I've never tried Mee So Hungry, but I cringed a little every time I passed by it on Belmont Shore's Second Street. I took a picture of it once on the way to another restaurant, never really deciding then whether I thought the 2 Live Crew allusion was stupid or clever, but I never gave it a second thought after that. I wish I did.
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Now it's gone (it closed sometime in January, actually) after two years in business. The restaurant that replaced opened about a week ago. It's called Seaside Salads, whose title is neither stupid nor clever, but it has a menu that might be just clever, considering the hip neighborhood.
There's not just tofu and quinoa, but also tempeh. A new item just debuted: Vegan tofu scramble with garlic spinach and kale, quinoa, asparagus and balsamic syrup. And they're taking suggestions and comments from customers on Facebook.
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Before becoming an award-winning restaurant critic for OC Weekly in 2007, Edwin Goei went by the alias “elmomonster” on his blog Monster Munching, in which he once wrote a whole review in haiku.