A sushi truck is just want I was hankering for last week and I was glad to see the Yatta truck parked round the corner!

The Yatta food trucks offers delicious sushi maki and hand rolls as well as, crazy fusion sushi rolls like the cheesebruger roll and the cream cheese explosion!! We tried the cheeseburger roll and were surprised that it actually tasted like a cheeseburger and was complete with a tiny slice of pickle and served with mustard!


However, if you are looking to sushi as healthy option for your lunch, than you'd better skip the cheeseburger roll as it is deep fried!


My favourite thing about this truck is the "Creation Station". You pick different four coloured sticks which each represent a different ingredient and make your own roll! I made a spicy tuna, salmon gobo and cucumber roll. Oishii ne!

Follow them on twitter to see where they are today.....

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Labels: Food, Food Trucks, Restaurant, Reviews, Trouble

A sushi truck is just want I was hankering for last week and I was glad to see the Yatta truck parked round the corner!

The Yatta food trucks offers delicious sushi maki and hand rolls as well as, crazy fusion sushi rolls like the cheesebruger roll and the cream cheese explosion!! We tried the cheeseburger roll and were surprised that it actually tasted like a cheeseburger and was complete with a tiny slice of pickle and served with mustard!


However, if you are looking to sushi as healthy option for your lunch, than you'd better skip the cheeseburger roll as it is deep fried!


My favourite thing about this truck is the "Creation Station". You pick different four coloured sticks which each represent a different ingredient and make your own roll! I made a spicy tuna, salmon gobo and cucumber roll. Oishii ne!

Follow them on twitter to see where they are today.....

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Labels: Food, Food Trucks, Restaurant, Reviews, Trouble

Yo yo yo! I've found the number one place to go for fro'yo!!!! Cherry On Top is the best frozen yogurt place in L.A! It beats Yogurtland, Pinkberry, Big Chill, Humphrey Yogurt, etc...!

Just like Yogurtland it allows you to taste and self-serve the frozen yogurt and the toppings; plus the cost is determined by the weight of your bowl. The difference between the two is that Cherry On Top has LOADS more toppings AND its cheaper! All the usual suspects like cereal and fruit toppings- but also many more sweets like strawberry pop rocks and Asian delights like coconut jelly and boba too! They also have a large selection of sauces to top your yogurt! You can even go there just for the toppings! If frozen yogurt is not your thing, try a boba tea or wake up with a Jolt cola!

On top of this they have board games and an old school Nintendo machine to keep you entertained. Perhaps you want to follow Delilah's lead and chill out in the 60's bubble gum pink booths!


Yummy Factor: Peanut butter & jelly, chai latte, boysenberry, cake batter and watermelon are some of the flavours they offer - need I say more?!

Pocket: Value for money

Service: Sweet like chocolate!

Atmosphere: Perfect and pink

Cherry On Top
Little Tokyo Galleria
333 S. Alameda St
Los Angeles, CA 90013
(213) 626-2150

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Labels: Cherry on Top, Food, Fro Yo, Frozen Yogurt, Little Tokyo, Restaurant, Reviews, Trouble

Yo yo yo! I've found the number one place to go for fro'yo!!!! Cherry On Top is the best frozen yogurt place in L.A! It beats Yogurtland, Pinkberry, Big Chill, Humphrey Yogurt, etc...!

Just like Yogurtland it allows you to taste and self-serve the frozen yogurt and the toppings; plus the cost is determined by the weight of your bowl. The difference between the two is that Cherry On Top has LOADS more toppings AND its cheaper! All the usual suspects like cereal and fruit toppings- but also many more sweets like strawberry pop rocks and Asian delights like coconut jelly and boba too! They also have a large selection of sauces to top your yogurt! You can even go there just for the toppings! If frozen yogurt is not your thing, try a boba tea or wake up with a Jolt cola!

On top of this they have board games and an old school Nintendo machine to keep you entertained. Perhaps you want to follow Delilah's lead and chill out in the 60's bubble gum pink booths!


Yummy Factor: Peanut butter & jelly, chai latte, boysenberry, cake batter and watermelon are some of the flavours they offer - need I say more?!

