Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Movie review.

For fathers day, wife bought me the ticket to see edge of tomorrow starting tom cruise.  This is a remake of a japanese comic called all you need is kill.  The same author that authored the comic for playing a chess type of game. The movie is set up as tom cruise is stuck in a vortex when day is repeated when he die. In the movie, earth was invaded by alien force and tom is the final person on earth who can prevent this. Overrall, the movie was good and it is always interested to see tom go through the motion from a rookie to skilled fighter.  However the ending seems a bit questionable. The comic has a more logic ending, but may not be what Hollywood like.   Anyway, I still think is a good movie and would recommend anyone to see.  

Saturday, May 31, 2014

Maruhide Uni Club Address: 2130 W Redondo Beach Blvd Torrance, CA 90504 Phone number (310) 323-2864 Business websitemaruhide.us/?lang=en Review: 4 out 5 Seat Urchin, Uni, ...etc no matter how you say it in whatever language it is TASTY!!! when it is done right. When my co-worker was showing me this restaurant on Friday, I knew immediately where to head to for lunch on Saturday. The place opens at 11:30, and by the time we arrived at 11:50, it was almost packed already. As most of the yelper had noted already, this place specialized in Uni, so order UNI. I ordered the combination which was great, but in comparison, the fish and rice is just not up to par with the Uni. We ordered the combination along with the uni croquette and uni pasta. Pasta was greatly cooked. You can't really taste the uni in the pasta, but that doesn't really affect the taste of the dish. Croquette was good too. My kids love those. When the soup came for the combination uni bowl, I was very impressed by the seaweed soup with uni. The uni in the soup is SOOOO good. with high hope, I was waiting for my main dish. When it came, the plating was very appealing. However, the amount of fish and the freshness of fish are just average. I definitely think this is a place now I will come constantly when taking anyone to LAX for international flight. It is close by the airport. http://www.yelp.com/user_details_reviews_self?userid=e4-Bh67MYKBUoaQN5ZYxEA

Wurstküche

Address: 800 E 3rd St Los Angeles, CA 90013 Arts District, Downtown Get Directions Phone number (213) 687-4444 Business websitewurstkuche.com 4 out of 5 stars. This is one of my favorite hot dog place in Los Angeles. We stumbled to this place by accident. Initially was just stopping by pie hole for some dessert, but the kids are crying for food. Ever since then, we have been a regular here anytime we are heading toward the LA. This is probably the closest we found to hot dogs in Germany. Still not comparable, the curry Ketchup is not the same, but again, we are in the States, so I can not ask to much. The location is also great, it is right across from the Pie Hole. So after dinner, dessert across the street is always great.

Sunday, May 11, 2014

Sushi Murasaki at Santa Ana, CA

Sushi Murasaki

 3 out of 5 stars

Haven't been to this place for about 3 years.  We selected this place for mother's day.  Since the place does not open on Sunday anymore, we had to celebrate the day on Saturday instead.

The quality is still good, but the service is extremely slow.  The Omakase is 10 pieces of sushi for $31 (with 30% discount already).  the Omakase was tasty but won't fill you up.

Sushi is tasty and fresh, but I was not overwhelm.  not sure is it because of the crowd, quality is just not as expected.  Looking in the past review, I was raving about the "real" wasabi, but they changed that too.  Will I come back? probably.... will this be place that I got to for sushi craving?  probably not.