Food with Thought

After the Avenue Q show Max and I decided to have a late dinner in Cerritos. In desperate hope to avoid yet another dinner at Tea Station, I started racking my brain early for late night eateries in Cerritos that would still be open at 10pm on a Sunday night.

The answer came to me in a flurry of warm memories of savory flavor: Kim Tar. My earliest childhood memories in Cerritos involve family lunches and dinners at Kim Tar. I always ordered the same dish: rice noodle soup. I remember my mom would order the same thing but load hers with so much chili that the soup base would turn red while I liked mine perfectly plain.

I couldn't remember if I used to order the house or seafood white noodle so I went with the house version to be safe. It didn't have the criss-cut pieces of calamari and thick slices of fish cake I was looking forward to so I guess I ordered the wrong one. But it was just as delicious, if not more flavorful!

It was so nostalgic sitting in the empty restaurant slurping my noodles while debating whether or not to ask for a glass of ice water. As a kid I wasn't allowed to drink ice water from a restaurant with less than a B rating. By the way -- I noticed Kim Tar has a B rating now instead of the back-and-forth C & D ratings I saw as a kid!

Anyways, it was good stuff.