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go surfin danny, real nice this time of year. go in trooper gear too, would be awesome

btw isnt making/building/buying a spacious house in japan gonna cost an arm and leg? =O just wondering since it seems decent sized houses in the US are already a fortune

Long time lurker and since you made an entry about Los Angeles i decided to register so i could comment. Yes, Los Angeles has pretty much the crappiest road in the United States in my opinion . So what you experienced on the road is pretty common ^^.

Glad you enjoyed the food around here but if you want really good Chinese food you should visit the San Gabriel Valley area. And if you like Russian piroshki you should visit around Santa Monica blvd in West Hollywood. Plenty of Russian restaurants/shops.

Also i agree with you that meal portions in the US are huge compared to other countries. Hence, the stereotypical fat American...meh

All of these things, I see everyday Danny.

Oh DANNY! Please, you should come to San Diego when the Comic Con is up! I'm not sure when it's going to be up, but come over and bring your Storm Trooper suit! I'm just saying.

You better have enjoyed California, Danny... *crosses arms and puts on serious stare*

Danny, if you want really good Chinese food, you should come to San Francisco.

I remember that Water World set at Universal. Did you get to see them perform on their jet skis??
My apartment is pretty spacious, but I have so much stuff so it makes it feel a bit cramped.

Now I'm hungry!!!!!!!!
LA seems like a real cool place to visit!!!!!!!
Would consider checking out!!!

Dannychoo: You didn't even visit the real Los Angeles did you? :p

Places like East L.A., Boyle Heights, Watts (My hometown) South Central L.A., Compton & maybe Long Beach.

Yeah your tourist guide always leaves those places out. :p

As for the question about bumpy roads; yes, we have some of the worst shaped roads due to so much traffic conjestion (spelling?). L.A. is overcrowded with people and automobiles. I've been to Las Vegas Nevada and people who come from out of the state and they all say that no one has it as bad as L.A. in terms of so much traffic.

Right now L.A. is spending so much money that it's hard for L.A. to deal with one thing at a time. L.A. is busy building a lot of lofts and condos, unecessary ligth rail that is making MTA go bankrupt and boost prices on bus fare. SO the bumpy roads are dead last to deal with, but it doesn't mean that they aren't getting fixed.

We are also known to have the most car chases in the nation, maybe even the world.

Still, there's no place like home and besides, Downtown L.A. is the gates of heaven. :D

I knew you were here Danny, because I read about Imprint in Giant Robot magazine (the best magazine we have here in the U.S.)!

Yeah the food portions are ridiculous here, aren't they-- that's why we don't have those tiny tables that you posted about recently.

There's lots of kool stuff in LA and California in general. I am 2077 mi / 3342 km away in Chicago, though. If you come to Chicago for some reason I can definitely tell you where to have some excellent chinese food.

I own my condominuim here in Chicago. It average-sized-- about 1000 square feet / 300 square meters (I don't know how many tatami-mats that is).

My fiancee and I are hoping to buy a place in Nishitokyo within the next 2 years and move away from here.

Hmm, I've never heard of using "Los" to refer to L.A. before.
And yeah, huge food portions are huge.
Did you get a chance to visit Little Tokyo?

OMG MAN!! DANNY CHOO & HIS FOOD PIX!! I'M HUNGRY ALREADY!! anyway that place u couldn't remember the name is Santa Monica ^^ & yes Danny! the food here in L.A. come in big amounts hehe (ok gotta go get some food)

the thing i dont like about food in the US is that there is too much diversity.takes me a few hours everyday just to decide what to eat for lunch

MITSUWA right Danny?... about all japanese food there in LA.

Average living area ... considering the amount of furniture my parents buy lol!!!
Its all like unnecessary stuff. Anyways Canadian portions IMO are like .3% less than the American's --_-- soo yeah... dad was kinda surprized too when he got to the US for the first time...

The U.S. have HUGE portions of food but most the people I know only eat about twice or so a day. Like me for a example I eat cereal at home for breakfast skip school lunch because they taste horrible but I do get water because I get thirsty and than I eat when I come back home and after homework I find myself thinking better on a empty stomach. So around 6 if I don't eat like this I just feel stuffed or just bloated which I hate.

Next time you come to LA, Danny, try a burger at Fat Burger...three layers of meat should clog a few arteries...

