Chinatown

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Chego Update: Closed on Overland Moving to Chinatown in April

For all of you who've been obsessively driving by the little strip mall on Overland that has for the last few years been the location of Roy Choi's Chego, hoping to see the Chego truck or evidence that Chego has reopened since it closed, ostensibly for renovations, in December -- an update. "I don ... More >>

Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, Including 'The Happiness Show'

See also: *Asshole Festival 2013: Artists Yell at the Assholes of Los Angeles From a Street Corner in Chinatown *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. This week, a designer explains happiness in West Hollywood, a fact-blurring foreign correspondent's office opens in Highland ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes: The Whole Menu

Over the past few months, you've watched us catalog our 100 Favorite Dishes. Catalog being a lovely term meaning eating our way across this town, well, even more than usual. And because we thought you might want a better way to access these, we've collected all one hundred into one piece, a menu if ... More >>

41: Bánh Mì at Buu Dien

Leading up to this year's Best of L.A. issue (due out Oct. 4) -- and probably beyond, at this rate -- we'll be counting down, in no particular order, 100 of our favorite dishes. 41: Bánh Mì at Buu Dien. For such a seemingly humble sandwich, the Vietnamese bánh mì stirs up a surprisingly high l ... More >>

HARD Summer Festival Sees 105 Arrests, 9 Felony Collars For Drugs

See also: *Pictures, some maybe NSFW, from the HARD Summer festival. There were 105 arrests at the HARD Summer festival downtown over the weekend, officials told the Weekly. Authorities listed those as "arrests" but it would appear that most involved citations in which suspects were released on the ... More >>

Stephanie Harnett Says She's a USC Student Journalist, But She Spies For Walmart?

Oops. A woman working as a Walmart publicist under contract via the powerful Mercury Public Affairs firm represented herself as a journalist at a recent anti-Walmart press conference and actually interviewed a warehouse worker there, Elizabeth Brennan of Warehouse Workers United told the Weekly. T ... More >>

Nong Lá Café Brings Bun Bo Hue to West L.A.

Nong Lá Café, the latest addition to the strip of Sawtelle Boulevard often known as Little Osaka due to its concentration of Japanese eateries, is offering something a bit different than most of its neighbors -- instead of ramen and yakitori, diners will able able to get a taste of Vietnamese spec ... More >>

Esther Wong: Her Flawed Legacy

Contrary to revisionist history, her club Madame Wong's did not propel L.A.'s punk scene

The Wednesday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories

You can't replace the feeling of lounging on the couch with a scrunched-up newspaper. But with the web, at least you don't need to worry about getting ink on your hands and bagel. Here's a roundup of some food-related stories from our country's newspapers this week. Lucky for us, it's mostly free. F ... More >>

See A Map of Korean Businesses Targeted During L.A. Riots 20 Years Ago

Leading up to the 20th anniversary of the L.A. Riots Sunday, the KoreAm Journal has an extraordinary oral history of events, including memories from students, cops and the Korean business owners victimized by the uprising. Of the more than 3,000 buildings burned to the ground, 1,867 of them were ow ... More >>

Walmart's Chinatown Plans Decried by Pro-Labor Group

We told you this wouldn't be easy. Even though Walmart appears to have slipped into a Chinatown space that doesn't need the kind of extraordinary City Hall approvals that could have kept it out of other parts of L.A., the labor community is still fighting it. Unions don't like Walmart because of th ... More >>

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including the LACMA Rock and Martha Stewart Meeting a Hoarder

This week's list includes a tribute, disguise, displacement, hoarder and megalith. It runs the gamut, in other words. 5. Banana face Urs Fischer likes obstructions and disguises. Better yet are obstructions that double as disguises. For his exhibition at Gagosian in Beverly Hills, he's blown up vin ... More >>

'Breaking Ground' at Chinese American Museum Shows That Not All L.A. Architects Are Old, White Dudes

Common thinking is that architects are predominantly old white dudes (and they mostly are), but the Chinese American Museum's exhibition "Breaking Ground: Chinese American Architects in Los Angeles (1945-1980)" highlights four astonishing designers who eclipsed the profession's exclusionary demograp ... More >>

