Author: James Gordon

I decided to take my first foray into the L.A. Thai food scene this past weekend, and the experience confirmed my long-held suspicion that I had delayed this trip for far too long. For a while, it felt like it was acceptable to fend off a Thai craving with the

In a previous issue, I lauded Chung King as the best Sichuan restaurant in town. I may have jumped the gun. In retrospect, it was a bit of an outrageous claim considering I had been to maybe three Sichuan restaurants in San Gabriel before I stumbled upon that gem. I

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,