Poor out some liquor!

Everyone can't keep the pace of yours truly.

Korean food is the bomb! Pancakes, dumplings, bibimbap and table BBQs. I love the concept of cooking your own food when I'm going out to eat. Our waiter at Koba was super nice. After asking us about where we were from he came back and asked us how we were doing in Swedish. Funny guy. Check out this place if you like Korean food.

Koba - 11 Rathbone Street, London

Dumplings and pancakes.


Vegetarian bibimbap.

Korean style marinated beef and shrimp on the grill.




2Pac - Poor Out A Little Liquor

S & M

On Portobello Road, under the subway train bridge, there's a cheap eatery serving sausage & mash, fish & chips and beef steaks. I think the place is called Classic Cafe... if I am not mistaken.
I went with the sausage and mashed potatoes plus a side order of mushy peas. The dish includes two sausages with a choice of lamb, chicken or vegetarian. Obviously I went for the meat. Simple and good traditional food for little money.

Classic Cafe - 268 Portobello Road, London


One chicken and one lamb sausage with mash.




S.A.S. - Cheerio

Room with a view

Changed flights in London on my way to LA yesterday. Made a pit stop at Wagamama for a Chili Ramen with beef.


Chili Ramen with beef.

Arrived at LAX last night at 7 (LA time). We didn't get to Sunset Blvd until 10.30 PM cause of customs, baggage claim and slow car rental company. Made a quick stop at Rite Aid for the necessities and then hopped on over to Pinches Tacos. I had the combination plate, three tacos of your choice plus rice, beans and chips. I had three different kinds of pork tacos.

Pinches Tacos - 8200 W. Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA


Adobada, Carnitas, Al Pastor with rice, beans and chips.


Woke up early this morning with hopes of tanning by the pool, but it was too cloudy to catch rays. But I went down to the pool anyway and ordered the Huevos Rancheros.

The Standard Hollywood - 8300 W. Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA


Huevos Rancheros, grapefruit juice and Moroccan mint tea.

Wawawiwa!

Heathrow's terminal 5 is like paradise compared to all of Arlanda's sad terminals together. One of the reasons is Wagamama. At Sweden's airports you'll find eateries you can't find anywhere else in the world... in a bad way! Expensive as hell, bad food and hardly anything but sandwiches. At Heathrow, on the other hand, they got the same restaurant chains as in the city, with the same menus and the same prices.


Chili squid.


Pork miso ramen.


Ebi gyoza.


Chicken miso ramen.

Before we headed off to the airport we had to do a wee bit more shopping. I bought a six pack of small fabric pieces just cause the prints were so nice. Now I just need to find a jacket with a chest pocket so I have somewhere to put them. Maybe I should have started from the other end...


I also got this children's book by Czechoslovakian author and illustrator Miroslav Sasek. Some of the nicest illustrations I've ever seen. I think I need to get all his other books too now.

Popular demand

On our last night in London we went to Nando's. They're all about chicken, S.A.S. (Eurogang) would probably call it Britain's answer to Popeye's in the US. The food is good, cheap, concept's nice but they forgot Marcella's food so she got her's 20 minutes later than us.


1/2 chicken (mango and lime marinated), spicy rice and rugged pea mash.

Nando's - 113 Baker Street (they have restaurants all over London)

West Side! It's bumpin on the East Side

We started the day with going to the Sunday Up Market in the Old Truman Brewery on Brick Lane (it's open every Sunday between 10 am and 5 pm). It's a lot bigger than the Broadway Market we went to yesterday, but size doesn't always matter cause I liked Broadway better. Just like yesterday I found the food stalls more interesting than the clothing and bric-a-brac. The place is packed with food stalls from all over the globe. I got myself some Peking duck rolls, a Turkish gözleme with minced beef and a lemonade. Looked and sounds more exciting than it was. Not saying it was bad but compared to the food at the Broadway Market this was a little bit more like what you would expect from a stall serving fast food.

Peking duck rolls.

Turkish gözleme with minced beef, tzatziki and salad.

Then we hopped on the tube again and went back west to Portobello. The clothes and bric-a-brac market was pretty boring as usual, plus we didn't have much energy left for more markets. I did find a nice pair of shoes at Office though.

Can't nobody... like I do

Last night we met up with Amir, Yaya and Frida again. Frida had booked a table att Viet Grill in Shoreditch. I love Vietnamese food so I was pretty, pretty, pretty excited about it. I wasn't disappointed either since the food was great. I started with Imperial spring rolls and then I downed the roasted duck and noodles. I had a hard time taking a picture of the main course that made it look as good as it tasted so if you don't think it looks good you just have to believe me that it was.

Cha gio - Imperial spring rolls.

Vit quay xào - Roast duck, greens and spicy saté sauce and side order of noodles with bean-sprouts and onion.

Viet Grill - 58 Kingsland Road, London

Broader than Broadway

We've been to the Broadway Market today. We spent our money on food and spent some time in the park, London fields, and had a beer with Amir, Yaya and Frida. Amir and Yaya are, just like us, here for the R. Kelly concert that never happened. If you're into food from food stalls you need to go here when in London. We had galettes, burgers and Ghanaian food. I'ma let the pictures speak for themselves.

Ey vad händer!

Today we've been shopping! Thought I would look like a rookie compared to Marcella and Joey but actually I made them look like shopaholics in rehab. We stopped for a ginger beer at some café and then we went to Le Pain Quotidien for some lunch. I had a cup of red pepper soup and one of my French all time favorites; plat de charcuterie. Basically just a plate full of cold cut meats, paté and bread. It's "knife food" ad it's finest! Le Pain Quotidien has restaurants all over the world so chances are you'll run into one sooner or later.


Red pepper soup.


Organic charcuterie platter.

Le Pain Quotidien - Covent Garden, London


Today i bought a pair of heavy washed Levi's 501 jeans and a purple and white striped shirt, both from Urban Outfitters vintage clothing department. I also got a yellow Levi's shirt from Mint Vintage Clothing, green knitted grandpa shirt from COS and a Hawaii shirt from Rockit.


We also got these cups from London Graphic Centre. I know... Pantone... might be as nerdy as you can get, especially if you're a designer. But the colors were so nice we just couldn't resist.