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Feeling good feeling fresh Kuya Nonong picked us up to go on our Downtown experience, first stop Chinatown. We parked up and walked through the main part where a movie was being shot. There were lots of props set up, classic cars, huge lighting and people making stuff. It was so colourful. I asked the security and he said it was a movie called Gangster Squad a 40s gangster film (later I googled the trailer and although the name is awful the cast was mad good, Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Giovanni Ribiski)
We walked around the shops and i got a panda pillow for the long journeys to come and a $6 blouse.
Neil managed to find a shop he has previously bought records from called Ooga Booga and bought a tye-dye top. He also tried to take a box of matches off a table but put it bk as there was a chewing gum in it and then got shouted at as he touched the set "Sir you never touch the set!"
We went for lunch in the Empress Pavillion in Chinatown. It was a tasty experience! You sit down and within seconds around you ladies with metal carts are wizzing past offering different dishes and choices. We went for the BBQ pork, prawn and pork dimsum, pak choi, prawn spring rolls and chicken buns. Everything was delicious. Steamed dimsum is my favourite. Kuya Nonong asked for chicken feet (Neil & I looking at one another thinking he was joking) and sure enough a lady with her cart put a dish of chicken feet down. They were battered and in a sticky sauce. I didn't try them as they looked soggy but Neil got bullied into it. He described it as the batter on crispy beef but not crispy. Kuya went to town on the rest leaving only a small bones.
After Chinatown we wanted to go to Echo Park and check out the lake but we didn't find it so we got dropped back to the hostel and decided to go for a walk. We walked up Santa Monica blv and found a restaurant & bar called Hamburger Mary's were we had an OMG size Mojito for $35, expensive but we were drunk after it. We kept walking ti we found a tiki hut that sold giant margaritas, after sharing two of those we stumbled back to the hostel first getting some Vietnamese take away of rice and BBQ pork (1 dish to share), which we inhaled at the bus stop. We decided on a bus back and stopped off at a Whole Foods and got some tortilla chips and salsa.
All in all a super good day ended watching family guy!
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