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Good Food

Fish Lips and Bird’s Nest at Shi Hai

Jonathan Gold is the Pulitzer Prize-winning food writer for the Los Angeles Times. This week he ventures off to the San Gabriel Valley where there’s a new dim sum place that serves everything from the standard stuffed meat dumplings to desserts made of frogs’ fallopian tubes.

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By Evan Kleiman • Oct 3, 2014 • 1 min read

Jonathan Gold is the Pulitzer Prize-winning food writer for the Los Angeles Times. This week he ventures off to the San Gabriel Valley where there’s a new dim sum place that serves everything from the standard stuffed meat dumplings to desserts made of frogs’ fallopian tubes.

Jonathan recommends the surf clam and crab egg shrimp dumpling; congee; roasted suckling pigeon; chicken feet with brown sauce; crispy cruller rice noodle roll; salty pancake with assorted meat.

Shi Hai

1412 S Garfield Ave.

Alhambra

(626) 282-3888

All of Jonathan's restaurant suggestions can be found on the Good Food restaurant map.

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    Evan Kleiman

    host 'Good Food'

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    Supervising Producer, Good Food

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    Laryl Garcia

    Senior Director, Good Food

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    Jonathan Gold (1960-2018)

    Good Food on the Road

    CultureFood & Drink
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