Tien Nguyen

Sriracha sauces; Credit: T. Nguyen

Three Alternative Ways to Get Your Sriracha Fix

If you followed last week's Sriracha saga, you may or may not have spent some time hoarding Huy Fong Foods's famous Sriracha sauce. Because, as you might expect with a sauce that has inspired everything from fashion accessories to a food festival, the threat of the Rooster flying the coop,......
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Tamales at Guerrilla Tacos: Happy Holidays

Guerrilla Tacos serves up some of the best tacos in the city, fantastic constructions properly stuffed with all sorts of seasonal and local ingredients (recently: squash topped with tomato chili and almonds, and a stellar grilled Dover sole taco with a serrano habanero chili that left behind a pleasant afterburn)......
Coffee and The New Yorker's food issue; Credit: T. Nguyen

Read This Now: The New Yorker's Food Issue

The New Yorker's annual food issue (November 4, 2013) is out, and if you're a subscriber who received the issue and placed it directly on top of the other unread New Yorkers you have stacked neatly in your living room, maybe fish this one out and consider it prime bedtime......
Phở bac at Phở Filet #2 in Rosemead; Credit: T. Nguyen

Now Open: Phở Filet 2 in Rosemead

You have your pick from any great number of phở restaurants in the San Gabriel Valley, but it's always worth the drive to Phở Filet, located in a nice strip mall in South El Monte. There, lunchtime crowds as thick as the ones outside Golden Deli will attest to the......
Tenerelli Orchards at the Old Pasadena farmers market; Credit: A. Scattergood

What Your Farmers Market Tote Bag Says About You

The tote bag is, apparently, not only a happy marriage of form and function but also a status symbol of sorts: You can imagine that, for some, the type of bag one carries around a very social space like a Los Angeles farmers market is highly revealing, so much so......
Menotti's Coffee Stop; Credit: T. Nguyen

Now Open: Menotti's Coffee Stop in Venice

Menotti's Coffee Stop opened last week in Venice on Windward Avenue, right off the boardwalk. It is, in other words, so close to the ocean that if you order a cappuccino to go, then take a somewhat leisurely stroll over to the beach, your cup of coffee likely will still......