Lunch Box
Frank ShyongLunch Box is about food, travel, and food that travels. Before this I was a columnist, podcast host and reporter at the LA Times for 12 years.
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LBL #15: San Gabriel Valley dim sum’s open secret
Five Star Seafood, now in the San Gabriel Hilton
The open secret among regular dim-sum-goers in Southern California is that much of the shumai, har gow, and xiaolongbao served at local dim sum restaurants are purchased frozen from a common...
LBL #14: The people you meet at night on a SoCal grunion run
Can you think of an L.A. dish that features seafood from the sea nearby? I couldn’t, despite living here for more than 2 decades, and I thought that was strange.
So I went on a search for local seafood and ended up at the grunion, a fish...
Recipe: George Asawa's Venice Japanese Community Center Natsumatsuri Udon
Photo courtesy Joe Belli
Say you decide to give back to your community. So you join a volunteer organization or nonprofit and learn the awful truth: what on first glance seemed august institutions flush with resources and manpower are actu...
Atlas: Views of Los Angeles
Blowing up 12 of the best views and spots I know
I’ve agonized over publishing this. Because what I’m about to share is not just the L.A. cheat code; how to look cool on a date and how to make the good nights great, the key to dunking on a...
Lunch Box Letter #13: Luosong tang (Chinese borscht) with summer heirloom tomatoes
My garden is overrun with fruit, foliage, pests and their predators. Spider mites teem on the cucumbers and marigolds and drape gowns of gossamer. My sunflower leaves are raising grasshoppers and the melons wear polka dots of mildew. But th...
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Journalist, most recently as columnist/reporter for the LA Times, where I also helped create the podcast Asian Enough. Wrote the story behind the film "Rosemead." Writings and the occasional illustrations on food, culture, neighborhoods & diaspora.
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