At Empress Pavilion in Chinatown, it's not 1991, but not bad either

Jonathan Gold visits the reopened Empress Pavilion in Chinatown. It's not the best dim sum around, but the food is pretty good.
Jonathan Gold • Los Angeles Times • April 17, 2015
Empress Pavilion is the biggest restaurant in Chinatown, a glittery, hangar-size seafood palace built at the height of the late 1980s boom. In its early years, you would typically wait an hour or more for a table on dim sum Sunday mornings, and in...
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