It's time to head to the SGV for Taiwanese breakfast

We're a year into the pandemic, and San Gabriel Valley restaurants need our business

Bill Addison • Los Angeles Times • February 13, 2021

Last month, I picked up breakfast from Today Starts Here in Chinatown and spread out the haul on a table at home. Where to start? Daikon cakes flecked with shiitakes and fried shallots, or oblong shao bing filled with scrambled eggs, or dan bing,...

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Start the day at a Taiwanese breakfast pop-up in Chinatown

Bill Addison • Los Angeles Times • February 11, 2021

Vivian Ku’s first two restaurants, Pine & Crane in Silver Lake and Joy in Highland Park, became neighborhood fixtures through their fast-casual airiness and the evident lightness of the Taiwanese dishes they serve. The subtlety of flavors and...

Where to find the best breakfast burritos in L.A.

Bill Addison • Los Angeles Times • August 28, 2021

My colleague Ben Mims and I were sharing a strangely sweet veggie breakfast burrito at a cafe in West Hollywood. It was one of many stops in a project to name my top choices for L.A.’s favorite morning food. Ben wondered how it was going. “Are you...

Maybe resolve to eat more takeout this January?

Bill Addison • Los Angeles Times • January 9, 2021

What to even say about this first week of 2021? My colleagues LZ Granderson and Gustavo Arellano express it clearly. Read (or reread) Michelle Obama’s words. As I vacillate between scrolling through apps and staring at the laptop and TV to process...

14 exceptional new L.A. restaurants for a better 2021

Bill Addison • Los Angeles Times • January 14, 2021

A takeout window seems an apt location to begin thinking through some of the Los Angeles restaurants that managed not only to open in 2020, but also to enrich the city’s culture with creative achievement and personal narrative. This carryout setup...

L.A.'s best new breakfast

Bill Addison • Los Angeles Times • August 6, 2022

Vivian Ku’s purple sticky rice fan tuan is superb wakeup food. Cut in half, the thin cylinder reveals a center filled with a crackly youtiao, braised soy egg, pork floss and minced preserved vegetables hidden in its maze of fried dough. Each bite...