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April 4, 2013This week, our restaurant review considers Allumette in Echo Park, the new spot from young chef Miles Thompson. To get the full rundown on this somewhat astonishing restaurant you should read the full review. Or turn the page for a synopsis.
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December 27, 2012The L.A. Weekly will assign star ratings to restaurant reviews in 2013
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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 4, 2012For the Chinese, breakfast is the most important part of the day. A steamed pork bun and a soy milk for take-out is pretty standard, but if you want to make it a sit-down affair, try salty soy milk with crispy chunks of twisted cruller (also known as you tiao 油条), a large turnip cake with the si ... 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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May 21, 2012Everybody likes a countdown, whether it's for the foie gras ban or NASA's new privatized space industry. Today we're beginning another one, this time to mark our 100 favorite dishes from Los Angeles restaurants. Leading up to this year's Best of L.A. issue (due out Oct. 4), we'll be counting down, i ... More >>
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April 11, 2012Flavor Garden's golden shrimp dumpling was so named for a reason no longer apparent at first glance. At ten to a plate for $6.99, they are plump with tofu, scallions, and fresh shrimp. Reference to ingots that dumplings have traditionally symbolized in Chinese culture notwithstanding, they appear li ... More >>
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March 12, 2012The panoply of Chinese regional cuisines in the San Gabriel Valley recently increased by one with the opening of Wang Xing Ji, a San Gabriel outpost of a noted Wuxi restaurant operating since 1913. Located in San Gabriel Square, the large shopping plaza known as "The Great Mall of China," the restau ... More >>
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March 12, 2012You've shopped the Grove till your brain can't tell boots from a bra. You've pushed your way through the Original Farmers Market too. Let's face it. You need a drink. Starting today, you can get it at Planet Dailies and Mixology101.
You'll climb a long flight of stairs (let's hope you don't have ... More >>
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January 25, 2012Valentine's Day is fast approaching, thus it is time to book reservations at your favorite swank restaurant. Assuming you have a date for the evening. If you do not, well, check back later for our Best Dive Bars in L.A. list.
Of course your significant other may not be the white tablecloth sort, s ... More >>
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December 20, 2011Jim ThurmanLamb soup with knife cut noodles, Shaanxi Gourmet, Rosemead2011 in the San Gabriel Valley restaurant scene witnessed the usual spate of openings and closings, some notable and some not so notable. With some 300 Chinese restaurants alone, trying to compile a list of the year's open ... More >>
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November 10, 2011Blogs
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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September 8, 2011The trickster and his beasts
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August 12, 2011T. NguyenOrange chicken at Panda Express
There are many things wrong with orange chicken. For one, it was shamelessly concocted to suit the American penchant for fried, overly sweet chunks of meat, a far-off distant cousin of a cousin of the original Hunanese dish that supposedly was its ins ... More >>
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April 7, 2011Blogs
March 21, 2011Food MarathonThe hot sauce didn't make it to the table until a third of our whole fried snapper had been stripped down to its bones. Attracted by a laudatory L.A. Times article, we were dining at Flavors of Belize, a retooled cafe wedged into the Relax Inn on La Brea near San Vicente. One of ... More >>
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January 31, 2011L. Balla
If there's one thing Sang Yoon knows how to do, it's build anticipation. After months of preparation, rampant media speculation, publicist road blocks, and a few days of preview dinners last week, he finally debuts his new Culver City restaurant, Lukshon, tomorrow. It's safe to say, ... More >>
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December 30, 2010Jim ThurmanShu Feng Yuan (a.k.a. Shu Feng Garden) closed its San Gabriel location in 2010.The restaurant scene in the San Gabriel Valley is something that is in perpetual flux, and that was no different in 2010. Some restaurants added locations -- a few to the point of becoming burgeoning loc ... More >>
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December 20, 2010Guzzle & NoshPigs' ears at Shu Feng Garden in San Gabriel.--Sinosoul tweets that the San Gabriel outpost of Sichuan restaurant Shu Feng Garden, a Jonathan Gold favorite, has closed. (Rowland Heights location still open.)
--Yesterday was officially Burrito Day in LA. Vote for your fave. Echo P ... More >>
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November 18, 2010It's the Ritz! It's Chinese! It's Wolfgang Puck!
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September 16, 2010Blogs
May 28, 2010Ben CalderwoodCalifornia Wok's Seafood Fantasy at home
It's a ubiquitous foodie refrain: There's no good Chinese on the Westside. Followed immediately by foodie Verse Two, the commandment Go east. Since the demise of Royal Star Seafood at Stanford Avenue and Wilshire, which was aspirational a ... More >>
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March 11, 2010A noodle house in the San Gabriel Valley changes, amazingly
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October 20, 2009Opinionated diners agree, Top 10 lists are highly subjective. For a city as large as Los Angeles, it's no wonder we missed a few great late night dining spots (see our recent Top 10 Late-Night Grub For Nocturnal Foodies). Which is why, dear readers, we decided to put together another kind of Top 10 ... More >>
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July 16, 2009With Japanese curry rice and everything nice
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June 4, 2009Blogs
May 20, 2009Jessica RitzDrinks and apps spread poolside at blue on blue's Chef's Cabana dinner.Even if pre-Memorial Day etiquette has been violated -- with white shoes and pants already busted out in advance of this weekend -- that doesn't mean the official start of summer is off limits. Outdoor eating, drinkin ... More >>
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April 30, 2009Blogs
April 2, 2009 Editor's Note: The debut of Squid Ink, LA Weekly's new food blog, also marks the return of Ask Mr. Gold, which went on hiatus at the beginning of this year. Our Pulitzer-prize-winning critic Jonathan Gold is available once more to take your questions. Read his answers here on Squid Ink, before they ... More >>
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January 17, 2008Fish head and pork belly above the rest
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February 8, 2007Thirty-five new entires to the list
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December 28, 2006Dong Ting Chun brings the heat
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October 5, 2006Best beggars banquet at Dodger Stadium
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August 8, 2002Indigestible stands on immigration from the L.A. Times
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May 4, 2000The fish, the whole fish and nothing but the fish
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February 25, 1999If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
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December 17, 1998A week in the life of food
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February 5, 1998Chinatown’s Mandarin Shanghai revisited
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