monku‘s favorite fried rice is at Koraku, a Japanese coffee shop in Little Tokyo. The rice is a meal in itself, says monku. You can get plain fried rice, curry fried rice, or fried rice topped with a shrimp omelet and gravy. “Koraku makes my favorite fried rice in LA,” agrees la2tokyo. “Wish it was [...]
There’s precious little Portuguese food in Los Angeles. Which is why it’s both bewildering and delightful to stumble across the new Queee Sushi Station & Portuguese Cuisine, says Chandavkl. Open for lunch only, they do mostly sushi, but there’s a separate Portuguese menu of just five items: a fisherman’s bowl, sablefish, chicken breast, lamb chops, [...]
“Let’s start from the end. The cheese cart,” says Porthos. “There is somewhere around 15-20 types of cows, sheep, and goat cheeses offered. There is an excellent mix of hard and soft cheeses, fresh and aged cheeses, mild and pungent cheeses. This cheese cart eclipses pretty much every other cheese cart I’ve seen at any [...]
“Do you like the salty and crunchy? Do you like the chewy and crispy?” asks ipsedixit. If so, then get to Cloverleaf Bakery for some peanut mochi bread. “It’s a ball of soft, chewy mochi, that’s embedded with crunchy peanuts (with a hint of salt), encased in a buttery pillow of soft and chewy bread,” [...]
“The Ghormeh Sabzi will bring me back again,” says lil mikey. He’s talking about PA2GH, a new Persian place just outside of the heavily Persian Westwood neighborhood. The ghormeh sabzi is “a dark green, almost black stew with a deep, rich flavor, almost like tobacco (although there’s no tobacco in it). It’s made with leeks, [...]
A lot of the Islamic Chinese joints around here are Beijing style, which is a very particular thing because Beijing is not heavily Islamic. The food you’ll find in these spots is tailored to suit Beijing tastes. If you want the cooking of a more predominately Islamic Chinese area, you have to go to Xinjiang, [...]
To get Mei Long Village‘s house special 12-hour cured pork pump (braised pork knuckle and/or pork calf), you have to order it in advance, sometimes more than a day. Their version is silky tender, but very different from the standard Shanghai pork pump. “The braising sauce was not of the old familiar ‘red cook’ style, [...]
“Dunno why it has not gotten more love [on CHOW], but people need to try this place,” says ipsedixit—it’s “outrageously good.” ipsedixit is talking about Paradis Ice Cream, a Danish ice cream parlor. Its treats are creamy without being dense—and not air-whipped, either. Paradis serves “wonderful ice cream, almost like a gelato, light, smooth, and [...]
“Being able to sit with someone who selects the beans, the roaster, and the person pulling the shots lends a personal touch, and a different level of experience that is hard to find. Enter Cafecito Organico,” says cls. Angel Orozco, the coproprietor, learned to roast, “determined to perfect his craft, but kept getting kicked out [...]
Nick’s Cafe serves the best hash browns in the world, says ipsedixit. The potatoes are “shredded to a vermicelli-like size, then griddle fried to a crisp with no hint of grease, and then piled on your plate in a nice big round mound that reminds you of those old Chinese-American Cantonese chow mein dishes that [...]
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