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   Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 14:42:37 JST Adrianna Tan

   I should plan to be in LA more often. It makes me happy.

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     Scott Francis (darkuncle@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 14:45:00 JST Scott Francis

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     @skinnylatte you’re visiting?! I mean, this isn’t the greatest weather moment (plus Malibu is kinda charred =\ ) but yay!

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 14:45:00 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Scott Francis

     @darkuncle just got here from Monterey. Showing my folks around. Success so far

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 15:09:57 JST Adrianna Tan

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     It’s the one big U.S. city that makes me feel like it’s very similar to the range and vibes of the big Asian cities I love, with regards to food and food quality

     I really want to do a deep dive into how new Chinese immigration has made Monterey park a phenomenal hotspot of Chinese cuisine

     Also, the range and depth of Mexican food (duh) and Korean regional cuisines, so between all of these things I feel like there is an endless exploration of LA and the many diverse communities in it, through its food, in a way that is very deeply satisfying to me (in the same way SF’s food scene isn’t)

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 15:17:16 JST Adrianna Tan

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     Part of it is also maybe a familiarity and desire to be in a city again with this many people. I am very deeply comforted by huge cities that have many different types of people in them. They all feel like home to me

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 15:25:33 JST Adrianna Tan

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     One of the reasons I love LA so much is I have a friend who used to live here who is such a LA stan. She’s from Mexico City and lived in LA for a couple of years. Every time I come she sends me a list of food to eat and people to meet, and she keeps telling me that she loves eating in LA as much as she loves eating in Mexico City, which is a pretty huge standard. Every time, LA has met that standard.

     She then gave me the task to size up all the Chinese food in Monterey Park, Alhambra, San Gabriel Valley, so we can trade our lists. I’m still working my way through this quest but so far, it is an extremely tasty quest (and friendship)

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     Jess (short for Jessica) (apenguininspace@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 14-Feb-2025 00:17:29 JST Jess (short for Jessica)

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     @skinnylatte I grew up in San Jose and have been on the east coast the past 5-ish years, but I'm relocating to LA this spring!

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 14-Feb-2025 00:17:29 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Jess (short for Jessica)

     @apenguininspace yay

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 14-Feb-2025 01:21:42 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Chip Unicorn

     @Chip_Unicorn yep. i definitely go to fremont and milpitas and san jose very often for the food, they remind me most of the range of LA's many options

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     Chip Unicorn (chip_unicorn@im-in.space)'s status on Friday, 14-Feb-2025 01:21:43 JST Chip Unicorn

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     @skinnylatte
     I have lived in the Bay Area for two decades and in Los Angeles for two years.

     Los Angeles has vastly better restaurants.

     There is more variety and more quality in these restaurants than in most of the Bay Area. The only area that competes is Fremont - Union City, because (again) of its immigrant population.