LA Weekly has released its "99 Things to Eat in L.A. Before You Die" list.
The items on the list include pizza, pastries, desserts and delicacies at every price point. What’s the first thing they chose? Blowfish – which, as the editors point out, could kill you before you finish the rest of their list:
"Usually, we satisfy our fugu cravings at Dae Bok, the Koreatown specialist that cooks the blowfish into a spicy, garlicky stew, but everybody should experience, at least once, the translucent petals of fugu sashimi prepared by Hiro Urasawa in its early spring season. But be warned: If the toxins won’t get you, the size of the check just may."
Here are some other interesting LA items on the Web:
Vernon psychic attracts a crowd: A psychic, operating out of a tiny room in the back of his botanica, is attracting thousands of patrons. KPCC reports: "’I try to help people,’ he says. He listens to complaints as varied as bounced checks, phlegm-filled lungs and a spouse’s infidelity. And he tries to fix the situations. ‘I’m going to be famous because what I know needs to be known.’"
Palos Verdes power plant to modernize: Plans to modernize a Palos Verdes landfill power plant is gaining traction. The Daily Breeze reports: "The Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County plan to install new, more efficient equipment to convert gases from decaying, underground trash into energy at the shuttered Rolling Hills Estates facility."
O.C. Pizza Hut held up by toy gun bandit: A Costa Mesa Pizza Hut was robbed about 10 a.m. Thursday, just minutes after it opened. The Orange County Register reports: "A pizza store at breakfast time might seem an unlikely target, but the manager goes to the bank at the same time each day to deposit the previous night’s cash.… The store manager is a big man who wasn’t fast enough to catch the robber as he ran off down an alley to a waiting pickup."
— Anthony Pesce
[Corrected at 11:20 a.m.: A previous version of this post said the LA Weekly list was annual.]
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Photo: Blowfish — "fugu’"in Japanese — swim in a fish tank at a restaurant in the southwestern Japanese city of Shimonoseki. Credit: Toshiyuki Aizawa / Reuters