Like the title says, I'm making a point of hitting at least one new restaurant in LA every week this year.
Why? A couple reasons. The biggest one is that my food map of LA was formed when I moved here in 2011. A lot of my favorite restaurants are a mix of Jonathan Gold's recommendations, the absolute cheapest food you can find in LA, and places that were convenient to the routes I was traveling often back then.
What this means is that I have found myself going miles out of my way for a mediocre burrito because I know the restaurant will be open, I know they take credit card payment, and even if the burrito isn't great, I know it at least won't be bad.
It also means that I'm out of sorts when I'm looking for a nice place to meet up with friends or to take my wife on a date. Holes-in-the-wall are FANTASTIC and I love them, but sometimes it's nice to have a sit-down dinner in a place with some real atmosphere.
Finally, my favorite restaurant, Shandong Dumplings in Pasadena, did not survive Covid. So I'm on the hunt for a really good dumpling place with the right flavor profile.
That's a lot to say! Anyway, here's what we've hit so far:
Week 1: Lan Noodles (Chinese Noodles, San Gabriel Valley)
Ordered: Spicy beef noodles, chow mein with chicken, Chinese hamburger with lamb, smashed cucumber salad.
Price: ~$`70
Atmosphere: C. Typical noodle/dumpling joint atmosphere. Busy staff, not a lot of room, bright fluorescent lights.
Food: A-. The noodles are hand cut and the texture is marvelous. Chinese hamburger was a barrel of laughs. Would go back just to order 2-3 of those. Smashed cucumber salad was *perfect*. Overall flavor profiles left something to be desired, but it should be said that my baseline here is Shandong. So it's not that Lan was off the mark, but more that they're food wasn't "exactly how it tasted at Shandong."
Week 1 Bonus: Adana (Lebanese/Armenian, Burbank/Glendale Border)
Ordered: Tabbouleh, lentil soup, kebab platters.
Price: ~$35/person? IDK, it was a business lunch.
Atmosphere: B-. Clearly set up to be a big banquet hall. Not exactly cozy.
Food: A. This was the prettiest tabbouleh I've ever seen. It had pomegranate seeds and liberal amounts of sumac and just tasted fantastic. Lentil soup alone is worth the trip. Meat was maybe a little over salted, but perfectly cooked. Rice was heavenly.
Week 2: Formosa Cafe ("Taiwanese", WeHo)
Ordered: 2 cocktails, hot sake, xiao long bao, chow mein.
Price: ~$80
... keep reading on reddit ➡I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
Some more stuff about my time spent in 2071 that I typed up in the notepad app on my phone:
It hadn't made it to the news yet. Agent Edwards was the one who got confirmation. An unspecified group. A group of militants or secret agents had successfully brought down a Slarrow... Possibly even a Quad too. Agent Edwards told me he was taking me on a drive to go see it, but he also said something about not wanting to be tracked. He set his phone on the table. He told me my phone was fine because it was too ancient to be tracked in 2071.
The Slarrow was taken down a couple miles east of the city. I was kinda excited about it, but I was also nervous. What happens when one of Nnotz's creatures is taken down? Do the cult members stand guard? Does the army come? Both? I was shaking a tiny bit. I knew I was about to find out.
Luckily, we hit all the green lights, so no creepy cult members looked into the car. None of them even looked in the direction of the car. They were on their phones while talking to each other. Their faces were red with anger.
"I hope we make it in time," Agent Edwards said.
Outside of Winnipeg, I was looking around for the downed Slarrow. Eventually, I saw it. About half of the Slarrow was sitting up against a lineup of trees. The underbelly was grey. All the bumps were shriveled. There was a thin ooze covering the entire area. All over the ground, all over the trees. It was a colour I had never seen before. A cold colour somewhere close to purple, but it glowed like light green.
Agent Edwards didn't slow down. He was only driving by it to capture video footage of it on a dash cam. It was gross. The other parts layed on the ground behind it, on top of the ooze, which was leaking out of each part. I was wondering what was going to happen next. A seemingly strong creature we were all afraid of was destroyed.
As we continued driving east, I noticed a lineup of a few dozen cult members on each side of the road, walking in the direction of the dead Slarrow. Then I saw another lineup… the military. Three jeeps, two barracks trucks filled with soldiers, and two tanks passed by us, going in the other direction. It wasn't
... keep reading on reddit ➡Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.
THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB
Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"
I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual
So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes
r/unclejokes for dirty jokes
r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC
r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes
Punchline !
Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub
Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat
Do your worst!
How the hell am I suppose to know when it’s raining in Sweden?
Ants don’t even have the concept fathers, let alone a good dad joke. Keep r/ants out of my r/dadjokes.
But no, seriously. I understand rule 7 is great to have intelligent discussion, but sometimes it feels like 1 in 10 posts here is someone getting upset about the jokes on this sub. Let the mods deal with it, they regulate the sub.
They were cooked in Greece.
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
Now that I listen to albums, I hardly ever leave the house.
Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?
Two muffins are in an oven, one muffin looks at the other and says "is it just me, or is it hot in here?"
Then the other muffin says "AHH, TALKING MUFFIN!!!"
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
It really does, I swear!
And now I’m cannelloni
Because she wanted to see the task manager.
But that’s comparing apples to oranges
And boy are my arms legs.
Heard they've been doing some shady business.
but then I remembered it was ground this morning.
Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale
Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments
They’re on standbi
A play on words.
My daughter, Chewbecca, not so much.
Calcium, nickel, neon
Pilot on me!!
Put it on my bill
Nothing, he was gladiator.
Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.
This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.
If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.
Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.
Or would that be too forward thinking?
At work, I have a workstation.
edit: cheers u/cheer_up_richard
