Cheap Eats

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Hydration Café — restaurant review — California

by Kris   ⋅   April 7, 2008   ⋅   Comments [5]

Cheap, fast, tasty. That’s all I ask a bento box to be, but places usually skimp on flavor, busting the sacred trinity. Hydration Café does not skimp. For about $5 and some change, you can get a generous portion of your choice of fried cutlets (chicken, pork, squid, mackerel, tofu, vegetarian fish [...]

La Victoria Taqueria — restaurant review — California

by Kris   ⋅   July 25, 2007   ⋅   Comments [4]

Thank God this place has their infamous orange sauce because their burritos taste like garbage. And I don’t mean a euphemism for bad food, I actually mean garbage like someone dumpster-dove for the tomatoes and lettuce and left ‘em in mayonnaise out in the sun (I saw that taqueria caveat piece on the news; [...]

Waiola Shave Ice — munchies review — Hawai’i

by Kris   ⋅   May 17, 2006   ⋅   Comments [9]

What is this giant bowl of …stuff? It’s shave ice (”sno cone” in Mainland-speak, kakigori in Japanese), where a blade whips across the surface of an ice block creating a cup of scraped snow, covered with azuki (sweet red beans), “cream” (condensed milk) and surrounded by mini mochi (steamed and pounded chewy rice cakes). [...]

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