As If There Isn't Already Enough Sex in This Issue

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including the Grim Reaper's Bike Seat

Great video is slated to screen Valentine's Day at the Hammer, and the inspired My Barbarian collective is moving into Human Resources' Chinatown space for a monthlong residency, which can only bring good things. 5. Art or lawn furniture? Diana Molzan's painting Untitled, shaped like a table and pa ... More >>

Where To Eat Out on Christmas in Los Angeles: 5 Categories, 25 Ways to Eat Out on the Holiday

J. RitzHoliday tree cheer at the Hungry Cat Hollywood.​ With all due respect to hearty home-cooked Christmas meals centered around major hunks of proteins, tamales and starchy vegetables, it's not all that difficult to find interesting ways to eat out on December 25th in Los Angeles. Alright, ... More >>

Hoarders: Art Gallery Edition

LinA In LA Party Picks: Our Post-Thanksgiving Workout Plan

Forget about cornbread. We've got the recipe for the kind of stuffing that won't leave you comatose after consumed, unless you want to be. Stuff your weekend with the following ingredients: '70s disco, '80s new wave, brand-new electro house, zombies, fashion fiends, hipsters, gays, straights, pan-se ... More >>

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Sam Benjamin's 'Brief History of Porn' Lecture

Courtesy Actual Size L.A.A shrine-like installation in Gustavo Herrera and Spencer Douglass's exhibition "Hollenbeck"​ If you need a break from all the nostalgic historicizing saturating the art world these days, dash over to see an ingenious artist-made, open-air storefront on Alvarado. But d ... More >>

Best Free Ride

Hard Summer Festival Near Downtown Sees 31 Medical Emergencies, 10 Arrests

Gary RichardsHard Summer, like it says.​Updated at the bottom with the arrest number revised upward. See our Hard Summer slideshow here. First posted at 8:03 a.m. on Monday. The Hard Summer Music Festival on Saturday saw sixteen hospitalizations and 31 medical emergencies, according to a stat ... More >>

Are You A Flake? Then You Might Like JB Jurve's Exhibit About...One Sec, I Got a Text

JB JurveWayne Atkins: Cave Painting, 2009​ When I visited JB Jurve gallery, an eight-month-old space off Broadway in Chinatown, last Saturday, the door was locked. Later, I called the number listed and found they had closed early in anticipation of Father's Day, a holiday that, for most, is d ... More >>

Homeboy Diner to Open at LA City Hall

Celia Soudry​Homeboy Industries, a non-profit gang intervention group, will open its newest eatery, Homebody Diner, on Thursday -- this one inside City Hall. Founded by Father Greg Boyle in 1992, the organization already runs the semi-successful Homegirl Café near Chinatown and has, in the ... More >>

Jonathan Gold on Kid-Friendly Restaurants

Ask Mr. Gold: Where To Eat & Live In L.A. If You Don't Have A Car

Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menu​Dear Mr. Gold: What's the best neighborhood in L.A. to live in if you don't have a car? Purely within the gastronomical interest, of course. --Sophia Lee, via Facebook Dear Ms. Lee: Although my first impulse was to nominate San Gabriel or Monterey Park ... More >>

Gourmet Island: Sweetness and Light

At Alhambra restaurant, less is more

Dance Club Pick: Past and Present

Labor & Leisure Suits

Bamboodles: Packing a Rod

Master Kenny Chen practices the ancient Chinese art of bamboo-stick noodles

Where to Eat Now

Where To Eat Now

The Roti Less Traveled

Wake Me Up Before You Go Go

Ask Mr. Gold

Vietnamese

Downtown Budget Lunch

Pho the Soul

Ask Mr. Gold

Ask Mr. Gold

Pho 101— A Crash Course

Beyond the Bar

Into the Melding Pot

Rich flavors from the old country

Super Bowls

Recapping next season

From Formosa With Love

Where to go when you need to Taiwan on

Eatin’ ’em for Breakfast

After all, it’s the most important meal of the day

I, the Jury

Walking distance from the courthouse downtown

Man Bites Prawn

A Koreatown seafood adventure

Hong Kong Chow

A Pretty Good Chinese Restaurant

Chinatown’s Mandarin Shanghai revisited