Neighborhood - Burgers Burgers Burgers... and Hanger

Neighborhood, a bar/restaurant thingy in Downtown San Diego. A few friends and I trekked down there last Friday night at approximately 7pm... We made the mistake of letting me drive... hungry... and sleep-deprived. I drove in a 4 block radius around our destination for a good half-hour to 45min trying to find some goddamn parking. We finally found a easily over-looked spot on what must have been the 1000908239853iueyt989th loop. Yay! Parking! By then I was effing starving, and was ready to shove as much edible objects in my face as humanly possible. Did I mention I have road rage?? Especially when I'm hungry? So yes, I was reasonably pissed, as one may say.

Ramen rampage: Hakata Ramen Shinsengumi

This is a bit of back-post, which I will have a few more later, because of the places I went to during the first week after my graduation. You see, near the end of the last quarter of my undergraduate quest, I went (and still is) on a ramen rampage. For some inexplicable reason, I developed a really bad ramen craving. Going to my usual ramen shop only fueled my quest to seek out more. Knowing that there is a significant Japanese population in Gardena/Torrence area, and that I will be passing by there on my way to my boyfriend's family in LA, I yelped the best ramen places in the region. Hakata ramen Shinsengumi came on top with 41/2 stars and over 500 reviews. Logically, I had to go.

Our first visit was right after my graduation, driving from San Diego to LA, we arrived in Gardena around 7pm on a Saturday. There were already many people outside of the establishment, and despite being really starved college students,we waited around 30minutes to be finally seated. The wait was well worth it!

It's a medium-small sized shop, crowded (understandably), and charmingly noisy. The menu was