WHY When you’re in the mood for red-cooked pork ribs or lion’s head meatballs but don’t want to head out to the San Gabriel Valley, this venerable spot (formerly known as Mandarin Shanghai) is the ticket. WHAT Hidden in a strip mall, this little place is a good find off the Chinatown tourist path for [...]
October 28, 2011 | Posted in
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WHY For live ducks and chickens, slaughtered to order if you want—or the more conventional (very) fresh poultry. Also a fine selection of cuts of pork, whole fish on ice and live tilapia and crab. WHAT Poultry is the claim to fame, both live and butchered, but fresh fish and pork are also in abundance, [...]
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WHY For Chiu Chow noodles and nothing but: egg noodles with sliced pork; beef noodle soup; chow mein with beef, Chinese broccoli and oyster sauce; or, for special occasions, Pork Variety (aka intestines) noodle soup. WHAT Richly flavored, sustaining noodle soups and fried noodle and rice dishes from the Chaoshan region of southeastern China are [...]
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WHY It may be Chinese food designed for white people, but it’s still seriously tasty, and for many people, addictive. WHAT Two simple rooms are permanently packed with regulars who have been coming here for 20 years and always order the same things: sweet-spicy slippery shrimp, hefty pan-fried dumplings, dried-fried string beans with pork, and [...]
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WHY Marvelously soggy dip sandwiches (beef, lamb, pork), which Philippe’s claims to have invented. WHAT We’ve been coming to Philippe’s since we were knee-high to a wooden stool, and there’s nothing we love more than sitting on a wooden stool in this 1908 order-at-the-counter, sawdust-on-the-floor landmark. The french dips are delicious, the wine by the [...]
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Thanks to our finally-summer weather, the next two Saturday nights will be peak time for the neon-lit pleasures of Chinatown Summer Nights, a food festival and neighborhood open house. Restaurants, food trucks, art galleries and entertainers are all contributing to a street-fair feeling in the blocks between Broadway and Yale Streets from College to Bernard. Here’s [...]
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