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"Although siu mai and fried wontons are available, this is the place to acquaint yourself with new paths being taken by Chinese chefs today. Created by molding minced shrimp around morsels of salted egg, they are lightly deep fried...."
"Mission 261 is a time and culture warp — a grand new Hong Kong-style restaurant in a historical old adobe. There may be better dim sum in the San Gabriel Valley, but none so fanciful — nori-banded bumblebees molded from shrimp and salted eggs, d..."
"Before I get too wrapped up in the food descriptions, let me first explain why I like dim sum here at this restaurant. First of all, unlike most dim sum restaurants, Mission 261 is always full but does not feel overcrowded...."
"The folks at Mission 261 manage to sustain the fun and yum through dessert. When the lazy Susan came back my way I snatched up the remaining sweetened sago pudding with green tea flavor, coconut pudding and mango pudding, which are all essentially gelatin..."
"e the most ambitious Chinese restaurant ever to open in the United States: a mammoth Cantonese banquet hall fitted into a sprawling adobe complex built a hundred years ago as San Gabriel"s city hall, a high-ceilinged fortress of bird"s nest, sun-dried..."
"These restaurants are widely acknowledged to set a new high water mark for the genre. Menu ordering results in extreme freshness, and even old favourites are usually executed far better than traditional places...."
"More down-home than the late, lamented Shiang/Charming Garden (let's see what happens after they remodel), but we can be thankful that Crown Cafe has brought stunning Hunan style food back to LA...."
"I remember when I was little, paper lanterns were gradually replaced by cheap ugly plastic ones that makes fancy electronic lights. Traditional paper lanterns were deemed as out-of-fashioned and unsafe (it was scary to carry it around with a candle burnng..."
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"Long before I blogged about food, I sampled as much of the local cuisine as I could when I traveled. From haggis and deep-fried Mars bars in Scotland to kangaroo pizza and wattleseed ice cream in Australia, food allows me to experience another culture...."
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