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Chinese Food Los Angeles

Seafood Village Snow Fish with Garlic Sauce [CLOSED]

Meals don’t get more enjoyable than Sunday dinners in the San Gabriel Valley. Restaurant options are nearly unlimited, traffic is lightest, and friends are normally happy to make the trek to feast at Chinese...
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Restaurant San Diego

Spicy City: Slow Burn in San Diego’s Kearny Mesa

San Diego struggles to find a gastronomic identity beyond the gastropub, but a good place to start your culinary journey in Ron Burgundy’s backyard remains Kearny Mesa. The neighborhood houses more than a mile...
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Chinese Food Los Angeles

Elite Restaurant Suckling Pig [CLOSED]

In back rooms of Chinese restaurants across the San Gabriel Valley, families and friends hold banquets on a nightly basis. Organizers often negotiate menus weeks or months in advance to honor birthdays, anniversaries, marriages...
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Congee Hong Kong

Mui Kee Congee with Fish

We’d already enjoyed congee three days out of four, which would more than fulfill my yearly quota for rice porridge in Los Angeles, when when in Hong Kong, congee is king for breakfast, and...
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Dumpling Hong Kong

Yan Toh Heen Hairy Crab & Pork Dumpling

If there’s a Chinese dumpling hierarchy, xiao long bao would undoubtedly be at the top due to the craftsmanship required to achieve the right ratio, structural integrity, and balance. The dumplings, always steamed (preferably...
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Chinese Food Los Angeles

Chengdu Taste Cabbage Sweet & Sour Sauce

Chengdu Taste is a Sichuan-style restaurant in Alhambra that’s generated enough interest to warrant hour-plus waits and, at least during my visit, nearly enough animosity to incite a fist fight. That’s what happened when...
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