I was so hoping to meet up with you when you were down here but I never received a call from you. I figured you were really busy though and I understand. You were super close to me as well when you were in Ontario. It's Ontario Mills not Ontario Hills. XD

Oh Johnny Rockets? Its called Eddie Rockets here.. the food is over priced and waaaaaay too filling, you usually come out feeling like you've eaten far too much, hope you enjoyed it and there weren't any rocket fumes afterwards >_<

Danny you should come to Anime Expo at LA Convention Center ^___^ it's from July 3-6 XD

Come visit me (^w^) gonna be staffing (^_^)b

those dim sum looks good... OK, you make me want to eat it now.

I would like to agree about the roads in los angeles....but everything else in los angeles is awesome!!! Food...umm next time, I'll be gladly to give a list of places of great "mom & pop" places.. i lived here all my life...from mexican to korean....i have tons of places..the're japanese food in Gardena.....good pics...as for the weather...we have the best weather all season long....but we have earthquakes..but Danny...we have something in common....love this article...thanks!!!!!!!

Haha Been to most of those places! Ontario Mall is lame!!!!!!!!!
But I still go there :D

My house is average sized for around here. Know some people with massive houses with like a movie theatre and such in them. Scared when I first saw them... thought "this person's parents must be drug dealers..."

I'm really amaze that you did go to a lot of place in LA Danny. I'm really enjoy LA much due to it ridiculous traffic and some part of LA neighborhood.About the food, I agree,the food all taste better in LA for some reason. Where you go shop for Japanese's stuff in LA? I went to little Tokyo but the price is a rip off 100 yen can tea = $3.5 ><.

OOH, I'm so jealous Danny! I've never been to LA, but I've been to other places. You make it look like lots of fun and it makes me full just looking at those pictures of food.

there is waaaaay too much space in where i live, and i really really hate it. i like the cramped populous city i used to live in before

I've got plenty of space here; my room in my house I think is bigger than some apartments I've seen in Hong Kong. But I'm not sure where I stand on the space issue...I think I'd like to live in something a little more cramped...I'll need to try it out to know for sure.

When i was living in hk it a small like hell but in montreal i got bigger house imean like giant

Next time you come to LA Danny, care to meet up and perhaps I can treat you to all-you-can-eat Korean BBQ or something ^_^ I've been appreciating more of food they can offer in Korea Town as of late.

Don't know if it has been answered already, but nah...it's just called Los Angeles by the locals.

How did you like the traffic? Heh. If you somehow miraculously managed to avoid it, you gotta try the 405 freeway at 17:00-20:00 at least once whenever you return.

Yeah chinese food is aplenty around LA, especially in Chinatown, Monterey Park, Covina, Walnut and San Gabriel.

Of all the food joints you visited, it seems the only thing you missed out on was Mexican food. Gotta try out the carne asada next time.

Danny, it seems like you were at Santa Monica Beach and the Promenade (next to the beach). That is why you saw all those pedestrians :)

The freeways are mostly bumpy, but there are a few that are farther south that are new :)

-Mike

Went to LA when I was 9 years old back in 1996. Wish to visit USA again in the future, but the current political climate made me feel a bit uncertain about going to America.

"Cant find decent shoes in Japan" ... i hear you there .... thank god for the internet to buy this sort of thing.

Singapore, needless to say, is cramped. Look at the size of it! Most of us lives in pigeon holes which don't come cheap either...

hmmm living spaces here is quickly getting smaller and more expensive unfortunately o_o but sometimes bigger living spaces just mean more to clean LOL but I dare say living space in vancouver is still bigger than Singapore ^^;

Before I moved to Taiwan, i was residing in Southern California. I can attest to the crappy conditions of the roads, the unnecessarily large portions of food, and the gorgeous weather. oh god, the weather ^___^

Danny, yah gps nav isnt as advanced as over there. Also yes food over here seems to go more for quantity than quality as people like to eat alot over here sadly.... ^^b

As a native of the city of Angels, i just gotta say "I Love LA!" crappy streets and all, i have a world of food choices in a 30 min radius. any and everything you ever wanted can be found in this town. and next time your in town Danny, all LA members should get together and say hi

Awesome, though the size of that milk was insane. It really seems like the US is evolving into giants. Some of the food looks delicous, other not so delicous.

Best thing about L.A, I would say the weather/beach. Though, isn't it kinda annoying with the smog, or is it not that horrible as the news says?

