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I grew up around where Yoma Burmese is located, but never knew about it until recently. It’s a hole-in-the wall Burmese restaurant that’s easy to miss if you’re not looking for it.
Always willing to try different ways of preparing bittermelon, I ordered the bittermelon with spicy bean paste off the appetizer section of the [...]

It’s easy to miss this hole-in-the-wall restaurant with its generic name and bland red awning, but Shanghai Xiao Chi serves up tasty Shanghai dishes on par with that of better known Shanghai restaurants such as Mei Long Village.

We started off with a traditional Shanghai appetizer called kao fu. The kao fu was soft, chewy, [...]

One doesn’t go to Mandarin Deli for the ambiance. One goes for the simple, comforting, food. Just be warned, the place is small and serves stinky tofu. If you’re unlucky, you might be stuck sitting next to a table that ordered a plate.

I had the mala (spicy) beef noodle soup. The [...]

The family and I went to Green Village for dinner over the weekend. The place was fancy compared to most of the Chinese restaurants we go to and the prices certainly reflect slightly more upscale decor.

We started off with a cold plate of koufu (vegan). It’s a famous Shanghainese dish made out of [...]

To passerbyers, Kam Hong Garden isn’t much to look at. It’s in its own little corner of a little strip mall and upon entering it, I thought that it looked a little too clean and sterile to be a delicious noodle-house in the SGV. Luckily, I was proven wrong.
The waiters at Kam Hong [...]

There are few industries more “free market” than the restaurant business. If they don’t offer the customer something (good food at a good price or good food at a price plus a unique experience in some fashion) they will eventually go belly up.
A drive down Valley Blvd in Alhambra and some places you will [...]

Dim sum junkies have probably spotted the numerous reports on New Concept kicking around out there — from the LA Times to dozens of Chowhound Los Angeles reports as well as Eating L.A. (Who else can I name-check!?)
New Concept is the first American branch of a chain with 28 restaurants in China, five in Beijing. [...]

I tend to have only a vague awareness of the regional origins of the Chinese restaurant I’m dining in — be it Mandarin, Cantonese, Hunan, or Szechuan. Until this evening, I would not have known, for example, if I was eating in a Chiu Chow (Chaozhou) restaurant. Chiu Chow, a primarily seafood-based cuisine, hails from [...]