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Dinner is back… Vietnamese Egg Rolls are in (as of tonight)… this Saturday will be the LAST Saturday we have dinner service (the summer’s almost over!)…

and when you have a chance, I encourage all of us to please dress up as a Chicken Luchador and dance on top of bars (for money ^_^). It’s the new American past time… I KNOW IT!:

Thank you,

TEAM SK ;)

Okay okay… so it’s the last (lunch wk) for the LEMONGRASS TOFU, Dinner (aka Din Dins) is back on tonight (Th-Sat/6-9.30p folks!), coming back w/ tasty companions BRAISED VIETNAMESE BEEF (aka BO KHO) and we’re bringing back the SK Mac+Cheese(+Bacon) with all it’s shitake mushroom, jalapeno, fried shallots and did I mention BACON goodness. Ya got that? I’m sure you do…

With that outta the way, you mighta noticed this large light blue pic above (thx for letting me steal it from your site Shawna.. please!?!?!).. that didn’t happen by accident (maybe). And if you didn’t know it, we’re one of the 60 BEST vendors attending this BADASS event. (and we might be at the bottom of the barrel, but being the worst of the best… is still one of the best.. right??? ^_^).

I’m sure you’re asking yourself, “Now that I’m bored, what kind of other nonsensical funny stuff can I find on YouTube since Team SK has nothing interesting to say.” But then you (pause) for a moment and I’m sure you THEN ask yourself:

“Why Team SK (who is o’ so wise and will never stop with the bloggin’ hilarity) should I go to this wonderous and magical event?”

Well fans (an average of 6.25 of ya out there now… YES!), here are a couple of my favorite reasons why:

• we’re there (can I get a internet geek… w00t w00t!!)
• it’s ALL-INCLUSIVE, so no more pesky fees once you get in (and pay for the tix online!)
• we’re (as in the par-TAY) taking over the EFFIN ROSE BOWL BABEY!!! (yeah, we’re on the field!!!)
• food, drink, ice cream, music and SK… what more could you want? (don’t answer that Chuck Norris… I’m warning you!!! ^_^)
• and here’s my last reason for those of you that are craving, wanting or dying to have these…

Or in other words, “CRISPY F’ING TOFU BALLS my friends!”

We’re making 2,000+ of these crispy green bad boys (betta recognize ya’ll!), and if you ever wanted to gorge on a tofu ball as child or sometime in your very strange life span… now’s the TIME CHOCKOS! LOL

We’re not making these again at the restaurant until around September (maybe even OCTOBER), so if you want ‘em… come and GET ‘EM! (and enjoy the other food while at the fest too, and feel free to show the other vendors your SK love… please?!?!).

If you’re interested, get your tickets online HERE!

Unlike the last event (yeah, yeah… they and WE ALL know what “some” of the comments were from the last one), this is VERY limited too (let’s just say it’s a fraction of the reported 15-20k that went to the last one).

So what are you waiting for? No REALLY?!?! WHAT are you waiting for!!! Come get ‘em, eat some tofu balls, and let’s get SMASHED together (and by “SMASHED” I obviously mean let’s eat a lot of ICE CREAM, LOLLIPOPS…. and BOOZE it up together MWAHAHAHA… hey, it’s ALL-INCLUSIVE SUCKAS!!)

And if you don’t get your tickets soon (btw, NO DOOR SALES neither folks), THIS could happen to you:

That’s right, you could be like me there falling asleep (drunk I might add LOL) on the Metro (aka the train and/or subway) and have your friends take pictures of you while putting funny fake eye glasses on you for continued internet/Facebook hilarity. And we don’t want that to happen to you, right? ^_^

Good! I’m sure that convinced you now.. and thanks. ;)

Much love,

TEAM SK

Howdy PARDNERS!

Let’s start off simple: CRISPY TOFU BALLS for 1 more week… ONLY for Din Dins tonight+tomorrow. It will be a limited amount, so if you want some now and don’t want to wait until mid-end of Summer when we bring it back (btw, I have NO idea when.. I promise) now’s the time… CARPE DIEM!!! ^_^

Damn, so much going on, and I’m ALWAYS running late.

ARTWALK!

WELL, for all you Downtown Artwalk-ers… wanna come to SK for Din Dins and then swing on by. We’ll open tonight (I promise!).

Oh yeah, our hours have extended… just by a lil bit from 6p - 9.30p (ooooh… only 30 min later, I know! LOL). In addition to the menu on the left, you can eat ya some of tasty bad-boys:

Double-fried Sweet Ginger Glazed Chicken Wings

or DIS

SK Mac+Cheese(+yes, BACON)

Btw, if you can get into our parking lot before 7pm, we validate parking (2 hours free).

This post is gonna be all over the place, but hey… at least we still have some purdy pictures, right?

