Had to share these sweet delicacies from my last China trip. The last time I ate these I was still drunk and hung over at the same time.
Unfortunately, this time I was hungry and sober. Local favorite. Available at Ito Yokado supermarket in the area. Great. Bread fried in lard and filled with flaked donkey meat. Lovely.
On a brighter note, things are changing so much in China. They just passed a law that mandates workers to receive overtime pay (if working overtime). So alot of companies are going out of business since they made people work 7 days a week with no overtime pay. Workers are getting more rights. Companies can’t take advantage of them as much, but don’t get me wrong, it’s still totally exploited. So many chemicals in Chinese food. No more unagi (eel) can be imported to Japan from China due to the extreme amount of pesticides, growth hormones and vet grade medicines found in the food.
Last Friday, Don from
And on a completely unrelated note, I ate @ 
Sinigang is some seriously refreshing soup. A nice sour taste, with all kinds of awesome thangs inside.
Garlic fried rice and Pinakbet (vegetable stew). I killed about half that plate of fried rice, and ate everything else till I was about to explode. So good, and a lot of stuff I didn’t get to try on the menu (need to holla at desserts). This didn’t help my cholesterol out much, but definitely worth the trip.
Weather in Hawaii is pretty awesome. And when I say “pretty awesome,” I mean gray, wet, and rainy. This is a view of Koko Head crater, which is thankfully dormant for the last 10,000 years.
What do you do when it’s gray/wet/rainy? I choose to eat tasty morsels of raw fish, i.e “poke.” Here’s a 1/2 lb. of Ahi Poke w/ Limu (seaweed), and Tako Poke w/ Limu (Octopus w/ seaweed).
Homemade food is always the best, period. Moms came through on this one with her homemade gyoza. Nice and crispy out of the pot, with homemade pork filling. Supposedly the gyoza wrappers are air flown from Japan, but I think she might have been embellishing. I think I ate this whole plate.
She also made some bomb Ajitsuke Fried Chicken. Marinated on the inside, crispy on the outside. I’ll take this over Roscoe’s any day.
Unfortunately, she doesn’t make collard greens. She does make some tasty sushi rice. Leftovers of this stuff with some seaweed makes for some awesome onigiri.
I’m not really a cream puff fan (nor a dessert guy), but I was impressed moreso by the presentation of this one. My mom brought home some of these cream puffs from 
On Christmas Eve, went with the family to a dinner at 
They also had a made-to-order poke station, which I again ate as much as possible of. I think that was the most healthy I’ve ever eaten at a buffet. Didn’t bother to eat anything from the “hot” line.
Okay okay, enough about food (since I guess some haters could care less about what I eat). As usual, I always stop by and visit my homeboy Sean @ Munkywurks, a local Hawaii tuning + install shop. I always admire my Hawaii brethren who run shops across an entire ocean from the Import Mecca (i.e Socal). That’s a whole other post, but pure logistics makes it pretty difficult for Hawaii shops to compete against mainland-based shops. In addition, a lot of Hawaii customers (along with the majority of customers in our industry), are unfortunately always wallet driven, which makes them less loyal to the shops down their street. Long story short, support local small business when possible!
Twas a bit dark, but I always am enjoy checking out his 86. Just like cream puffs, the often overlooked details go a long way. I’m so used to seeing busted ass Corollas, so when you see one done right, it always makes you have hope in the U.S scene.
While I was here, I got working on a R/C replica of Dom’s S15. Oh wait, my bust, this is an old Integra R/C from 10+ years ago. LOL. If you’re wondering why it’s low down, but with sunk ass wheels, it’s cause originally I bought this as a Tamiya ready to run EG Civic kit. The Integra body was something I got started on, then kinda lost interest in R/C cars. What’s even worse is that this is ELECTRIC, not gas. So embarassing, but I love going through old stuff and finding some pieces of nostalgia.
After the A Spec Garage Sale on Saturday, some of us went to eat at 
The real reason you’d want to eat at Daikokuya is due to the shredded pork bowl. Man…they love to green onion on everything here, but damn the pork is crazy tender and flavorful. Of course I washed it all down with an iced Calpico.
While we were waiting for the table, we passed by one of the local sneaker shops, which was having a blowout sale. These days I tend to let sneakers find me, rather than me go find sneakers, and I had to cop these. It was $10 off (not bad, not best), but the colorway said my name on it, and even though it was a 1/2 size too big, the impulse buyer had to do it.
This is the foot of 
After that, we went to “Stooky” Charlie’s apartment nearby to Wii it up. I had played Wii sports before, but I got to play a doctor game where you treat patients. Super awesome, but man you would never want me to suture you up, buhleedat. I can ziptie a bumper, but yikes, I got shaky hands with the needle!
There was also this weird ass game, where you shoot plungers at rabbits, in Counterstrike fashion. Look at this rabbit, gettin served hard in the face.
