Good Eats

Los Angeles

Birthday dinner at Animal

We head out to Animal in LA tonight for my birthday celebration. We’ve been wanting to try this place out and finally made it! It was not as good as we had expected, but you never know until you try…

San Diego

Phil’s BBQ

While in San Diego, we figured we have to try the famous Phil’s BBQ! 4.5 star rating on Yelp with more than 7000 reviews… that’s a lot!

San Diego

Izakaya at Wa Dining OKAN

The dining experience at Wa Dining OKAN was excellent. This cozy restaurant has won multiple awards and we really enjoyed our meal here. This cold appetizer was definitely one of our favorites of the night: Free range chicken liver in sweet spicy

San Diego

Sushi Ota

This summer during Brian’s conference in San Diego, we stayed at a little nice VRBO apartment for the whole week and also got a chance to try some new places together 🙂  One of them is Sushi Ota. It’s got

Taiwan

欣葉台菜

We really enjoyed the Taiwanese cuisine at Shin Yeh (欣葉台菜) and thought the price is quite reasonable as well.   This is one of their most famous dishes: Pan Fried Pork Liver / 煎豬肝. Love!!!

Taiwan

金峰滷肉飯

So many people have recommended Jin Feng Lu Rou Fan (金峰滷肉飯) to us and we were finally here! We beat the lunch crowd so the line was not that long. Plus they’ve got a very efficient system so everything moved quickly.