Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Going Home For Spring Break

My palette is about to have a wake up call. I'm going back to LA for Spring Break next week. Needless to say, I'm rather excited and am already planning what I'm going to eat.
The first thing will be dinner in the strangely shaped themed restaurant by the airport. Have you ever seen this thing? It's a relic of the sixties. Shaped like a UFO, Encounter is just plain odd. I've never been there before, so it should be an interesting "encounter".
I am inordinately excited about good Mexican food. Pozole, tortas, chilaquiles, sopes, and possibly something I've never tried before like Albondigas are all on the list of things to hopefully eat by the end of the week. But the goals don't stop there.
In-N-Out is a must. Animal Style Fries and a Double Double. Yum. Artery clogging goodness.
Good pizza is a maybe. I might make my mom take me to Mulberry Street Pizza in Beverly Hills for a slice of their unforgettable Eggplant Parmesan Pizza when I go to get my hair cut. To die for. Especially with a drizzle of their delicious chili oil.
My parents found a Peruvian restaurant in Pasadena, which might be important to try.
Getting some Spanish food at 3 Drunken Goats would be divine.
Thai, Japanese, Korean and Chinese food would all be wonderful as well.
And then there's the homemade food. I want to bake popovers for some reason. And some recipe I've never made before. And Emily wants to bake cookies with me.
My main plan, however, is simply to try things I've never had before so that I can review them.
Last time I was home I got in sea urchin sushi and quail egg pizza. Who knows what will be tried this time? Bull's testicles?

(P.S. Random food fact about sea urchins. The edible part of sea urchins is their gonads. Of which they have eight.)

I'd add a picture to this post, but it's not working for some odd reason.

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