Americanish foods in Vietnam

gobot wrote:

Ciambella wrote:

... Baldwin Park is in San Gabriel Valley ("The Valley" as it's known locally as well as in pop culture) in LA County ...

When someone mentions "The Valley" on a Los Angeles TV station, or Jimmy Kimmel, old movie, or you hear about 'Valley girls', they are talking about the San Fernando Valley, over the Hollywood hills from West LA. Places like Burbank, Encino, Tarzana, Toluca Lake. I lived in Sepulveda, Sylmar, Canoga Park. I hated that place.

My parents also lived in Arcadia in the San Gabriel Valley, and I went to college in Whittier. We only thought there was one "Valley", it wasn't the San Gabriel. But I guess everyone can have their own reference valley, river, mountain. Learning about the world is seeing it from multiple perspectives.

I stand corrected.  The Valley is San Fernando Valley, not San Gabriel.  I shouldn't have mistaken about that when my 5 nieces were true Valley girls in appearance, speech, manner, and activities. 

I hate Canoga Park too.  Every other weekend when I drove from Irvine to Canoga Park to visit my sister, I had to change freeway twice (5 to 405 to 101), then follow the surface street through Woodland Hills and Thousand Oaks, then an empty stretch of the road that was to become the 118 later on. 

It was a long and tedious drive, and the sun seemed to always hit the driver's side (at least that's how I felt).  My clunker of a car huffed and puffed every single time it had to climb the steep incline at Mulholland exit.  The only good thing about the drive was Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour on Canoga Ave in Woodland Hills, until it was closed in the '80s.  My children mourned Farrell's demise for years.

Thank you very much for the correction, reminder, and memory.