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LA Stuff if you're underage
Akilae729
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So my little sister is coming to visit me in LA next week and I need to think of cool stuff to do (that would be cool for a 18 year old).
She already said that she wants to....
1) Hollywood Sign
2) LACMA
3) Read a book on the beach
4) Disneyland
I've thought of.....
1) Adventure to find the Grilled Cheese Truck
2) Send her to go shopping with my girlfriend on Melrose (I don't have spring break anymore as I am now a semi-adult and have to still go to work while she is here)
3) Pantry
4) Little Tokyo adventure + that awesome ramen place that I forget the name of
5) ?
My sister is a wanna be hipster, and despite the fact I've been in LA for 5 years, my engineering lifestyle has prevented me from learning about whats cool out here.
Whats happening right now in LA that would be fun / cool for an 18 year old?
She already said that she wants to....
1) Hollywood Sign
2) LACMA
3) Read a book on the beach
4) Disneyland
I've thought of.....
1) Adventure to find the Grilled Cheese Truck
2) Send her to go shopping with my girlfriend on Melrose (I don't have spring break anymore as I am now a semi-adult and have to still go to work while she is here)
3) Pantry
4) Little Tokyo adventure + that awesome ramen place that I forget the name of
5) ?
My sister is a wanna be hipster, and despite the fact I've been in LA for 5 years, my engineering lifestyle has prevented me from learning about whats cool out here.
Whats happening right now in LA that would be fun / cool for an 18 year old?
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I don't know if it jives with the 18 year old mindset, but the Huntington Library and Gardens and/or the LA Arboretum are remarkably beautiful and relaxing to walk through.
And I'm not sure if its the same ramen place that you're thinking of, but Shin-Sen-Gumi (Specifically the Hakata ramen locations) are basically the lords and masters of soup. I've had the shakes ever since leaving LA since I can't get my fix there.
Pasadena has this large parking lot of food trucks or find some local to where you live.
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Silver lake is hipster central. I personally can't stand it, but hipsters love it.
She's from Seattle originally but she is flying down from WSU in Pullman.
Honestly, I think the fact that it isn't snowing will mean she has a good time.
And I'll definitely hit up ntelligensia
There's also the museum of tolerance not too far from there as well, and you can get a nearby "authentic" burrito or something as well. Maybe go eat ethiopian food in little ethiopia.
I will agree with Tetra though and say that Hakata Shin-sen-gumi is amazing, and I actually prefer it to Daikokuya, but it's a bit further away (Monterey Park and Gardena would be your closest ones, and those are a good 30+ minutes away from downtown LA).
Weaboo List
That's the place.
Went there once and got the Ramen with extra back fat
If you are in Silverlake on a hipster extravaganza, go up to Eagle Rock & have lunch at Oinkster. http://www.theoinkster.com/
Beach-wise, the Manhatttan Beach pier area is nice, and so is Hermosa's.
Stay away from Venice Beach, unless you need to pick up your 215 cards. Venice is the Mos Eisley of beach areas.
I live in Redondo so actually beach-beach day will definitely be down at the Hermosa pier.
And the original Tommy's is the nastiest food in the world. Perhaps I just had a bad experience there my first time but just the smell of that chili makes me want to vom
For a slightly higher price, there's also Dan Tana's, but you need to be prepared. The food is...okay. Not great, but decent. You really go for the atmosphere, and you'll have a lot of B-list Hollywood celebrities there, but the unspoken rule is that you are not allowed to be starstruck or bother them for autographs or pictures or anything. In there, they are just other patrons. I've hung out with Mickey Rourke, done shots with Harry Dean Stanton at the bar, and crashed Paris Hilton's birthday party there. As in interesting bit of trivia, they are also the last line in Get Shorty. "Where do you want to go to lunch?" "I don't know. Let's go to Tana's." Although, despite the line, activity doesn't really get started there until later, so it's not really a lunch place.
Santa Monica would be a good place to read a book on the beach as well as go to the pier and the 3rd Street Promenade in short walking distance. I'll second staying off Venice Beach. They've been having a lot of crime problems for a few years.
There's Universal Studios/Citywalk. That's pretty uniquely LA.
I can't remember if there's much in Pasadena other than the Huntington Library.
Most of the other suggestions, I've seen here are good, too.
I'm sort of an art geek but the Getty is cool even if just for the architecture and not the art inside of it; it's minimalistic and inspiring.