Not SGV
This weekend I visited Chinatown to run some errands with my Uncle. We met at Philippe's French Dip... It's a super-old place with sawdust on the floor, and it's where Eric interviewed Versus years ago.
My uncle chose to meet me there because it's one of the few places in the area that has free parking. It was also dirt cheap. Coffee is the same price as when the doors opened--9 cents! I have a great aunt who used to come here to hang out here with her buddies every morning after doing tai chi. The staff eventually told them that it wasn't okay to come in, have 9-cent coffee, and take up two tables for an hour.
After taking care of business, we dropped by Won Kok--another place with free parking that happens to be dirt cheap. See a pattern? Actually, it was pretty good. When we waited, I had a great view of the kitchen--maybe not so good.
The best part was when workers would come out with steaming trays of dim sum every now and then. The egg tarts are a pretty good size. Not as huge as that place in the alley (you know the one I'm talking about) but bigger than something you'd get off a cart. The line continually shrank and grew like a sea anemone. Check out that Chinatown girl's steez.
Hey, where'd the last one go? I won't say, but it was pretty good. This is going on forever, so I'll end it with a non-food pic. I don't know if you can tell, but there's a golden altar behind the barbed-wire fence. What are they doing, keeping out ninjas?
My uncle chose to meet me there because it's one of the few places in the area that has free parking. It was also dirt cheap. Coffee is the same price as when the doors opened--9 cents! I have a great aunt who used to come here to hang out here with her buddies every morning after doing tai chi. The staff eventually told them that it wasn't okay to come in, have 9-cent coffee, and take up two tables for an hour.
After taking care of business, we dropped by Won Kok--another place with free parking that happens to be dirt cheap. See a pattern? Actually, it was pretty good. When we waited, I had a great view of the kitchen--maybe not so good.
The best part was when workers would come out with steaming trays of dim sum every now and then. The egg tarts are a pretty good size. Not as huge as that place in the alley (you know the one I'm talking about) but bigger than something you'd get off a cart. The line continually shrank and grew like a sea anemone. Check out that Chinatown girl's steez.
Hey, where'd the last one go? I won't say, but it was pretty good. This is going on forever, so I'll end it with a non-food pic. I don't know if you can tell, but there's a golden altar behind the barbed-wire fence. What are they doing, keeping out ninjas?
posted by gr at
11:11 AM
Are you referring that place below Hong Kong Low?
Aw, busted!
-mw
I had 2 bossess for one of my
first jobs in graphics.
They were completely different
except the one thing they had in
common was that they loved food.
All week they would talk about
where we were going to eat on
Friday (we would eat out every
Friday) and then after we ate on
Friday, all they would do
would talk about how good
the meal was.
We kind of had a rotation going of favorites
one of them was Phillippes another,
Empress Pavillion, another was a
Chinese vegetarian rest. in SGV near
one of the 99 Ranches - I forgot the
name. Brings back a lot of memories.
I'll bet you're taking about Vegetarian Delight (RIP) on the second floor in San Gabriel Square. I loved that place; their velvet finger rolls were untouchable.
-mw
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