I’m not sure how this chain works. It has a menu similar to a restaurant with the same name in Huntington Park. The most notable thing, to me, is that they make pretty good medium grain rice, which I sometimes crave. I had the fried fish pieces, and it was okay. Nothing spectacular. It comes with salad. The weird thing is that it tastes like a Japanese restaurant. The rice and salad dressing are exactly like all the old Japanese restaurants, which are getting kind of rare. So it was nostalgic.(«Ahh natsukashii.») I think this might be a Korean operation, even though all the staff are Latino, because the menu in the HP location’s website lists«udong», which is their spelling for«udon.» Or maybe it’s some other group copying Koreans. The overall menu is a trip. Burgers, burritos, tacos, Salvadorean items, pollo rostizado, fried fish, teriyaki and other Japanese food, udon, sushi, chow mein, something that looks like chigae, caldo. This 90057 location has an abbreviated menu, and I don’t remember seeing sushi on there, but I may be wrong. All I can say is, «times change.» Back in the old days, a spot like this would have had pastrami on the menu. Everyone had pastrami.(Langers is practically next door, too.) And there’d be fried chicken too. I guess the pastrami and fried chicken days are the old days, and the chow mein and Salvadorean is the future. I wish I could have tried the meat and chicken, but I can’t really eat those.
