Northern China's favorite snack food
Xinjiang barbecue is one of the most compelling snacks in the world, thin skewers of charred lamb snatched bubbling from the grill, crusted with cumin and dried chiles, dusted with salt and Sichuan pepper, spurting hot grease when the burning flesh snaps beneath your teeth. The sizzling skewers of… Keep Reading »
Northern China's favorite snack food
Xinjiang barbecue is one of the most compelling snacks in the world, thin skewers of charred lamb snatched bubbling from the grill, crusted with cumin and dried chiles, dusted with salt and Sichuan pepper, spurting hot grease when the burning flesh snaps beneath your teeth. The sizzling skewers of… Keep Reading »
Scenes from the latest combatant in the Cantonese banquet wars… View Slideshow »
In the Cantonese restaurant wars, Alhambra kitchen brings morning firepower
It’s 107 degrees in the San Gabriel Valley sun, a blasting heat with a sulfurous, hydrocarbon edge, and the sweating hordes packed inside the lobby of the new King Hua huddle under the one vent in the room that even promises a bit of cool, jostling one another for… Keep Reading »
Freshwiches, vegan chic and cupcakes from Fred Eric, L.A.'s chef of invention
Fred Eric is the house madman of Los Angeles cooking, the screaming id, the chef who has been most likely to succeed since the 1980s. He worked with Joachim Splichal at the dawn of the hypertechnical era of Los Angeles cuisine, ran what were arguably the first of the… Keep Reading »
To make a tiger smile
It’s practically a shrine, Renu Nakorn, the site of nearly everybody’s first regional-Thai restaurant epiphany, a storefront in an improbably remote Norwalk strip mall that just happened to feature catfish larb instead of mint-leaf chicken, raw prawns with fish sauce instead of angel wings. Even at its beginning, back… Keep Reading »
Northern China's favorite snack food
In the Cantonese restaurant wars, Alhambra kitchen brings morning firepower
In L.A., the best are at Cut and Pizzeria Mozza
Northern China's favorite snack food
In the Cantonese restaurant wars, Alhambra kitchen brings morning firepower
Freshwiches, vegan chic and cupcakes from Fred Eric, L.A.'s chef of invention
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