I got used to oceans of good food places living in Southern California for 30 years. In my last place I could walk to any of 70 nice restaurants and other nice places to eat or get food but not so much here in Metroparkcentralis. This is a photo from the one and only worthwhile Chinese restaurant and it closed its doors 3 years ago and there is still no place on this side of the Rocky River that is its equal. Oddly enough it was owned and operated by a lady lawyer for decades.
It is still hard for me to accept that nobody within 300 miles knows how to make and serve proper authentic Socal cuisine with the proper Mexican and Chinese fakery that makes take-away food from those places so damned good. This place doesn't even have proper food trucks!
Oh well, off to Pittsburgh in the morning for the art that's in it and maybe, a Rita's Italian for some custard and ice gelati.
3 comments:
SoCal?
try the Chinese(?) food found in LI suburbia in the '50s
can't even get a decent (Chinese-style), equivalent sparerib anywhere from NY to Portland, OR (trust me, I've tried)
even the roast pork fried rice isn't anywhere near as good.
these places, supported American Chinese families and sent their kids through college in the '60s
Southern California. It started out as a Navy slang for the Operating Areas right off the coast there and then it spread to everything south of Port Hueneme.
My favorite Chinese restaurant went out of business 10 years ago: Wan Fu on Fort Worth’s west side. It was the perfect mix of cheap food, hot spices and a cheap location. My other favorite is Fu’s Cooking on Holcomb in Houston. Always crowded. Not as cheap but very generous portions an excellent food. Family style rice in one big bowl for the table. It also has a nice Chinese family atmosphere with kids, old men and business groups. The fancy places have become a turn off with high prices, fake atmosphere and food that all tastes the same. They just don’t offer much of an experience and they are predictably boring.
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