Immigrants Heritage Pointless Prize

[camiller]

Los Tios is a family-owned Mexican restaurant in Leesburg. The Mejia family opened their first Los Tios in Del Ray in 2004 and then expanded to Leesburg in 2008. My husband, son and I had the privilege of being one of their first customers as we stumbled on their Leesburg restaurant during their opening week when we rode our bikes out to Leesburg and went looking for a place to eat. They make THE freshest, best-tasting salsa I have ever tasted. Needless to say, we have come back without our bikes so we could have a full dinner.

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North Italia is located in Reston Town Center (11898 Market St) and prides itself on serving Italian cuisine handmade from scratch.

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The Little Tokyo of DC at the corner of 17th and U St. Hana, which means flower in Japanese, is a popular little Japanese market. Next door there is a Japanese travel agency and a kimono store.

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Yum’s, a popular Chinese takeout on 14th St. They are known for their chicken wings with mambo or mumbo sauce which is something unique to Chinese takeouts in DC. The sauce is a bit like a sweet and sour sauce and has been popularized that you can now find it in supermarkets and restaurants. I thought it may have been invented by one of the Chinese takeouts but apparently the sauce may have been invented in Chicago. The Chinese takeouts though have probably helped to popularize it!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumbo_sauce

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Guapos is a family-owned Mexican restaurant serving delicious food in large portions. They make their own tortillas in a huge tortilla maker in the back of the restaurant near the kitchen. This was one of my office’s favorite places for group luncheons and I ate here often in the latter part of my career. The business was started by the Rincon family after they arrived in Virginia in the late 1970’s.

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[camiller]

The Americana Grocery store on Main Street in Fairfax. Americana Grocery is one of the most established Latin grocery store chains in the Metropolitan Washington DC area. They are renowned for their selection of international fresh cut meats and foods from around the globe. The chain of Americana stores was started by Gilberto Gonzales in 1965 with one store on Columbia Road NW in the District. Gonzales is originally from Cuba. They currently have 3 stores in Virginia: Falls Church, Fairfax, and Woodbridge. Ernesto Perez is the current manager of Americana of Virginia.

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Red Kimono serves Japanese and Korean cuisine. Located at 790 Station St in Herndon, VA. (If you zoom in you can see my bike wheel reflected in the window on the right.)

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[Serdar]

@karenbikes2@gmail.com 216695 wrote:

Red Kimono serves Japanese and Korean cuisine. Located at 790 Station St in Herndon, VA. (If you zoom in you can see my bike wheel reflected in the window on the right.)

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Great find, Karen! I see your bike’s wheel reflected in the window.

[Serdar]

@Sophie CW 216504 wrote:

Hookah may have originated in India but is now popular in the Middle East, Turkey, parts of Asia and Africa.
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And if you smoke too much hookah you can see things upside down, right, Sophie? :p Haha. I am kidding. Thanks for your submissions!

[Serdar]

@camiller 216545 wrote:

Los Tios is a family-owned Mexican restaurant in Leesburg. The Mejia family opened their first Los Tios in Del Ray in 2004 and then expanded to Leesburg in 2008. My husband, son and I had the privilege of being one of their first customers as we stumbled on their Leesburg restaurant during their opening week when we rode our bikes out to Leesburg and went looking for a place to eat. They make THE freshest, best-tasting salsa I have ever tasted. Needless to say, we have come back without our bikes so we could have a full dinner.

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Great find! And what a beautiful bike, Cathy! I am positively jealous.

[bikedavid]

Swahili Village, a delicious Kenyan restaurant downtown. In addition to the mouth-watering grilled meat I discovered that Kenyan food has a lot of Indian influence including chapati flat bread and samosas–an immigrant heritage of Indians in East Africa. And now they bring that to share here!

[camiller]

Flame Kabob Afghan cuisine is a family-owned and operated restaurant where every member of the family has contributed their unparalleled amount of expertise and attention. They are known for their long-marinated, slow-grilled, boneless chicken kabob, juicy lamb, steak, and kubideh kabob and spicy sambosas. They are located in the Greenbriar Shopping Center in Fairfax.

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[camiller]

I am pretty sure this is the place that Serdar mentioned while we were on the Fairfax City ImHer ride. The Sultan Gourmet Market is kind of hidden on a side street in Fairfax (Warwick Avenue). I never knew that this place existed. I cannot read anything on their Facebook page so cannot tell you much about it. Per an article in the Northern Virginia Magazine, https://northernvirginiamag.com/food/food-features/2017/08/16/provisions-sultan-gourmet-market/ this is the place to go to find the obscure ingredients you need for your Mediterranean and Turkish cooking needs. The 2017 article states that the owner is Halit Bozlagan.

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El Triunfo LLC is a convenience grocery store opened in Lake Anne Plaza in Reston in 2011 that caters to Reston’s considerable Hispanic population (11.9%). In addition to groceries, they offer money transfers to Mexico, Central and South America. And the Caribbean.

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[Sophie CW]

Yummy Taiwanese hamburgers at this traditional home style eatery:
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