Check out our Twitter page for Twitpics from Hempcon 2010 in Los Angeles. The festival was a little stripped down this year, but there were some great deals being offered by clubs and a few quality products for sale. Delta 9 had the most impressive glass, though just about every major glass company chose to stay away (the March show in Las Vegas is much more important). Overall, a decent show, but nothing to go too crazy over if you’re not a patient or grower.
The best sesame chicken in Los Angeles
MUNCHIE REVIEW – Wok Master
Location: 7170 Beverly Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90036
Phone: (323) 934-2999
Style: Chinese
Bring about: $6 – $11
Wok Master used to be Wok Fast, or as my father called it, “Wok Slow.” Delivery took almost two hours and the guy taking your order had to ask three or four times just to get it down. The food was mediocre at best, and I avoided it like the plague.
I was getting stoned with a buddy one day when we passed by the Beverly Plaza, a mini-mall in the Hasidic Jewish district of Hancock Park. The mall is pretty stoner friendly – there’s a Gamestop, a Papa John’s, and an outrageously good yogurt spot called Toppers that’s been in the area since I was a kid.
My friend and I noticed the sign at Wok Fast had changed. Stoned and hungry, we gave the newly crowned Wok Master a try.
Everything had changed. For $7.99, I got a giant a la carte platter of sesame chicken with a big side of white rice. The sauce is the perfect cross of sweet and spicy and smothers the chicken. Mix in some of the white rice for texture, and each bite packs just about everything you need.
Wok Master’s lemon chicken is another gem. It comes as a dry breaded chicken with a large dish of hot orange sauce. Dunk the chicken in the sauce before taking a bite and prepare for a crispy orange rush of goodness.
The fried rice and chow mein is standard fare, but worth the low price, and a big side of fried pork wontons is just $3.99. They also serve Dragon Wings, dry fried wings with a tasty sauce, as a specialty item.
The Wok has been good to me at lunch as well, offering hearty servings of entrees and rice with an egg roll from 11 AM – 4 PM for $5.99. Grab one and take it to Pan Pacific Park on a sunny day (it’s right down the street).
These delicious wontons are only $3.99
Mongolian Beef is loaded!
Lucy's specialty is the blurry quesadilla!
MUNCHIE REVIEW – Lucy’s Drive In
Location: 1373 S. La Brea Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90019
Style: Mexican
Bring about: $4 – $7
The warm yellow glow of Lucys' sign ("borrowed" from WeezerMonkey.com)
If you grew up in Los Angeles, chances are you’ve been to a Lucy’s. The drive thru offers a convenience most taquerias do not with no drop in quality or taste.
What makes Lucy’s special is the flavor in their meat. The carne asada is loaded with flavor, the chorizo is spicy and the al pastor has an unbelievable kick. They also use a sharper cheese than most Mexican places, giving tacos, quesadillas, and burritos a tasty offset for the meat.
Lucy’s also makes American food. A combo with a burger, fries and a drink costs just $4. The $2 al la carte bag of fries is loaded and easily serves two people.
If you’re on the west end of Mid-City and need some munchies, Lucy’s is convenient, cheap and very, VERY tasty.
Burritos are loaded with meat, cheese and goodness
Platinum Bubba Kush is always a great time!
High – An all-day head high
Benefits – Intense tripping, pain reliever, appetite stimulant
Flavor – A dense kush flavor
Good for – laughter, listening to music, sex
Bad for – Anything productive!
Thoughts from the Staff
HL – “I smoked this stuff at 5 PM. It’s 8 and I’m still blitzed!”
Gabriella – “I slept SO well last night!”
Every leaf is COVERED in crystals!
Purple Erkel has a lot of orange too
High – a cloudy head high
Benefits – Antidepressant, humor enhancer
Flavor – Deep purple flavor with a mild smoke
Good for – laughter, funny television and movies, listening to music
Bad for – productivity, motivation
Purple and orange buds are packed with flavor!
MUNCHIE REVIEW – El Atacor
Location: 2622 N. Figueroa St. Los Angeles, CA 90065 (off the Figueroa exit on the 110).
Style: Mexican
Bring about: $4 – $7
I go way back with El Atacor. It was my stoner food spot in high school, a stones throw away from Eagle Rock where my friend’s guest house was our after hours zone. Cypress Park was not a runoff spot for Echo Park hipsters who fell out of East Sunset Blvd.’s price range. White people didn’t live in Cypress Park and certainly didn’t hang out there. The first time I looked at the menu, a drunk Mexican gentleman walked up to me and spit out, in broken English, “eyy vato, get the super burrito, ees big like a donkey’s dick!”
Donkey dick wasn’t one of the meat selections, but I ordered the burrito anyway. What I got was a piece of art, a gigantic, weighty ode to popular combination of meat, cheese, rice and beans. Metaphorically speaking, this wasn’t a donkey’s dick, this was a beluga whale!
Since that night, I’ve eaten countless meals at this place. Their meat tacos are loaded and tasty, and their one-of-a-kind fried potato tacos literally melt as you bite into them. Stoned with a lot of friends? The super nachos make a great munchie.
The neighborhood has changed, but El Atacor hasn’t, which is why you’ll always find me there with bloodshot eyes.
My most recent Atacor order - potato tacos!
HOLLYWOOD HILLS
Location: Various addresses. From the LA side, take La Brea going north, then make a right at Franklin Ave. Make a left on Outpost Drive, and take it all the way to Mulholland (where Outpost ends). There are scenic spots to the left and right of Outpost, so choose based on location. A left leads to several Los Angeles overlooks and leads to the LA side of Laurel Canyon. A right sends one to the valley side, with more scenic overlooks, and eventually leads down to the Cahuenga Pass (great shortcut for that 6 PM Hollywood slam on Highland).
Smoking a bowl on the LA side...
...and on the valley side!
Pre98 Bubba Kush is thick and strong
High – a solid head high with an accompanying body high and a lot of cottonmouth
Benefits – stimulates senses, generates appetite
Flavor – Intense kush flavor with decently medium smoke
Good for – going out, watching TV or movies, sex, being touched, pre-meal bowl
Bad for – true productivity, homework, being at work
Sticky sticky sticky!
Thoughts from the Staff
Gabriella – “Tasty weed that makes all my woman spots tingle. This stuff makes me want to go out to a club, dance, stare at the lights and go home with the first guy that makes out with my neck.”
HL – “As long as I’m not doing anything important, Pre98 makes living life in general much more enjoyable. The sun feels better on my face, food tastes better, and I’ve nicknamed it ‘green viagra…’ you do the math on that one.”
After a trek in the Hollywood Hills, we headed down to Mike’s Smoke Shop and checked out some of their products. Mike’s is the best shop in Hollywood right now, with really fair prices and the best selection of name brand pieces. We’ll have full reviews of Smoke Shops in the future, but for now here’s a few pics.
Three foot Zong!!!
The bowl of the three foot Zong can pack an entire 1/8th.
A sweet Octopus design, and a Lakers championship bong
TUFF AS FUGG
Does it even taste like smoke by the time it clears this thing?
Custom LA Skull Piece
Reporting from Sacramento – A proposal to legalize and tax marijuana in California was approved by a key committee of the Assembly on Tuesday, but it is not expected to get further consideration by the Legislature until next year.
Despite a procedural glitch, backers hailed the committee’s action as historic because it represented the first legislative approval of the proposal.
“This vote marks the formal beginning of the end of marijuana prohibition in the United States,” predicted Stephen Gutwillig, California state director of the Drug Policy Alliance, a pot legalization group.
Read more about the bill here. It’s nice to see a few steps in the right direction.
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