Tag: los angeles

  • Lazy Dog Cafe, Cerritos

    Lazy Dog Cafe, Cerritos

    This is our 300th post !  Thanks for visiting and leaving comments. The adventure continues … For regular folks like us, the time to do shopping is mostly the weekend. But when all of us are shopping at the same time at the same places, the result is crowds and stress which strip away all…

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  • Los Angeles according to …

    One day while I was in LA, I had a few hours in the afternoon to wander around in Koreatown. And I came across this graffiti-mural of Los Angeles. The five pictures here were taken in sequence from left to right. The artist was looking north presumably from Koreatown, so Santa Monica is on the…

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  • Suburban mall hopping, part 2

    Paris Baguette, Los Cerritos mall You can tell by the name, Paris Baguette, that this cafe is not run by a French company. It is a franchise run by a rather successful Korean chaebol (SPC group) that has landed in the US a few years ago. There was one in Fort Lee, NJ near us…

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  • Suburban mall hopping, part 1

    Last month, we visited Los Angeles and spent a long weekend in Las Vegas meeting friends who came down from the Bay area.  Rather than sightseeing  (most sights in LA had been seen already), we were just chilling in the suburb.  Unlike NYC, LA is not known to be welcoming for pedestrians.  So, it was…

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