My Regular Los Angeles Restaurants
I’m a food writer, which breaks down to two restaurant meals per day that are driven by a pending assignment or an endless hunger for variety. I do occasionally get a spare meal, and...
Rodded Pan Fried Stewed Beef with Basil [CLOSED]
Substitutions and modifications politely declined? That increasingly prevalent policy is foreign to Danny Komenkul, the third generation Rodded restaurateur. My wife recently asked Komenkul to freestyle in the kitchen at his family’s democratic Thai...
2012 Top 10 Los Angeles Pork Dishes
Every Tuesday, Dose of Vitamin P celebrates my favorite pork dish from the previous week. To end the year, here are my 2012 Top 10 Los Angeles Pork Dishes, which appear in alphabetical order....
Rodded: Comforting Chinese Inflected Restaurant in Thai Town [CLOSED]
With a name that means “delicious food” in Thai, we should have noticed earlier that Rodded‘s impact runs far deeper than duck. The restaurant in Thai Town from the Komenkul family draws on Chinese...
Rodded Ham Hock with Mint Leaves [CLOSED]
Rodded translates from Thai as “delicious food.” Jessi Komenkul’s restaurant has also been around for 40 years. That makes Rodded one of the oldest Thai restaurants in L.A. Both factors point toward a positive...
