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June 18, 2010

Viva La Food Truck: Chairman Bao (SF)

by Kayoko

Chairman Bao (SF)

With all this garbage talk from NYC to LA about city officials revoking food truck permits, I decided to go out and support SF food trucks yesterday. Supporting them, meaning, EATING LUNCH. It’s the best kind of support, right? Viva La Food Truck!


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March 18, 2009

$100/5 Days/NYC/Tourist: Day 2

by Kayoko

Preface:$100/5 Days/NYC/TouristDay 1

Ok it’s pretty official: I’m SO SCREWED. To make it through the next 3 days, I’m gonna have to somehow keep it to $12/day. But I’m sticking to it
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March 15, 2009

$100/5 Days/NYC/Tourist

by Kayoko

Remember back in 2007 when I did $100/2 Weeks/NYC??? It actually was a really stressful, painful series full of suffering and no-holds-barred ranting. People seemed to enjoy it though (my suffering) and I
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January 15, 2009

For Those Covered in Snow

by Kayoko

The world doesn’t need another post about the In-N-Out burger, but I just wanted to send a little bit of west coast sunshine to all my peeps who are covered in snow right now. Miss
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January 13, 2009

Fancy Budget Beachfront Lunch (Monterey)

by Kayoko

Went to visit Ayagwa and Tmonkey in Monterey! We made a lunch stop at Roy’s, in the ultra fancy Spanish Bay clubhouse with Aya’s mama. Roy’s started in Hawaii and is now a huge fancy restaurant empire in the U.S. serving “Hawaiian Fusion Cuisine.” My brother actually used to work at Roy’s in LA and hated it,
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October 29, 2008

Best Fancy Budget Lunch in NYC

by Kayoko

Oishii Eats came to town! This was a very exciting event, as it was her first time in NY. We chatted online furiously the night before she got here- where would we go
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December 8, 2007

A Meal for $2 at Dumpling House

by Kayoko

You have until Tuesday to get your ass down to the Dumpling House in the Lower East Side for the best bang for your buck (literally) in town. This place is a downtown institution– there was a line out the door when we went at 5pm tonight. It’s closing for a month or so to expand
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April 9, 2007

$100/ 2 Weeks/ NYC: Epilogue

by Kayoko

April 6, 2007

$100/ 2 Weeks/ NYC: Day 13 & 14

by Kayoko

April 2, 2007

$100/ 2 Weeks/ NYC: Day 8, 9 & 10

by Kayoko