Jonathan Gold: Five of the tastiest Chinese restaurants in the SGV with the name 'Tasty'

In last week’s column, I alluded to the flood of San Gabriel Valley Chinese restaurants with the word "Tasty’" tucked somewhere into their English-language

Jonathan Gold • Los Angeles Times • December 9, 2015

In last week’s column, I alluded to the flood of San Gabriel Valley Chinese restaurants with the word “Tasty’” tucked somewhere into their English-language names. Depending on whether you count doughnut shops, burger stands or branches of the same...

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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...

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...

Jonathan Gold review: Seafood Palace in Monterey Park and Temple City

Jonathan Gold • Los Angeles Times • November 27, 2015

We have visited Seafood Palace before, more or less, on the occasion of a visit from a group of Michelin-starred chefs from Hong Kong to the San Gabriel Valley. The chefs had no interest in the Sichuan-, Shanghai- or Shandong-style restaurants...

The finest food in Los Angeles for even the thinnest wallets

Jonathan Gold • Los Angeles Times • August 29, 2014

Is it possible to spend more than $400 per person at some of the restaurants on this year’s list of the best 101? Of course. Cuisine costs. But great cooking takes many different forms in Los Angeles, and some of the most exquisite flavors belong...

Seven great places for congee

Jonathan Gold • Los Angeles Times • January 8, 2016

Delicious Food Corner If Siam Sunset is the most Thai place in Thai Town, and it is, then Delicious Food Corner, a breakfast place at the southern edge of Monterey Park, may be the most Hong Kong place in the San Gabriel Valley, which is saying a...