October 19, 2003

• SOME PLACES WE WANT TO CHECK OUT:

  • Oceanic Arts in Whittier. They supply hotels, bars and Disneyland’s Adventureland with tiki masks, poles and Polynesian props. Maybe we can get something for our apartment…
  • Tonga Hut, North Hollywood. LA Weekly votes this as the best tiki bar in L.A. If it’s better than Tiki-ti, we gotta go!
  • Mao’s Kitchen, Venice. A Maoist-themed chinese restaurant? How can we resist? L.A. Weekly’s review:

  It’s Chinese Communist cooking just like the re-education camp used to make. People’s Party propaganda posters emblazon the red-brick walls. The menu features dishes such as Model Citizen Noodle Soup and Long March Camp-Fry. Long wooden tables and benches hammered out of 2-by-4s welcome the weary bottoms of workers fresh from grueling labor. And the takeout slogan, “Mao’s delivers to the masses,” reminds us that there are a lot of people out there who like Chinese food better than they like hard benches. The owner collected the souvenirs that now hang like museum pieces on the walls of his restaurant when he was a child during the People’s Revolution. Needless to say, the food is always fresh, sans MSG and served in heaping portions. Mao wouldn’t have had it any other way. 1512 Pacific Ave., Venice, (310) 581-8305.

  * We’ve moved into our apartment!

  Dial-up internet is so SLOW…

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