Sake to Me Saturday Night!

The Joy of Sake

ELV note: Eating Las Vegas usually doesn’t advertise food events. Not that we have anything against them, but we’ve found that, over the past twenty years, what was once special has become commonplace; and spending an evening strolling among food booths is no longer our idea of a good time. But the one above is going to be something special: an event featuring hundreds of premium sakes (the kind we usually can’t afford), matched with food from many of our greatest Asian chefs and restaurants. It’s going to be an alimentary Asian education in more ways than one, and the perfect place to up your sake game. 

See you there.

Kanpai!

Bits, Bites, Bitings and Beginnings

ELV — the man, the myth, the Asian food maven — has been a bit under the weather recently. Actually, what he’s really been under is a number of dentist’s, dental hygienist’s, periodontist’s, and oral surgeon’s hands, as he’s struggled mightily to correct some malfunctioning molars in the back of his mouth.

And by “struggled mightily” we mean he’s been so full of novocaine, Xanax, diazepam, general anesthetics and Tramadol over the past ten days he barely knows his own name…much less what he’s chewing on.

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