1: tell is, you know when you see taco trucks and 309 00:17:38,520 --> 00:17:41,919 Speaker 1: they bring out their own little plastic tables and chairs, 310 00:17:41,960 --> 00:17:44,560 Speaker 1: but they're mini and they're always different colors, like they're 311 00:17:44,560 --> 00:17:48,080 Speaker 1: blue and their red, that is like that's going to 312 00:17:48,160 --> 00:17:50,840 Speaker 1: be good food. I agree. Or if they ignore me, 313 00:17:51,040 --> 00:17:52,760 Speaker 1: like they don't ask me what I want, I'm like, 314 00:17:53,040 --> 00:17:55,159 Speaker 1: if they straight up ignore me and do not help me, 315 00:17:55,280 --> 00:17:58,160 Speaker 1: I know it's gonna be good foods. That's a good tell. 316 00:17:58,280 --> 00:18:01,920 Speaker 1: I definitely the little chairs a miss chairs, I think, yes, 317 00:18:03,520 --> 00:18:07,199 Speaker 1: I love um when you can when there's just an 318 00:18:07,280 --> 00:18:11,600 Speaker 1: array of different satas sas um if they have like 319 00:18:11,640 --> 00:18:13,719 Speaker 1: a dark red like to me, that signals it's going 320 00:18:13,760 --> 00:18:19,320 Speaker 1: to be a good taco. Oh yes, that's my favorite. Um. 321 00:18:19,359 --> 00:18:22,480 Speaker 1: And of course, like if you see the drum like 322 00:18:23,080 --> 00:18:26,239 Speaker 1: I'm in Hell, yeah, and the salsas need to be 323 00:18:26,280 --> 00:18:29,639 Speaker 1: in like the vat yeah, the big vat yeah, in 324 00:18:29,840 --> 00:18:36,600 Speaker 1: industrial size yes, and a glass cooke like to be glass. Yeah. 325 00:18:36,640 --> 00:18:40,760 Speaker 1: That's the good stack combo. That's luxury delicacy. If you 326 00:18:40,800 --> 00:18:43,399 Speaker 1: walk away from that experience and your mind isn't changed 327 00:18:43,440 --> 00:18:47,960 Speaker 1: about La Food, I can't help you. No, it's so true. 328 00:18:48,040 --> 00:18:49,800 Speaker 1: I can't help me because I mean some of the 329 00:18:49,880 --> 00:18:53,080 Speaker 1: journalists that we've already mentioned, like like Jonathan Gold and 330 00:18:53,119 --> 00:18:56,480 Speaker 1: Anthony Bourdain, they would go to taco trucks. They weren't 331 00:18:56,840 --> 00:18:59,040 Speaker 1: they were going to the Michelin stars, but they were 332 00:18:59,080 --> 00:19:01,439 Speaker 1: also going to the taco trucks who also deserve their 333 00:19:01,440 --> 00:19:05,919 Speaker 1: own Michelin stars, right totally. And so you know you 334 00:19:05,960 --> 00:19:09,399 Speaker 1: can watch City of Gold rip to Jonathan Gold. You know, 335 00:19:09,560 --> 00:19:12,240 Speaker 1: he was a prolific writer, wrote for the La Weekly 336 00:19:12,440 --> 00:19:16,000 Speaker 1: and the La Times has a ton of archived work 337 00:19:16,040 --> 00:19:20,040 Speaker 1: that you can read. And his wife, Lorio Choa, is 338 00:19:20,480 --> 00:19:22,520 Speaker 1: one of the food editors at the La Times. So like, 339 00:19:23,040 --> 00:19:26,800 Speaker 1: literally go read the La times. There's so many incredible 340 00:19:26,840 --> 00:19:29,480 Speaker 1: journalists there that are doing the Lord's work and reporting 341 00:19:29,560 --> 00:19:32,040 Speaker 1: on the good food of La. Yeah. If you've been 342 00:19:32,080 --> 00:19:35,040 Speaker 1: here and you're having a hard time finding good eats, 343 00:19:35,080 --> 00:19:42,399 Speaker 1: like these are the places to go. Yeah, go to 344 00:19:42,480 --> 00:19:49,240 Speaker 1: Netflix and watch Taco Chronicles. Like the editor in chief 345 00:19:49,280 --> 00:19:54,600 Speaker 1: of La Taco worked on Taco Chronicles, and there's like 346 00:19:54,640 --> 00:19:57,760 Speaker 1: in La, there's multiple times that LA is featured in 347 00:19:57,800 --> 00:19:59,960 Speaker 1: that there's a whole LA episode on the latest one 348 00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:03,320 Speaker 1: totally season. I mean La Taco in general, like they 349 00:20:03,320 --> 00:20:07,560 Speaker 1: have put they put out daily articles after article after article, 350 00:20:07,720 --> 00:20:14,200 Speaker 1: video after video, map after map, like they follow Memos Angeles. Yes, 351 00:20:14,320 --> 00:20:17,120 Speaker 1: he's eating all day every day, Yes, and telling you 352 00:20:17,160 --> 00:20:20,400 Speaker 1: where to go. They are not gate keeping this information 353 00:20:20,960 --> 00:20:24,720 Speaker 1: like at all. It's out there. Something that I saw 354 00:20:25,880 --> 00:20:29,640 Speaker 1: former guests of Look at a Radio Maria Castagna aka 355 00:20:29,760 --> 00:20:34,680 Speaker 1: Maria La Pabaya on Twitter, she said, anytime anyone talks 356 00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:37,280 Speaker 1: trash about LA food, they're really just looking for rex 357 00:20:37,640 --> 00:20:41,240 Speaker 1: and engagement. And I agree because whenever I see these 358 00:20:41,280 --> 00:20:43,840 Speaker 1: bad food takes, I'm like, like I said, I get offline. 