Can’t leave Asia behind
Believe it or not, we’ve had many different types of Asian cuisines while we’re in the US, particularly in Los Angeles. It’s not intentional but we so happened to stumble upon one or two Asian restaurants and decided to have our meals there.
On our first night in LA, we had reached in late evening and by the time we settled down in our rented flat, it was already 9pm. We did a quick google to find out where the eateries are and found that we’re not that far away from the main street, Beverly Boulevard, where many restaurants are located.
We decided to check it out and found a Thai restaurant, Nakarra right along the street. The boys like Thai food and they’ve had many while in Finland and so we decided it’d be Thai for us for our first LA night. It turned out to be superb and very authentic to what PK and I have had back home.
PK and I shared a shrimp tom yam plus a Thai chicken fried rice while Jarmo had a Thai-style tuna fish and blue eyes chose yellow curry with rice. Boys took Thai (Chang) beer also. The spices were superb and food was tasty. It felt homey since PK and I talked like Malaysians 🙂
Boys also tried their first ever Vietnamese cuisine while in Chinatown, LA. We had wanted to eat in Chinatown and found this little Vietnamese cafe. Blue eyes had the dry rice noodle with grilled beef while the rest of us ordered the Vietnamese beef noodles. PK and I were a bit shocked to see the beef noodles soup was filled with oil but it didn’t taste as oily as we thought it would be. And it’s the cheapest meal we’ve had so far – $40 for the 4 of us!
And of course we also had dim sum at Bao, a trendy Chinese restaurant in West Hollywood. We were lucky cos’ we entered the place at 6.30pm and they had a ‘happy hour’ for both food and drinks until 7pm so we were just in time to order some dim sum for half the price. I’m pleased to say that Msian/Ipoh dim sum still rocks my day anytime 🙂
