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    Good Food

    Jonathan Gold Reviews Little Sister

    Jonathan Gold is the Pulitzer Prize-winning food writer for the Los Angeles Times. This week he reviews Little Sister , a new Pan-Asian small plates restaurant in Manhattan Beach from the team behind Abigaile in Hermosa Beach.

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    By Evan Kleiman • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

    Jonathan Gold is the Pulitzer Prize-winning food writer for the Los Angeles Times. This week he reviews Little Sister, a new Pan-Asian small plates restaurant in Manhattan Beach from the team behind Abigaile in Hermosa Beach.

    Jonathan recommends the ma la beef tartare, bone marrow, Balinese fried meat balls, rice paper rolls with nem nuong, chao tom, and banh xeo with pork belly confit.

    Little Sister

    1131 Manhattan Ave

    Manhattan Beach, CA 90266

    310-545-2096

    You can find all of Jonathan Gold's restaurant suggestions on the Good Food restaurant map.

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    The full episode

    4 of 7
    Cooking with Pine, Curtis Stone in the Kitchen, Tex-Mex Dip
    1. 0:00The Flavor of the Forest: CJ Jacobson Cooks with Pine
    2. 9:32Los Angeles Beekeepers Seek to Legalize Beekeeping
    3. 17:06Bob Armstrong Dip
    4. 23:06Jonathan Gold Reviews Little SisterYou’re reading this
    5. 30:29Maude Opens in Beverly Hills
    6. 39:27Market Report
    7. 48:56Hipster Hunters
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