359 00:20:43,880 --> 00:20:46,080 Speaker 1: I'm like, nope, not doing it. I'm not arguing with 360 00:20:46,119 --> 00:20:48,520 Speaker 1: anybody I'm not proving anything to anybody, Like, we have 361 00:20:48,720 --> 00:20:52,040 Speaker 1: amazing food here. If you don't think so, like, that 362 00:20:52,160 --> 00:20:56,440 Speaker 1: tells me you're probably eating one of those rooftop places 363 00:20:56,480 --> 00:21:00,439 Speaker 1: that again are super beautiful, have amazing craft cocktail, but 364 00:21:00,560 --> 00:21:03,439 Speaker 1: may not be where you want to have dinner at. Yeah, 365 00:21:03,480 --> 00:21:07,440 Speaker 1: if there's like a content corner, you know, if there's 366 00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:12,080 Speaker 1: a wall four photos, yeah, the priorities might not be 367 00:21:12,240 --> 00:21:15,639 Speaker 1: on the cuisine. Yeah, I mean the I think that 368 00:21:15,720 --> 00:21:20,280 Speaker 1: the that the contentmart of like having a restaurant is 369 00:21:20,320 --> 00:21:23,640 Speaker 1: probably like a part of business models now. I've really 370 00:21:23,640 --> 00:21:26,159 Speaker 1: been thinking about this because like one of my homegirls 371 00:21:26,240 --> 00:21:30,000 Speaker 1: has I'll shout her out. She is like one of 372 00:21:30,040 --> 00:21:33,639 Speaker 1: the owners of Raspados and Manuel and they're like Raspados 373 00:21:33,680 --> 00:21:37,000 Speaker 1: and they have like and you know, eskeit in things 374 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:38,679 Speaker 1: like that, And so I was talking to her like, so, 375 00:21:38,760 --> 00:21:40,479 Speaker 1: do you have an Instagram wall? And she was like, 376 00:21:40,520 --> 00:21:42,600 Speaker 1: I've been thinking about it. They're going to have to 377 00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:45,479 Speaker 1: get one because they have to get one. So I 378 00:21:45,520 --> 00:21:48,240 Speaker 1: do think that it is a part of like restaurants 379 00:21:48,280 --> 00:21:51,480 Speaker 1: business models now, but it doesn't always signify that the 380 00:21:51,520 --> 00:21:53,040 Speaker 1: food is going to be good just because you can 381 00:21:53,040 --> 00:21:59,399 Speaker 1: get content there exactly, you know, exactly exactly. It's so true. Yeah, 382 00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:01,440 Speaker 1: And so that it's a good question. Is it trendy, 383 00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:08,280 Speaker 1: is it popular? It's a gimmicky And I also think like, man, 384 00:22:09,720 --> 00:22:12,359 Speaker 1: if you come from somewhere else and like you're expecting 385 00:22:12,359 --> 00:22:15,640 Speaker 1: to find the same stuff you were getting back, true, 386 00:22:15,960 --> 00:22:19,240 Speaker 1: open your mind to the possibility that there's different things 387 00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:22,200 Speaker 1: than what you're used to back home. That's so true. 388 00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:26,040 Speaker 1: I think also like something that I think of when 389 00:22:26,080 --> 00:22:28,639 Speaker 1: I travel is like I'm not gonna find I'm not 390 00:22:28,680 --> 00:22:30,600 Speaker 1: going to order Mexican food, and I'm not going to 391 00:22:30,760 --> 00:22:34,119 Speaker 1: order Peruvian food, you know, unless I'm going to like 392 00:22:34,240 --> 00:22:36,720 Speaker 1: Miami or New York and i want Peruvian food there. 393 00:22:37,040 --> 00:22:39,360 Speaker 1: But if there's places where I know, like there's other 394 00:22:39,440 --> 00:22:42,560 Speaker 1: cuisines that they're known for, that that state is known for, that, 395 00:22:42,640 --> 00:22:45,560 Speaker 1: I'm going to try those, right, you know, unless someone 396 00:22:45,640 --> 00:22:47,400 Speaker 1: is telling me, like this is the best proving food 397 00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:50,040 Speaker 1: I've ever had here, Yeah, cool, let's go there. But 398 00:22:50,119 --> 00:22:52,640 Speaker 1: I think it also like if I'm going and I'm 399 00:22:52,760 --> 00:22:55,800 Speaker 1: ordering Thackles there, I'm ordering like al and I can 400 00:22:55,840 --> 00:22:57,280 Speaker 1: have the best of that in La, Like, I'm not 401 00:22:57,359 --> 00:22:59,879 Speaker 1: going to order that when I'm when I'm in another state. 