Garlic Breath & Beer Underwear

matrix night i had my very first zankou chicken experience. for those of you who aren’t southern california residents, zankou is a little mediterranean chicken/shawarma dive that people are frenzied helter-skelter. ask anyone and they’ll tell you approximately the little tub of garlic “sauce” that comes with the theoretically fabulous chicken, and how it reeks havoc on your breath, but tastes oh-so piece-goods e freight. i’d been dying to go for some time, but the chance never presented itself.so while we were deciding where to go for dinner, i made preston give me two options of where to go, since i’m so damn indecisive. he came up with either that little pho place on sunset that i tell him is honourable every time we drive by it, or zankou. i fast choose zankou.

A blurry view from our table

yum

So the chicken itself was, in fact, really really good. Wrapped in some pita with a little hummus and tomatoes, then the tiniest dab of that garlic “sauce”, and yeah, I get why people go bananas for Zankou. We also got a falafel sandwich, but it was bland and mushy. Although, to be fair, once you’ve been spoiled by Truly Mediterranean’s falafel in San Francisco, no falafel will ever be good enough again. I didn’t think that garlic sauce was as strong as everyone said while I was eating it…in fact, I think I felt a little hoity about the whole thing, like “people think this is strong??? pshaw!”. But later?, you’re burping the most putrid smelling burps for the rest of the night. Eesh.

After we ate, Preston graciously succumbed to my pleas of “Can we go to the 99 Cents Only store, pleeeeeaseee?????”. Again, for those non-LA natives, the 99 Cents Only store is just what it sounds like: a store that sells everything for 99 cents only. But it’s so much more than that. What I love about it, is that every time you go in, you know you’re going to find some strange, amazing, or outright freaky thing. They’re the queen of discontinued items, and items that for sometimes obvious reasons, didn’t sell in mainstream stores. So the 99 Cents Only store graciously takes on that stores surplus items. Check out the 99 Cent Chef for some entertaining finds.

the location on sunset blvd. is huge! i was literally skipping for the door.

Dave and busters locations

the boyfriend finds something he in point of fact needs!

Out of the hour we wandered, and almost $40 we spent last night, three items stood out as “WTF? OMG!” items. One was this amazing roll of wallpaper boarder that had this weird, 1970’s-ish design involving camping and bears. I’ll take pictures as soon as I put it up in my bedroom.

the second were miller lite undies! rad!

the third it
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