Wooooo I've wanted to get me some slutty eggs for a while now, where for the whole while I've thought, just how good can mashed potatoes and a soft soft cooked egg be? The perpetually long line should have really hinted at how delicious it is, though I've still had my doubt while waiting in line with the 15+ people 

Not until I saw the stacks of potato and egg filled mason jars stacked sous vide-ing did I start getting egg-cited *oh, haha there*

They are very good at handling their orders chronologically (you get it very in the order that the orders are made, no fighting, children). The seats there are limited so I sniped one right away when someone left. 

Served with two very thin slices of baguette (wow, how did they slice it so thin? A very skilled handler of a very sharp serrated knife. Or those bread slicing machines), drizzled with olive oil and toasted so very evenly until nice and super crisp.

The egg yolk is cooked all the way through, but the yolk is a nice runny consistency all throughout. Diced chives and flaky salt top the egg.

Ad underneath is the smoothest pomme puree that has ever landed into my mouth. Very smooth, not overly buttery/creamy, salted just right.

I bought two more to-go for my friends, and they'll wrap it up nice (meaning you also keep the cute mason jar)

After this I was cafe hunting around DTLA, for one with available outlets and decent wifi so I could work remotely (I had told my boss I'd be working while I was away, but I ended up doing close to nothing. Coming back home, boss never expected me to get anything done anyway. so it's all good)

Spent a few hours sipping on cold brew at Verve Coffee Roasters (based in the Bay). I don't think I've gotten a single hot coffee/espresso drink in Cali yet. Cold brew's killing ittt

After a I-did-not-know-my-stomach-could-stomach-that-much-food kind of meal, you wonder what the next logical thing to do is. And that is, of course, to take a walk to make enough room for part two of your late, late, lunch, in order to enjoy afternoon tea.

So we took a walk (for a good half hour maybe), where, under the hot LA sunshine, our feelings of itis was elevated even more so than before, and stopped by this tea house in hopes of resting to prepare ourselves for the 36 hour hackathon to come.

When you need something thirst quenching (and this is for the kind of thirst that resides in your throat), this Korean sauna/bathhouse staple drink is pretty damn refreshing. And because you're at a tea house and not a jimjilbang, it's served with slivers of ice in a bowl, and a wooden spoon. It's made with fermented rice, and reminds me of the barley/rice/soy sweet drinks back in Malaysia. Slightly to sweet for my liking. Good

Never understood how people could ever have shaved ice with syrup and find it so delicious now - though back as a child (who am I kidding, I'm still a child) I'd shave my own ice and drizzle of cherry red and berry blue syrups and be all happy in my own little summer bubble - because after bingsoo, you'll want to always have ten thousand toppings on your shaved ice. Including, but not limited to: condensed milk, endless fruits, red bean, kinako, ice cream, mochi, crisps, whipped cream, brown sugar syrup... Good

I thought, okay, green tea can't be that different - I know there's matcha and the leafy green tea and so all the other types of green tea that isn't powder must fall under the latter flavour profile, right? How foolish of me to think that way. This was so good I even went to David's Tea to order it when I came back to Canada. The cup houses a tea filter, and a mini kettle of hot water is kept with you so you can continuously enjoy a cup of steeped tea.

You also get a never-ending serving of seaweed crackers. And a cup of roasted rice tea to bid us farewell

So extremely relaxing, we almost ended up taking a nap here. We had the whole place to ourselves, save the ahjumma who took good care of us, and there was a mini waterfall. She told us that this place isn't as popular during afternoons as it is after dinnertime.

Rose tea

So I came here again on a weekday night (after a different kbbq), and it was extremely busy, as ahjumma had said. Young and old people come here, but mainly only Koreans. I've been blessed with living with a Korean family for 4 months that I can get by as a Korean, but there is also an english menu, and when language fails, you just need to point to what you want. 

Science Museum

The night we came here, we took a bus, and the driver was the best. At every stop, he'd declare, not the stop names, but:

Everyone! Mucho good night

Have a mucho good dreams!
Have a mucho good sleep!

Mucho!... (and other mucho - prefixed things)

All the bus patrons were smiling and so were we.