402 00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:01,800 Speaker 1: And so for me when I travel and I'm meeting 403 00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:03,760 Speaker 1: at new restaurants, that's something that I keep in mind. 404 00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:06,160 Speaker 1: I'm like, don't orner Mexican food because if you're disappointed, 405 00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:09,399 Speaker 1: you're gonna get disappointed and it's okay or something else. 406 00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:13,080 Speaker 1: It's so true, like back anytime I was I've ever 407 00:23:13,119 --> 00:23:17,120 Speaker 1: been back East, like I'm gonna go get Dominican food, 408 00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:20,680 Speaker 1: I'm gonna get Brazilian food. I'm gonna get the things 409 00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:24,280 Speaker 1: yeah exactly that are not as easy to find over here. Yep. 410 00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:27,600 Speaker 1: And that's what you do when you travel to a 411 00:23:27,640 --> 00:23:31,879 Speaker 1: new place, you try the local fair. It's so true. 412 00:23:32,040 --> 00:23:35,080 Speaker 1: When I was in New York last April, i had 413 00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:37,760 Speaker 1: Connie or a friend. She was like, do you want 414 00:23:37,760 --> 00:23:39,240 Speaker 1: to get Thai food or do you want to give 415 00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:42,600 Speaker 1: Anezuelan food. I was like Venezuelan food, Like there's probably 416 00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:45,560 Speaker 1: one Venezuelan restaurant here in LA that I'm aware of, right, 417 00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:47,879 Speaker 1: And so I was like, no, take I wanta take 418 00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:49,840 Speaker 1: me to get the Appa. I'm gonna love it. And 419 00:23:49,880 --> 00:23:53,120 Speaker 1: it was amazing. And yeah, to your point, like when 420 00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:55,960 Speaker 1: we're traveling, like I'm we're thinking of the food that 421 00:23:55,960 --> 00:23:57,479 Speaker 1: we're not going to be able to get here in La, 422 00:23:57,600 --> 00:23:59,360 Speaker 1: which you can also get a lot of food here. 423 00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:02,280 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you know. And so it's like go with 424 00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:05,760 Speaker 1: an open mind, try it, try it. But see, people 425 00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:09,359 Speaker 1: want La to be everything. You want La to be 426 00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:12,679 Speaker 1: the place where you realize all your dreams, where you 427 00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:15,400 Speaker 1: start a new life, where you launch your career, and 428 00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:18,320 Speaker 1: where you can get every food that you've ever had 429 00:24:18,359 --> 00:24:21,320 Speaker 1: access to everywhere else except for here. You know. It's like, 430 00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:24,760 Speaker 1: let the city be what it is, which is so much. 431 00:24:25,359 --> 00:24:28,880 Speaker 1: There's much like there's so many neighborhoods, so many restaurants. 432 00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:33,040 Speaker 1: It just takes like probably talking to a local, reading 433 00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:37,920 Speaker 1: a paper, getting off Yelp and Instagram, get out oar, 434 00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:41,520 Speaker 1: get out there. It's a slow burn. The city's a 435 00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:44,680 Speaker 1: slow bird, and nobody is handing it to you on 436 00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:48,080 Speaker 1: a platter. Like the city is a Rubis cube and 437 00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:50,840 Speaker 1: you just have to figure it out on your own time, 438 00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:54,760 Speaker 1: is what it comes down to. Yeah. Yeah, I think 439 00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:59,280 Speaker 1: like when you're visiting, like you should definitely venture outside 440 00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:04,440 Speaker 1: of the like touristy spots, you know, venturing outside of 441 00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:09,440 Speaker 1: the downtown area, outside of WIHO, outside of Santa Monica. 