Mo-Chica

Restaurant · Downtown Los Angeles

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"But it’s this paragraph from his original review of Mo Chica in LA Weekly that continues to blow my mind: On one of my walks to a cevicheria, my path was suddenly blocked by a tiny sedan with a little cherry of a red light on top, a bulby police car that looked like something out of Roger Rabbit, and the two police officers gestured for me to get in. It was not a pleasant ride. They yelled at me in Spanish, and laughed when I told them I was just going for ceviche. The one in the passenger seat pulled out a pistol, pointed it at my head and whispered, 'Boom.' They drove me by a crumbling prison, slowing down so that I could see it well. And when they finally got tired of me — they figured out I wasn’t a terrorist or a drug dealer — they patted me down, took exactly $200 from my money belt and let me out in front of what they said was a much better ceviche restaurant than the one I had been trying to walk to. It was the best ceviche I ever had in my life." - Daniela Galarza

LA Food Writers Remember Jonathan Gold - Eater LA

514 W 7th St, Los Angeles, CA 90014 Get directions

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