Tag: roexplore

  • Tra House | Food Adventures

    Tra House | Food Adventures

    Tra House has come a long way since it opened back in 2012. It use to be strictly a boba shop and then out of no where evolved into a full blown restaurant. Tra House is known for making Vietnamese dishes with a little twist to it, so if you’re a Vietnamese food fanatic and you eat here you’re going to be mind blown.

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     Garlic shrimp noodles. Pretty basic, but the shrimp was on point. I just wanted some dry noodles to eat.

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     Chicken vermicelli with egg rolls. Can’t go wrong with this combination.

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     When Vietnamese people think meat with baguette bread, they automatically think of banh mi sandwiches. When ordering this dish we did not expect it to come out like a pizza. Pretty good.

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     Crispy rice with Chinese sausages. We were expecting a bowl of fried rice with sausages. This was a pleasant surprise and also good.

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     Bo Ne. A slap of steak with tater tots and a fried egg. Taste delicious.

    Great place to have dinner and the place has a nice vibe to it. Also the drinks here are really good too. Try the New Yorker.

  • The Albright | Food Adventures

    The Albright | Food Adventures

    On my quest to become a Yelp Elite, I’m going to be blogging here and there about restaurants that I eat at because my life is more than cars and getting mad bitches. Just kidding about the last part, anyways I’ll be posting more food photos on here and reviews so i can just copy and paste it into my Yelp reviews. After a long day of adventuring we found ourselves at Santa Monica pier and decided to check out The Albright.

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    The babe, Abbitt always down to go eat with me.

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    Live in the moment Derek.

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    It’s always cool to go with a bunch of friends and fill the table with delicious food.

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    Ryo getting that food bukkake shot.

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    Abbitt got the fish and chips which was pretty good, Derek went with the basic fish tacos which we’re actually good too and Ryo had the baked salmon which was mediocre to me. I got the tuna melt with clam chowder bread bowl.

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    The tuna melt tasted pretty basic like I could make it at home and I hate eating something that I know I could make at home. The clam chowder on the other hand was delicious. Definitely get the clam chowder when you eat here. Overall, it’s a cool place to eat if you’re in Santa Monica because it’s right on the pier. Clam chowder and anything deep fried is a must get. I should really take more detailed photos the next time I review a restaurant. Not bad for the first time?

  • Free Museum Day | RO Explore

    Free Museum Day | RO Explore

    If you’re building a car or saving up for that next louboutin heels, you have to figure out some easy ways to save up money. One of my ways is to go out with a girl only once a year and that one time is on National Museum Day, where museums are free all over the United States. This year I thought the more the merrier so, I took out three guys that I really like and then these two girls just kinda tagged along.

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    Hayle ready for some cool photos today.

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    Introducing Becky Hoang, who I went to high school with and will be our creative director, make up artist, hula hooper and etc…

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    Beautiful AW films/AW Stickers/AWDEM.

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    Hayle said it was going to be cool to see the 405 from a birds eye view. #notimpressed.

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    Maybe a little now.

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    House ceiling goals.

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    Backyard goals. It sucks that they were renovating the garden and we weren’t allowed to be in the garden.

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    “What chu talking about, Willis?”

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    The infamous meme!! Sad how bad my culture is when I recognize a piece of art from a internet meme.

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    Shmurda dance.

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    Victory Cup.

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    Welcome to my crib, MTV Cribs.

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    Finding lines and such.

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    I want to feel this free and let it all hang out.

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    Ryo! I missed him a lot and this was our first day of hanging since he came back from Tokyo Auto Salon.

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     Abbitt looking to make some profile photos for people.

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    There’s a Harry Potter reference in this chimney and Derek was looking for it.

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    Lines baby.

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    Another boy band cover with Hayle in the middle.

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    “Look at all these fucks I give”

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    Becky happened to recognize this building and said she never got to visit this museum before. Lucky for her she was with me and I love being able to experience the first of something with someone.

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    It was a Bullwinke Show art exhibition!

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    Lots of very cool drawings of some of the characters in the show.

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    Live in the moment Becky.