442 00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:11,879 Speaker 1: Get out of Santa Monica. The food scene is not 443 00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:16,560 Speaker 1: in Santa Monica. No, my Prima likes to party in 444 00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:20,680 Speaker 1: Santa Santa Monica. Santa Monica. I was gonna say, which 445 00:25:20,760 --> 00:25:26,479 Speaker 1: is not inaccurate. Um, in Santa Monica and the West Side. 446 00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:28,840 Speaker 1: And she lives out there now and so she's like 447 00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:32,240 Speaker 1: always posting up places and they look really good. I'm 448 00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:34,320 Speaker 1: not gonna lie, but I am not going to venture 449 00:25:34,359 --> 00:25:38,119 Speaker 1: out to Santa Monica for their food scene when like 450 00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:41,760 Speaker 1: the East Side is right there. Oh totally. So we 451 00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:46,040 Speaker 1: put a couple restaurants up on a list that we 452 00:25:46,119 --> 00:25:48,120 Speaker 1: eat it. These places, we like these places. These are 453 00:25:48,119 --> 00:25:53,919 Speaker 1: delicious places. Um, give these places a try, Yes, endorsement. Okay, 454 00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:57,639 Speaker 1: you're having a hard time. This is not exhausted. No, 455 00:25:58,040 --> 00:26:01,800 Speaker 1: this is just like a handful again. Check out La Taco. 456 00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:04,800 Speaker 1: Check out the work of Daniel Hernandez at the La Times. 457 00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:07,760 Speaker 1: Batman is working hard. The food editor over there, going 458 00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:10,280 Speaker 1: restaurant to restaurant and writing up reviews for you guys. 459 00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:17,359 Speaker 1: We love natievl Yes, delish, so good about to say, 460 00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:21,520 Speaker 1: oh my god, they have see there's there's a place 461 00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:27,400 Speaker 1: that has Instagram cute food. They're like presentation is on point. 462 00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:29,600 Speaker 1: They have one of those beautiful content walls. But their 463 00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:32,720 Speaker 1: food is good and their cocktails are good. The restaurant 464 00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:35,280 Speaker 1: is gorgeous. Yeah, like every inch of it is beautiful, 465 00:26:35,440 --> 00:26:38,720 Speaker 1: so beautiful. Shout out natievl We love y'all. They know 466 00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:46,040 Speaker 1: what they're doing. Next is Gelagezza Lovelish, like award winning 467 00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:50,240 Speaker 1: Wahakan restaurant. The Laudas are to die for. Yes, um 468 00:26:50,440 --> 00:26:53,280 Speaker 1: My Homegirl, like I mentioned her, she has like a 469 00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:57,240 Speaker 1: couple raspalo places called Rospalos on one way. They're in 470 00:26:57,280 --> 00:27:01,560 Speaker 1: East La across from Roosevelt High Schoo. There's one a Manabello. 471 00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:06,080 Speaker 1: There's like a couple so check them out. And then 472 00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:08,160 Speaker 1: this this next one is also one of your right, Yeah, 473 00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:12,199 Speaker 1: mama louse in Monterey Park and al Hambra, and I 474 00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:14,840 Speaker 1: think in City of Industry now there's another one at 475 00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:16,960 Speaker 1: least that. Yeah, there's one in City of Industry and 476 00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:21,040 Speaker 1: they have amazing dumplings comparable to a Dn'tai Fung Delish, 477 00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:24,000 Speaker 1: which is also on the list. Dn'tai Fung also like 478 00:27:24,119 --> 00:27:26,680 Speaker 1: started here in La and the county and the Sanga 479 00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:31,000 Speaker 1: Ro Valley and the Greater LA Area just fucking killing it. Also, 480 