Anyone?
So far I'm planning on going to Disneyland, Huntington Beach, Hollywood and Beverley Hills. For food, I'm trying to avoid any fast food restaurants that I can find here and plan on only exploring unique places. So far I only have Bruxie's on my radar. Also what are the best areas to shop? I went to Americana At Brand in Glendale the last time I went down and thought it was lovely.
Probably not many people replied because of jstevenson's post above. My list (at least for food) would be slightly different.
I would skip Tito's Tacos. I love Tito's, but I wouldn't take someone from out of town there. Tito's is like...Mexican-American comfort food. Basically hard shell tacos with shredded beef and (optional) cheese in it.
I agree on Jitlada (although I haven't made it there myself) and also agree on Kogi, the truck that blew the food truck craze wide open here in LA, and IMHO deservedly so. If you don't want to drive around town to chase it, you can always get Kogi at the Alibi Room in Culver City.
I also love Roscoe's (and I wouldn't necessarily skip it) but if it's fried chicken you want I prefer Honey's Kettle (in Culver City and Compton). No waffles there, but they will serve you fried chicken and hotcakes. Another alternate choice: Pann's near LAX. Great waffle and wings breakfast combo (which you can get anytime I think), cool Googie architecture. A few movies were filmed here (one that I remember was that Nicolas Cage movie Next which came out a few years back).
I'd stop in the SGV and get Chinese food somewhere. If you're only going to go to one place the one I'd recommend to an out of towner is Din Tai Fung in Arcadia, which is popular enough that they had to expand to two locations, next to each other.
K-Town might be an interesting stop too. I haven't explored K-Town enough to confidently recommend anything but if you want Korean BBQ and money is no object, I recommend Park's BBQ. We have a couple of Korean pizza places (like Mr. Pizza which I recomended above, and Pizza and Chicken Love Letter) as well, and if you haven't had Korean style chicken wings, you can check those out at places like, well...Pizza and Chicken Love Letter, although I think Kyochon and the like are better.
Another place that might interest you is the Seoul Sausage Co. which just opened up on Sawtelle in West LA (they are the guys who won the last season of the Food Truck Race on Food Network). I haven't been myself but I hear it is good (and I did try their kalbi sausage, when they had a booth at the Korean BBQ cookoff a few years back). That neighborhood has some cool places to eat, including Tsujita, which serves what is IMHO the best ramen/tsukemen in the city (lunch only).
I'll let someone else answer your questions about the malls, I don't go to malls all that often I'm afraid