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    We’re not really friends if I haven’t taken you to a good ice cream spot to eat for the first time.

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    Blue velvet ice cream.

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    The tag a longs or if Hayle would say it the “tagalogs”.

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    People who wear glasses stick together, they know each other feels..

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    Describing to each other their flavors.

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     “Damn this spoon taste good”

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    Whoa, a decent photo of Ms. Glaiza.

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    It’s like one saw something coming and the other one got hit by it.

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    Vogue Hayle.

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    What a beautiful day to go skipping in the grass on Rodeo.

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    This family took notice of Hayle’s professional Instagram skills and wanted her to take their family photo.

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    The group got split up after this, some went straight to Flask Mob and the rest went to LACMA.

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    Becky and I were the lucky ones that got to go to LACMA.

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    A ton of cool stuff in the contemporary art building. I want to use all of them as a piece in my house.

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    A giant ass elevator.

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    It would suck if they all got stuck in this elevator with a guy who is lactose intolerant and just ate ice cream half an hour ago.

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    I miss the American flag television installation they had here last year.

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    Richard Serra’s Band. I only know of this sculpture because I took an art class for fun in the summer and he was one of the guys I hard to research about.

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    The classic “why the fuck are you taking a photo of me?” look.

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    She got use to me though.

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    Seriously, hanging around me you get some good Facebook profile photos that you can use on Tindr and maybe it will get you  laid or a free meal. Thank me later.

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    Shout out to Shavi, Derek, Glaiza, Becky, Abbitt and Ryo for making this day so fun. We need to have more adventures like these.

  • Flask Mob LA | January

    Flask Mob LA | January

    You can come up with some cool shit with just a tripod and some long exposures.The latest trend on Instagram right now is the late night city photography with a sick emo caption which has always been my favorite thing to shoot. I live in the suburbs where there are no city lights to take photos of and when there are lights at nights it’s usually because of traffic. Luckily for me Flask Mob has monthly meets where they show you around the city and make it so cool shit happens for photo opportunities. I saw last month’s photos and made it a priority for me to go to the next meet up.

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    There was already a large crowd of people when we got there. Amazing to see so many photographers and people who love to capture cool shit come together.

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    People already started staging out some cool shots.

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    Flask Mob was like Halloween all over again, but a lot more acceptable to take photos of people.

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    There was also this dude who was a professional fire breather. First time seeing something like this and it had me in shock and awe.

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    I wish I had a better angle for a cool shot.

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    He was like a Charmander all night.

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    Holy crap.

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    He who dances with fire.

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    This guy is epic.

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    Next to him was a dude that spun burnt wool and it makes this cool effect.

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    Right when all the cool shit was about to happen, the fun police came and through the down the biggest “TFTI” on us and proceeded to kick us out.

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    Good thing no one invited them because they would’ve known we were just going to move anyways.

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    Straight thug.

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    This guy is a bad ass. Right when he got on the bridge he gunned it and got chased after the police.

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    Hayle really confused on where we’re going.

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    It got a little rowdy.

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    Look at all of these people!

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    Some low lows. Check out that rim tuck.

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    Fire wool spinning on the bridge.

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    These ladies lit some sparklers to guide us.

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    I think I want to pick up this hobby.

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    This is so down.

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    We were slapping these new HOODRATstuff stickers wherever we went.

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    The guide.

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    The DJ.

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    It was a fucking party.

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    Not amused.

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    Smoke bombs is another thing on my list to buy.

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    Our friends eventually caught up to us.

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    But them being here won’t stop this party.

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    Even Van Styles was present.

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    LAPD eventually blocked us in and didn’t let anyone pass.

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    It still didn’t stop the FLASK MOB.

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    Wildest rager ever.

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    Seriously, no rules at this party. It was like we were at a photography competition where everyone was fighting to get a good photo.

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    She would win.

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    Insert poetic caption or alternative rock song.

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    Be the light at the end of a tunnel.

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    We thought this was David Vu’s old car.

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    LA is a crazy place. It was a fun experience thank you Flask Mob for the good times. I know how tough it is to throw events, so I hope you guys keep at it!