Lunar New Year foods to love: whole fish, spring rolls, noodles and more

Celebrating the Lunar New Year with some favorite dishes including fried spring rolls, whole steamed fish and lo bak go.

Jenn Harris • Los Angeles Times • January 22, 2023

Don’t go to bed with your hair wet or even remotely damp. You’ll get headaches. Don’t put your chopsticks straight up in your rice. It resembles the incense burned at funerals. Eat lots of greens. They are the color of money. I’ve grown up...

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

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,...

At the new Luyixian in Alhambra, come for the lu rou fan braised pork over rice

Bill Addison • Los Angeles Times • February 2, 2023

Finding Luyixian on a first visit can be too precise a task to rely on GPS. Look for the restaurant’s entrance in the far corner of a small parking lot behind a sprawling building in Alhambra at the intersection of South Garfield Avenue and Valley...

A new seafood palace taps into old L.A. glamour

Bill Addison • Los Angeles Times • January 12, 2023

As dining rooms go, the open floor plan of Dear Jane’s sets up enough visual cues to convey the essence of the restaurant in less than 30 seconds. Your eyes will first land on the far wall of mounted buoys that encircle the open kitchen and flaunt...

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...

101 Best Restaurants: 15 dining destinations in downtown Los Angeles

Patricia Escárcega, Bill Addison • Los Angeles Times • February 7, 2020

[Looking for the 2019 101 Best Restaurants in L.A. list? Look no further.] With three restaurants in the top 10 in our 101 Best Restaurants list, downtown Los Angeles is one of the most dining-rich neighborhoods in the city. In total, 15 DTLA...

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