David Askari News Today

On a recent Sunday evening, a group of Israeli women had dinner at Shanghai Diamond, a bustling kosher Chinese restaurant on Pico Boulevard.

“The Day After”: A Christmas Interview With the Owner of a Kosher Chinese Restaurant In 2005, an Iranian Jew and his partners took over a Chinese restaurant in Los Angeles’s Pico-Robertson neighborhood, made it kosher, retained the talented Chinese chefs and began selling to local Jews, most of them Ashkenazim. This could only have happened in America. The Journal asked David Askari, co-owner of Shanghai Diamond Garden on Pico Boulevard, about the day after Christmas Eve, a mad ...