Sunday Stuffs - Pelicana Chicken Replacing Urban Eats and Flama Llama Replacing Chef Chin's

Amazing the changes one can see during a quick trip to Nijiya! Here are two.....

Pelicana Chicken Replacing Urban Eats:

Well, if you're keeping score (and I may be missing a couple of places here), Urban Eats replaced Hi Street, which replaced Char House. 

Established in Daejeon, South Korea in 1982, this chain serves up.......well, you guessed it, Korean Fried Chicken! I'm wondering if Kearny Mesa is in the competition for most Korean Fried Chicken places per square mile in the US? I mean, at HMart you have Katzya, right around the corner and ahem right across the street you have Cross Street, which is nearly across the street from BB.Q Chicken, right in the next parking lot in the Hive is Knockout Chicken, north of Balboa you have Bonchon, and in Zion you have Gala Chicken! And there I was complaining about all the Hot Chicken places opening in San Diego!

7767 Balboa Ave.
San Diego, CA 92111

Chef Chin's Being Replaced by a Flama Llama?:

I saw construction going on at the former location of Chef Chin on Convoy, so I took a left into the parking lot.

Looks like a place named Flama Llama? So, I did a quick search and found this which states that the owner of Steamy Piggy and Formoosa is opening a restaurant that "will bring a new take on Latin American cuisine." I dunno, how about just having some good Latin American cuisine period?

4433 Convoy St
San Diego, CA 92111

Hope everyone is having a great weekend!

Comments

[Stephanie]

The owners of Iron Pig in PB just turned it into a Mexican restaurant. Chinese/Taiwanese to Latin? Curious to see how that turns out!

[Peter]

It's interesting how Mexican/Latin cuisine is gaining ground on Convoy. Super Sergio's has been around forever, but now there's El Gordo (used to be AYCE Chinese buffet years ago), El Viejon Seafood, and The Taco Stand. Flama Llama?? Sure, why not? Definitely a trend.

[Peter]

p.s. Just noticed they already have their menu posted: https://www.flamallama.com/menu

[Soo]

Doh! I loved URBN Eats: https://www.hungryones.com/2022/03/urban-eats/

[Kirk]

It'll be interesting Stephanie!

I think it's now moving from the outskirts to Convoy; Nazca Grill on Genesee/Balboa and La Playita come to mind Peter.

And replaced with just what we needed. Another "KFC" place Soo.

[Denver]

That Urban Eats location seems cursed too.

[Kirk]

Sure seems that way DEnver!

[Junichi]

That was quick. Another cursed location.

[Kirk]

Yes, another location that seens that way Junichi!