Seashore Chinese Restaurant Local Chinese, native flavors
by Richard Foss Depending on which set of statistics you look at, Chinese food is either the most popular restaurant cuisine in the U.S. or in second place. That includes high style fusion places, down home eateries, and take-out counters all lumped into the one category, but one statistic proves the appeal. There are more Chinese restaurants in the United States than all of the McDonald’s, KFCs, Pizza Huts, Taco Bells and Wendy’s combined. Seashore Chinese Restaurant on Calle Mayor in Torrance opened in the late ‘80s. Rather than ornate Chinese scrolls and paintings, Seashore’s decorations lean toward pictures of food, postings of daily specials in Chinese, and fish tanks, both decorative and functional. (At least I think the ones by the door are decorative, because they have the same pretty tropical fish in them every time, and the ones by the back wall seem to change tenants fairly often.) Seashore has been under the current ownership for 25. Their specialty is Hong Kong-style seafood. These range from everyday items like codfish filet with black bean sauce to ornately presented lobster dishes that are ceremonially presented for special occasion dinners. When we most recently…
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