HOLY MOLY!
WOW, this is awesome. Read this below. And don’t JUST read it, but read how many people either “liked” it or “re-blogged” it. I mean, this may not be impressive to anyone else but me, but I’m impressed because only my mom reads this blog (okay, and I read it like 5 times a day still to increase my stats - Google AdWords check, here I COME!) But it is strange because it seems people ARE following because I’m hearing about our blog in the most random places like at The Gas Lite in Santa Monica last night. COOLZ!
But anyway, Harold, David and Raza were frickin’ AWESOME and our first wave (of MANY) Yelpers! that came by Sunday. The great thing about yesterday was:
- This was our BEST service to date. We’re growing. WOO HOO
- Harold + gang were just sample of things to come yesterday. If I were a statistician, I would say that 100,000% of my customers were from Yelp! But if I were to round down, it’s probably more like 80%. ^_^
- Harold just proved to me why I’m going to get the KITCHEN NINJA an iPhone. Nice pics dude!
Btw, we ALSO posted update pics on our Facebook page. Check ‘em out here: http://facebook.com/starrykitchen
Thanks again Harold, and “stay classy!”
Team SK
we-eat-la:
Starry Kitchen (www.starrykitchen.com)
Step 1: Drive to this North Hollywood apartment building during the appointed hours.
Step 2: Enter code “#141” at the door and get buzzed up to the courtyard.
Step 3: Order food from a friendly husband-wife foodie team preparing Vietnamese and Asian-inspired Mexicali fare out of their kitchen.
Sounds strange, doesn’t it? I will have to admit, while taking the elevator up to the apartment with my two buddies, part of me thought that we would be the next victims of an international organ-harvesting crime ring. I hear livers are the current bodypart-du-jour. Dear criminals: my liver is saddled with tequila residue and will be of no use to you. Thanks.
Instead of being greeted by malevolent ninjas with surgical scalpels, we were instead greeted by Thi and Nguyen, a super-friendly couple who started this venture out of their apartment after realizing Thi’s penchant for visualizing yummy asian-inspired recipes in her mind should be put to good use. Well, consider this a good use.
Each day the couple serves a different dish. I heard other days they have served Taiwanese 3 cup chicken, honey panko-crusted fried tofu balls, chicken meatloaf and hamburger curry Vietnamese rolls. Today they were serving lemongrass chicken or tofu tacos, burritos and sandwiches. We tried one of each. The result was delicious - banh mi-themed vibrant flavor with a retention of wholesomeness. It will be interesting to see if they can retain the homemade aura when and if they decide to scale up their offerings by opening an establishment Downtown. With their inventive yet simple concepts, I have no doubt that they can pull it off.
Amazingly, none of Thi or Nguyen’s neighbors or landlord seem to mind them operating this venture in contravention to a variety of municipal codes. Nguyen explained that none of them wanted to lose access to their food. I don’t blame them. - H. Lee
Starry Kitchen, 11049 McCormick Street, Suite 205, North Hollywood, CA 91601. Buzz code #141. Hours: Sunday from 12-3 pm and Wednesday from 6-9 pm.