Pocket: Value for money

Service: Sweet like chocolate!

Atmosphere: Perfect and pink

Cherry On Top
Little Tokyo Galleria
333 S. Alameda St
Los Angeles, CA 90013
(213) 626-2150

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Labels: Cherry on Top, Food, Fro Yo, Frozen Yogurt, Little Tokyo, Restaurant, Reviews, Trouble

Katie, Ryan, Delilah and I decided to do lunch in Little Tokyo. We discovered Mikawaya in the Japanese Village in Little Tokyo and we decided that mochi-ice cream would be the perfect appetizer to our lunch! The Mikawaya shop serves a variety of fresh mochi ice-cream and mochi-lato (mochi gelato), as well as non-frozen mochi and other Japanese pastries! Mikawaya also sells mochi ice-cream at Trader Joes and other Asian supermarkets in the States.

I tried creme brulee mochi-lato, which tasted very similar to the vanilla mochi ice-cream that Delilah had. Katie chose the coconut mochi-lato which was delicious!! I think the Hubby would like the cookies and cream and my Mum would love the Kona coffee flavour!

I would recommend Mikawaya to everyone, even to those mochi first timers amongst you!

Yummy Factor: Oishi!!!!!!!!!!!

Pocket: Pretty cheap @ $1 - $1.25 a pop! Remember to bring cash as they do not take credit cards.

Service: Sweet and friendly with kids!

Atmosphere: The place wasn't busy when we went. But we prefered to eat ice-cream outside in the sunshine!

Mikawaya
118 Japanese Village Plz Mall
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Tel: (213) 624-1681

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Labels: Little Tokyo, Mikawaya, Mochi Ice Cream, Restaurant, Reviews

126 E 6th St
Los Angeles, CA 90014

Fantastic lunch spot for downtowners. The burgers are "award winning" according to the heavy signage in the area and it's next door to Cole's French Dip.


Yummy Factor: The patty is light and juicy, buns are buttery and perfectly buoyant. They were heavy handed with the blue cheese crumbles and this girl was happy about that. The side mixed greens with the house vinaigrette was very fresh and lightly dressed.

Pocket: Average burger price is $11. They have beer and wine, so if you're on a date you can still eat cheap and tasty.

Service: Iced tea remained full

Atmosphere: The waitresses, along with the obscure decor, have some curious styling choices. Not bad, just not waitress traditional. Cute summer striped bloomer shorts, white knee highs, maryjanes and a sheer silk tee over a tank top with the cafe's logo. The "new school", "street style" art didn't quite make sense mixed with pseudo hippy new age "inspired" images. A few flat screens were on for the lunch crowd, but people do love watching the World Cup.

All interior indiscretions aside, we all LOVED our fancy cheeseburgers and all agreed we would come back on another lunch field trip

Two fangs out

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126 E 6th St
Los Angeles, CA 90014

Fantastic lunch spot for downtowners. The burgers are "award winning" according to the heavy signage in the area and it's next door to Cole's French Dip.


Yummy Factor: The patty is light and juicy, buns are buttery and perfectly buoyant. They were heavy handed with the blue cheese crumbles and this girl was happy about that. The side mixed greens with the house vinaigrette was very fresh and lightly dressed.

Pocket: Average burger price is $11. They have beer and wine, so if you're on a date you can still eat cheap and tasty.

Service: Iced tea remained full

Atmosphere: The waitresses, along with the obscure decor, have some curious styling choices. Not bad, just not waitress traditional. Cute summer striped bloomer shorts, white knee highs, maryjanes and a sheer silk tee over a tank top with the cafe's logo. The "new school", "street style" art didn't quite make sense mixed with pseudo hippy new age "inspired" images. A few flat screens were on for the lunch crowd, but people do love watching the World Cup.

All interior indiscretions aside, we all LOVED our fancy cheeseburgers and all agreed we would come back on another lunch field trip

Two fangs out

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Labels: Reviews, Trifle

126 E 6th St
Los Angeles, CA 90014

Fantastic lunch spot for downtowners. The burgers are "award winning" according to the heavy signage in the area and it's next door to Cole's French Dip.


