James Gordon

There are certain cuisines that are exported from their origin so rarely that encountering anything resembling them is an event. When what you’re eating in an obscure, entirely neglectable strip mall in Tarzana is as rare as it is in a 2,000 mile radius, you can’t help but think you’ve......

If you want it, there are plenty of options to get Indonesian or Malaysian food in L.A. these days. Indo Café, which was widely regarded as the best place to get Indonesian on the Westside, closed a couple of years ago, but there’s still Simpang Asia across the street, which......

Despite the obvious wealth of Chinese food in the San Gabriel Valley, it’s always worth it to take a moment to appreciate what is truly an incredible landmark in the world’s culinary sphere. There is, maybe, one other area outside of China that serves Chinese food as wonderfully diverse and......

If America’s Thai food trend is heading toward the model set by Pok Pok, Andy Ricker’s famous Portland-based project, then the trend is heading northward, away from the familiar Bangkok street food that most Americans have grown accustomed to  – the likes of massaman curry, pad Thai and tom yum soup......

If you were to find yourself walking at night through the streets of Bali or Kota Kinabalu, you would almost certainly smell food. Sometimes the smell will come from an individual stall specializing in murtabak or roti or some distinct noodle dish, but it's likely the smell will be emanating......

Of all of Southeast Asia's cuisines, Myanmar's could simultaneously be the most obscure and most familiar. Even if you've not had the opportunity to try it, you probably won't be shocked by its curries, which could be Indian, or by its various fried foods, which include the likes of spring......

At first glance, the San Gabriel Valley hardly seems like a neighborhood for a grub crawl. The SGV is the epitome of L.A.'s massive suburban sprawl (enough to make you hum to Arcade Fire), and its restaurants - and there are many scattered around its infinite series of strip malls......