Chinatown

5 Great Date Ideas in L.A. This Week

Are you tired of meeting your sweetie for dinner and a movie -- much less the same old dinner-and-drinks combo? Do not despair. All sorts of awesome things are happening this week in Los Angeles, and none of them will set you back more than $24 for a party of two. (Many, in fact, are free.) So may w ... More >>

The Moon Is Up

Poor Bruce Lee, His Chinatown Statue Goes to Storage Until $150,000 is Found

A 7.6-foot bronze statue of Bruce Lee, the first in the U.S., was unveiled in L.A.'s Chinatown over Father's Day weekend as part of Chinatown Summer Nights festival, creating a buzz among locals, tourists and fans who came to the historic Central Plaza to pay tribute to the martial arts icon and ac ... More >>

Photos: Here Is #LAWeeklyArtopia as Seen Through Instagram

You came, you saw, you Instagrammed. Here are some of the coolest photos we found tagged #LAWeeklyArtopia from last night's event in Chinatown. If for some reason you changed your mind and don't want your photo included here, drop us a line. See also: Artopia 2013, The Slideshow

Chego Gets Up and Running in Chinatown Twitter Contest Today!

Although the official opening date isn't until this Saturday, the new Chego digs inside Chinatown's Far East Plaza has been working out their Ooey Gooey Fries, rice bowls and half-pound Chego Burger for a few days. Papi Chulo himself tweeted out a photo of the full Chego spread a few days ago, which ... More >>

Chego Opens in Chinatown This Saturday

From Roy Choi's Twitter feed, and I quote: "We don't think anyone's been as excited about Chego in Chinatown as us. And, well, maybe you. Which is why we're sending you the invite. Finally. Ooey Gooey Fries and Chubby Pork Bellies shall be had once again...With maybe a little ping pong on the side. ... More >>

A Dim Sum Crawl in Chinatown

Chinatown was a main hub for dim sum before San Gabriel Valley earned its destination status. Now, the Chinese Business Improvement District is about to reintroduce the neighborhood's eats with a crawl designed strictly for grownups. This Thursday, April 18, the non-profit organization will host a ... More >>

Artopia: New L.A. Weekly Party Coming to Chinatown

To celebrate the release of L.A. Weekly's annual People issue in May, we're inviting all our favorite people to come party with us as we transform Chinatown Central Plaza into (drum roll!) Artopia. During this first-ever event on Thursday, May 16, drinks are on us all night, with a hosted bar from ... More >>

Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, Including a One-Man Band

This week, another painted portrait of Kate Middleton debuts, an aesthetic terroist talks about fashion and tea time happens ten days in a row in Chinatown. 5. Man and the machine Llyn Foulkes, the rash, visceral artist who has a solo show at the Hammer Museum now, also plays what he calls The Mach ... More >>

Top 4 Weekend Food Events: Fiesta Fridays, Chinese New Year Festival, Cupcakes and Cocktails MSG Pop-Up

Fiesta Fridays Every third Friday of the month, food vendors set up shop at the weekly Boyle Heights farmers market at Mariachi Plaza. Live music from singers, bands and DJs completes the fiesta. WHAT: Fiesta Fridays WHEN: Friday, Feb. 15, 5-10 p.m. WHERE: Mariachi Plaza,1836 E. First St., Boyle Hei ... More >>

Where The Chefs Eat: Night Market's Kris Yenbamroong (Otherwise Known as Banh Mi Santa Claus)

Where the Chefs Eat is an ongoing series in which we ask a local chef to give us his or her favorite dining options. This week, we talk to Kris Yenbamroong, chef and owner of Night Market, about his regular spots. Bánh Mì My Tho / Bánh Mì Buu Dien: "There's this thing I do -- it involves dri ... More >>

From the Los Angeles Public Library Menu Collection: Man Jen Low, One of Chinatown's Oldest Restaurants

Exploring the LAPL menu collection is an ongoing project in which we'll take a close look at the menus owned by the Los Angeles Public Library. Read about the project here. It's amazing how often menus discovered in the LAPL menu collection narrate the history of Los Angeles. Today we look at a men ... More >>

