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Chinese Food Los Angeles

E&J Yummy Kitchen Rice Noodle Rolls

Rice’s versatility is on full display at E&J Yummy Kitchen. This focused Hong Kong style Chinese restaurant with two-toned walls and an ocean mural opened in a Monterey Park plaza in 2015. They feature...
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Chinese Food San Diego

Shan Xi Magic Kitchen Biang Biang Noodles

Making noodles may not actually be a trick, but the house-made Shaanxi style noodles at Shan Xi Magic Kitchen in San Diego sure are a treat. The restaurant opened in 2016 in a Kearny...
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Beef Austin

Emmer & Rye Short Rib Carnitas + Roti

Emmer & Rye is a progressive restaurant from chef Kevin Fink at the base of the mixed-use SkyHouse development on Austin‘s raucous Rainey Street. Emmer & Rye is within chirping distance of Congress Street...
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Dumplings Los Angeles

Naemamdu Mandu Corn Cheese Dumplings [CLOSED]

Finding Naemamdu Mandu required an odyssey normally reserved for stackable cities like Tokyo. I wandered all three floors of City Center on 6th and circumnavigated the building twice armed with the knowledge that the...
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Fish Los Angeles

Paley Salmon [CLOSED]

For about four years, I worked in a television production office at Sunset Gower Studios. At that stage, this part of Hollywood was pretty beleaguered. When I left TV for food writing, there was...
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Mexican Food Santa Barbara

Corazon Cocina Sal de Mar

Santa Barbara Public Market debuted fairly recently, in April 2014, but the food hall has already entered stage two of its development. Many first generation food and drink vendors in this potential Santa Barbara...
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