00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:34,560 Speaker 1: something that started here in La was King Taco. Yes, 481 00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:37,159 Speaker 1: and I feel like some people hate on King Tako, 482 00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:41,120 Speaker 1: but let me just say there is amazing. I love 483 00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:44,320 Speaker 1: King Tako, like I think it's so good. I actually 484 00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:47,080 Speaker 1: went to high school with the granddaughter. Oh my god 485 00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:53,479 Speaker 1: of the King Taco. So he shout out food Royalty honestly. 486 00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:56,399 Speaker 1: And that's the thing is like it's elevated fast food. 487 00:27:56,800 --> 00:28:01,960 Speaker 1: It's like, that's it's good. That's good. Tacos they um bamales, 488 00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:06,040 Speaker 1: they make salp I want to say, they do rotisserie chickens, 489 00:28:06,040 --> 00:28:10,320 Speaker 1: they dare they do. I remember when they launched their 490 00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:13,600 Speaker 1: TACCOs that chicaron it was like new on the menu. 491 00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:15,880 Speaker 1: It was like a very exciting thing, a big deal. 492 00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:19,520 Speaker 1: Um where else, Oh good barbecue blood Sos. They just 493 00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:22,040 Speaker 1: opened a second location. I think I just mentioned one 494 00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:24,840 Speaker 1: of my favorite places to eat in Koreatown. I love 495 00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:29,680 Speaker 1: BCD Tofu House so good, it's really good. The seafood pancake, 496 00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:34,800 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's with scalli. It's delicious. It's to die for. 497 00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:39,400 Speaker 1: And I mean there's a lot of different Korean barbecue. 498 00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:42,560 Speaker 1: I mean there's just like an endless there's so many. 499 00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:44,440 Speaker 1: We used to go to a place called Castle Too, 500 00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:47,640 Speaker 1: not to be confused with Castle One, Castle Too. I 501 00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:52,920 Speaker 1: got it. There's several got it tacos, amazing. They do 502 00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:55,840 Speaker 1: one of those Texans style TACCOs that we try, the 503 00:28:55,960 --> 00:29:01,000 Speaker 1: puffy taco, okay, and I loved it. Again. My mom 504 00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:03,480 Speaker 1: was appalled, and I was like, man, we have family 505 00:29:03,560 --> 00:29:06,520 Speaker 1: in Texas, okay, So I'm like, Mom, it's a puffy taco, 506 00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:09,760 Speaker 1: come on, and she was like no, I wasn't having it. 507 00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:12,800 Speaker 1: But I think they're so good, the puffy tacco, and 508 00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:17,240 Speaker 1: just in general, they have a tact potato taco. Yummy, 509 00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:20,720 Speaker 1: their delicious. Their cocktails are also delicious, so yummy, so 510 00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:26,520 Speaker 1: so good. Philips, which is classic La on Alameda, across 511 00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:30,280 Speaker 1: the street from the California Endowment, and it's like diner food, 512 00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:33,720 Speaker 1: but they sell their signature French dip sandwiches so good, 513 00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:36,640 Speaker 1: and then they do their you know, their potato salads 514 00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:41,240 Speaker 1: and their cold slaw, their pie that's like it's very Americana, 515 00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:46,200 Speaker 1: very La. And then across from Philips at Olvera Street, 516 00:29:46,760 --> 00:29:52,720 Speaker 1: there's the Cielitolindo Taco stand and they have these Taquitos 517 00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:57,200 Speaker 1: that specifically are just so effing mom. Like sometimes my 518 00:29:57,280 --> 00:30:00,200 Speaker 1: mom and my grandma were doing something and my mom 519 00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:03,160 Speaker 1: will like, oh, let's go get the old vari Street. 