Midori matcha cafe - Little Tokyo

Midori matcha is one of my go to spot in Little Tokyo. They serve pastries from Pitchoun bakery in Downtown, L.A. It's little pricey but delicious. I also love soft serve ice cream here, specially hojicha soft serve ice cream. It's so rich and has strong hojicha flavor, and it won't melt fast like some other ice cream shop. You won't be disappointed.

This menu is from back in March, they added few more items on the menu, such as hojicha latte, hojicha soft serve, etc.

Hojicha / matcha soft serve ice cream $4.50

Hojicha soft serve
You can really taste hojicha. It's really good.

Matcha puff $5

Matcha napoleon $5.50

Matcha croissant $4

Matcha danish $4.75

Midori matcha cafe 
123 Astronaut E S
Onizuka St #101-C,
Los Angeles, CA 90012

Sun-Thurs:10AM–10PM
Friday:10AM–11PM
Saturday:10AM–12AM

http://midorimatchatea.com/cafe/ 

https://www.yelp.com/biz/midori-matcha-cafe-los-angeles

TeaShot - Little Tokyo

TeaShot opened about a month ago in Little Tokyo, behind the Midori matcha cafe . I do come to this mall often but I didn't notice about this place. It's hidden.

TeaShot specialized all natural ingredients tea drinks with boba, and all their teas are brewed to order. That's right, it's not pre-made in batch. They have regular honey boba, but they also have organic chia seed honey boba, and this is the only place serves chia seed boba. Nowhere else. So that's something you must get here. And they also have butterfly pea drinks, and that's also very unique. You won't find it easily.

blueberry lemon tea, strawberry green tea with boba, sunset fruit tea, and butterfly pea lemonade.

Organic chia seed honey boba. It's sweet and delicious.

Cookies n cream cookie shot with Vietnamese coffee

Choco chip cookie shot with milk

Red velvet cookie shot with cold brew

TeaShot
123 Astronaut E S Onizuka St. Ste 101D
Los Angeles, CA 90012

(213) 628-3886

Mon-Sat:10:00 am - 9:00 pm
Sun:11:00 am - 9:00 pm

http://www.theteashot.com/
https://www.yelp.com/biz/teashot-los-angeles

Gong Cha - Little Tokyo

Gong Cha just opened in Little Tokyo about 3 days ago. This place used to be Four Leaf cafe. Gong Cha is a Taiwan-style drink shop franchise originally from Taiwan. You get to choose your sugar and ice level.

Earl grey milk tea with 3JAlways my favorite

QQ passion fruit green tea
It was sweeter than I thought. But I liked it. Very refreshing. Very right but has strong passion fruit flavor. 

Matcha smoothie
This wasn't my favorite, to be honest. It's different from Japanese matcha. It has weird chinese/taiwanese taste.

Milk form green tea
If you only taste milk form, it's salty. But it tastes different when you mix with green tea.

Gong Cha
318 E 2nd St
Los Angeles, CA 90012

(213) 395-0615

7 days a week:10:00 am - 10:00 pm

http://www.gongchausa.com/

http://gong-cha-usa.com/

https://www.yelp.com/biz/gong-cha-los-angeles-4?osq=gong+cha

La Tostaderia - Venice

Chef Fernando Villagomez’s La Tostaderia Grand Central Market location has seen great success and he is excited to be bringing these Baja favorites to the West Side. It's a great place to get fresh Mexican seafood tacos and tostadas. Everything was fresh and delicious.

Beer and non alcohol Sangria

Octopus Tostadas
Sake poached octopus, cucumber, red onion, radish, heirloom tomato, sweet, pepper, cilantro and habanero. It was pretty spicy.

Mixta Tostadas
Octopus, scallops, shrimps, cilantro, tomato, red onions, pepper, radishes, lime juice and habanero

Octopus tacos
Charred octopus, aji souce, ginger aioli, daikon, cucumber, bean sprouts, thai basil, sesame seeds

Sample platter
One of each taco (5 tacos) and a sample of fish and shrimp ceviche

Patrona burger
Shrimps, Oaxaca cheese, lettuce, avocado, relish, tomato, crispy potato and Chipotle aioli
Crispy potato gives extra flavor.

Seafood cocktail
Octopus, shrimps, oysters, celery, red onion, cucumber, avocado, tomato, evo, cilantro and sea salt
It's soupy as you can see, and it's big enough for 2-3 people

La Tostaderia
1121 Abbot Kinney blvd.

https://www.latostaderia.info/

Beijing Pie House - Monterey Park

We had such a bad time here. Terrible service, they took wrong order and blame us, they live in America and they don't speak any English. If they understand English, they didn't make mistake taking order. They were also very rude when we were ready to pay. We told them charge on the card and the rest is cash, because we were using gift card. But they didn't understand and at the end, they yelled at us, and said "we do our way". I don't know why this place has such a good reviews, the food was ok, nothing outstanding.

Beijing style noodle $7.99

Beef pie (4) $10.69
We didn't order this. They took our order wrong.
When we try to return them, they told us "but you already ate".

Mixed 3 item pie (4) $9.69

Pork soup dumpling $8.99

Pumpkin with pork and shrimp and pork dumplings $8.99

No flavor

Beijing Pie House
846 E Garvey Ave #3a,
Monterey Park, CA 91755

(626) 288-3818

Mon:Closed
Tue-Sun:11:00 am - 3:00 pm / 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm

http://www.beijingpiehouse.com/

https://www.yelp.com/biz/beijing-pie-house-monterey-park