Once upon a time, I was a food writer for the Los Angeles Times. I had to give that up to follow my academic dreams. That might have been a mistake.
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Salt Lake City, food favorites 2019
Los Angeles Times food writing index
This is an index of my restaurant reviews for “The Find”, the Los Angeles Times’ column for hole-in-the-wall restaurants, ethnic joints, cheap dives, trucks, and other assorted intensive joys. Everything on the list is something that I love, that stood up and smacked me in the soul somehow. Particular favorites are marked *, and the brain-shattering absolute joys of my life are double-marked **.
American
Ice Pan (The NY Times took note of this article for my invention of the term cremista, which was kind of a joke)
Jeff’s Gourmet Sausage Factory* (Old-fashioned pastrami special is my favorite pastrami ever)
Louisiana Best Seafood*
Philly West Bar & Grill
The Slaw Dogs
Caribbean
Front Page Jamaican Grille** (Maybe the most honest, profound, soul-happifying Jamaican food I’ve ever had)
Mofongos Comidas Caribena
Chinese
Beijing Restaurant
Huge Tree Pastry
Taste of Chong Qing** (The new Sichuan champ)
Tofu King* (The most delicately stinky tofu you could ever want)
Coffee
Cafecito Organico*
Coffee Tomo (Sweet potato stuffed pretzels!)
Himalayan
Indian/Pakistani
Namastey India
Samosa House East
Taurat Tandoori
Indonesian
Italian
Mother Dough Pizza** (Madman with a sourdough starter)
Japanese
Horon
Mottainai Ramen
Ramen Yamadaya*
Korean
Mapo Restaurant*
Seongbukdong* (Funky-ass braised mackeral stew and candied steamed short ribs)
Lebanese
Hayat’s Kitchen** (The invention of Lebanese garlic fries)
Mediterranean
Habayit Restaurant
Jasmine Mediterranean
Mexican
Persian
Cafe Glace
Orchid Grill & Kabob* (Fesenjan: the walnut-pomegranate chicken stew of glory)
Peruvian
Peruvian round-up, including an early review of Mo-Chica**
Salvadorean
Thai
Krua Siri** (Home cured Thai sausage and the best laab in town)
Vietnamese
Ngu Binh* (Sticky steamed rice cake stuffed inside a deep fried rice cake)
Gone But Not Forgotten
El Bolivar
Ning Jie
Priyani Cafe
Silver and Gold Amazing
Other Food Articles
An op-ed defense of taco trucks
This tea lady is more hardcore than you could possibly imagine**
Natural fusion (Includes great interview material with Scoops’ Tae Kim)
My family members all the time say that I am wasting my time here
at web, however I know I am getting familiarity all the time by reading thes pleasant
articles.
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The first thing after my wife forwarded your chowhound post was to reconsider moving the Cambria. Next was to rummage around here for your recommendations close to us. From what I see on Yelp, Taste of Chong Qing is gone.
http://www.yelp.com/biz/taste-of-chong-qing-san-gabriel
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Ditto for Krua Siri.
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