ADDITIONAL BYE-BYE

Some of you love to LOVE it… and some of you LOVE to hate it.  Whatever you think about it, it doesn’t matter because we have decided to finally rotate out the Asian Sesame Slaw. If you like it, come get it now before we rotate in a new side in it’s place next week.

Otherwise… gotta go, hope to see some of ya’ll at Din Dins tonight (6-9.30p.. just in case you needed a reminder) and we’ll *nom* with ya soon.

Xoxo,

TEAM SK

Welcome back from Memorial Day weekend… this is the LAST week for the CRISPY TOFU BALLS!

(great way to wake you up, right??)

So rather than “dilly-dally” (i.e. I’m running out of time again this AM to write any banter to bore you to death), here’s what’s going on:

BYE-BYE (at the end o’ the week):

The much beloved and written about…

• CRISPY TOFU BALLS

If you want to try ‘em, now’s the time.  When will they be back?  Not sure!  It could be sooner than we all expect, but until then you might as well get off yer lazy arse and give ‘em a shot! :)

And they’re not the only one going away!

• KOREAN GLASS NOODLES (“japchae”)

HI-HI:

The return of…

• CHINESE HOISIN HAMBURGER

For those that have eaten with us long enough, it MIGHT seem we’re in a pattern here (we followed the Japanese Meatball Curry with these last time too) I can assure you we are NOT! :)  We wanted to do a new beef dish, but unfortunately aren’t quite ready considering we had to make sure to get dinner going (as it is now… YAY!)

DINNER?!?!? (aka DIN DINS!!!)

Yup, itza REALLY happening.  We’ll need to post better parking directions as it SEEMS people aren’t reading ‘em all, but yes dinner (THURS+FRI/6-9p) is most DEFINITELY on.. at least for most of the foreseeable summer.

DINE LA ROUNDTABLE TICKETS?!?!?

Last note, for any of you foodie fans that tried to get into DINE LA ROUNDTABLE event (that we happened to be catering ^_^), we’ve received TWO tickets to giveaway.  Still trying to figure out what to do, but the most popular answers on our Facebook Fan Page are: a dance-off OR drink-off!  

Not sure how we would do either one, but it would be fun and hilarious if we did!!!  Details to come out soon on how we do this, but Facebook’s probably the best place to check if you want updates. :)

Okay, that’s it today… gotta get some bread and make some grub for lunchie munchies.

Xoxo,

TEAM SK

Thanks for coming back… and we’ll see ya later (after today) our Nebraskan + Japanese friend (aka the NEBRASKA ANGUS JAPANESE MEATBALL CURRY)

For those that are just joining us (and are ABOUT to leave our page.. DOH), we rotate the menu EVERY week.  And sometimes I actually talk about our food on the blog, and when I’m not I’m just babbling about other nonsense + fun stuff like NEW WAVE and… NEW WAVE! :)

And if you’re also VERY new, here are two videos I made BEFORE just for our tasty-licious friend.  They’re kinda lame.. but hey, I made them with heart (and for free! ^_^)

First- here I am… a DUFUS (from Texas mind ya) LOL

Farmer Tran Presents: Nebraska Angus Japanese Meatball Curry from Starry Kitchen.

Second- sometimes I do farewell montage for dishes.  (but don’t mind the Pineapple Fried Rice business.. this an oldie but goodie video… well, at least I think it’s good! ^_^)

Are you still there? WOW, you must be bored (no really, don’t leave… man why do I always do that)

LASTLY, we have started to serve DIN DINS (= Dinner) too (Thurs+Fri/6-9p)

We got one of my awesome-tastic favorites on for dinner ONLY too: MALAYSIAN.. CHICKEN..EFFIN..CURRRRRRRRRY (it’s really F-CKING GOOD).  And my favorite way to have it… with CoCo RICE of course.  And my second favorite way (you did ask me that, right??), is this way served w/ a Curry Au Jus (uh huuuuuuh…. auuuu juuuuus):

I dunno how much more I can pad this post with… but thankfully I have to go so you don’t have to deal anymore with my banter (but you CAN watch the videos over and over again if you’d like LOL)

Xoxo,

TEAM SK

Thursday = Din Dins = Pandan Flan!

(does it get any simpler than that?!?!)

If not, if you miss your beloved NOM NOM PORK (I know, you’re prolly tired of seeing that pic all the time now, right??? I still haven’t gotten a new camera yet!!!), well here’s your last chance at Din Dins this week. ^_^

Also, don’t forget it’s the last lunchie munchies week for (I’m just gonna do it via purdy pics):

and did I mention the fairly “garlicky”…

And on the topic of BALLS (what, do we need a segue for every video we have?!?!), I present this video that was lovingly shared to us by a new fan, Dante Snaidero

(I haven’t seen this clip in AGES… and oh how I adore it so now.  Have fun with our… BALLS! mwahahahahahah…AHAHAHAHAHA)

BIG Xoxo,

TEAM SK

An A rating = FREE SOFT DRINKS today for lunchie munchies… YAY!

