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dementedturnip26 OP t1_iv44kzu wrote

Reply to comment by yolorelli in Chengdu gourmet McKnight by dementedturnip26

What always makes me laugh is when people go to a place like this, then they get orange chicken and say “ehh wasn’t that great”

You know how I judge a place like this or las palmas and know it’s pretty good? When I go to las palmas and see the group of Mexicans there on their lunch I know in the right place. When I go to here or the other places like it such as Szechuan gourmet and see folks that are native Chinese I know I’m in the right place. Quite frankly you won’t see them at Emiliano’s or seasame inn. I like those for what they are but this is different.

North hills has always been pretty barren as far as diversity of food, and I just hope the moron crowd up here doesn’t ruin something that is frankly very different and very good from what we have here.

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livefast_dieawesome t1_iv56rqj wrote

> North hills has always been pretty barren as far as diversity of food

What are you talking about? They have an OLIVE GARDEN! You can take a TOUR OF ITALY. And a MAD MEX where right now they have a GOBBLERITO. that’s a BURRITO with thanksgiving dinner INSIDE OF IT. And RED LOBSTER which is the APPLEBEES OF THE SEA. And that’s not to even mention ARBY’S ON McKNIGHT ROAD

(I am being extremely sarcastic)

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whatadangus t1_iv57tq1 wrote

Hey man, I’ll be the first to say something like a Gobblerito shouldn’t exist….but it does, and it’s 🔥🔥🔥

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livefast_dieawesome t1_iv6m871 wrote

With the exception of arbys I am not above eating at any of the above places. Just usually with my parents or my wife’s family 😂

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mrsrtz t1_iv5b47j wrote

> APPLEBEES OF THE SEA

I laughed!

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mvc594250 t1_iv5b50n wrote

I mean, in defense of the north hills (food scene, not necessarily the people depending on the suburb), it's sparsely populated compared to the city and the other hills. Tough to support a great food scene when you're light on people and they all live fairly far apart.

That said, the north hills still has two of the areas best Indian/Pakistani restaurants (Taj Mahal, Kabab King), a great Burmese restaurant (Royal Myanmar), at least one exceptional Japanese restaurant (Sushi Tomo), several good Asian fusion spots (K Asian Bistro) a couple of serviceable Thai spots (Kanlaya for sure), California Taco Shop which seems to be well regarded in its lane, a couple of really good pizza places (Milano's and now the new Angelo's location), some decent Italian American spots (Silvioni's, Sprezzatura, Severina) and a number of good to great American food places, both pub style (Blue Goose, Rear End) and higher end (Hartwood, Brick and Barrel, Off the Hook, Napa Prime).

This is without touching any kind real local chain (ie Aladdins, Nicky's Thai). I don't think that it's really fair to say that the area lacks diversity, especially since it's so comparatively sparsely populated. I think that the real problem is that most people find a handful of meals or types of cuisines that they like and never even bother to look for a new restaurant or style of food. There's a lot more going on here than a lot of people notice and I think that's a shame.

All that said, I welcome Chengdu Gourmet and am pumped to make it over there.

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OnceBug t1_iv5vk87 wrote

This person dines yo, great info blast here.

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joncash t1_iv5emmx wrote

California Taco shop is weird. They make fairly authentic Mexican tacos, but call themselves California. Like why? Why name yourself after an American state? Good food, but just weird. Also I'm leaving this comment so I can refer to your list of restaurants. I've tried about 50% of them and love them all, so I'm pretty sure I'm going to like everything you wrote down. Thanks!

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Novel-Economics-6466 t1_iv5ord7 wrote

I think they’re named after Baja California? Especially with their Ensenada fish taco.

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joncash t1_iv65c5v wrote

oh god that makes sense. I can be so ignorant.

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kickerofelves86 t1_iv5kgk8 wrote

The best tacos I ever had were at a random truck in the central valley. Lots of Mexican farmworkers there

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IClight69 t1_iv6lje3 wrote

I’m gonna say any truck from Sacto down to go he Grapevine is fire. Then your in LA and it’s all fire until you fall into the ocean in the Yucatán.

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Moralitea t1_ivcfaok wrote

Royal Myanmar is a gem and I love it dearly.

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pghgreatest t1_iv7v7v8 wrote

Great post but disagree on Nicky thai.

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mvc594250 t1_iv839rx wrote

Like you disagree that it's a good Thai restaurant? It's definitely not the best in the area and it's a touch over priced, but it's pretty good. No Thai Gourmet, but the staples that I've had there have been at least good.

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pghgreatest t1_ivkmhxk wrote

It’s so bad last time we sent plate back to them and they didn’t even charge me :/

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jeffykins t1_iv4qz3z wrote

First time I went to the OG chengdu gourmet, same thing, filled with Chinese students and some families, so we knew it would be stellar, and it always is. I've never gone to a single restaurant more in this city than that place. I never considered that this stuff might go over the heads of some of the north hills folk

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hydrospanner t1_iv5no7u wrote

I mean I get what you're trying to say here...but at the same time, it certainly makes sense to evaluate a place based on how well you like the things you order and eat from that place.

It's a more valid evaluation for sure than deciding what you think of it based on other people's preferences.

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dementedturnip26 OP t1_iv8dcqt wrote

That’s fair. At the same time if I went to a fish restaurant and got a steak one complained it wasn’t as good as a nice steakhouse that’s dumb

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bluepisces1980 t1_ived5mu wrote

Yes I agree! Hahaha that’s my go to test of wether I should bother with how many diners from that target demographic are eating there!

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