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Chinese Food Los Angeles

Happy Kitchen Double Cooked Pork [CLOSED]

Linda Burum’s Los Angeles Times review led me a familiar San Gabriel strip mall for an unfamiliar restaurant: Happy Kitchen. We filled our table with dishes from chef Jixian Liang’s menu, perhaps none better...
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Chinese Food Los Angeles

Lu’s Garden: Hitting Late Night Hunan-Style in the SGV

Angelenos continually bemoan the fact that late night dining options are so limited, but for the past 21 years, San Gabriel has housed one of the city’s best moonlit haunts, a Taiwan-style cafeteria and...
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Shufeng Garden: Sichuan Sizzle Revives San Gabriel Square [CLOSED]

For years, San Gabriel Square was the crown jewel of the San Gabriel Valley, an open-air, double-decker mall with nearly a dozen enticing restaurants. However, turnover and attrition led to increasingly dim dining options....
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Taiwanese Food Los Angeles

Indian: Kitschy Taiwan-Style Pub in San Gabriel

We arrived at Indian at 8, and the Taiwan-style pub in the middle of the San Gabriel Valley was already packed with Asian twentysomethings. It was still early, but one girl was already so...
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Chung King: Tickling (and Numbing) Your Tongue via Szechwan [CLOSED]

Chung King has long been known in the San Gabriel Valley for its mouth-numbing Sichuan food. Thanks to a Jonathan Gold review, I first tangled with Chung King several years ago at the Monterey...
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Chinese Noodles Los Angeles

Bamboodles: Cantonese Noodles and a Show in San Gabriel [CLOSED]

The idea of a grown man riding a bamboo stick doesn’t normally inspire confidence. However, at Bamboodles, a three-month-old Cantonese import, the process is revered. A glass window showcases a noodle master methodically massaging...
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