Today, I asked my coworkers to get me lunch earlier today. They decided on Tommy’s Burger, which damn near killed me. Chili dog w/ cheese, chili fries w/ cheese, and a diet coke. My body hates me. And on a side note, don’t you hate it when you see people go to a fast food place, and order normal food and then make their soda, diet? Yeah, that’s me. I’m eating “healthy”!
Title sounds dirty doesn’t it? Truth behind it is I was bored at the hotel at 2am (damn eastern time difference). To my dismay the only thing worth watching on TV was something called Texas Hold Em: Afterdark. While watching the dudes play poker I was expecting them to randomly start telling stories about sexual fantasies or something. It never happened..
Orlando’s Citywalk is much nicer than Hollywood’s. And the BIG plus? I took this from an outdoor Margaritaville bar. Yes, apparently you can drink outside in Orlando.
Eventually I decided to grab some food at Emeril’s. Hate his show (thank God it’s being cancelled) but his food has to be good right?
Grilled Prime Rib Eye with country style mashed potatoes, Emeril’s homemade Worcestershire sauce and crispy onions. Add a glass of red to complement the Worcestershire sauce and enjoy. Very good.
On a tip from my bartender I headed over to Red Coconut for some libations. It was still early and as a result the crowd was a bit older, but their waitresses were some of the best eye candy I’ve ever seen. No pics because I didn’t wanna be the creepy out-of-towner-by-himself-in-the-corner taking pervy pictures. Just trust me. If you’re ever in Orlando you can check it out for yourself. Great martinis too.
Here is Yoshioka sporting the new red colorway for this season at Irwindale. I’m feelin this the most, out of all the colorways he’s run for the 86 in his career. Thanks to the homey Allen Chu for providing the pics, since I am camera-less and still too lazy/poor/insertexcusehere to get one. Peep his blog over @ 
He also snapped this illin pic of the D.O.M.obile. You ain’t gots to park all HAORD like that, Dom. I look forward to seeing off tracks, or dirt dropping, of this car in the near (but probably non-existant) future.
My boy Akio san is too funny! Jenny Chu-woo-woO-wOO! 
New Yoshioka sticker made by Works Bell Japan, just got these in yesterday (come by Sunday @ D1GP in the Works Bell booth to get one for free). But enough about stickers, let’s talk about…
HOOTERS! After Day 1 of D1, the coworkers bitched out to grab eats, so that left Allen, Akio from Works Bell Japan, and myself. Here is Akio, doing his best impression of a french fry snot rocket. I think he was saddened when I made him aware, that in Hooters, you are not allowed to “touch.”
We decided on starting off small, with (2) orders of boneless wings, fish n chips, steamed clams, and curly fries. Allen felt that we lacked enough tartar sauce in our lives, so the waitress brought us another 5 cups of it.
After blazing through that artery clogging goodness, we felt it necessary to add an order of train burgers, and an order of 20 pieces hot wings.
This is where the night got all Criss Angel on us. And for our next trick, I shall make these wings…
DISAPPEAR! Mindfreeeeak! Ugh…an awesome, yet regretfully delicious, evening.
Went to Laguna Seca last weekend to handle some stuff at ALMS. Here’s one of Risi’s 430’s being worked on before the morning warm up session.
So, they have air jacks built into the cars (
Walking around the pit area I caught a bunch of people behind the pit wall watching the Speed Channel feed of the Brazilian GP. I still haven’t watched the last two GP’s so I’m in super suspense waiting to find out what happened in the driver’s championship.. PLEASE DON’T TELL ME WHAT HAPPENED!
Walked by the GT3 Cup Cars and caught a glimpse of the cockpit. Puts mine to shame, that’s for sure..
Here’s the other Risi 430 during the race.
Flying Lizard. Beautiful car.
Went to 
Pineapple fried rice. (Note: Kent likes his rice with nuts. “I like everything with nuts.”)
Melaka Eggplant which was awesome.
Malay sizzling prawns.
Rendang Beef. Also awesome.
And Malay Coconut Milk Rice. Fluffy heaven.
Well, sorry for the lack of posts but I’ve been bombarded with getting stuff ready for SEMA. Fortunately, we’re only going to be there Friday. If you’re still out there on Friday then, as Kent would say, “Hollatchaboy!”
Unlike Dom or Kent, the coolest thing I’ve been doing recently is eating. No surprise there. Also, since my digi cam’s screen stopped working (thanks Canon!), anything remotely interesting I’ve done is just a memory in my gray matter. Thanks to my brother’s camera, however, I was able to capture the magic that is Chiba’s Japanese in San Diego. Last Saturday, my brother drove me down there in his new 50 mpg Prius to have lunch with my cousin and her boyfriend. In short, Chiba’s is the jam. 4 people, tons of food, bill totalled only $60. I didn’t load up on the nigiri like usually though, I just ate rolls till I couldn’t eat anymore. Peep game on the spicy scallop and soft shell crab rolls. Their bento boxes (set lunches) aren’t no joke either. Perfect locay too, it’s right next to Qualcomm stadium, so not a bad choice after a Chargers game.
