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
Substitutions and modifications politely declined? That increasingly prevalent policy is foreign to Danny Komenkul, third generation restaurateur at Rodded. At a recent dinner in his family’s democratic Thai Town restaurant, where the name translates...
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
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
Rodded translates from Thai as “delicious food.” Jessi Komenkul’s restaurant has also been around for 40 years, which has to make Rodded one of the oldest in L.A. Both factors point toward a positive...
