Monday, March 21, 2022

El distrito de pollo

 Do you know how some large cities have districts that are dedicated to a specific industry / culture / etc.?

Like the Garment District in New York?  Or various Chinatowns, Little Italies, Irish Springs, and the like?

My three examples in Houston:  there is a full-blown Chinatown out southwest and a second, smaller Chinatown downtown.  The only thing I remember about the smaller one is that there is a restaurant named Fu Kim, which makes my inner teenage boy giggle to this day.  There is also a Flower District, with multiuple wholesale flower markets.  We saved money for our wedding by buying directly from the flower district.  Houston also has the Harwin district, AKA the "Cheap, plastic Chinese Crap" district.

I haven't been up to Dallas enough to know the various areas, but our administrative office is smack in the middle of the world famous Chicken District.  It spans the intersection of Abrams Avenue  and Forest Drive ("chicken, Forrest, chicken!).  In about a half-mile square area, there are the following: KFC, Church's, Popeye's, Chik-Fil-A, Williams Chicken, Regio Roasted Chicken, and El Pollo Loco.  In this strip is also a Hustler Hollywood store, which, while technically not a chicken restaurant, is included here because of the breasts (and the porn).  There's also a McDonald's, who serves something that may be considered chicken-adjacent.  I even think they are building a new "Gus Fring's Los Pollos Hermanos" on the strip.

I am ussure why this north Dallas intersection has drawn this much chicken business.  There's not like a wild chicken flock living under the bridges of I-635.  

The only thing even remotely similar that I have found is the three breakfast joints in one neighborhood in Plano.  Or possibly it was in Flower Mound, Denton, White Settlement (an actual real town), Arlington, Frisco, Garland, Grapevine or Coppell. By the way, DFW, at last count, has 193 distinct cities.  Wherever the breakfast district is (could have been Euless, Richardson, Irving, Highland Village, Little Elm, McKinney, or even Allen), they each have a full menu of omelettes, frittatas, benedicts, and other egg-centric meals.

I know your next question.  I do NOT know which district came first.


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