520 00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:05,480 Speaker 1: They're very iconic. They're so good. I mean even just 521 00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:09,840 Speaker 1: going to Gaya, like yes, you can eat amazing there. 522 00:30:10,280 --> 00:30:14,400 Speaker 1: And that's like part of like the original like Californio 523 00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:18,520 Speaker 1: Los Angeles before it was like a part of California. 524 00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:24,040 Speaker 1: Y learn some history, try try please. I mean fun, 525 00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:28,640 Speaker 1: there's so much fun. There's so much ramen. I just 526 00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:32,400 Speaker 1: went to this ramen place. It's a Michelin Star ramen 527 00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:35,920 Speaker 1: place in Norwalk and there's multiple locations all over Los 528 00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:40,320 Speaker 1: Angeles and it's called Hito Naughty Kraft Ramen Delicious. They 529 00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:43,880 Speaker 1: have like a fried rice like a like a yeah, 530 00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:46,680 Speaker 1: like a fried rice and then they put tuna on 531 00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:48,920 Speaker 1: top and it's like kind of like a little patty. 532 00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:53,640 Speaker 1: It's delicious. And the ramen, the spicy Ramen Delicious. That 533 00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:57,520 Speaker 1: sounds a bomb. Okay. This also reminds me I just 534 00:30:57,600 --> 00:31:01,000 Speaker 1: went this week on a date. But we used to 535 00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:04,360 Speaker 1: go all the time to Escala and create a fun 536 00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:10,360 Speaker 1: and the food is it's the Colombian Korean fusion delicious. 537 00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:13,080 Speaker 1: It is so good. Yeah, it is so I mean, 538 00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:17,200 Speaker 1: it's like Korean pork belly and then like Colombian plantains, 539 00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:20,560 Speaker 1: you know, and then like fried rice delicious. It's just 540 00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:24,040 Speaker 1: I mean, it's just it's incredible delicious. I also have 541 00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:26,040 Speaker 1: to shout out this restaurant that I've been going to 542 00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:30,920 Speaker 1: for twenty years. It's called Cholo Sala, and it's in Downey, 543 00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:34,560 Speaker 1: and they have the best that I've had here. It's 544 00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:38,160 Speaker 1: like a Peruvian breakfast. And so this is another place 545 00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:41,280 Speaker 1: where like if you look at the yal previews, like 546 00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:43,920 Speaker 1: you might not want to eat there, but like my 547 00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:46,360 Speaker 1: family and I have been going there for twenty years. 548 00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:51,520 Speaker 1: It's like a kitschy Pruvian restaurant. There's like paintings of 549 00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:56,360 Speaker 1: Matchupicchu on the wall, Like it's very beautiful. It's very cute. 550 00:31:57,200 --> 00:31:59,680 Speaker 1: But we've been going there for twenty plus years, and 551 00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:03,320 Speaker 1: like I co sign this restaurant. It's very good. Okay, 552 00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:07,200 Speaker 1: I love that. That's a family favorite. Our family favorite 553 00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:10,760 Speaker 1: is Papa Cristo's Yes on Pico across the street from 554 00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:16,160 Speaker 1: Saint Sophia's. Papa Cristo himself still works there. Wow, Yeah, 555 