Tag: Food Column

In the minds of Americans, at least, no dish is as essential to Vietnamese cuisine as pho, the savory beef noodle soup that is often the principal factor in the judgment of any Vietnamese restaurant. The pho restaurants in Los Angeles have maintained the dish’s integrity, and finding a good

The Back Abbey, located in our very own Claremont, has generated some noise as a top L.A. burger spot. The ongoing debate over the best L.A. burger is serious, so claims that The Back Abbey is among the elite burger joints is quite an assertion. Some students contend that The

When one is passing through Koreatown, it is almost a crime not to experience at least one of the Korean eateries there. I happened to be in L.A.’s Korean sector at midnight on a Saturday, but the rule still applied, so I considered my options for Korean barbecue. There is

“Chinese Food” is a gross simplification of the diverse range of cuisines of the world’s most populated country. The people of China have fine-tuned what I consider some of the best food the world has to offer, and none more so than the people in China’s Sichuan province. Everyone has

When it comes to street snack food, one can make a good argument that India’s chaat reigns supreme. When it came time to write about chaat, the LA food community’s consensus was that the chaat at Jay Bharat and Surati Farsan Mart, half a block away from each other, are

_x000D_ When I called for reservations at an oddly-named Chinese restaurant in Rosemead, the first words I heard were ni hao (“hello” in Mandarin), which is generally a good sign of authenticity. JTYH did not disappoint in this respect. I decided to try JTYH for their shanxi dao xiao mian, or knife-shaved noodles,

In figuring out which restaurant to make the final destination of my Claremont collegiate career, I had to think deeply about the ways in which the dining scene of the world has evolved since I transferred from middle-of-nowhere Ohio to southern California after my freshman year. As improved as Cleveland’s

With the amount of exclamation points on the menu at Eureka!, Claremont’s new gastropub sets a high bar for itself. Although it's only a little over two weeks old, the place is already as hopping as the Back Abbey, its obvious rival in this now gastropub-rich village. However, Eureka! offers

The most daunting part of Claremont McKenna’s annual International Festival is deciding what in the world to eat. Everywhere you look, something begs to be devoured—dishes you've never even heard of before or usually can't get anywhere other than some hole-in-the-wall mom-and-pop restaurant in some random community of Los Angeles.

Soccer, tango, beef. It’s the golden triangle of Argentina’s culture: Tango halls cover the massive capital Buenos Aires, soccer legends are known simply by their last names, and beef is the meat of choice. Beef for lunch. Beef for dinner. It’s the pride of the country’s gauchos and its citizens;