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She was rubbing duck prosciutto and Normandy butter in my face while verbally lashing me
[/quote]Good point… Sadist!
[quote=“bulavinaka, post:154, topic:5642”]
TG this is Food Talk Central, and not Firm Hand Central - my backside would be purple like a plum. 
[/quote]I’ll use my parent’s favorite refrain “Hard heads make soft behinds.”
Yummm!
Funny, I was just thinking about you and how ICE CREAM never gets enough votes for DoTM. That and SALAD are like the Susan Lucci of FTC.
Good point… Sadist!
Forgot to sign my post:
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The Masochist
I’ll use my parent’s favorite refrain “Hard heads make soft behinds.”
Again - is this a bad thing? 
Frankly, the Westside is a food desert compared to parts East of here. I should be the envious one!
So to kinda prove my point, I went to Cofax for my excellent breakfast burrito and excellent donut fix. On the way, I drove past the Farmers Market, a ton of little eateries, Little Ethiopia, and various Kosher places (closed today) before arriving at Cofax.
If Peyton Manning was a chef calling audibles: “Hot link, bacon, chorizo chorizo…”
Two of each of what they had in the case - the Noah’s Ark of donuts worthy of procreating more of its kind.
Fairfax was a serious cluster-f*$# this AM so I turned West on 3rd - Belcampo and my favorite coffee company Verve? Didn’t need any protein right now but beans? Heck yes.
I mean, c’mon - this neighborhood is so dense with eating options that it’s ridiculous. I wasn’t even trying and stuff just kept showing up as I drove along. Lucky you. 
[quote=“bulavinaka, post:163, topic:5642”]
Again - is this a bad thing? 
[/quote]I had a feeling when I wrote it it could be twisted another way. You know exactly what I meant, young man.
Perfect fried chicken breast + thick cut pickles + lettuce + crack white sauce + super buttery bun =
Okay, you proved your point. It is kinda’ delicious over here. Sometimes it takes a visitor to make you appreciate. Like when family or friends come to town and you do all this cool stuff and think “Why don’t I come here more often?” So I’ll try not to begrudge you Gjusta 
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It does look really great! The bun too.
My new favorite block for food trucks - 5458 Whittier Blvd (between Belden & Eastmont)
Behold!!! Pastelaso from Mariscos El Bigoton. It’s as good as it looks 
Birrieria taco from Birrieria Tecalitan. Tender and smoky with a selection of 4 salsas for your choosing.
The seafood tower did a number on me; ended up getting some taco de canasta and beef birrieria to go from a couple other vendors
Highly recommended excursion!!!
Holy Smokes!
I was hitherto completely unaware that the planet we inhabit has a creation as quite as lovely as a Pastelaso.
It looks like a beautiful Napoleon of Seafood.
Is this a regional Mexican specialty? Donde?
Can’t be very common. Absolutely enchanting. Must know more.
@CiaoBob alas I can’t take credit for it. Read about it in an eater article from Esparza a couple months ago. Go hungry, its HUGE!
Wow.
Thanks for 411.
Getting that soon.
I think I need to bathe in that salsa negra.
That salsa negra is delicious! Umami’fied salsa…
Wow that thing looks great. A tower of seafood beauty and a spork!
I’m in love with the papas rellenas/potato balls at Cafe Cuba in Hawthorne. So much better than Porto’s.
Is this the place ON Hawthorne?
On and in.
12215 Hawthorne Blvd, Hawthorne, CA 90250
Got it. Been there a while back and true to my timing, they were out of these potato balls.
In a city full of the newest/sexiest/hippest/coolest, there is another option… The Apple Pan.
Steakburger (same recipe since 1945), fries, and a cream soda… Pretty darn satisfying at 11PM. No ketchup police here.
Housemade banana cream pie a la mode, and a coffee… That crust takes the pie to the next level.
I’d love it if Dinah’s has gotten better. When we first moved into the area over a decade ago, we tried Pann’s and Dinah’s a lot since we love diners. (RIP Pepy’s galley) But we stopped going to Dinah’s several years ago. The fried chicken was not fried well. The crispness wasn’t there, bland seasoning and the side dishes were closer to something out of a can.
If the @TheCookie didn’t like Gus’s fried chicken and likes Dinah’s, that would mean Dinah’s has seriously upped their game in the last several years. Which is always possible and I’d love to have a nearby diner that has longer hours than Pann’s
