What makes me happy the most about Needle and Ryan’s cooking is all the continuous improvements, especially in the last recent months… and how much they care about everything! Customer services and dine in experience improved so much as of today.
The very first eggplant bamboo baby from September 3, Needle’s weekend only edition, has been going through so many iterations and getting much much better with more sauce, caramelized edges (left). I hope I’ll make a record of consuming more eggplant bamboo than anything else lol
Me too, I said the same thing back then. I used to drive a few hours to LA for Omakase, but never had a chance to eat Ryan’s food until I moved to LA Best decision!
for our recreation we didn’t use anything fancy, just a standard sliced milk bread from a local chinese bakery operation (sogo) and trimmed off the crust. for the filling we used a hazelnut praline.
this is what it looks like very early in the cooking, with the egg mixture lookin’ eggy.
i really like Needle but their pork chop bun always fails me. I think I keep ordering it bc i so love the one at PRD: but anyway. Great restaurant. maybe dont get the pork chop bun.
Mina Park is a Korean-American cook, restaurateur and writer based in Los Angeles, where she owns and operates the Shiku and Baroo restaurants with her husband
Best decision!
