A downtown bar with decent sushi. I'll take it.

This is a gateway bbh: no blood or pork hock, but the soup is on point. And I love that it's not swimming in too much annatto-red oil. Nice to have hot soup on a cold day.

Work lunch. (Will update with more Seattle and LA pics soon!)

Noodles in San Jose before we made our way home

Snack for the road. Really liked the flaky pastry of the beef empanadas.

Yummy shaved ice. Light and refreshing!

Yummy sushi. Good lunch deals.

Dinner #2: Really good Korean BBQ

First dinner! We did what Louis C.K. calls a "Bang Bang" because the K-BBQ place told us it would take 90 minutes to get in. We ate a meal and the wait for the other place was only 60 minutes, haha.

Tasty. The jade noodles are the best dish, hands down. I liked the rich broth in the boat noodles too.

Delicious, delicately flavored ice cream

The pork bone stew was excellent. I highly recommend it.

Didn't get a chance to take too many pics bc I was catching up with friends. The service was a bit haphazard. We received our rice and then 25 minutes later the Three Cup Chicken which would have paired perfectly with the then-consumed rice.

Capping off late night tacos with late night ice cream of course

Late night tacos upon arriving in Los Angeles.

They ran out of fish tacos! Ah well, the lengua was nice and moist so I didn't mind too much.

One last seafood meal before I left

Four chowder sampler: smoked salmon chowder; daily special lobster, crab & corn; seafood bisque; seared scallop. The bisque is my favorite of the seven soups I've tried here.

The alligator was well seasoned and paired really well with the crisp, slightly charred rice cracker.

It was fresh from the oven!

Lovely and reasonably priced sushi omakase meal and a whole bottle of sake. My favorite meal in Seattle.

Legit bbh with pork hock and blood cubes. Love it. The banh bot loc was really good!

It was a cold rainy night and warming myself with a Bloody Mary was just what I needed. I really loved the raw oysters and the delicately flavored geoduck.