Yummy Factor: The patty is light and juicy, buns are buttery and perfectly buoyant. They were heavy handed with the blue cheese crumbles and this girl was happy about that. The side mixed greens with the house vinaigrette was very fresh and lightly dressed.

Pocket: Average burger price is $11. They have beer and wine, so if you're on a date you can still eat cheap and tasty.

Service: Iced tea remained full

Atmosphere: The waitresses, along with the obscure decor, have some curious styling choices. Not bad, just not waitress traditional. Cute summer striped bloomer shorts, white knee highs, maryjanes and a sheer silk tee over a tank top with the cafe's logo. The "new school", "street style" art didn't quite make sense mixed with pseudo hippy new age "inspired" images. A few flat screens were on for the lunch crowd, but people do love watching the World Cup.

All interior indiscretions aside, we all LOVED our fancy cheeseburgers and all agreed we would come back on another lunch field trip

Two fangs out

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St. Francis Fountain is an old school ice cream parlour that serves ice cream, milkshakes, fountain drinks and diner style food.

During the time that I lived in San Francisco I never managed to get into this place because there is always a bloody massive queue outside! But I found out a special tip to skip the queue...go on the Saturday morning that the Carnival parade is on! Everyone steers clear of this area in fear of of getting caught up in the parade madness. Luckily St. Francis is just on the edge of where the parade floats, so we snuck in and got seated straight away! Woohoo! (Ok so the Carnival is on once a year...but no queue innit!)


I was in full on brekkie (which is served all day - yay!) mode, so I skipped the ice cream and went for an omelette with a side of corn beef hash. I didn't realise that the omelette came with homefries, so ended up with two lots of potatoes! Whoops!

They have a collection of retro stickers and sweets on display.

That was my soy chai tea latte. Sorry but I was proper thirsty and couldn't even wait to take a photee first!

They offer lots of veggie/vegan options and even soy gelato substitute for fountain drinks. Thank you St. Francis!

Yummy Factor: Yumm-diddley-ummm-tumm tumm!

Pocket: I got me some change too!

Service: With a smile :-)

Atmosphere: American retro loveliness!

St. Francis Fountain
2801 24th St
San Francisco, CA 94110

Tel: (415) 826-4200

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Labels: Food, Restaurant, Reviews, Trouble

St. Francis Fountain is an old school ice cream parlour that serves ice cream, milkshakes, fountain drinks and diner style food.

During the time that I lived in San Francisco I never managed to get into this place because there is always a bloody massive queue outside! But I found out a special tip to skip the queue...go on the Saturday morning that the Carnival parade is on! Everyone steers clear of this area in fear of of getting caught up in the parade madness. Luckily St. Francis is just on the edge of where the parade floats, so we snuck in and got seated straight away! Woohoo! (Ok so the Carnival is on once a year...but no queue innit!)


I was in full on brekkie (which is served all day - yay!) mode, so I skipped the ice cream and went for an omelette with a side of corn beef hash. I didn't realise that the omelette came with homefries, so ended up with two lots of potatoes! Whoops!

They have a collection of retro stickers and sweets on display.

That was my soy chai tea latte. Sorry but I was proper thirsty and couldn't even wait to take a photee first!

They offer lots of veggie/vegan options and even soy gelato substitute for fountain drinks. Thank you St. Francis!

Yummy Factor: Yumm-diddley-ummm-tumm tumm!

Pocket: I got me some change too!

Service: With a smile :-)

Atmosphere: American retro loveliness!

St. Francis Fountain
2801 24th St
San Francisco, CA 94110

Tel: (415) 826-4200

Posted by Put Up Your Dukes at 9:30 AM 0 comments  

Labels: Food, Restaurant, Reviews, Trouble

St. Francis Fountain is an old school ice cream parlour that serves ice cream, milkshakes, fountain drinks and diner style food.

