Archive for the ‘01: San Gabriel’ Category

August 31, 2007 3

Golden Deli (San Gabriel)

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Spring roll, Sausage and Shrimp cake Bun $6 Big portion, incredibly delicious ingredients. I can never get enough of this. Ching Po Leung The drink is a traditional Chinese cooling tonic soup that taste like a dessert (see recipe). Yum! The Shrimp Crepe is alright. So we went back to line up at Golden Deli, […]

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August 22, 2007 3

Vietnamese House (San Gabriel)

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The popular Golden Deli Vietnamese Restaurant on Las Tunas has attracted never shrinking crazy crowd since I knew of it 15 years ago. Maybe because of recent mainstream press coverage, the crowd seems even more insane. You’d still be waiting in lines around 3:30pm. This time we were about to collapse in hunger and heat […]

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August 20, 2007 2

Wok and Noodle Restaurant (Alhambra)

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One of my friends had been to this authentic Shanghai restaurant years ago and she remembered their Lion’s head with salted egg yolk fondly, but she forgot its name nor location. We found it again (based on vague descriptions such as: a shanghai restaurant somewhere on Valley between around Atlantic with a red signage) and […]

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July 23, 2007 3

The Elite (Monterey Park)

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Sorry that we’re behind in updating entries. The quality of dim sum restaurants in LA goes up and down like rollarcoasters. They might start out good (ex: The Kitchen, Mission 261: 1.2) until the the chefs got recruit somewhere else and the quality drops. My last visits to The Kitchen and Mission 261 end up […]

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July 11, 2007 2

Lee’s Sandwich (San Gabriel)

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Exhausted from driving under the cruel sun, I dived in the first of the many Vietnamese Sandwich places on Valley Blvd. for some ice coffee and Banh mi (and air con). This place is surprisingly huge inside: it has internet cafe section, ice cream booth, dessert bar & mini-market.The sandwich are all under $3. Cured […]

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