00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:18,520 Speaker 1: he's a he's a much older man, but he's he's 556 00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:21,760 Speaker 1: fucking killing it. And so it's like Greek. You can 557 00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:24,880 Speaker 1: sit down and eat. They have like a live Greek 558 00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:29,120 Speaker 1: like band playing while you're eating. There's also the like 559 00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:32,440 Speaker 1: hot to go kind of deli counter, and then they 560 00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:36,640 Speaker 1: have a bakery inside you can get Greek honey and 561 00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:42,760 Speaker 1: yogurt and cheeses and meats. I love nuts, everything. It's incredible. 562 00:32:43,320 --> 00:32:45,320 Speaker 1: All I'm saying is I don't want to see these 563 00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:49,600 Speaker 1: takes ever. Get if you see these takes on Twitter 564 00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:54,320 Speaker 1: on Instagram, link this episode and let them know it 565 00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:56,840 Speaker 1: is appalling and we will not have it. We will 566 00:32:56,880 --> 00:32:59,320 Speaker 1: not have it. If any we're going to defend the 567 00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:01,680 Speaker 1: honor of law Los Angeles. We have until the day 568 00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:05,200 Speaker 1: we die. Yes, there's too much slander. Yeah, there's too 569 00:33:05,320 --> 00:33:07,800 Speaker 1: much slander from people that don't know anything about LA. 570 00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:11,400 Speaker 1: It's it's like read a book so ungrateful, too, like 571 00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:15,760 Speaker 1: not to be like be grateful, but like if your 572 00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:18,640 Speaker 1: hometown could make all your dreams come true, I sure 573 00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:21,800 Speaker 1: you would have stayed there, but you had your hometown 574 00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:24,520 Speaker 1: couldn't make your dreams come true, So you came to 575 00:33:24,560 --> 00:33:27,600 Speaker 1: our hometown to make your dreams come true. So have 576 00:33:27,760 --> 00:33:33,920 Speaker 1: a little um, respect, respect and decency. Decency, some common 577 00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:38,240 Speaker 1: decency please. Anyways, well, we're gonna have to go eat 578 00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:40,560 Speaker 1: now because now I'm hungry. Oh yeah, We're gonna go eat. 579 00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:43,400 Speaker 1: All right, look, I'm what is? Thank you for tuning 580 00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:48,160 Speaker 1: into another Capado. Remember this was not an extensive list. 581 00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:50,560 Speaker 1: So if there's a restaurant that you think that we 582 00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:52,560 Speaker 1: should visit or that we should shout out on the 583 00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:54,880 Speaker 1: next episode, let us know in the comments, send us 584 00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:57,840 Speaker 1: an email. We want to hear your positive take on 585 00:33:57,960 --> 00:34:00,800 Speaker 1: Los Angeles food. Yes, where do you like to eat? 586 00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:04,400 Speaker 1: Remember to leave us a review, like subscribe, share, and 587 00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:10,560 Speaker 1: we'll catch you next time. Look At That Our Radio 588 00:34:10,719 --> 00:34:13,440 Speaker 1: is a production of Look At That Our Productions in 589 00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:18,080 Speaker 1: partnership with I Heearts Michael podcast Network. For more podcasts, 590 00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:22,200 Speaker 1: listen to the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you 591 00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:37,840 Speaker 1: listen to your favorite shows. As look At Radio, a 592 00:34:38,040 --> 00:35:26,879 Speaker 1: radiophonic novella hosted by Mala Munyos and Theosa, then take 593 00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:27,960 Speaker 1: us to your network