Apey Kade

down with emphasis. “Apey Kade in Tarzana. That is where the cooking tastes like home to me.” Three days later I’m at Apey Kade in front of a plate of string hoppers — thin rice flour noodles steamed into flat, pearly nests. Garnishes surround them

.” Coconut is the backdrop — of this collage and of the cuisine itself. Rice with a variety of dishes (including, left to right, raw kale salad, jackfruit with grated coconut, dal, fish curry and bitter melon) at Apey Kade. (Silvia Razgova / For The Times

-4082, anglerrestaurants.com Caviar with banana pancake is assembled tableside at Angler. (Mariah Tauger / Los Angeles Times) Apey Kade (99) Lalith Rodrigo and his wife, chef Niza Hashim, are natives of Colombo, the port-city capital of Sri Lanka. Hashim

of beet curry, okra, and grated-coconut pol sambol) at Apey Kade. (Silvia Razgova / For the Times) The Arthur J (96) Retro plushness, modernized steakhouse menu: The Arthur J’s forthright strategy delivers. My go-to cut is the restaurant’s dry-aged

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carries the scents of sweet spice and coconut palms and nutty rice. — B.A. 19662 Ventura Blvd., Tarzana, (818) 609-7683 Deviled chicken, served with a side of dried chiles and papadam chips at Apey Kade. (Silvia Razgova / For The Times) 100. Kogi BBQ Kogi

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stream of customers roll through Apey Kade, a Sri Lankan restaurant in Tarzana. Takeout for lacy string hoppers and for lamprais, a meal steamed in a banana leaf, appeared brisk. “Business is very down, very slow,” said chef and co-owner Niza Hashim this

week. “I close at 6:30 because there’s nobody on the street.” A string hopper meal (including sides of beet curry, okra, and grated-coconut pol sambol) at Apey Kade in Tarzana. (Silvia Razgova / For the Times) I called Ivan Xiao, who was manager of

, joyonyork.com A vegetarian string hopper meal (including sides of beet curry, okra, and grated-coconut pol sambol) at Apey Kade in Tarzana. (Silvia Razgova / For the Times) “String hoppers,” thin rice flour noodles steamed into flat, lacy nests, is an Anglicized

Rodrigo. Also try the crepe-like hoppers, or appam, made of a yeasted rice flour and coconut milk batter, paired with the smoky and pleasantly sour fish curry. 19662 Ventura Blvd., Tarzana, (818) 609-7683, facebook.com/Apey-Kade-146500275463867/ Chef and

flagship restaurant in Beverly Hills. (Silvia Razgova / For the Times) Review: Seek out Sri Lankan hoppers and fish curry at Apey Kade in Tarzana » Spago today lands squarely in the golden mean of upscale dining: modern but not exactly modernist; elegant