That pretty much sums it up.

Oh yeah…

DINNER THIS WK = 1 MORE CHANCE FOR TAIWANESE FRIED PORK CHOP

Oh yeah, since Din Dins (aka DINNER) is back on tonight (Thurs-Sat/6-9.30p), just an FYI that the fan favorite TAIWANESE FRIED PORK CHOP is available for public dinner consumption before it goes away for a couple of months!!

^_^

Did I ever mentioned I worked in independent film for a while? No, I didn’t? Well I did! Here’s a nice lil music video on a film I proudly worked on called WHITE ON RICE sung by our buddy Goh Nakamura (his singing is the DREAM-IEST!). Oh yeah, if you want you can actually check out the movie now in a ton of places on cable and/or VOD too ^_^:

(I can’t wait for more Chicken Wings tonight… damn those are my favorite things!!! ^_^)

Xoxo,

TEAM SK

Hey foodie fans,

YUP, that’s us and Susan Feniger. We met her last night at the Dine LA Chef’s Roundtable (among many others), and she’s just as sweet and as personable as we all think she is from TV, pictures and other stuff.  We *HEART* SUSAN (especially ‘cause you liked our Crispy Tofu Balls LOL).

HUGE Thanks goes out to Carrie Kommers of Dine LA.. we EFFIN *HEART* you too for inviting us to cater this. It was a WHOLE lotta fun to feed and meet tons of other foodies, aspiring chefs and… well REAL chefs too!

Okay, enough of that… got’s to get going, but don’t forget… it’s NEW WAVE WEDNESDAY (does anyone like this anymore?? ach who cares.. it’s our blog ^_^)

Man… I LOOOOOVE this song in karaoke… and this is the first time I saw this video… WHOA it’s HILARIOUS! Take a look, and enjoy (and don’t forget we start Din Dins again tomorrow from 6- (NOW) 9.30p ^_^

Xoxo,

TEAM SK

Just in case you’ve been reading a ton about us and were wondering this VERY question.  While Pat here saw 6, I think there were close to 15 at least that night (or at least in my wildest dreams) haha

Enjoy… and please come out for dinner (PREEEEETTY PLEASE!)

Xoxo,

TEAM SK

Dear SK n00bs + fans + people that so obsessed with us that they are “discusted” (<- yeah, that’s an IN joke but come and ask about it.. I’ll tell ya more TEE HEE HEE) with us,

HOLY CRAAAAAAP! We can’t believe we’ve made it this far, but WTH!  We gonna F’ SH-T up some mo’ (and by “F’ SH-T up” I obviously mean serve some deliciously mouthwatering Pan-Asian comfort dishes for public *NOM*sumption LOL ^_^) and serve some din dins…      

SK DINNER (aka Dins Dins)… starts TONIGHT! (Thurs+Fri ONLY/6-9p)

OH, if I haven’t mentioned… we’ve brought back MALAYSIAN CHICKEN CURRY just for DIN DINS ONLY!

I’m sure some of you that are new are like, “WHAT’S THE BIG DEAL ANYWAY?” To that I’ll say, “I DUNNO!” We’re just trying to have fun doing what we’re doing- no more, no less.  As long as we enjoy the food and we’re having fun, and hopefully enjoying with you and having fun together… that’s ALL that counts (we hope you won’t be a D-bag and agree us here LOL)

your friends can try the SPICY KOREAN BLACK PORK BELLY at Dins Dins too.. o’ boy!
   

Before we get into any details (if you decided to read THIS far)… PARKING!!!

Here are some tips:

• we do VALIDATE for our parking garage (California Plaza garage on Olive between 2nd + 4th) only if you get in by 7pm (EXACTLY). If you do, 2 hrs FREE!
• street parking is free on Grand and near after 8pm -I think street parking is free on Olive after 6pm
• you can also park at 4th+Hill (or near) for decent prices ($5 I think), and take the Angel’s Flight ($.25 each way) up
• or you can METRO to Pershing Square, and take the Angel’s Flight ($.25 each way) up   
• When in doubt, feel free to call the restaurant: 213.617.3474.

So for those that have been: you can finally share with your spouses, friends and potential Facebook hook-ups you’ve been tantalizing with stories of culinary merriment at Starry Kitchen (hopefully).. our food!

Right now we’re going to keep it simple, it will be the exact menu as lunch.  We are going to start offering different dishes, sides, appetizers and premium sides (whenever we feel like).  

So spread the word HIGH, LOW and everywhere IN BETWEEN… cause frankly, it’s SCARY and we could totally use your help (and comaraderie) to get the word out.

Thanks guys… oh yeah, if you didn’t know this is the LAST WEEK for the NEBRASKA ANGUS JAPANESE MEATBALL CURRY

2 more days for our ethnically confused and yet delicious compadre!
   

Love ya LOTS,

Team SK