Posts Filed Under: food

We love what the UGTL guys are cooking up. Mix in a little i-am-8-bit and dash of EVO, and you are in for one tasty recipe. Add to the fact that this dish is cooked entirely with the freshest local SoCal ingredients, and it doesn’t get any better for you than this. May we interest you in $1 tacos with your SSFIV? Yes, please, thank you! Here’s a taste of UGTL 5:

UGTL 6 is right around the corner on Saturday, April 24th. It’s new location is the swank Rec Center Studio in Echo Park. Meat Bun will be on hand, and we are personally inviting you to come hang out with us. See you there!

Previous rumors aside, Mike figured out a way to swindle Kotaku into flying him out to TGS again this year.  I was informed too late to book my own travel arrangements, so I’m completely depressed holding down the fort here in LA.  To make the best of it, I’ve found some local things that may pacify my yearning to be checked into the Cerulean Tower with the rest of the Kotaku crew.

I visited Waraku on Abbot Kinney Blvd. this afternoon.   Not quite the same as shopping in Ginza or Takeshita-dori in Harajuku, but it is definitely a taste.

Speaking about taste, we have an oddly flavored candy, newly introduced in the States, that would give any bizzaro-candy in Japan a run for its money (who am I kidding?  Japan makes burger shaped chocolate-filled cookies called EveryBurger.)  The item I’m referring to is Ice Breakers Iced Tea Lemon flavored mints.  It’s like mainlining a spoonful of Lipton Iced Tea mix.

And with a couple clicks, I was perusing some homegrown videogame cosplay that will tide me over til I get back out to TGS (or Mike posts some of his pic’s).  This anonymous 4chan’er is creating quite simply a masterpiece with his version of Tyrael.

I’ll be hanging out on Sawtelle Blvd. a lot this week, drowning my sorrows in sake if anyone wants to join me.

Did you know that one-half of Meat Bun was almost the corn dog king of New England? If it weren’t for the raising of capital, the securing of business licenses, the renting of commercial property and about 3,000 other things it usually requires to do something like open a corn dog-only restaurant, one of us could be basking in the thousands that only a corn dog driven empire could finance. Alas, Meat Bun and the getting the hell out of a beach neighborhood took priority, much to the dismay of corn dog starved masses.

It’s hard to get corn dogs–fresh corn dogs, that is–in most non-carnival, non-festival locations. It’s like work. Thank God for Corn Dog Castle. For just the price of a ticket to Disneyland, plus parking, one can enjoy massive, artery clogging corn dogs for just $6 American. Speaking of American, they call them “amerikan doggu” in parts of the world where the term “corn dog” would just induce nausea. Curiously, this is also a country where corn and mayonnaise on a pizza is considered logical.

That’s Patrick, Meat Bun artist, friend, and gainfully unemployed contributing member of society. He was responsible for the fantastic Agro Polo design you should probably own. He’s enjoying the final third of a spicy corn dog from the Castle, something we don’t recommend doing prior to riding Big Thunder Mountain.