Ciclavia's Oct. 7 Hipster Bike Route Hits Chinatown, Bars & Pubs of Downtown

CicLAvia, the bike ride that closes down miles of L.A. streets for your pedaling pleasure, announced an all-new route for its Oct. 7 shindig. And it's somewhat of a hipster happening, taking you to Chinatown, the new Grand Park, "downtown's bustling cafés and pubs," and Little Tokyo, according to ... More >>

63: Slippery Shrimp at Yang Chow

Leading up to this year's Best of L.A. issue (due out Oct. 4), we'll be counting down, in no particular order, 100 of our favorite dishes. 63: Slippery Shrimp at Yang Chow. It's a pretty simple directive -- when you go to Yang Chow, you order the slippery shrimp. Everyone does it: Chinatown touris ... More >>

Walmart Chinatown Ban Gets Thumbs Up From Potent L.A. City Planning Committee

A powerful city committee tried to put the kibosh on plans to install a Walmart Neighborhood Mart in Chinatown this week when it voted in favor of a ban on large retail stores in what it deems to be a historic community. Forces opposed to the baby Walmart were elated, but it appears that even if th ... More >>

High hipsters at Hop Louie

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Cloned Plastic Rabbits

This week, there's a pithy, pink Ron English billboard on Temple, a tongue-in-cheek guide to L.A.'s Chinatown and human-scale dioramas being made on-site in Hollywood. 5. Fundraising for friends For her 1999 video We Got Moves You Ain't Even Heard of, Erica Cho gave herself a black eye so that she ... More >>

Top 4 Weekend Food Events: Royal/T's Farewell Pop-Up, Wirsthaus 1-Year Anniversary, Ode to Julia Child Dinner Chinatown Summer Nights

Royal/T's Farewell Pop-Up with Cordero Negro Culver City's Royal/T shuts its doors for good after next weekend, but not before going out with a bang. Chef Sandra Cordero, who apprenticed under Neal Fraser and Michael Cimarusti, will serve a special two-night dinner featuring traditional tapas like m ... More >>

Karen Finley Channels Dead Celebrities for Perform Chinatown, But Event Fails to Add Up to a Satisfying Whole

Perform Chinatown, a one-night festival of performance art, took over the Chinatown arts district on Saturday night. Over 40 artists occupied various nooks and crannies of Chung King Road and beyond with performances that were short or long, dour or humorous, heavy or light. While there were some ex ... More >>

Go Fest, Young Arts Lover

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including a Surrealist Peepshow

There are a few great tributes to vintage artists on this week's list. And Chinatown's fourth performance festival, always a wild card and always worth visiting for just that reason, happens this Saturday. 5. Slam poetry with Slanguage "One hundred thousand dollars can be stretched a long way down ... More >>

Walmart's Chinatown Dreams Challenged by Lawsuit Saying Public Kept in Dark

Foes of the planned Walmart Neighborhood Mart in Chinatown held a big rally over the weekend that featured entertainment from Tom Morello and Ben Harper. This week they've left the music behind, however, and taken things to court. The Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA) and the United Fo ... More >>

Walmart Protest - Chinatown - 6/29/12

No Age and Tearist Walmart protest at Human Resources Gallery in Chinatown 6/29/12 *Walmart Protest in Chinatown is Turning Into Walstock Free Concert Featuring Tom Morello *Tom Morello Dishes On LA Rising, Politics and Rage's 20th Anniversary Activists and rockers descended upon a gallery in Chi ... More >>

Walmart Protest in Chinatown is Turning Into Walstock Free Concert Featuring Tom Morello

Walmart has been bracing itself for what union organizers are calling the largest ever protest against the big-box chain, scheduled this weekend. The store even hosted a traditional Chinese lion dance to ward off bad luck (really). But can Walmart really prepare for the rage against its non-union m ... More >>

Pro-Chinatown Walmart Rally Will Include 'Traditional Lion Dance to Ward off Bad Luck'

Four days before "the largest anti-Walmart demonstration in history" at the chain's Chinatown construction site (union leaders say they expect a turnout of 10,000), Wal-Mart is holding something of a celebratory counter-protest at the same location. The "construction kick-off" at 1 p.m. today is li ... More >>

