Originally Posted by
s0ssos
What's "Californian cuisine"? Asking as a Californian.
What's more surprising is that you made it 4 days without a car. Wow! LA without a car is horrible.
Take any dish, add avocado - bam! - Californian cuisine
Actually this is the area where one can easily get by without car assuming the goal is to explore local Asian stuff. Multiple plazas within a few blocks packed with restaurants shops salons etc - many as authentic as you will find outside asia... for any foodie interested in a variety of asian Chinese cuisines this is an awesome place to stay. Note this is Chinese (not Japanese Korean etc - there are other areas for those) and this is where many families from all over la area come for grocery shopping haircuts eating etc. Plenty of Asian students from usc ucla etc..
Basically as close to china as you will get during this pandemic.
(And try to find a single American brand car on a parking lot of 99 ranch mall - quite entertaining)