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Chinatown is a neighborhood in Downtown Los Angeles, California, that became a commercial center for Chinese and other Asian businesses in Central Los Angeles in 1938. The area includes restaurants, shops, and art galleries, but also has a residential neighborhood with a low-income, aging population of about 7,800 residents.
Youtiao is occasionally dipped into various liquids, for example the soup xidoufen, soy milk (sweet or salty), and soy sauce. Youtiao is also an important ingredient of the food cífàn tuán in Shanghai cuisine. Tánggāo (Chinese: 糖糕), or "sugar cake", is a sweet, fried food item similar in appearance to youtiao but shorter in length.
The restaurant earned its first Michelin star in June 2019. [10] Also in June 2019, food critic Bill Addison of Los Angeles Times criticized the restaurant's "mediocre cooking", even with its "far grander setting". [11] In 2021, Michelin-starred California-based chefs, including Jon Yao, praised the restaurant's "best-executed Chinese food". [4]
Michelin published restaurant guides for Los Angeles in 2008 and 2009 but suspended the publication in 2010. [4] Publication of the guide would resume for Southern California in 2019 but now covered all of California in one guide.
China City, Los Angeles was a short-lived "Chinatown" tourist attraction developed by Christine Sterling, who also worked on the conversion of a neglected street into the Mexican-themed Olvera Street. She conceived of a similar plan for the displaced Chinese-American population following the demolition of Old Chinatown, Los Angeles. [1]
Thai Town (Thai: ไทยทาวน์) is a neighborhood in Central Los Angeles, California. In 2008, it was one of the five Asian Pacific Islander neighborhoods in the city—along with Chinatown , Little Tokyo , Historic Filipinotown , and Koreatown —that received federal recognition as a Preserve America neighborhood. [ 1 ]
From there, he and his son, Thomas Y. Glover, began the evolution of the Yamashiro Restaurant, utilizing the leftover rooms in the estate to occupy up to 500 guests. In addition to opening a Pagoda Bar and seasonal Farmers Market, the place strives to preserve the Japanese culture and history through its dishes along with the scenery of the Los ...