Asahi Ramen

Just blabbing away again...

I honestly had no idea that there are restaurants dedicated to ramen and was smitten with the cute area it resides in. I guess this is my first ramen experience aside from that stuff that comes in the 30 cent package.

Asahi Ramen was really busy and for some reason they did not want to seat us and let every other group go ahead of us. We started with a couple pickled cucumbers which were freakin' amazing! We had gyozas as an appetizer which are little friend potstickers that pretty much taste like every other potsticker (aside from "The Potsticker" in San Francisco). Ricky and I shared a huge bowl (which we could not finish) of ramen noodles in clear broth with half a hard-boiled egg, pork slices, bean sprouts, and green onions. While I admit that it was fairly bland, for some reason I still liked it but would recommend adding some hot sauce or something to it.

Total comfort food, authentic feeling, loud women, healthy I think, super cheap, bland, huge portions, fast service, and something I would like to eat on a overcast day.

2027 Sawtelle Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90025

Camellia Joy

So I get this awkward joy out of drinking flowering tea. It's suppose to taste like White Tea with Peach but I think Primula forgot the peach part. So you drop this ball that looks like a little watermelon into hot water and it grows into a tarantula-like flower. I'm not sure if I'm suppose to drink the hot pink petals. I often go on these binges of one thing or another (the master cleanse, 8 glasses of water a day, aspirin masks, smoothies, no grains) - I'm sure they will be exposed in time. Dr. Oz on Oprah said we should be drinking 4 glasses of green or white tea every day so maybe this will be my new muse.

Murakami at the MOCA

Dear BlAbby,

I've been sitting on my ass lately thinking about what I should be doing instead, to feel a little more cultured. Any thoughts?

Well, although you will rarely find me at a museum, today I went to the Murakami exhibit at the MOCA and it was pretty cool. I had first heard of this artist through a newsletter about his line of LV bags. Although I'm not a fan of that brand (sorry all females of the world) I was intrigued when I had read that Murakami is "arguably the most internationally acclaimed artist to emerge from Asia in the postwar era" - I figured I should take advantage of this opportunity. My favorite piece was called 727 show below.

I was most intrigued by his short films.

One was an animated film called kaikai and kiki about two friends who learn to grow watermelons in poop. The other short I loved was about this alien like creature called Inochi who experienced some humorous coming-of-age situations. I seemed to be the only non-art connoisseur giggling away. Check it out.