📍 Monterey Park, Los Angeles

Rebranded from the old-school New Lucky, Taste of MP is running the kind of Cantonese banquet the SGV actually wants. Live-seafood tanks, soups that take hours, lunch specials that...

Carnitas El Momo grew from a backyard operation into a Monterey Park storefront, cooking pork the slow Michoacán way in copper-style cazos until it crisps at the edges. The carnita...

The SGV institution for Yunnan — rare in California, and here done with patience. Crossing-the-Bridge noodles arrive as a DIY event — a cauldron of hot broth at the table, plates o...

Known mostly for ramen but the dumplings at p.p.pop quietly became a table favorite. Tonkotsu broth with the right thickness, XLB that aren't an afterthought, and a late-dinner hou...

A Taiwanese breakfast and pastry shop in Monterey Park, in the San Gabriel Valley's deep Taiwanese-food belt. The kitchen turns out the morning staples of a Taiwanese street breakf...