[quote=FlyerInHi]Given the high number of Asians in Carmel Valley, I am waiting for an 85C Bakery to open. People would then understand the meaning of traffic, haha..

Maybe Susan Lew will open a Dim Sum restaurant too.[/quote]

Good chinese food will never be successful in high cost areas like Carmel Valley, the same way good Pho places will never be successful here too. The margins would be too low to be profitable in high rent areas, unless the prices were considerably jacked up. But if that happens, most chinese people wouldn’t go there because they expect the food to be cheap, so most likely the restaurant would end up being less authentic to cater to everyone else. That’s why even chinese people end up opening sushi places and japanese restaurants and why there are a lot of sushi places in Carmel Valley. Because the margins are much better and people are use to pay a lot for sushi. For whatever reason, people expect chinese food to be cheap and good, in as much as people expect things made in china or taiwan to be cheap, while people are use to paying a lot more for things from Japan (like digital camera lenses)