Los Angeles

As January is ending soon, it’s time to recall my trip to Los Angeles last month. We reached the Los Angeles airport and called an Uber there. It was interesting as Uber directed us to go up the departure hall instead of the arrival hall. I did not read the app properly but I asked around and the info counter told me to go up. The uber driver also called me - it was good and bad as I needed to pay for the roaming of incoming call. Our hotel was good as it is in the downtown although there was no view as it is right next to another building.

We spent 8 days 7 nights there. Out of those days, we spent 1 day in Universal Studios Hollywood, 1 day in Disneyland, and 1 day to go to Desert Hills Premium Outlet in Cabazon. The rest of the days were for going to Little Tokyo, Korea Town, and Chinatown. Aside from that, we watched an NBA game between LA Clippers and San Antonio Spurs and queued for 2 hours to enter the Broad museum that is next to Walt Disney Concert Hall. We also had the chance to visit Living Faith Presbyterian Church, an English-speaking congregation for second or third generation Korean living there.

We liked LA the most among the cities we visited. That is because of the weather that is warmer. Also, there are so many Asian foods there. We ate at Chunju Han-Il Kwan twice, also the Bool Bowl at a food truck. We also had the chance to eat Dimsum at Golden Dragon. The Korean supermarket there, Zion market, is much bigger than any Korean shop we have ever seen in Singapore. Back to Western food, we liked Blaze Pizza so much that we ate it twice. We also liked to go to Target shopping market at FIGat7th near our hotel. We tried another customized pizza at FIGat7th but we still prefer Blade Pizza.

On our way back, it was also nice to take an Uber with a lady driver and a cool car, Cadillac CTS. It was also nice to be able to drive when I rent a Fiat 500 from Enterprise to go to Cabazon. Hope that we someday can go to Los Angeles again, although the probability there may be lower now after the issue of EO.