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Chinese Food Los Angeles

Seafood Village Snow Fish with Garlic Sauce

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

There’s a good chance that British explorer Captain Cook would not recognize cochinita pibil, and the Yucatan pork specialty is not quite textbook at Cook’s Tortas, the Monterey Park sandwich shop that Elvira Zamora,...
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Chinese Food Los Angeles

Elite Restaurant Suckling Pig

In back rooms of Chinese restaurants across the San Gabriel Valley, families and friends hold banquets on a nightly basis, with menus that were often negotiated weeks or months in advance to honor birthdays,...
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Hot Pot Hot Pot: Bringing Chinese Soup to Boil in Monterey Park

When the temperature dips below 60 degrees, Angelenos practically start to panic. Thankfully, there’s always a solution at the bottom of a bowl, especially in the San Gabriel Valley. For instance, Hot Pot Hot...
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Chinese Food Los Angeles

Elite Restaurant: Getting Wild in Monterey Park

From the moment Helen Springut established a Los Angeles outpost of the Gastronauts, an adventurous eating club that Curtiss Calleo and Ben Pauker started in New York, it was inevitable that I’d end up...
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Yi Mei Chinese Pastries: Longtime Taiwanese Favorite in Monterey Park [CLOSED]

Some restaurants are hidden in plain sight, as evidenced by Yi Mei Chinese Pastries. I’ve eaten next door to Yi Mei twice, most recently at Silver and Gold Amazing. Strangely, Yi Mei didn’t register....
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