indian food and pakistani food are too broad as categories to be very coherent (pakistani food the less heterogeneous of the two) but your observation of the generic similarity is on the right track. think instead of two slowly diverging strands of punjabi food with pakistani food being more intensely non-vegetarian. indian punjab–which since partition is predominantly sikh and hindu–is far more vegetarian than most indian states and certainly more than the predominantly non-vegetarian pakistani punjab.
now if you compare pakistani food of this genre to food from other parts of india you won’t find many points of intersection—in some cases, none. but it’s hard to get a sense of that from most indian restaurants in the u.s, at least the ones popular with americans.
Hi. Been reading this thread for a while but haven’t posted yet. Have been living in the South Bay since 2010. Wanted to mention that I noticed that Tacos La Gorda Feliz 1605 Pacific Coast Hwy Los Angeles, CA 90710 just opened up and they are the same owners as Tacos El Goloso. Curious to try them out. Been a longtime fan of Shinsengumi Yakitori and Torihei, but haven’t tried Torimatsu yet. I plan to try Torimatsu soon too. Also excited to try the tacos at PCH and 110 sometime.
I go to that Plaza pretty often. A few days ago the courtyard shrubs are planted. Next time I’ll check if the ceiling light fixture are installed. That should be a good indicator.
If you have seen the hiring sign, were you taken aback that they have opening for head chef?
PS: The courtyard is situated in a low traffic area (for now), so I’m pretty excited about that.
I didn’t look at what roles they had available. But that’s kinda worrisome if they’re looking for head chef. You would think one of the existing chefs at another location would do that job.
Just drove by today patio is looking nice! It’ll be great for outdoor dining.
What happened to Dim Sum 101. Was pretty good, albeit limited. That location seems tough though and that spot is depressing, at best. I think anyone who wants to have a chance to succeed will need to take the time to at least tidy up the interior and make it feel like a restaurant you actually want to sit in for a meal.
My friend was actually the manager of Dim Sum 101. The husband and wife that managed it are my neighbors and our kids play together sometimes. She said their entire business was let go. I think the owner plans to re-do the entire restaurant into something else. It is sad. My friend said that actually they saw it coming because labor costs were too high and food costs were too high too. Also less and less people were dining each day do to the increased costs. The owner said they can’t afford to raise the prices and the margins were so low. It must be really tough to be in the food industry right now. I think Lunasia will probably do much better, I hope because we really need a good dim sum place here.
If they are looking for work encourage them to do a dim sum to go frozen take home out of their home kitchen. If they get on the right WeChat groups there has to be a lot of demand since there are so many Chinese and Asian families in the area.
@yotsubachan i may be an outlier, but my equation for eat in is some function of cost + experience. In other words, I’m ok paying a higher price, particularly in an inflationary environment, but the ambience of the restaurant has to support it. That space, even in it’s prior incarnation, always felt dingy, particularly as you walk in.
I wonder if you spruced it up a bit, not even investing a ton, but just cleaning it up and making it look nice, if you could get folks to dine-in more.
Definitely not a restaurant expert, so just relaying my 2 cents… But i really enjoyed the dim sum there and am sorry to see it go, so I hope whatever concept they do next is a success!