During the time that I lived in San Francisco I never managed to get into this place because there is always a bloody massive queue outside! But I found out a special tip to skip the queue...go on the Saturday morning that the Carnival parade is on! Everyone steers clear of this area in fear of of getting caught up in the parade madness. Luckily St. Francis is just on the edge of where the parade floats, so we snuck in and got seated straight away! Woohoo! (Ok so the Carnival is on once a year...but no queue innit!)


I was in full on brekkie (which is served all day - yay!) mode, so I skipped the ice cream and went for an omelette with a side of corn beef hash. I didn't realise that the omelette came with homefries, so ended up with two lots of potatoes! Whoops!

They have a collection of retro stickers and sweets on display.

That was my soy chai tea latte. Sorry but I was proper thirsty and couldn't even wait to take a photee first!

They offer lots of veggie/vegan options and even soy gelato substitute for fountain drinks. Thank you St. Francis!

Yummy Factor: Yumm-diddley-ummm-tumm tumm!

Pocket: I got me some change too!

Service: With a smile :-)

Atmosphere: American retro loveliness!

St. Francis Fountain
2801 24th St
San Francisco, CA 94110

Tel: (415) 826-4200

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I know I haven't posted a restaurant rebiew for ages, but been saving my pennies and not eating out as much as I used to. However, Holly and I decided to check out Happy Hour at Octopus Restaurant in Downtown before going to the cinema to catch a flick. Unfortunately, we took too long getting ready and playing with Brixton that we missed the first happy hour which is from 3:00pm - 7:00pm! They also have a reverse happy hour from 9:30pm until close (around 11pm), but of course that was when our film was playing.

Holly started with the miso eggplant steak, which she said was divine!

I had spicy tuna on crispy rice with wasabe mayo. There was too much of the mayo on this dish, although the rest of it was really tasty! It filled me up and I didn't really need to order anything else...

...But I already had ordered the Ichiban roll! It was hard to find a "chef's special" roll that didn't have tempura or imitation crab (both have wheat and I am a gluten-free diner innit). Also since I had already eaten a spicy tuna for my appetizer, I wanted something different - but the base of all the special rolls were either California Roll (with crab sticks)or spicy tuna roll. In the end I decided to double dose on my spicy tuna, rather than get nigiri or a simple roll.

Holly is Vegan and ordered a Vegetable Roll, which contained asparagus, cucumber, avocado and yamagobo.

For drinks we tried a Pomegranate martinis and Plum wine cocktail. Both were deliciously sweet and easy to drink!

I have ordered from Octopus for pick up, since their downtown restaurant is right down the road from my flat. Unfortunately the online menu differs slightly from each locations, so there are often things on the online menu that are not available at the restaurant. this can be disappointing, especially when I had to make 3 changes to my initial order because everytime I asked for something - they didn't have it.

Yummy factor: Oishi ne! It more fusion than traditional Japanese style.

Pocket: Go during happy hours!

Service: We had good service, the waiter helped us with recommendations and was friendly. It wasn't that busy because went between the two happy hours on a Thursday night though...

Atmosphere: Loud music pumping throughout the restaurant, so it feels like you're getting ready to go clubbing or something... Not really suitable for quiet romantic dining!

Octopus Restaurant
729 W. 7th St.
Los Angeles, CA 90017
Tel: (213) 402-1500

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Labels: Food, Restaurant, Reviews, Trouble

I know I haven't posted a restaurant rebiew for ages, but been saving my pennies and not eating out as much as I used to. However, Holly and I decided to check out Happy Hour at Octopus Restaurant in Downtown before going to the cinema to catch a flick. Unfortunately, we took too long getting ready and playing with Brixton that we missed the first happy hour which is from 3:00pm - 7:00pm! They also have a reverse happy hour from 9:30pm until close (around 11pm), but of course that was when our film was playing.

Holly started with the miso eggplant steak, which she said was divine!

I had spicy tuna on crispy rice with wasabe mayo. There was too much of the mayo on this dish, although the rest of it was really tasty! It filled me up and I didn't really need to order anything else...