Well in the States everything is big Danny XD, I still remember going there for the first time and staying for 5 weeks and I got a shock because everything was frickin huge and the distances between things were big as well.

Not very fond of American food, the only thing I like is the "junk food" but other dishes?! Can't compare to our cuisine. The apartments here depend in how many rooms they have, T0, T1, etc..., normally people buy T2 which means that they have two bedrooms, a living room, a kitchen, and one or two bathrooms, normally its very spacious. Currently I live in a vivenda (can't remember the word in english), it's a two "store" house with a garden (it's big). Would upload some pictures on my blog but won't due to security reasons.

"Johnny Rockets tasted like...A rocket up the Johnny."
LOL, this line cracked me up... I wonder what's a Johnny...

Singpore HDB houses aren't that big, I think it's small compared to the house in the pictures... There's no garden, garage o space... Sad... tleast I have someplace to stay, so I'm glad...

Only ever been to LA more as stop-overs or going through while going to San Francisco or San Diego. Will have to stay longer and take more in the City of Angels next time I go there.

That first food takeaway looks kinda of yum. I like those thin rice noodles, stir fried vermicelli!

We had Calpis here for a short while and then it all changed to Calpico which I thought was a another brand trying to copy Calpis at the time until I realised what they did. All the Calpico here are imported from Indonesia.

Looks like you had yum cha or dim sum as they call it over in the States I think. Oh I want to try some Bubba Shrimps one day. I heard they are yummy and those toast look really buttery and delicious, too.

Living space is generally quite spacious here. Nothing like Hong Kong or Japan I guess.

Mmmm, more yum cha goodies! Drool. Gotta love Korean food, too. Just had some over the weekend.

Wow.. The houses and the food portion there are very big.. O.O

Singapore on the other hand has smaller houses which is already expensive.. The higher you live, the more expensive it is.. :(

"Water World set. Would love to see a new Water World Movie."

WHAT? Water World was awful.

That closed off pedestrian street is the 3rd Street promenade in downtown Santa Monica.

I live on that street (literally a block north of all of that stuff).

The downtown Santa Monica area is really great. Tons of stuff within walking distance. Plus the weather in Santa Monica is usually really nice (ex: even when it is super hot inland, SM is still pretty breezy and comfy).

You should let me know the next time you're in town. If I'm not too busy (a rarity for someone in the video game biz) I'd be happy to meet up.

I have a serious question: I read your post about while you were in Akihabara and it seems you got a lot of great pics of the merchandise in stores and stuff. While I was in Japan, it seems if I asked if it was okay to take pictures, people said "no". Is it just because they didn't understand what I meant? Are they okay with you taking indoor pictures of their products? Please let me know! Thanks.

hah. Calpis is my current fav drink. was even blogging bout it last week! ^:^

Living space is Average in my area, it's more on how many people are living with you that can change that.

I live to eat food!!
anyway in the USA all thing are bigger than normal...

Nice trip...
Alot of food, but, why you go to eat japanese or asian food to L.A?....
I prefer eat some greek food, or maybe a Mexican's taco.
But i am a great fan of the chinesse food, my favorite is the pork chop suy.
That's all...bye-nara!

I saw to a refreshment, Dr.Pepper...i love it. Here in Chile don't sale it, but when i go to USA, always order a Dr.Pepper.

Nice pic Danny! I never really take picture when I go travel. I think I should do that just like what you do. =D

it dosen't look so dangerous like the serial The Shield describe it....

I went to LA before and it was amazing. Lots of fun, even went to Las Veges. Funny how as long as you're with your parents, you can go into Casinos. I was like 7 at the time, even got to play some slots...in secert =)

That was the train station - Union Station, it's right south of Olvera street. I used to ride the train to downtown a few years ago. Olvera st is the birthplace of Los Angeles. You should check it out next time, lots of restaurants, festivals and small stalls selling stuff.

If you go to J-town near the Japanese cultural center, check out the shabu shabu restaurant. There's only one that has a long line outside its door every freaking day, so you can't miss it. So gooooood.

Nice pics Danny, thanks for posting them!

Now that I'm making at least 2 posts by myself on my blog, I realized how freaking hard it is to make posts with tons of commented pics...

Anyways, gotta love them cow piss. oops...

Awesome... I live in Los Angeles(Northridge), but I used to live in North Hollywood(a four minute walk away from the Universal Studios that you went to). I have seen everything in those pictures except for the Chinese food, but they seem a lot more interesting in the article.

