RESTAURANT REVIEW – Blue Basil
Exterior of Blue Basil. Photo Blue Basil raises the South Bay’s Chinese cuisine Whenever a new Chinese restaurant opens near me I visit with hope but with low expectations. The standard in the South Bay is mysteriously low, and most local places offer a bland, Americanized version of one of the world’s greatest cuisines. The meals are enjoyable for what they are, but usually unmemorable and marked by brusque, unhelpful service. This was not the case with our experience at Blue Basil, a Torrance newcomer that offered excellent food with moments of chaos and comedy. The former Polly’s Pies on Carson Street was remodeled into a pretty place with a menu that is mainly Chinese but also includes Vietnamese, Indonesian, and Thai items. A stuffed chicken dish was listed, so I asked if the chef was from Hong Kong, as that’s where that delicacy comes from. I was delighted when our server confirmed this, and since we had someone with an allergy at the table I asked what it was stuffed with. “I don’t know,” she replied. “You’re the first one to order it, and we don’t make it in the part of China that I’m from.” She volunteered to go ask the chef, but when she came back she could only tell us…
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