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Fooding
Fooding roundup for the past few days, opening with Rowland Heights for Chubby Skewers and Auntea Jenny. The former is a very affordable skewer place, to the point where it very much feels they are all about quantity, and quality is only a passing thing, even if they point to having angus or waygu or whatever on the menu. It's still a solid experience, even if the traditional ultra-low tables are not comfortable, and the items from the kitchen (read: not skewers) are actually a step up from the skewers themselves. Looks like Madison and Jason enjoyed it, which makes sense as they can still eat like crazy.
Auntea Jenny is pretty ordinary for a milk tea place, but they were in their soft opening period, so at 20% off it was a solid value. They have enough style and polish to compete, so fingers crossed they do well? They don't push hard on how good and fresh their tea is like some of their competitors (Chicha San Chen or Chagee come to mind), so they're able to maintain better throughput since they're not doing things like brewing every cup individually.
Some mid-week all-you-can-eat Korean BBQ at Seoul Soul with Doug. Seoul Soul is very good among the current crop of AYCE kbbq places, although they have galbi restricted to the pricer menus. Fortunately, as fans of brisket, rib finger meat, and beef tongue, Seoul Soul BBQ definitely does a good job there, especially the beef tongue; quality beef tongue has gotten surprisingly hard to find lately. Plus they have parking.
Delicious Food Corner in Monterey Park is basic, but something about the menu, especially the beef udon and the clay pot, hits right. It doesn't have the impact of a proper clay pot rice in Hong Kong, but they clearly understand the concept, even if their execution isn't quite there.