Jonathan Gold enters Nothingness and finds somethingness — namely, Thunderbolt frog and BBQ potato

A new Sichuan restaurant in San Gabriel may not be the greatest Sichuan food in the SGV, but there are lots of chiles and a name that will make you dig out your college Sartre books.
Jonathan Gold • Los Angeles Times • September 29, 2017
“If you gaze long into an abyss,” Nietzsche wrote, “the abyss also gazes into you.” If you gaze long into Nothingness, or at least into the San Gabriel Sichuan restaurant of that name, the Nothingness that stares back at you is likely to include...
The full article can be read on the Los Angeles Times website.

Related Articles

Happy Chinese New Year: Restaurants for noodles, dumplings, chicken, fish and more

Jonathan Gold • Los Angeles Times • January 21, 2017
Happy Chinese New Year! Red envelopes and lion dances for all! If you want to celebrate at a Chinese restaurant, and I can’t see why you wouldn’t, here are a few places to ring in the Year of the Rooster.   Ask Jonathan Goldbot where to eat on...

Restaurant review: Bowled over by the Bashu fish at Fang's Kitchen

Jonathan Gold • Los Angeles Times • February 6, 2015
Water-boiled fish is one of the most impressive dishes in the Sichuan repertoire: an enormous bowl of vegetables and broth bloodied with a half-inch of vivid chile oil. At Fang’s Kitchen, the sleek new Chengdu-style Sichuan restaurant in Monterey...

At Hip Hot in Monterey Park, the crab is stir-fried with ungodly amounts of chiles

Jonathan Gold • Los Angeles Times • July 7, 2017
The Dungeness crab at Hip Hot, Tiantian Qiu’s Monterey Park Sichuan seafood restaurant, is stir-fried with ungodly amounts of chiles and Sichuan peppercorn, tossed with potatoes and vegetables, and served in a gleaming heap. It has been expertly...

Review: Mian restaurant has noodles like no one else in the San Gabriel Valley

Jonathan Gold • Los Angeles Times • March 18, 2016
You know zhajiangmian. It’s that dish of springy wheat noodles, often hand-pulled, tossed with bean sauce, ground pork and usually some other stuff, that you may have tasted in Chinese noodle shops like Malan Noodles in Hacienda Heights and China...

Szechuan Impression skewers all expectations

Jonathan Gold • Los Angeles Times • October 31, 2014
Bobo chicken, at least as interpreted at Szechuan Impression, is a party in a pot, a ceramic pot that strongly resembles a novelty St. Patrick’s Day hat, half-filled with chile-laced broth and with long bamboo skewers sticking up from the vessel...