A city as diverse as Los Angeles has many ethnicities and languages. With this being the case, Los Angeles is full of good ethnic eating establishments. When you spend the whole day working or visiting you obviously gain a good appetite. There is nothing like enjoying a good hearty meal with a beverage of your choice at a good price. I don’t know about you but a meal and a beverage always taste better when the price is right. Depending on the area you frequent, there are always good places to eat. If you want some good mexican food, you go to East Los Angeles. If you want some Chinese food you can go just about anywhere, but Chinatown does have the best. Armenian food, you go to Glendale or Little Armenia. Soul food, you go to South Central Los Angeles and for Salvadoran food you can go to Pacoima. Gringo food, you can get that at any fast food joint, such as McDonalds, Taco Bell or Denny’s. All those ethnic pockets of civilization throughout the city specialize in one form or another in their own specialties.
On the other spectrum you have both buffet restaurants, my favorites are: Shakey’s, Hometown Buffet, Acapulco, as well as any all you can eat diners. These places are always packed with folks of all different types and are too busy chowing down to see who else is around. You also have the “bird food” restaurants. These are establishments that give you snack food for a very high price. If you are hungry avoid these places. You pay the high price for the atmosphere, not the meal. If I am hungry I am going to eat some food, not the service.
At these places places you have to pay high prices for the valet, waiter, and the barbacks. To hell with that, I just want some food. As you can see, “El Lay” has different types of food and the establishments that serve them are all varied as well. It all depends on you, if you’re hungry, and whether you want a good meal or not. If you are hungry you hit the buffet. If you want a certain type of food, you go to the area that specializes in that type of food. If you want to spend some money on “bird food” you can go to one of those snooty overpriced restaurants.
Until the next lesson, “Stay Down.”
Written and Reported by: OG DUDE
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