Wilson "Big Willie" L.'s Profile

Still a fan, but prices have risen and the quality and quantity has decreased. Still pretty good but it's kinda lost its charm.

They upgraded me for free into a Mitsubishi Eclipse. $20 a day. Cars were clean and they were friendly and quick at the counter. Cars was filled to the max. However, returning it, i was in a bind if I missed my flight home, so I had to turn in the car without the fillup. $50 surcharge later, I was on the shuttle back to the airport.  Otherwise a pretty good experience with them.

Let me get this off my chest and say Parking is overpriced! $42 a night to park my car which cost me only $20 to rent a day! Bull crap. There are plenty of other parking alternatives around the area. World Trade Center, The Marriot, etc.

Hotel wise, we got the Starwood Preferred Guest treatment (Yahoo! it and sign up before your flight) which included free drinks at the revolving restaurant and some other perks.

You can read the other reviews here about the structure of the hotel and the color buildings they all correspond to. I'll just focus on the room and amentites.

The walls were pretty thin, but nothing to cry home about. The best part was the Heavenly bed and dual showerhead. I want both of them in my house soon!! It was pretty damn sweet.

However, a 27" CRT TV at a Westin? I'd expect a LCD by now, but paying only $70 through Hotwire was a pretty good deal per night.

A place you have to visit during the daytime. Nighttime it was cold, dark and a bit dark except for the colorful ferris wheel. Other than that, it's pretty good place to hang out if your a teenager or going out on a date.  Parking was $7 and in typical LA fashion, every place you go, you had to pay for parking! :P

Coming from Nor Cal just off the plane we wasted no time and driving down to Chinatown to grab some dimsum. We go here and through some Yelp reviews recommendations and it was nearly 2:15. They were closing at around 3, so we had last dibs on the dimsum.. (I guess this was the beginning of bad things to come)

Food was just okay, but they didn't use salt. Instead they used Monosodium Glutamate. Aka MSG!

We had our classic favorites:
- Ha Gow (shrimp dumplings) .. Shrimp was tasty and salt, but still had the "black trace" in it still.. com'on take that stuff out before serving it.
- Shrimp rice rolls - read above about the shrimp
- Beef Balls - super salty and a lot of fatty bits in it.
- BBQ pork buns - decent size and quantity.
- Chicken feet - Looks like they reheated this thing 10 times before someone took the bait and bought it..

Overall. Not a really good place to eat. We walked around Chinatown and found some other places that were packed in the late afternoon and knew this was not the spot to hit for a dimsum craving.

Fail!

We got some porridge and bbq pork with duck and rice to go since this was like the only place opened during Thanksgiving last year. Thank goodness they were at around 10pm at night.

Servings were huge and plentiful tasty. However, they use a lot of MSG here (does everyone in LA love MSG or something?) . If it wasn't for there abuse of MSG, I'd give them higher marks.

We stumbled upon a gold mine while traversing around Japantown in LA. Many tourist were poking their heads into this place and wanted to do the same. They were making fresh imagawayaki (looks like mini pancakes with red bean filling) If your a fan of Doremon, you would know what he eats. They were awesomely good. Not too soft, not too hard. Still plenty warm and for $1.25 you can't go wrong! Great find!

As a Ramen concier, eatting in various ramen places around the Bay Area, we dropped what So Cal people call "The Ramen spot to hit" near Japantown in LA

Why is Daikoku not so special ?

1) Ramen was nothing special I couldn't find in the supermarket. (I saw bags of premade ramen like I can find in Ranch 99, oh, I mean 99 Ranch).

2) Soup base was not salty at all. (Guess that's a good thing?) I personally prefer the soup base like Santa Ramen in San Mateo.

3) Noodles overshadow the portion of meat given. Not a lot of meat was provided.. com'on

4) I asked for no hard boiled egg, yet the still gave me one.

5) A handful of green onions (scallions) WTF! Totaly over powering the taste if anything.

6) The queue - Waited in line for over 60 mins to get into the place and another 30 mins to get the food onto the table.

6) Checking out - Took us another 15 mins to get the bill. By that point, we paid in cash and bailed.

Overall experience was exactly what Yelp says "Meh. I've experienced better" We came on a Friday afternoon around lunch time so that could have contributed to the extra wait.

Good experience, but not my cup of ramen...

We set up an appointment for two cars, one coupe and one wagon on Monday morning. Douglas was quick in responding to my question and said to bring it by first thing Monday.

When we got there, Douglas was friendly and did not pressure us into something we weren't comfortable with. After all, dropping a signficant investment in window tinting is something we don't do everyday. Douglas showed us the different options with metallic and non-metallic tints and it's many shades. We choose 20% all around on the coupe and 35% in the front and 20% all around with the wagon. He said it would take about 6 hours from the time we drop off the car (3 hours per car) and promised to give us a call when it was ready. His assistant, Hector dropped us off at the local mall.

Fast forward to 6 hours later and I got a bit impatient and decided to give him a call. Douglas picked up and said the cars were ready in a about 10 mins. Hector picked us up in the coupe and we were both shocked at the work they both did.

When he brought us back to the shop, we saw both cars and it was simply amazing. Douglas and Hector did a magnificent job and it clearly shows. There are a few air bubbles in the car now, but they promised it will disappear in a few days. The tints look great and Douglas and Hector have awesomeness skills in this field. The price was very reasonable for the quality and the time he puts into it.

Would definitely recommend to anyone looking for a tint around San Bruno area. Thank you Douglas and Hector

On some Saturdays, we all chip in to get some egg rolls here at King Eggroll .. $5 a person and we get like 50 egg rolls! My freaking god.. that's a hole lot of rolls when it comes into the workplace.. the place is filled with the scent of "oh fried food is here.. eat mee!!"

They bring the "red" sauce in one of those boba clear cups.. I sometimes mistaken it for strawberry shake..

-First egg roll (awesome, hot and juicy.) good in the stomach
-Second egg roll (less awesome, not as hot and not as juicy).. starting to feel iky in the stomach
-Third egg roll (not awesome, getting cold).. diarrhea immienent ..

It's good, but like any fried food place, u'll only get so far before you head to the toilet..