Amazon AWS Summit, Pine and Crane, Momi Sushi

Fooding

plus Amazon AWS Summit

Random Lucid Air with manufacturer plates.

Menu at Pine and Crane.

Cold appetizers. Inside.

Inside.

Smashed cucumber salad.

Dan bing (Taiwanese crepe, scallions, eggs, corn, cabbage).

The spread. Taiwanese sausage, chrysanthemum tea, cucumber salad, dan bing, thousand layer pancakes.

Dan bing (Taiwanese crepe, scallions, eggs, corn, cabbage).

Thousand layer pancakes. Like a beef roll but no beef and for breakfast. Inside.

Inside.

Outside.

Los Angeles Convention Center for Amazon AWS Summit Los Angeles.

All custom hardware for AWS.

Big AWS logo for photos.

AI stuff. So much.

Outside.

Momi Sushi is a local hole in the wall.

Seaweed salad better than some others, not too sweet.

Sashimi was okay.

Rolls were okay.

Spicy tuna.

Caterpillar roll (freshwater eel and avocado).

Pine and Crane is ... not fancy, but definitely Taiwanese food for white Americans. Got there too early for the lunch/dinner menu, the breakfast menu is just okay. Dan bing (Taiwanese breakfast crepe, egg, corn, scallions, cabbage) is okay, the thousand layer pancake is more like a beef roll with no beef. Not quite sure how I felt about either, they weren't bad, but not enough to make me go ooooooo? The sausage was also pretty meh, a pale shadow of what Sin Ba La or a real Taiwanese place serves.

In all honesty the lunch/dinner menu, including actual noodles and beef roll and sheng jian bao, actually looked much more appealing. But with limited stomach space and the only modest appeal of breakfast, I didn't feel compelled to return after the (tiringly overly-AI-focused) Amazon AWS Summit at the convention center wrapped up.

Momi Sushi has crazy good ratings on both Yelp and Google Maps (4.9 on both, over 100 reviews on each)... turns out it's a pretty ordinary local hole-in-the-wall? Can't fault them, but entirely ordinary. Rolls on the smaller size, but nothing wrong with that?