...But I already had ordered the Ichiban roll! It was hard to find a "chef's special" roll that didn't have tempura or imitation crab (both have wheat and I am a gluten-free diner innit). Also since I had already eaten a spicy tuna for my appetizer, I wanted something different - but the base of all the special rolls were either California Roll (with crab sticks)or spicy tuna roll. In the end I decided to double dose on my spicy tuna, rather than get nigiri or a simple roll.

Holly is Vegan and ordered a Vegetable Roll, which contained asparagus, cucumber, avocado and yamagobo.

For drinks we tried a Pomegranate martinis and Plum wine cocktail. Both were deliciously sweet and easy to drink!

I have ordered from Octopus for pick up, since their downtown restaurant is right down the road from my flat. Unfortunately the online menu differs slightly from each locations, so there are often things on the online menu that are not available at the restaurant. this can be disappointing, especially when I had to make 3 changes to my initial order because everytime I asked for something - they didn't have it.

Yummy factor: Oishi ne! It more fusion than traditional Japanese style.

Pocket: Go during happy hours!

Service: We had good service, the waiter helped us with recommendations and was friendly. It wasn't that busy because went between the two happy hours on a Thursday night though...

Atmosphere: Loud music pumping throughout the restaurant, so it feels like you're getting ready to go clubbing or something... Not really suitable for quiet romantic dining!

Octopus Restaurant
729 W. 7th St.
Los Angeles, CA 90017
Tel: (213) 402-1500

Posted by Put Up Your Dukes at 11:29 AM 0 comments  

Labels: Food, Restaurant, Reviews, Trouble

I know I haven't posted a restaurant rebiew for ages, but been saving my pennies and not eating out as much as I used to. However, Holly and I decided to check out Happy Hour at Octopus Restaurant in Downtown before going to the cinema to catch a flick. Unfortunately, we took too long getting ready and playing with Brixton that we missed the first happy hour which is from 3:00pm - 7:00pm! They also have a reverse happy hour from 9:30pm until close (around 11pm), but of course that was when our film was playing.

Holly started with the miso eggplant steak, which she said was divine!

I had spicy tuna on crispy rice with wasabe mayo. There was too much of the mayo on this dish, although the rest of it was really tasty! It filled me up and I didn't really need to order anything else...

...But I already had ordered the Ichiban roll! It was hard to find a "chef's special" roll that didn't have tempura or imitation crab (both have wheat and I am a gluten-free diner innit). Also since I had already eaten a spicy tuna for my appetizer, I wanted something different - but the base of all the special rolls were either California Roll (with crab sticks)or spicy tuna roll. In the end I decided to double dose on my spicy tuna, rather than get nigiri or a simple roll.

Holly is Vegan and ordered a Vegetable Roll, which contained asparagus, cucumber, avocado and yamagobo.

For drinks we tried a Pomegranate martinis and Plum wine cocktail. Both were deliciously sweet and easy to drink!

I have ordered from Octopus for pick up, since their downtown restaurant is right down the road from my flat. Unfortunately the online menu differs slightly from each locations, so there are often things on the online menu that are not available at the restaurant. this can be disappointing, especially when I had to make 3 changes to my initial order because everytime I asked for something - they didn't have it.

Yummy factor: Oishi ne! It more fusion than traditional Japanese style.

Pocket: Go during happy hours!

Service: We had good service, the waiter helped us with recommendations and was friendly. It wasn't that busy because went between the two happy hours on a Thursday night though...

Atmosphere: Loud music pumping throughout the restaurant, so it feels like you're getting ready to go clubbing or something... Not really suitable for quiet romantic dining!

Octopus Restaurant
729 W. 7th St.
Los Angeles, CA 90017
Tel: (213) 402-1500

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Labels: Restaurant, Reviews

Dirty Hands documentary film Directed by David Choe's close friend, Harry Kim premiered last weekend. Here are some photos of the boys signing autographs at Sunset 5 on Saturday night.


Posters from Dave's current "Nothing to Declare" show were also available for signing.



T-shirts are available at Sunset 5 during the evening screenings this week.



Filmgoers were lining up to meet Dave and Harry.


Photos by Jon Dragonette

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Labels: Reviews, Trouble