Dinner at Sichuan Impression 锦城里 in Westwood/West Los Angeles If you’re a Chinese foodie, then you’ve been waiting for Sichuan Impression to open in the Westside since it was announced that they acquired the location that used house Jin Jiang, a Chinese American style restaurant (similar to those like Yang Chow in Chinatown) that was…
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Yunnan & Sichuan Dishes at Yunnan Restaurant 雲南過橋園 in Monterey Park, CA
Yunnan & Sichuan Dishes at Yunnan Restaurant 雲南過橋園 in Monterey Park, CA When eating Chinese food in the San Gabriel Valley of Greater Los Angeles, there are only a few Chinese restaurants that specialize Yunnan cuisine. It’s probably not easy to offer considering it’s province of China that features over dozens and dozens of minority…
Sichuan Dinner at GuYi 古亦廚房 in the Brentwood Neighborhood of West Los Angeles
Sichuan Dinner at GuYi 古亦廚房 in the Brentwood Neighborhood of West Los Angeles The Westside of Los Angeles is becoming a haven for only excellent Chinese restaurants, but specifically, Sichuan food. A couple of years ago, China’s Meizhou Dongpo opened up their first US location in Century City. Then GuYi opened up earlier this year,…
Return Visit for More Sichuan at Best Noodle House 重慶小面 in Rosemead, CA
Return Visit for More Sichuan at Best Noodle House 重慶小面 in Rosemead, CA Second dinner here revisiting some of the dishes that we enjoyed during the last dinner and trying a few new dishes as well. Most of the dishes were excellent. Aside from the dried red chiles and Sichuan peppercorns, their usage of a…
Another Sichuan Feast at Hop Woo 合和 in West LA
Another Sichuan Feast at Hop Woo 合和 in West LA Came back for a hedonistic feast with a group of about 22. This time, we wanted to sample more dishes on their Sichuan menu, as well as offering a couple of familiar Cantonese dishes to give our palates a rest from the barrage of spicy,…
Dinner at Sichuan Impression 镍城里 in Alhambra
Dinner at Sichuan Impression 镍城里 in Alhambra Though their sign still reads Szechuan Impression, somehow, over the years, they’ve decided to stop using the American romanization of 四川 and started using the Pinyin spelling instead. And you can see that on their claimed Yelp page and Facebook pages. The food here was solid but not as…
TEMPORARILY CLOSED: Delicious Sichuan Fare at Best Noodle House 重慶小面 in Rosemead
TEMPORARILY CLOSED: Delicious Sichuan Fare at Best Noodle House 重慶小面 in Rosemead A true hole-in-the-wall found on the eastern end of the city of Rosemead where Valley Boulevard and Mission Road intersects, where the food is mouth-numbing from the aggressive use of Sichuan peppercorns as well as the spiciness from the dried Sichuan red chili…
