Q: What’s jokbal? A: Tasty Korean-style braised pork foot and shank. And now, a renowned jokbal restaurant from Seoul—known as Jangchung-Dong Wong Jokbal—has opened a satellite restaurant in Los Angeles’s Koreatown. It all started when the restaurant owner came to Los Angeles several years ago, pleasurepalate says, bringing with her a sample of her famous [...]
There’s a dish on Beijing Restaurant’s menu known as “fried with meat,” and it “may be my favorite current dish anywhere,” sku says. “It’s a Chinese wheat bun with sesame seeds filled with chunks of fried lamb,” sku explains. “The lamb is crisply fried on the outside and fall-apart tender inside. The best part is [...]
The ideal Sichuan water-boiled fish “should have fish fillets and it should swim in a fairly light bowl of oil, with a ton of Sichuan peppercorns,” quirkybeijing says. ”The oil is clear so that you can see through most of the bowl.” So where can you find the best one in San Gabriel Valley? Though once [...]
Pho bac is the specialty of the house at Pho Filet, or Vietnamese soup accompanied by pounded filet mignon and fresh, wide rice noodles. Melanie Wong loved the “charred green onions and the idiosyncratic hit of fresh ginger that grew in intensity from steeping in the soup becoming quite powerful at the bottom of the [...]
The brand-new Shanghai No. 1 Seafood Village serves up some seriously excellent dim sum. It’s part of the new wave of high-end, fancy-schmancy dim sum: The menu looks like a glossy fashion magazine, ordering’s done from a menu, and the portions are small and delicate, says ciaochow. Dining here is an experience, ciaochow says, that [...]
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There’s nothing like a good local butcher like Lindy & Grundy. “Great meat and great service,” says JudiAU. The shop’s fine points aren’t disputed. “Lindy & Grundy is great,” says LATrapp. “The service is friendly and warm and invested in your satisfaction. The downside is that if you want to run in to grab a [...]
There’s nothing like a good local butcher like Lindy & Grundy. “Great meat and great service,” says JudiAU. The shop’s fine points aren’t disputed. “Lindy & Grundy is great,” says LATrapp. “The service is friendly and warm and invested in your satisfaction. The downside is that if you want to run in to grab a [...]
Pina’s Bistro in Orange County is where you go for reliably good Italian food. The place has been around for a long time, and their eggplant parm hero and meatball subs are both great, says kevin. But kevin recently discovered something even better: the veal parmigiana dinner. “It was exceptional, expertly breaded and fried pounded [...]
At Juan’s Restaurante, it seems as if Chef Juan Mondragon cooks with two themes in mind, pleasurepalate says. The first is to show off the cuisine of pre-Hispanic Mexico, which results in a menu of 10 sophisticated moles and many other culinary delights. The second would be to offer a tremendous variety of recipes made [...]
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