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April 15, 2013Chinatown 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 >>
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April 11, 2013Ocean Star in Monterey Park has been in service since 1982. They're a classic dim sum joint in every sense of the word: rolling carts, Cantonese servers, dim sum operation during the day and extraordinary seafood at night.
The restaurant is one of the largest of its kind in Los Angeles, and has an ... More >>
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April 6, 2013Back in 2011, when it seemed like the entire Bay Area was seized with Chez Panisse 40th anniversary fever, Hong Kong-born, San Francisco-based filmmaker Wayne Wang (Chan Is Missing, Joy Luck Club, Smoke) asked Chez Panisse's founder, Alice Waters, if there was a role he could play. Waters suggested ... More >>
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March 7, 2013Our 99 Essential L.A. Restaurants issue came out last week, and we're highlighting a few categories drawing from the list. Today: Chinese restaurants.
This is not a definitive list of the best Chinese restaurants in L.A., but it is a sampling of five that we think are each essential in their own wa ... More >>
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November 14, 2012John Huang is the owner and manager of newly-opened Mao's Restaurant. Named after Chairman Mao Zedong -- who, yes, Huang holds in high-esteem -- the eatery boasts a variety of spicy dishes that pay homage to Mao's hometown in the province of Hunan.
Mao's Restaurant opened in early October after Hu ... More >>
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September 10, 2012Among the Chinese food community, David R. Chan is considered an expert. We've written about the accountant and attorney's herculean feat of eating at more than 6,000 Chinese restaurants (and that number keeps on growing each week). He's been on the radio, magazines, international newspaper and on T ... More >>
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August 13, 2012Israel Aharoni keeps himself busy. He's a chef, television show developer and host, journalist and cookbook author. Credited with being Israel's first celebrity chef and bringing Chinese food to Israel, Aharoni studied cooking in Taiwan and has owned and operated several restaurants in Israel, inclu ... More >>
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July 20, 2012Ching-He Huang diplomatically avoids ranking U.S. cities when it comes to best Chinese eats, but will allow that San Gabriel Valley (and New York's Flushing) gives San Francisco serious competition for what she calls tastes of home. She'll even name examples available in the neighborhood: chou doufu ... More >>
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July 10, 2012Leading 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.
80: Shu Mai at Elite Restaurant.
Elite Restaurant in Monterey Park has a reputation for being one of the most civilized dim sum palaces in town -- if you're ac ... More >>
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June 7, 2012Sea Harbour Seafood Restaurant in Rosemead is the embodiment of Chinese haute cuisine. The management runs the show, and everyone else from the chefs to the waitstaff is at their call. Walk in during slow hours and you'll probably see a group of men dressed in crisp suits exchanging business cards a ... More >>
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June 4, 2012David R. Chan can't use chopsticks. "I can't hold them properly," Chan said. "It hasn't really been a problem though. Chinese restaurants usually have forks available." 6,090 Chinese restaurants to be exact -- a number that just keeps on growing.
An accountant and attorney by trade, Chan has been ... More >>
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May 9, 2012Macy's doesn't just celebrate holidays. It celebrates "months." Black History Month in February. Then Hispanic Heritage Month in September. For June, LGBT National Pride Month. Now, it's Asian Pacific American Heritage Month -- and that calls for food. This Saturday afternoon, two store locations wi ... More >>
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April 30, 2012Los Angeles is a special place. While the rest of America opts for eggs and a mimosa on Sunday mornings, a good portion of Los Angelenos prefer Chinese banquet-style restaurants for their weekly fix of turnip cake and tea. The long impatient lines and lack of parking spaces on Valley Boulevard is pr ... More >>
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January 20, 2012The first thing you'll see at the L.A. Art Show: Modern & Contemporary, which runs through Sunday at the L.A. Convention Center, is Brian Zheng's 15-foot fiberglass sculpture, buffed to an impressive cherry red shine thanks to that auto-paint finish. At a show where much of the art is abstract, this ... More >>
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December 14, 2011Anne Fishbeinthe invisible restaurant criticDear Mr. Gold:
My husband and I, originally from Connecticut, are fairly new to L.A., and have had a hard time finding good Chinese food. This is our first year as a married couple and we're looking for a nice restaurant in which to restart our trad ... More >>
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October 28, 2011Courtesy of Tuttle Publishing."Easy Chinese Recipes" (left) & shrimp & yellow chive dumplings (right).You'll find a couple of local dishes in Bee Yinn Low's Easy Chinese Recipes (Tuttle Publishing, $24.95). This is because Low lives in Irvine and eats Chinese food all over California as well ... More >>
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October 26, 2011Anne FishbeinOne of the many intriguing dishes at Sea Harbour.In exotica-obsessed Los Angeles, it is perhaps not unusual to dine on things like spinach sauteed with minced foie gras, steamed rice sheets with bitter melon, fried ox tripe and tendon with noodle rolls, dumplings stuffed with che ... More >>
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August 15, 2011Courtesy Kimberly BergThose little scraps of paper with prophetic statements like "You will always be surrounded by good friends" are fun to read after polishing off a plate of lo mein (with or without "in bed" at the end.) But no one really takes the fortune cookie for the cookie. Like a dai ... More >>
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December 23, 2010Jim ThurmanSteamed pork belly with mixed flour at Shu Feng Garden in San Gabriel.An already dreary December day became downright bleak for lovers of Sichuan cuisine with the news, tweeted by food blogger Sinosoul, that Shu Feng Garden had closed their San Gabriel location.
Just 14 months ago ... More >>
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November 11, 2010Celia Soudry
Jian, a Mid-City Korean barbecue restaurant, grilled its last galbi on August 8th. Signage was posted on the windows informing customers that Jian, which opened two years ago, would be closed from August 7th to November 15th. "It just wasn't right for the area," said Howard Chan, ... More >>
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August 26, 2010A cuisine that's more than stir-fry
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August 25, 2010Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menuDear Mr. Gold:
Traditional Cantonese cuisine doesn't do much deep-frying, right? I mean, crispy-fried chicken with oyster sauce isn't exactly typical. I'm way more familiar with Northern Chinese food, since I lived in Beijing for a while, but it seems t ... More >>
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August 19, 2010Celia SoudrySign posted on Asakuma's doors
Asakuma restaurant, which has been serving sushi and Japanese food since 1985, closed three weeks ago, according to an employee of Asakuma Delivery, which has a different owner than the restaurant. "They went bankrupt," said an Asakuma Delivery empl ... More >>
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February 18, 2010Growing up near San Jose and eating dim sum with his family, Alex Chu developed a passion for the cuisine. But it wasn't until he worked as a dim sum server that he learned how to prepare and present the steamed buns and delicate dumplings.
"I learned how to cook all the items," Chu says. "I learn ... More >>
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November 30, 2009If you're looking for the most authentic and diverse Asian cuisine anywhere in the Los Angeles area, one should look no further than the San Gabriel Valley. The same applies after midnight. Even then, despite somewhat limited options, you can find a good variety of regional styles available until ... More >>
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February 26, 2009Master Kenny Chen practices the ancient Chinese art of bamboo-stick noodles
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June 26, 2008In the Cantonese restaurant wars, Alhambra kitchen brings morning firepower
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January 11, 2007Dim sum without the carts
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October 11, 2001Building a better dumpling
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July 13, 2000The pleasures of a Chinese banquet
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April 22, 1999Beijing snacks in San Gabriel
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October 29, 1998Incendiary Sichuan in Pasadena
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August 6, 1998Chinese porridge in Rosemead
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