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No pics, but we had Thai Basil Chicken over rice. It was delicious and just the perfect blend of spicy and sweet.
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I may be trying some Puerto Rican and “African“ places in the near future.
Zardnaar
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Jealous.
Watch a bit of YouTube travel type videos and some have been to Africa.
Some of those dishes look very interesting.
These are the places.
http://africanvillagerestaurant.com/africanrestau/
** Adobo Puerto Rican Cafe **
Tipical Puerto Rican Food filled with soul and generations of flavor passed on thru our ancestors.
www.adobopuertoricancafe.com
They're just a few doors from each other in the same strip mall,…with an african grocery in between. Same mall as my 2nd favorite Vietnamese restaurant.
I’ve enjoyed Ethiopian cuisine for many years, but this looks like it’s mostly from other regions. So I’ll be able to try dishes I’ve HEARD of but never seen before.
And while I have Puerto Rican roots, I’ve never been, and this is the first place I’ve seen that EXPLICITLY claims to serve that islan’s cuisine. Over the past couple of decades, more and more Carribea/Central American/South American restaurants are being very specific about their cuisine. So besides Mexican places, I’ve been to Columbian, Cuban, Peruvian, Jamaican, El Salvadora, Brazillian and Argentinean places.
Mostly with positive results.
Of course, not all of them have been successful. A few have just evaporated over the years.
Zardnaar
Legend
That stuff doesn't really exist here. Might be somewhere in the country. Couldn't even guess about Puerto Rican food I'm guessing spiced rice and roasted chicken?
Link doesn't seem to be displaying the menu when you click on it. Just get a scrolling gallery of photos no prices, descriptions or telling you what it is.
Photos look basic. Just grilled meat, rice, very basic salad.
Yeah, as well as fish, shrimp, mollusks, plantains, pork, chiles and so forth- IOW, a different take on similar resources across the Carribean and coastal South & Central America. Kinda looking forward to some of it.
Alas, I don’t get over to that side of town all that often, and since half the time I am, I’m with Mom, it may be some time before I get to try anything besides appetizers or finger foods. Mom is still reluctant to go into a restaurant, so new culinary experiences- like Nepalese- have all been takeouts eaten in the car in the shade of trees.
Zardnaar
Legend
Any nearby parks? Warm night fish and chips, blanket, bottle of wine.
Eh, most of our parks close at night, and not without reason. Besides, I’m not a big fan of eating outside.
But I still have other times when I can try them out. I just have to remember NOT to hit my favorite haunts! Besides the competition with my second favorite Vietnamese place, there’s a couple of really good Mexican places, a good Creole restaurant, an impressive Chinese buffet, a damn good Indian place, three Nepalese places (of which I’ve tried only one)… Well, you get the idea. And that’s just the places I know, all within a 2 block stretch of the same street.
I have to say, for some reason, restaurants around here seem to pop up in clusters. There’s another strip mall I used to pass a lot 20 years ago that had a chicken place, a BBQ place, a Japanese grocery, an Asian fusion place, a cookie store, an Italian place, and a Lebanese place. Now, the grocery is Indian/Pakistani, and all of the restaurants have been replaced by Indian restaurants except two. The chicken place is still there, and the lebanese place has been supplanted by a creole restaurant…run by Indians and Nepali.
But I still have other times when I can try them out. I just have to remember NOT to hit my favorite haunts! Besides the competition with my second favorite Vietnamese place, there’s a couple of really good Mexican places, a good Creole restaurant, an impressive Chinese buffet, a damn good Indian place, three Nepalese places (of which I’ve tried only one)… Well, you get the idea. And that’s just the places I know, all within a 2 block stretch of the same street.
I have to say, for some reason, restaurants around here seem to pop up in clusters. There’s another strip mall I used to pass a lot 20 years ago that had a chicken place, a BBQ place, a Japanese grocery, an Asian fusion place, a cookie store, an Italian place, and a Lebanese place. Now, the grocery is Indian/Pakistani, and all of the restaurants have been replaced by Indian restaurants except two. The chicken place is still there, and the lebanese place has been supplanted by a creole restaurant…run by Indians and Nepali.
Zardnaar
Legend
Yeah we have that problem. Main reason I booked somewhere new for my birthday. Rest of the family hasn't been there and I want a reliable pub food type place that's not our local we go to every 2-3 weeks.
I liked the Nepalese place but there's no convenient parking and it's inconvenient from our place when we have several other places around 5 minutes away.
Seating is also inconvenient and our local Indian place is pretty damned good as well with seating, parking, less busy etc.
Bummer on the bad location.
