For the voracious foodie, indecisive eater and social butterfly alike, Dishcrawl is for the first time spreading its bar-crawl-for-food concept to the eclectic restaurants of downtown Long Beach.

On March 12, Dishcrawl reps will escort ticketholders to four locations across downtown's dining and entertainment district where they will spend three hours sampling specialty dishes, exploring menus and even meeting the chefs themselves. The participating restaurants and chefs are usually kept secret until that day, but Dishcrawl gave us one of the names and told us we could leak it to you early!

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Edwin Goei

Now that you've eaten your weight in bánh chưng at Little Saigon's Tet Festival this past weekend, how about the Indonesian equivalent called bacang, or sate or gado gado?

The cuisine of the fourth-most-populous country on Earth--behind China, India and us (it's true; look it up)--will be featured at the annual Bazaar Imlek, a celebration of Chinese New Year hosted by the Indonesian Chinese American Association this Saturday at Wilson High School in Hacienda Heights from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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Anne Marie Panoringan

Good morning! Cafe Colma style...

When folks go home to visit family, it might be another city, county, or state. When we head to the Bay Area for the parentals, there's always a neighborhood place we can rely on for a solid meal. Everyone has one. Ours in found in a city where there are more people six feet under than living. It's within a house of cards known as Lucky Chances. We always want to transpose the name, but instead of Colma Cafe it's referred to as Cafe Colma.

The city of Colma is adjacent to Daly City, the Filipino equivalent to Cerritos (Sure, there are restaurants in Anacrime, but we meant mass population). Outside of family get-togethers, we didn't grow up surrounded by the cuisine. Over the years, it populated the area like Asians in Irvine. This food is home to us, and we reserve most of our cravings for those visits home.

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This week's Tijuana Sí! is a call to action: get down to Baja California next weekend.

October 11-14 is Baja California Culinary Fest 2012, where all the unbelievably great food we write about here is showcased for the world to come see. Seafood, meat, beer, wine, vegetables, cheese... it's 20,000 calories under the border next weekend.

See also:
- Baja Culinary Fest [2011] to Take Place Oct. 5-9
- Five Products You Didn't Know Came From Baja
- Anthony Bourdain Told Me to Go to Baja. So I'd Be OK There. Right? [LA Weekly]


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Dave Lieberman

The famous uni tostada with Pismo clam and chile-peanut salsa from La Guerrerense

So you want to eat the things we write about in our ¡Tijuana Sí! column, but you don't have a passport or have convinced yourself that we're taking our lives in our hands by going down south of the border (despite nothing remotely bad having happened to us in all those visits)?

Fine. Go to Los Angeles instead.
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Carlos Salgado would make A KILLING with his horchata down in Kentucky...

Sorry for the lack of blogging as of recent, gentle readers: the chica and I just completed our annual two-week trek to the South for the World's Longest Yard Sale, which you can read more about at her blog. Needless to say, I brought back a lot of bourbon, Tennessee whiskeys (one of which I gave to Dave), corn whiskey and other treats for future posts.

But the biggest revelation I took away was horchata and Salsa El Yucateco.
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We're got our food festivals here, sure, and they're usually pretty cool events. I spent last Sunday afternoon very happily and gluttonously stuffing my face with pork and craft cocktails, and there's always the Taste of OC and the various city tasting events. There's Patchwork and Secret Fork, where you go for the people who make the good stuff... but there's nothing in OC like the Los Angeles Food and Wine Festival. It's enormous, and it's this weekend.

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This can't be a new idea--undoubtedly, the hot dog and hamburger combo has been cooked up by stoners before--but I can't ever recall a fast food chain putting America's two greatest meat products on the same bun. The restaurant is Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers, a Midwest chain whose sole California outpost is in Victorville. We stopped by on the way home from a calorie binge in Las Vegas, but unfortunately, I didn't see this limited-time special--touting two perfectly cooked patties and a Vienna Beef wiener--until after we had ordered.

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Sarah Bennett

Beers from Placentia's Bruery on the shelf at De Bierkoning, a bottleshop in Amsterdam.

We all know the Netherlands is the place in Europe to get great pot and decent-looking legal prostitutes, but bottles from Orange County's own craft beer creators (and subject of last year's cover story) The Bruery? Yup.
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Old Vine Cafe

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