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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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February 14, 2013Released by McSweeney's in December, Beck's Song Reader is not an album. Rather, it's a book with sheet music for original songs, which have not been recorded by Beck. (The dream of the 1890's is indeed still alive, and not just in Portland.)
His fans have had a field day playing them, and not lon ... More >>
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April 9, 2012One of the great things about the abundance of Chinese restaurants in the San Gabriel Valley comes in discovering unique menu items. These can range from hard-to-find distinctive regional dishes to the mundane that simply got lost in translation.
When it came to our attention that a restaurant w ... More >>
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March 9, 2012Daily Dish: No more starred reviews in the L.A. Times, effective now.
The Salt, NPR's Food Blog: Mario Batali settles lawsuit alleging he and business partner Joe Bastianich took employee tips.
Gilt Taste: What Francis Lam learned about food from the Notorious B.I.G. ("The milks was chocolate; t ... More >>
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February 2, 2012This week Jonathan Gold considers the study in ambition, cuisine and magazine-worthy menu art that is Shanghai No. 1 Seafood Village in the San Gabriel Valley. Old Alley Pork. "Double tubes of squid." Jellyfish. Shark-lip casserole. One could go on.
It is the Chinese restaurant menu equivalent of a ... More >>
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April 14, 2011-- Why the sustainable food movement should learn to love Nathan Myhrvold's Modernist Cuisine. [Grist]
-- My Gay Starbucks (Santa Monica Boulevard & Westmount Drive). [Zócalo]
-- Is sugar toxic? [The New York Times]
-- Drunken Passover Grilled Cheese (a recipe). [Doves and Figs]
-- Making Mo ... More >>
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April 8, 2011The AlchemistSous Vide Egg Yolks With Arugula-Raclette PestoIn our two-part interview with Shanghai chef/restauranteur Kelley Lee, the Cerritos native told us about the trials of introducing gastropub burgers to a McDonald's obsessed city, opening a brewery when she knew nothing about craft b ... More >>
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April 7, 2011Kelley LeeLee Enjoying That Rare Home Cooked MealWhen we first spoke with L.A.-turned-Shanghai chef/restaurateur Kelley Lee, the 33-year-old was telling us about the more than half dozen American-style restaurants she's opened in China since moving there seven years ago. Not that it's all bee ... More >>
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April 6, 2011Kelley LeeLee Cooking With Family On Her Recent Trip Back To California As 33-year-old Kelley Lee casually rattles off the eight "concepts" that she has opened over the past seven years -- "a diner, a café, a Mexican restaurant, the brewery-gastropub with several locations, an Italian place, ... More >>
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October 21, 2010And other surprising fare
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April 5, 2010LiuzhouLaowaiThe Guardian reports that Malibu-resident Bob Dylan has had to cut his Asian tour short because the Chinese government prevented him from playing in Beijing and Shanghai.
According to the UK paper (quoting Hong Kong's South China Morning Post):
Dylan's planned tour of east Asia ... More >>
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February 26, 2010Fugu to foie gras, pizza to panuchos
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December 10, 2009Also, Pandora, Wacademia, the Santaland Diaries, Stated Income and more
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October 6, 2009If you're the sort of person who stocks bottles of Oban and Talisker and Bunnahabhain the way some people hoard cans of soup, you're in serious luck. Whisky Live is coming to Los Angeles for the first time this month. It may sound like a sadistic fraternity drinking game, but it's really a rather ge ... More >>
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February 26, 2009Giang Nan, Shanghai Mini Town, J&J, Dragon Mark, Mei Long Village and more
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November 30, 2006Green Village comes back to San Gabriel
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July 31, 2003Mian Mian on Chinese raves, cheap taxis and why nobody wants to fuck the queen
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March 14, 2002Eat+Drink
February 7, 2002Searching for the taste of home
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February 15, 2001Rich flavors from the old country
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May 18, 2000Film+TV
March 9, 2000Song and dance from around the world
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January 20, 2000Better than New York City, guaranteed
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June 24, 1999On a hard-class sleeper to Shanghai
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January 14, 1999Film+TV
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September 3, 1998Eat+Drink
February 5, 1998Chinatown’s Mandarin Shanghai revisited
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