Northern Cafe, Pacific Dining Car, and Boba Guys

Pacific Dining Car

Noodles, steak, and milk tea

Northern Cafe Noodle House's menu.

Lamb skewers are still just passable. Cold cucumber isn't bad, just like the other location.

Decor is basically the same. Maybe the big brightly lit sign is new?

Lamb intestine noodle is okay, I suspect the regular lamb is better.

Pacific Dining Car DTLA's location.

Inside. Very classic.

Instead of $38.95 for the baseball steak, we're here because it's $0.98.

Caprese, aka the heirloom tomato salad. Pretty decent.

Some overpriced broccoli.

Focus, people, focus!

The infamous baseball steak. For $0.98 it's pretty damned good.

Boba Guys is here in the ghetto?

The Lego sign.

Mmmmm milk tea.

Milk tea in front of the Lego sign.

Sometime in the past few weeks, Northern Cafe's second location in Westwood switched from teppanyaki to noodles. Not sure it's particularly good, but it's not bad considering the near-absence of edible Chinese food in west LA.

Dinner the next day was Pacific Dining Car's 98 cent baseball steak special. The rest of the (decidedly ordinary) menu was full priced, but it's hard to complain about a USDA prime top sirloin for under a dollar. *grins* The deal got not only Sue and Ophelia to come, but also the mysterious Chris!

The unexpected discovery of a Boba Guys nearby in the ghetto was a surprise. It was both pleasant and unpleasant; pleasant in that Boba Guys is always delicious, tasty gourmet milk tea; unpleasant in that parking for this location is pretty much non-existent. A pair of parking lots teases you, except they're both locked and gated behind 10 foot high fences.