I keep seeing different accounts of where this is, but I actually saw this happen in real time. I thought I’d give some background in case you’re wondering where this restaurant is. The actual place is in Harrisonburg Virginia. A 50,000 people town with the ethnic diversity of a major city. For context, the local high school has over 40 languages represented within the student body.
I think a few other places have painted the same mural after it went viral, leading to people thinking this was in other towns. I saw the original when the place was a Chinese restaurant. After it closed a Mexican restaurant opened and painted over. That one closed too, but a smaller Mexican restaurant moved into the place because they needed a bigger building. That one has been up and running there for a while now, it’s actually owned by a friend’s brother.
[Restaurant’s Facebook page](https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1858111314213270&id=116176981740054&set=a.582474453597887&refid=13&__tn__=%2B%3D)
[Here is a yelp site for the old Chinese place with the same adress](https://m.yelp.com/biz/china-inn-restaurant-harrisonburg)
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We’ve got a place in town that used to be a Mexican place. Then a sushi place moved in, but they didn’t change the sign, so people kept coming in asking for burritos.
So they added sushi burritos to the menu and wrote “sushi” on the sign. And that’s how Sushi Burrito King was born.
the left most one has a taco!
My local dim sum place used to be a Mexican restaurant . The inside is covered in Mexican artwork and jalapeños .
There’s a Polish restaurant in Clearwater called Pierogi Grill. The owner, came to America from Poland where he had previously owned/operated a handful of Middle Eastern restaurants (so the story goes), and he opened one in Clearwater, called Pyramida (iirc) with a combination of Ancient Egyptian and Middle Eastern decor. Unfortunately, he came about 22 years ago, and maybe it was the post-9/11 collective racism against anything remotely Middle Eastern, or just a general misjudging of Clearwater’s taste for middle eastern food, but it squashed his business so he made a pivot into doing traditional Polish food.
I haven’t been there in about 6 years because it’s pretty far from where I’ve moved, but the food was legit… Bigos, Golonko, Mushroom+Kraut Pierogis, Kishka, and Okocim on tap. All the while, outside of cheap plastic Polish flags in the table vases, the decor was still heavily Egyptian themed even down to little pyramid salt+pepper shakers and hieroglyphs on the bathroom walls and on the pillars by the front door.
It just adds to the charm of the place.
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Here’s a local news article/review about the place from 2007: https://www.tampabay.com/archive/2007/12/13/the-pierogi-reaches-its-apex/
This is very mexican to do
I went to JMU. Spent way too many tequila Tuesdays at El Sol lol
Lol.