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Dose of Vitamin P

Colombian Food Cali

La Barra Chuleta de Cerdo

The amount of English language restaurant coverage of Cali is limited online. Thankfully, my good friend was marrying a local, had been to the city many times, and and led me to plenty of...
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Japanese Food Los Angeles

Sutadonya Garlic Pork Bowl

The food court inside Torrance’s Mitsuwa Marketplace continues to provide reasons to return, whether that’s new vendors or their annual Japanese Gourmet Food Fair that celebrates regional dishes. Sutadonya is a new stall that...
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Banh Mi San Jose

Banh Mi Oven #1 Cold Cut Combo

San Jose is the city with the most Vietnamese-Americans outside of Vietnam, over 100,000 people according to the 2010 U.S. Census. Given that fact, it figures that their Little Saigon food scene is so...
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Filipino Food Los Angeles

Ma’am Sir Crispy Pork Lechon [CLOSED]

Charles Olalia is a talented chef who traded in his fine-dining credentials to focus on Filipino comfort food with finely honed technique at a tiny DTLA restaurant called Ricebar that features heirloom Filipino rice bowls. This...
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Chinese Food Thousand Oaks

Dong Ting Spring Emperor’s Cumin Ribs

The Conejo Valley is hardly a bastion for Asian cuisine, but the nearly 2000-square-mile area northwest of Los Angeles has started to get some notable restaurants. I’d recommend eLoong Dumplings for anything dough based....
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Bacon Los Angeles

APL Restaurant Bacon [CLOSED]

Adam Perry Lang pivoted from smoking barbecue on Jimmy Kimmel’s backlot to broiling dry-aged steaks at his hotly anticipated APL Restaurant in Hollywood. Don’t worry, serving stupendous meat is still very much his core...
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