Ahh Mr. Choo is/was in the US ^^.

I have never been to LA, and the only thing that comes to mind are the stereotype gangs and girls with large glasses and dogs in their purses.

Portions are big here in the US- not sure where or how that started.

In general, many of the highways arn't taken care of too much and some of the way can get bumpy, especially in my area.

I live in a suburban/rural area- there are farms but a lot of houses- I never feel cramped though.

I live in rural Canada, just outside a small city. Land is ridiculously abundant. We need more people, lol.

No Fair!!! I bet you going to travel around the world later on.....

All those super sized portions are killing my self-control T_T

Living in Singapore is quite good actually. Well, as long as you remember to clear out unwanted items from your house every half-year or so... or else it's really going to get cramped.

For me, a house like that is a palace... Sigh

I realize something, damn Danny, you travel a lot! You enjoy makes us jelaous, isn`t true?

Again, nice post and great pics^^ I also want to eat some korean food...

lol its called Ontario Mills and they have everything there..its also the biggest outlet in SoCal.

TOO GOOD TOO GREAT。。。。

It's very hard to find a spacious apartment without paying an arm and a leg for it. I live in a 1-bedroom apartment and it sucks. Everything from the management to the neighbors just bites.

Nice post and awesome pics.

In Montreal (where I'm from), the rent prices in some muncipalities are just ridiculous... from 800$-1200$ (every month, depending on how many rooms) for accomodation, particularly in apartments and flats. Great place to visit, too bad parking can be a real pain in the downtown area.

let me know if you ever whant to come to a real state like texas they might be moving me to corpus here soon. if you ever ;get the notion to i could let you check out the jets you know stuff like raptor tomcats and the like.

It's really interesting reading posts like this from people who aren't from the United States.

The southland is the only place besides Chicago where I have lived for any length of time. But that was only twenty months back in 1981-82.
I think it is still a nice place to visit.
Despite what one respondent here scribed, Los Angeles *really needs* a comprehensive rail transportation system. Depending on motor buses to handle all of its traffic is completely nonsensical.
I would not go as far as scrawling that _Giant Robot_ is the best magazine out here, but it is very, very good. For all the locals urging you to visit their cities, Johnny, the place you _should_ have gone is Giant Robot's shops and restaurant in the Sawtelle district of western L.A.
The really stunning area I found in Los Angeles was the *under-reported* little section of Hollywood, north of Hollywood Blvd., overlooking the Hollywood Bowl, which is non-vehicularized streets. [i.e.: You can walk the blocks, and there are houses on the hills, but the garages where these house's owners would store their autos are in a separate location.]

I've nvr been oversea before =

SoCal has a lot of good food..I'm up north of there in San Francisco, and a lot of the restaurants down there are migrating up here. Though, I think you went to the wrong place if you went to Johnny Rockets. :P

The roads are bumpy some worse than others but the weathers is always pretty!

los angel yay!

traffic, smog, crime, bad drivers, hot weather

i call that home...
at least people in ca are nicer than most from other states- if you wave to a stranger- they will wave back and smile!!! on foot, everyone is alright, but behind the wheel- they are crazy

I still cant bring myself to drink Calpis because it sounds like cow piss D: ... and the color is ugh.

Oh Danny, you make me miss home so much! >.< I've been to the places in almost all of the photos repeatedly. I don't know about the freeway question though, because they seemed normal to me, certainly not as bumpy as I've felt in other places in the U.S. that should really have better road repair than they do... <.<

Other good facts about the region: Santa Monica beach is really fun location to go for a run. There are loads of ethnic restaurants there too (which I'm reminded of constantly as there is no Peruvian food at all in Kansas). Going on Jurassic Park the ride and then Backdraft the ride over and over were excellent ways to get wet and dry off with much excitement. Also there are plenty of buses and trains to get around without a car (I had to live like that for years once! XD).

OH man Danny! THe first take out chinese pic look nasty. Like you said quantity over quality.

Stay away from the prepac sushi... nasty as hell.... also got food poisoning twice off of those.

"The name Calpis was actually constructed as a portmanteau, by combining cal from calcium and pis from Sanskrit sarpis (supreme taste). Sarpis is used to described the essense of Buddhist teaching." from wikipedia.
Once you know the meaning it doesn't bother at all IMO.