West Coast Artist's (WCA) Crew Opens First Ever Major Group Show in Chinatown

California and more specifically Los Angeles is one of the most influential hubs for graffiti art in the world. And long before wealthy collectors and mainstream recognition gave "street art" respect and accessibility in the art world (both a good and bad thing depending on who you talk to and what ... More >>

Institute For Figuring's New Space: An Art Gallery For Math and Science Nerds

A new space has opened its doors in Chinatown, and this time it's not your usual funky alternative art gallery. The Institute For Figuring is a center for hands-on discovery of cool scientific and mathematical concepts, with a strong artistic bent. Australian twin sisters Margaret Wertheim, a note ... More >>

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Malibu in 3-D

This week's list includes an awkward, bearded voyeur in West Hollywood, a picture of a white horse in a Chinatown basement and stereoscopic images of made-up archeology in Crenshaw. 5. Underground Malibu in 3-D The name "Malibu" comes from "Humaliwo," a word the Chumash Native American people used ... More >>

Chinatown Walmart Approved Day Before L.A. City Council Acts (Really)

So let's get this straight: During a week when the most pressing issue at the L.A. City Council was a toothless "resolution" condemning conservative talk-radio hosts for their racist leanings, the body passed up an opportunity to block a Chinatown Walmart that, it would seem, none of the powers that ... More >>

Chinatown turnover

Walmart Aiming For Chinatown in a Los Angeles Hostile to This Big-Box Retailer

Walmart​Updated at the bottom with Walmart telling us work will begin on the store in summer. Opponents of Walmart vow a "major fight" over the planned market. First posted at 5:44 p.m. Friday. Los Angeles, a big labor town when it comes to grocery store workers, has been notoriously hostile ... More >>

Enter the Dragon

Chinese New Year: A Feast of Symbols

The eve of Chinese New Year is often favored for its capacity to cultivate dreams and generate good will. Dining tables whereupon many Chinese families gather this Sunday evening will witness a brief, but sharp increase in property value as hopes for the new lunar year manifest in a symbolic feast. ... More >>

Christmas Monster

Night Gallery, Museum of Public Fiction and Other Eastside Experiments

LinA In LA Club/Party Picks: Das Bunker, Bar Sinister, Studio 69, Psychedelic Desert

Matador y TorosBoa-dacious at Club AM/FM​Cosmic rave-like excursions, fetishistic extravaganzas, undead dance orgies, Chinatown birthday blowouts... it's another week in party picks. Enjoy! Fri., Aug. 12 A decade ago Club Underground opened its doors at Tempest on Santa Monica Blvd. Unlike m ... More >>

Perform Chinatown Festival: Vikings, Bunnies, Unicorns, Masturbation, an Emperor With (Literally) No Clothes and More

Catherine WagleyJohn Kilduff (a.k.a. Mr Let's Paint) painting a character actor who appeared as "The Emperor with No Clothes"​ Vikings, oversized bunnies, an itinerant matchmaker, a painting instructor doubling as a life coach and running on a treadmill, an impromptu dinner party, a woman mast ... More >>

L.A. Department of Water and Power Makes List of 'The 19 Most Hated Companies In America'

'Chinatown'The DWP shares the same bed with the most hated companies in America.​Not sure if you remember the days last year when the L.A. Department of Water and Power held City Hall's wallet hostage over its insistence on a rate hike. The department told the City Council that if it didn't ge ... More >>

Measure L: Chinatown Branch Manager Shan Liang Says Immigrants Hurt by Severe Budget Cuts to L.A.'s Public Libraries

Chinatown Branch Library in downtown L.A.​Read the most recent L.A. Weekly news story on public library budget cuts: L.A.'s Library Measure L. At the Chinatown Branch Library in downtown Los Angeles, manager Shan Liang says Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese immigrants who know little, if any, ... More >>

WHAT SUPER BOWL?

Huge Tree Bakery

For You Tiao, Niu Ruo Shao Bing and all good things Chinese

Eating the Obvious

Chinese in Chinatown?

Dim Sum When the Sun Goes Down

In the night kitchen

Heads and Tails: Salt-Baked Shrimp

Green Parties

Festive settings for meatless dining

Ask Mr. Gold

Ask Mr. Gold

Ask Mr. Gold

Duck, Duck, Goose...

Fowl play

Tofu before noon