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Chinese Food Los Angeles

Noodle Harmony Pork Intestine Rice Noodle Soup [CLOSED]

In Chinese culture, yin and yang are opposing forces that together achieve balance. That could mean light and dark, good and evil, or fire and ice. At Noodle Harmony in Monterey Park, the owners...
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Porridge Los Angeles

Porridge + Puffs Yakimiso + Sausage Porridge [CLOSED]

Chef Minh Phan recently returned to seasonal porridge patrol after a three-year absence by opening an airy Porridge + Puffs cafe in Historic Filipinotown. Her porridge is even better than I remembered from her...
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Coffee Los Angeles

Coffee Commissary Glendale Espresso

Tyler King grew Coffee Commissary from a single West Hollywood location. Six Los Angeles branches now span three area codes. Their outpost in Glendale’s Kenneth Village is the largest coffee bar to date. This...
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Laotian Food Los Angeles

Kop Jai Lai Pork Jerky

Try and put Slim Jim and other desiccated jerkies that languish on convenience store shelves out of your mind. Once you accomplish that small feat, order the far superior Laotian pork jerky at Kop...
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Pasta Los Angeles

Sotto Linguine alla Bottarga [CLOSED]

When Steve Samson starting focusing on Rossoblu, the new Bologna-style Italian restaurant he opened with wife/partner Dina in DTLA’s Fashion District, it was impossible for him to spend nearly as much time at their...
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Juice Orange County

Toast Kitchen + Bakery Passion Fruit Sugar Cane Juice

Sugar cane juice is known in Vietnamese as nước mía. I have a good memory of snagging a bag from a street vendor on a dream-like stroll through Hanoi in 2005. Since my initial...
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