Profile: Han Bat

Profile: Han Bat

You have one option when dining at Han Bat, and that option is sullongtang. If you don’t like sullongtang, don’t come here. If you don’t know what sullongtang is, I’ll tell you now and then you can decide whether or not you should come here. Ready?

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Profile: The Original Marty's

Profile: The Original Marty’s

I’ve seen people at this shack. It’s got the Vienna Beef signage ubiquitous on taverns in Chicago (usually paired with Old Style Beer signage, but this is after all a sidewalk shack and presumably alcohol-free).

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Photo Op: DDLM, East LA

Photo Op: DDLM, East LA

Technically Dia de los Muertos has nothing to do with Halloween, but that didn’t stop people from dragging out their costumes one last time on November 2 to mingle with the bevy of skeletal faces at Self Help’s community Dia De Los Muertos celebration in East LA.

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Profile: Ham Kyung Do

Profile: Ham Kyung Do

I’m headed back to the motherland for Korean Blood Sausage. Losanjealous presents another Jonathan Gold-approved gem in the heart of the city.

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Suburbank: Tales of Hooters --  Where Can Wisdom Be Found?

Suburbank: Tales of Hooters — Where Can Wisdom Be Found?

Reading Harold Bloom’s new book, “Where Can Wisdom Be Found?”, I decided to take James Gun, the newbie worker from Omnibus, and our twenty-something secretary to The Place for a quick lunch-hour wisdom hunt. My mind was filled with questions. Could wisdom be found in the inanity of struggled actress chatter? Could it be found in booby ogling? What is the direct comparison between Ecclesiastes and skin-tight orange biker shorts? And what can we learn, if anything, from the booby proletariat?

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