FuRaiBo, Los Angeles

One last review on my food venture in LA! Sorry for the late post. I’ve been very busy lately; last week I had my spring break, so it was easy for me to update stuff quickly. But since school has started, I need to prioritize my homework and assignments :)

Anyway, on with the review.

FuRaiBo is a Japanese grill restaurant. So, they don’t serve sushis and sashimis. FuRaiBo is a franchised restaurant, but this is the only one in LA. It is located at Sawtelle Boulevard.

The first meal I tried was the fried sandwich. It had vegetables and cheese in it. If you pay attention, you can see the melted cheese in between those breads. I’m not sure whether they were actually breads, though, because they were really soft; they might even be tofu! But the breads (yes, I will regard them as bread) were slightly more chewy than tofu, so I’m not sure. 

This was the grilled beef tongue… I kind of forgot what it was before, because the picture doesn’t make it look memorable (it kind of looks like beef teriyaki in the photo) but then my friend reminded me that it was the tongue, and so I recalled the memory of eating it :) The beef tongue was good; it tasted like soft beef. I know you guys might be disgusted by what it is, but since I come from Indonesia, a place where people eat lots of beef tongues, it was totally normal for me to eat this kind of thing. Compared to other beef tongues, this was quite plain. I guess since the restaurant is serving this dish in United States, customers might already think of it as something exotic, so FuRaiBo doesn’t have to try harder to make it more interesting. Moving on…

Now this one was great! It’s the grilled gindara. The meat of the gindara fish was so tender that it just melted on your tongue! And same as Dodilia, I also don’t usually like fish, but this one was GOOD! The meat was as soft as butter…………… :)

So just to give you a heads up, I am going to venture around Manhattan this weekend. I might check out this restaurant on 55th and 5th, which serves Spaghetti Ice. Sojabean calls it Spaghetti eis, but I’d rather call it Ice Spaghetti, or Icetti :D Basically it’s ice cream that is served like a spaghetti, with berry sauce that represents the tomato sauce. So please keep yourself updated with Tasteritos’ latest reviews!

Indita

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The Ivy, Los Angeles

I went to the very famous the Ivy restaurant when I was in LA. This restaurant is famous for having many celebrities coming, so it was really fun! I didn’t see any celebrities here though…

The dish I ordered was the oyster; there were 6 of them, for 12 dollars, which is quite reasonable, since oysters are usually quite expensive and this is quite a high-end restaurant.

The oysters taste like your average oyster, cos they’re just oysters. lol. The red stuff right there is the sauce; it was a mix of tomato paste and a little heat. It was kind of sweet as well. I think the sauce was nice when combined with the oysters, but it was nice combined with the calamaris as well! The picture’s below:

The calamaris were delicious! The crispiness was perfect, and the meat wasn’t very chewy, which I liked. Because a lot of restaurants serve very chewy calamaris that you cannot really bite them off, but this one was not that chewy, so it was good.

I also tried my friend’s ravioli. It was lobster ravioli with tomato and cheese dressing. The picture’s below:

I loved it as well! I think this ravioli kind of tastes like the lobster ravioli in a restaurant called Seraffina, which is kind of scattered around in NYC, which I will review in the future if I get to go there again. So basically the insides of the ravioli is very light and not cheesy at all. The sauce was a little salty and the tomato was very apparent. The cheese on top made it all perfect!

Indita

3 June Permalink

Paulette, Los Angeles

So all of my friends know that I LOVE macaroons, so they brought me to this cute little place called Paulette in LA. It is located in cross street of Beverly Drive and Charleville in Beverly Hills.

Paulette serves all kinds of macaroon flavors; from coffee to rose to earl gray tea. The ones that I ordered were the almond and earl gray tea flavors.

At first bite, the snacks taste like your average macaroon, but then as you much in you will start to taste the unique flavors. The almond (the pink one) tastes like the almond desserts you get in those authentic Chinese restaurants (NOT FAST FOOD CHINESE!), which is really good. I have tried a lot of almond-flavored macaroons, but this one tasted really different because the flavor is really distinct, so I would rate this 9 out of 10. The earl gray tea (the green one, obviously) macaroon was just okay. I was not able to taste the tea-y flavor, but I guess it’s because tea does not have any strong flavor, especially when mixed with sugar (and believe me, there was a lot of sugar in this macaroon!), but I can definitely smell the tea from the macaroon.

You can buy the macaroons individually or in boxes of 12s. I believe the price was about a dollar each, but slightly cheaper in total for the dozen package. The packaging for the dozen was also cute, and nice enough to be given as a present.

Indita

3 June Permalink

Chicken Kyo-Chon, Los Angeles

THIS PLACE SERVES THE BEST CHICKEN WINGS EVER!!!! And I mean seriously! I think everyone should eat here at least once before they die.

Ok so here are the pictures:

The ones that I ordered were the originals. So they tasted garlic-y, VERY garlick-y. And they are salty as well. The skin is a little more crispy, and I think there is a tinge of sweetness too.

The best way to eat KyoChon is with rice. The rice kind of neutralizes the saltiness of the chicken. Not that the chicken is too salty, but when mixed with rice, the chicken tastes complete :)

I ate here with 3 other people, who were all hungry, and we ate a total of 50 chicken with 1 bowl of rice per person. Our total was around 60 dollars. I think it was quite okay, since it was REALLY delicious! I mean, I would eat here at least once a week. So please try if you get the chance :)

Indita

3 June 1 Permalink

Urth Caffé, Melrose Ave., Los Angeles

So this place is famous for its boba. Boba is that black pearly jelly that people usually mix in drinks (the pictures are below), and it’s really good when you just feel like chewing stuff while drinking your cold drinks.

Ok, let’s start with the name of the cafe itself. Apparently, in Welsh, urth means earth, and caffe means coffee. So this name was chosen because the restaurant serves food and beverages that are organic, so everything chosen are really fresh and serves to the health of the customers. 

On with the drinks. So I only ordered drinks because the drinks are the ones Urth Caffe is famous for. The food is basically… Typical? I mean, they’re good, but I guess you can find food like this anywhere else. The drinks that I ordered were Organic Blended Green Tea Boba, which was $4.75, and Divine Spice Chai Boba on Ice, which was $3.75. 

The drink above was the Chai. It was okay… It tasted like tea with milk, and that was it. I wouldn’t order it again… Maybe it’s because it was on ice. My friend recommended me to order the blended one, but I forgot to ask that to the waiter, so, my bad :(

The one below here was REALLY REALLY GOOD! I would definitely come back again to get this drink. This was the Green Tea, and yes, it was blended. The taste was like a typical Starbucks green tea with creamy flavor. The boba gave a little distinct taste to it, kind of like, unsweetened tea? Yes. I would definitely recommend this drink to people who love cream flavors. 

Indita

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