Restaurant review: Pok Pok Phat Thai in Chinatown, a learning process

Counter Intelligence: Jonathan Gold reviews Pok Pok Phat Thai, where dining becomes a personal journey.
Jonathan Gold • Los Angeles Times • February 14, 2015
Pok Pok Phat Thai is the first Los Angeles outpost of Andy Ricker, the American-born chef who has built a small Thai food empire in Portland, Ore., and New York. It is a small counter built into the Chinatown mall storefront where the chicken pho...
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