Eat Joy Food, Hide Out Cafe, and Palms n' Patties

626 fooding

plus Santa Monica fooding

That many titaniums here on a Sunday?

CA-91 East from Corona to Riverside is quite bumpy.

UC Riverside.

Rivian delivery van.

Eat Joy Food in Rowland Heights.

Pearl Plaza has so much good food.

Classics.

Inside.

Pork intestine is very good.

One of two smaller dining areas.

The front.

Hide Out Cafe a few doors away.

Busy but not quite packed.

Regular milk tea, 50% sweet. Nicely soft and chewy boba.

Driving range right next door.

Palms n' Patties for dinner. Menu.

Menu.

Smashed so thin the patty edges got dry/crumbly/crispy.

Beef tallow fries stayed warm and crispy forever.

Not my thing.

But I can see why smashburgers have their fans.

Impromptu extended stay in 626 meant lots more fooding to do. After a night at a very bog-standard SpringHill Suites in Corona with a very friendly staff (and a surprising amount of Marriott elites), ended up at Eat Joy Food in Rowland Heights for lunch. Their famed three-cup dishes are well known, and the pork intestine was pretty good. Not sure it actually lives up to the hype, but if you are already in the area, it's a good meal.

Hide Out Cafe and Eat Joy Food are two of many very popular and tasty restaurants in Pearl Plaza... Hide Out Cafe's milk tea was worth the stop as well, even if I couldn't finish-- too much food! Soft and chewy boba as well, definitely quality.

Dinner many hours later was smashburgers at Palms n' Patties. As someone who is not a fan of smashburgers in general, these were well done-- very thin, meat even crispy/crumbly at the edges? The beef tallow-cookied fries also stayed hot and crispy forever. Overall, I can see why smashburgers have their fans?