Review: Little Sister Downtown has addictive lemon grass chicken, a gonzo banh mi and good congee

Jonathan Gold reviews Tin Vuong's Vietnamese-leaning bistro Little Sister Downtown and can't stop eating the lemon grass chicken.
Jonathan Gold • Los Angeles Times • March 4, 2016
My editor likes Little Sister Downtown an awful lot, you should probably know, and she has managed to eat there at least 15 times since it opened in late fall. Midday interview? Little Sister. Breakfast meeting? Little Sister. Supper with the...
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