Question: Where can you find Walt Disney’s original barn?

Answer: Not Disneyland. (As if the title of the post didn’t give it away!)

Tucked in Griffith Park, right by Travel Town, is the Carolwood Pacific Historical Society- open to the public on the last Sunday of the month. Go check it out soon!

Continuing our love for LA, we explored downtown this past Monday to check out some museums and grindz.

We didn’t walk by the occupy LA protestors, but did pass by the L.A. Times building and saw this fancy mural that depicts the history of print. They need to update to the digital age and add mobile devices somewhere, though.

Finally!!!! You are mine!

In my stomach you go!

Card catalog at guess where? The L.A. library! Some sketchy dude kept saying “telecom” at one of the entrances. I love LA and the random people!

The Coffee Bar on Spring street. They serve Handsome Coffee Roasters and Four Barrel.

pine state biscuits

don’t even compare this bad boy to a breakfast biscuit at mickey d’s. this fella (we got the reuben) was loaded with bacon, cheese, a fried piece o chicky and smothered with gravy. my mouth drools as i write about it.

nong’s khao man gai

i wish i could try all the food pods located all over portland, but this one has a special place in my heart (or tummy). they serve a simple dish of poached chicken and rice but oh. so. flavorful. so good on a cold day! 

pok pok

as much as i wanted to believe the hype (I admit it was delish), i don’t think good thai/asian food should be that salty. or use fish sauce as the primary ingredient for flavor. the chicken wings were yummy and i wish i got two orders instead of the glass noodle salad. i was also a little confused by the water they served which tasted like rice water (which to my asian taste buds tasted like the water they used to rinse the rice…yuck). 

kenny and zuke’s deli

I guess the thing to try at this joint is the pastrami. i’m not really a big fan of the meat, but i tried it. tis ok. the potato salad was nice and creamy and didn’t have random vegetables like celery or olives or eggs (those weird me out in potato salads).

tabor

heard good reviews about this food pod, so as soon as we saw this, we knew we had to try it.  i got the chicken breast schnitzelwich and mark got the breaded pork loin. the sandwich was damn good but the paprika spread was a bit of a spicy party in my mouth. (sorry didnt have time to take a pic of the sandwich cuz i scarfed it down)

voodoo donuts

tourist trap. i tried the voodoo doll cuz im a sucker for jelly filled donuts. but oh my jeebus, i might as well just snort sugar crystals

whatever you wanna call it, we went there to do what we do best: EAT, drink coffee, walk, and EAT some more.

the hubs and i visited the venice beach canals yesterday. i’ve lived in la my entire life, and can honestly say i’ve never. ever. been. here. before. 

this place is truly magical cuz it feels like you’re a hundred miles away from the crazies at venice beach and also it’s weird to walk around and snoop around houses that cost at least over a mil! (read more about it here)

After walking around the venice canals, we stopped at lemonade to quench our thirst (watermelon and rosemary lemonade)

your eyes do not deceive you. this is a huge ass macaron the size of my hand (caramel fleur de sel flavored)!

we decided to hang out with my friend steph in costa mesa this past saturday and it was nice not running errands for once!

we checked out portola coffee lab in the oc mart mix. they ran out of the slow drip kyoto coffee. :(

for lunch, we grabbed carnitas nachos and some tacos from el toro bravo tortilleria.

this meal is not for the faint of heart. under the queso and sour cream somewhere lies the crunchy thick tortilla chips. ouch. heart burn.

we wanted to check out surfer blood at the us surf open in hb, but got there too late! turns out we walked almost 7 miles that day from where we parked!

the entire exhibit was awesome, but i’m only showing pix of my favorite installations from Barry McGee.

if you’re a fan of ray and charles and eames, this is number one on your to-do list if you’re ever in cali. nestled in pacific palisades, the eames house was one of the case study houses for the arts and architecture mag. all the materials they used were pre-fab and collected after WII.

where did the days go!?!?! to make the most of our last (rainy) day in tokyo- here’s a lowdown of the shenanigans that went on:

i like this lady’s outfit. her blue polka dot umbrella matches her dress!

i thought for the longest time while we were in tokyo that the store was “doughnut planet” :/ we tried the vanilla bean donut which was huge! but tasted just like a regular glazed donut.

after an hour or so on the JR line, we finally made it to shinyokohama for the “raumen” museum where you can sample various ramens and check out how ramen noodles/broth is made.

this is the ramen we ordered. it was a very garlicky broth. bleh.

since we did a ramen museum, we figured we should check out the beer museum in yebisu.

i got some light beer while mark tasted their house specials. the potato chips were good too.

for dinner, we didn’t know where to eat, but finally settled on some hole in the wall restaurant in nakano. i wanted some fried rice and got it. yum.

one last night walk through our nakano neighborhood.

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