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Posted by The Glutster
September 15, 2008

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Pricy Epiphanic Moon Cakes: Kee Wah Bakery

When I saw just about everyone in my Chinese class giving my professor these scrumptious looking round pastries, I knew something was up. Next thing I knew, I was at Kee Wah Bakery elbowing and shouldering through all the perennial pandemonium for these little, pricey pies It was the Mid-Autumn Festival aka Moon Festival this…
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Posted by The Glutster
September 13, 2008

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Bao Beginnings : Take a Bao

??(Confusion)?! Supreme ??(Bao)?! Style of ??(almighty) Taco? Sorry…the no-fuss, straight to the point style of the Mandarin language is getting to me, I’m taking a course in it right now for the sole reason of being able to walk in to a Chinese restaurant and order off the…untranslated menu, you know, where all the good…
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Posted by The Glutster
September 2, 2008

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Maiz, Chile y Raices Perdidas Entre El Valle y Fresnillo: All Mexican Food is Not Created Equal (My Lost Zacatecan Food Roots)

After hours of pestering and convincing my parents, who hadn’t gone back to their home lands of the borders of Fresnillo and Valpairaso, Zacatecas Mex. in more than 25 years…I finally got to know my lost roots, food and presidential ancestors alike (apparently had a great uncle who was killed for being a “good” president,…
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Posted by The Glutster
August 1, 2008

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Mundane Mexican No More: Moles La Tia in East L.A

There is something wrong with me…well, at least that is what my parents think because of my obsession/passion with food. So much so that my mom actually asked me to attend this Misa de Sanacion (“Healing Mass”) at the local parish, in hopes of receiving some sort of normalizing revelation or something. Me being the…
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Posted by The Glutster
August 1, 2008

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Listening to the Smoooth Gastronomic Sounds of the Glutster: My First Radio Spot on Sports Bites

Thanks to the kind Scalia sisters over at Melting Pot Tours, L.A’s FIRST tasting tours, I got to sample some of the foods in L.A, in all its diverse splendor–authentic American dough-risen Doughnuts with some Ethiopian Crganic coffee, traditional French chewy Macarons, some standard Japanese Soba–and this is barely their first tour (Farmers Market and…
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Posted by The Glutster
July 20, 2008

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A Taste of East L.A: It's about time…

A farmers market and now this, I never thought I’d live to see the day but…here it is. I know, I know, a corporate junk pile…but it’s a start, “Support the cause ese!” The City of East L.A, Why not? coming soon: My greatest restaurant discovery in all my food life so far–in East L.A…
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Posted by The Glutster
July 14, 2008

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Taking L.A For Granted: Unveiling The New Chinatowns and Thai Taste Trekking

Living here in this daily struggle we have accepted as life–from home to work, anticipative activities to spontaneous situations–it can get quite easy to get stuck and not notice a lot of stuff around us, usually obscure to us, but brimming with history if given the chance. All those Asian signs you pass by, in…
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