Same as you. There are lots of posters that often state what part of town that they live in or work.
I view Westside as Beverly Hills and areas west of that. Fairfax/La Brea is in the middle of the city.
Just because there’s no deli doesn’t mean that there are no Jews. There is the Silver Lake Jewish Community Center, East Side Jews (who put on a ton of events), and there’s a synagogue in Los Feliz on Vermont. There aren’t many visible Jewish businesses, but lots of Jews live in the area.
That’s only really true if you consider Downtown LA to be the Eastside.
I guess idk how picky we’re being? Technically Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, and West Hollywood are their own cities, they aren’t LA. Fairfax//LaBrea/Pico etc… is technically the Westernmost part of Los Angeles as a city. So I don’t know how they can be considered as anything other than “Westside”.
Or is it that Westside refers strictly to suburbs of Los Angeles, instead of any part of the actual city of Los Angeles?
I have to admit, Silver Lake and Echo Park don’t seem “East” to me at all. They are west of Downtown. East begins with like Boyle Heights maybe to me… are places like Boyle Heights, the SGV, Whittier, etc… in general just excluded from being allowed as part of LA in any sense?
Am I looking at a different map than everyone else?..
I don’t know.
This is my personal viewpoint (not official in any capacity):
I consider Downtown to be Downtown.
East side is east of the LA River (Boyle Heights, etc.). (NE LA is Highland Park, Mt. Washington, Eagle Rock, etc)
Westside is west of ----oh, I don’t know—Doheny.
Weho is it’s own city, but I still view it as part of LA since it’s mid-city/Hollywood adjacent.
Santa Monica may be it’s own city, but to me that’s the Westside.
—for the record I have never lived west of Western so my vantage point may be skewed 
t’was I. It’s sorta like the N word. You can only say it if you aren’t white. Jews are white.
It is my understanding Jews are everywhere, just like the Chinese. And Jews were in China, just like there are Chinese in Israel.
picture proof from 天津：
We are one. Sorta, not really. Actually, not at all.
I guess the “middle” of LA is just friggin huge then? With only the very most remote edges being either “Westside” or “Eastside”?
On these forums I’m a repressed minority! I thought minorities could say whatever they want?? Damn man… =(
Well, I think if you ask @westsidegal, the Westside is basically west of the 405.
I guess the “middle” of LA is just friggin huge then? With only the very most remote edges being either “Westside” or “Eastside”?
lol I’m pretty sure we had this talk on CH but from the WLA perspective WLA is anything Westwood or west. Once you get into BH / Hollywood is mid city and East of Hollywood- Downtown is basically East LA 
Perspective depends on where you stand.
If that’s most people’s perspective on these forums on LA’s geography, then I stand by my assertion that most people here must be Westsiders lol (do people living in like Whittier see DTLA as West LA?)
That guy everyone was hating on may be somewhat right about people having certain biases lol
Here is the Wikipedia entry based on the LA times:
i’m going to agree with tony (except i don’t consider jews white. but that’s not a discussion for here.)
the synagogue in shanghai is still functioning. however, the one in yangon is not. it ain’t called diaspora for
nothing.
oh, and i’d add the indians to his list.
i’m also going to chortle and cover my ears to tame the clanging of the ol irony bell at the poster above
who constantly whinges about no one wanting to discuss food when his definition of “discussion” seems to be
a) stating opinions as fact b) consistently making assumptions about people he doesn’t know and c) reflexively gainsaying
anyone who actually bothers to respond to him.
ain’t people funny?
The Wiki seems to at least somewhat side with my thoughts, WeHo, Fairfax, Pico-Union, Palms, Mid-Wilshire are all Westside according to it.
But then again the article starts off saying there is no official definition shrugs
The Times used to have a “Westside” section on Thursdays. The general area described in the wiki was covered, bit don’t recall West Hollywood. I don’t recall if it’s because WeHo wasn’t formalized as a city yet, or if it was something else.
Pali and Malibu were covered as well. If you go by the high school sports extensively covered at the time, those schools’ geographic coverages would mirror everything from Malibu to Westchester, and Venice to Fairfax and Beverly Hills.
yes, we were scattered to the winds over the centuries. Actually these days the black hats over @ Chabad send out freshly minted Rabbis (usually in their 20’s) to countries like China, India, etc. to “spread the light of Judaism”, provide kosher meals and a place to pray for traveling observant Jews. (Personally, I thought your 99% Asian & Jewish FTCer comment was funny.)
Now back to the food discussion……………
This is a very amusing read.
I’ve been to the PDX Pok Pok twice. It follows the Portland paradigm of white-guy-cooks-non-white-peoples’-food-for-other-white-people that is increasingly common in this city. But we don’t have the critical mass of Thai people here to support a thriving and diverse Thai restaurant scene, though Pok Pok’s success has emboldened some Thai restaurateurs to start experimenting. There’s a Thai-owned Southern Thai place now, and northern Thai dishes creep up on Thai menus around town. And there’s even a Lao-owned place in highly unfashionable Beaverton making homemade Lao sausages, and their khao man gai (Particularly the sauce) is several steps beyond Nong’s. In fact, Beaverton seems to be shaping up to be a micro-Monterey Park. We just got our first Little Sheep (xiaofeiyang) and that ain’t to joke. There’s a place with a “secret” Taiwanese menu where we had a serviceable bawan. Several Korean-owned restaurants, and (finally) a Japanese owned ramen shop, saving us from legions of dreadful hipster ramen (where the raw egg mix-in is standard) as non-Japanese chefs without resources to know how to make a proper Japanese broth copy each others’ flawed executions (see Boxer Ramen). Yeah, Kukai’s ramen sort of stinks, but at least it’s recognizably Japanese. And their kaarage can occasionally be quite good. Can Din Tai Feng be far behind? God, I hope so, as the state of xiaolongbao in Portland is utterly dire.
Mr Taster
Of the Portland Tasters
So I’m going to try and make that burmese style pork curry because it just blew me away
http://www.kinfolk.com/recipe-kaeng-hung-leh-burmese-style-pork-belly-curry/
but i’m wondering… any cook types here? it seems to me there’s something super aromatic missing from this recipe… maybe they’re keeping it to themselves… like star anise… a bit of vanilla… something else is going on it seems to me.
The recipe in the book calls for “mild Indian curry powder,” which could contain almost any spice.
Cardamom probably.
