Chinese Food Index

I love Chinese Food.

Always have. Family legend has it that my parents ate from “Jenny’s Szechuan” constantly while my mother was pregnant. It only snowballed from there. These days, I seek out authentic regional Chinese flavors from Anhui to Szechuan — old fashioned and modern — cheap and expensive — in LA’s San Gabriel and back in China and all over the world.

Looking for more specific Chinese Food coverage? Check out my Ultimate LA Peking Duck Guide.

If for some reason, you can’t live without dairy or are a wok hater, you can always retreat to the main FOOD INDEX on the right sidebar (the knife and fork icon).

LA Chinese Meals / Restaurants

(click links below for detailed photo reviews)

Los Angeles is blessed with one of the best collections of regional and eclectic Chinese food in America. I’d argue THE BEST. This list celebrates that bounty by listing  my epic Chinese meals from the last couple of years. Most are located in the San Gabriel Valley (AKA the SGV or 626).

At lot of these dinners are organized through a group known as Yarom and the Hedonists. We meet a couple times a week for serious eating and drinking. It’s a fairly open group and the only conditions are that the food is delicious and that each person brings a great (and appropriate bottle of wine). Most of the time we have 10-20 people and we really take over a restaurant and go to town. It’s all great fun. If this kind of thing appeals to you the Meetup for the group can be found here.

China

Chronicling my Chinese eats at the source — back in China. Currently, these feature a 2 week trip in 2018 hitting Beijing, Xi’an, Chengdu, Guilin, and Shanghai.

Chinese Diners outside LA or China

Also, check out my other Foodie Club diners which tend to be more formal/modernist.

Fish and Tofu pudding at Chengdu Taste

Pocked Marked Old Lady Tofu at Cui Hau Lou

Soup Dumplings at Din Tai Fung

Giant fish head at Hunan Chili King

Whole Fresh (live) King Crab at Newport Seafood

Shanghai BBQ Pork at Shanghai #1 Seafood

Peking Duck at Tasty Duck