Jonathan Gold rides the waves of dim sum at Longo Seafood Restaurant in Rosemead

The new San Gabriel Valley dim sum palace has improbably good truffled shiu mai and something called the BBQ Supreme rice noodle roll that he can't recommend enough. Plan to take home leftovers.

Jonathan Gold • Los Angeles Times • January 19, 2018

Dim sum at its best is a total-immersion experience — the quest for a number, the long wait in the restaurant lobby and then the explosion into the dining room itself, likely to be the largest enclosed space you have stepped into that month — an...

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

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...

Jonathan Gold: Alhambra's Shi Hai is best at its simplest

Jonathan Gold • Los Angeles Times • September 19, 2014

If you are looking for a clue to Shi Hai, the new Hong Kong-style seafood restaurant in Alhambra, you might find it in the cold cucumber appetizer, a dish that appears at both dim sum breakfast and at dinner. If this is your first time at the...

Michelin-Starred Tim Ho Wan Finally Arrives in Irvine

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • June 12, 2019

Barbecue-pork-filled buns at Tim Ho Wan. Photo by Edwin Goei A Taiwanese co-worker had something to tell me: He said he’d just gone to a new restaurant I’d be interested in. But before he even got the chance to pull the business card out of his...

Grand Harbor caters to seafood tastes in the $10 to $10,000 range

Jonathan Gold • Los Angeles Times • January 22, 2016

The first thing you should probably know about Grand Harbor is that its top-tier tasting menu costs $9,388, which is a pretty good price for a used Sentra but an awful lot of money for a meal for 10. You aren’t going to get that particular dinner...

Myung In Wins Pillow Fight

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • September 16, 2010

You may have eaten bao, the pillowy white Chinese buns usually found three to a basket at dim sum. You may have even ventured to Buena Park’s Mami King for the Filipino version called siopao, or to Little Saigon’s food-to-go shops at which they’re...