Rosu is only for Japanese lol. in socal it seems to be called "the city" coming from the outskirts. reference to it is pernounced out L... A.... "to live and die in L A "....

Hehe food is both! To live and to live for! I love cooking!

Yes the roads are bumpy. the gaps are made in between the freeway panels for heat expansion during really hot days and pot holes are regularly made but the damn big rig trucks....

love the pepper but what happen to haruhi??? forgot her at home?

hehe the pedestranized street is the Santa Monica 35rd street Promenade. very nice all day.

ooo the weather it's sunny all year long except for a few rainy seasons but yeah blue skies... but it's really hot during the summer... Sunny California

hehe the navi! it's cheap so have nothing to say... btw don't you love the daylight savings time?? it's still light outside at 7pm!

bubba shrimp yuM! ontario mall bleh xP not my taste of place...

lol johnny rockets is terrible.... just for the serious case of the munchies and willing to eat anything...

Universal... i miss going there... hope you had the chance to ride the Back to the Future ride before it was changed to the simpsons the ride....

a! the revenge of the mummy the ride.... why!? why!!!? nande!? do they have to destroy the ET ride for that???

yeay jurassic park! movie sets are cool to look everytime... water world remake would be crazy! need to be done

LA portions are massive... goes with the massive sized, horizontally..., people in the area...

the korean food is good!

you've only seen the small portion of what is called LA hahaha next time eh? and don't forget haruhi! kawaisou xD

It amuses me that I find those portions completely normal :D
Aren't those "Reserve the Right" signs standard in places other than US? If not, lemme tell you, IT'S THE CUSTOMERS' FAULT.

I went crazy when I saw Ontario Mills on here. Although, seems like you mosied off pretty far away from LA. That's like an hour away w/ moderate traffic.

If you like the weather here, its MISERABLE in the summer for inlanders. (stupid mountains blocking the cool ocean breeze...)

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should be santa monica i guess

Yes Danny food here comes in massive quantities. However there is still great places to eat that favor quality over quantity, only problem is have to know where they are because great restaurants are sparse and far scattered.

The roads here are terrible, bet there are worse places but its definitely below average for a large city.

I love all the great recommendation from everyone on where one should visit on a trip here. They are all great places and all have their merits. I think that is one of the alluring parts of Los Angeles, its so large and diverse. You really can't see all of it in one short visit. Southern California definitely has something that should appeal to everyone and in the rare case it doesn't, I bet you can find it within a moderate drive. The same can be said of California as a whole.

Oh wow, somewhere I (sort of) know! :D

I live to eat, not the other way around~ I'm not surprised about the quantity thing...I've heard from my foreign friends that they can share a one-person meal here and still have leftovers. LA (and CA in particular) is a very "full" place, there's always something you haven't seen. :)

And cons. Fanime in a few days, and then AX, followed by SDCC! I'll only be attending sdcc this year, tho.

Ah, LA. My home town. That last pic of the Korean food, you didn't happen to get that at Hodori did you? I also see that you went to Marukai. I used to work there. All the cheap stuff there....expired.

hey danny

lol these are from sooo long ago! ya forgot to post the monster steak from mortons. lol
and from the pictures you posted, you really got to eat a diverse selection of food during your short stay in LA.

dim sum, chili dogs at johnny rockets, persian food (chelo kabob w/ saffron rice?), pot roast w/ corn bread, pork ribs w/ bbq sauce, sauteed shrimp, orange chicken w/ pan fried chow-fun, hae-jang gook, etc...... i cant stop this now.

so hungry.......

next time you and the misses are down in southern california, you need to hit all the famous eateries!

roscoes chicken and waffles, pinks hot dogs, the hat (killer pastrami), in-n-out, etc...

so so hungry.......

you need to start an yelp account danny...

/pass out from hunger

escape from la thats a gud film, why are the milk cartons so hugee!!???

Living in LA my whole life. I can honestly say, I've noticed the portion sizes increasing.
I usually share a meal, and still have leftovers.

Calpis Water becomes Calpico Water. Apparently "Calpis" sounds too much like "Cow Piss" in English ears - do you agree?

I'm the kind of person who wouldn't notice these thing unless it is pointed out. Or tis to say I just don't think that way? Initially, no I don't think it "sounds" like that.^^

WHAT?? You were in LA??? And you went to Ontario Mills mall?? You should have stopped by Victoria Gardens! Let me know the next time your in LA, I'll show you where the really good places are too eat and shop!