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Where to Eat This Weekend in Los Angeles: Chengdu Taste
This week, Jonathan Gold reviews Chengdu Taste, a new restaurant in Alhambra which specializes in the Sichuan cooking of Chengdu, a region defined by their unrestrained use of Sichuan peppercorns.…
By Gillian Ferguson • • 1 min readPhoto Boiled fish with green pepper sauce comes with top layer of sliced serrano chiles (you’re not supposed to drink the broth). ( Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times / July 29, 2013 )
This week, Jonathan Gold reviews Chengdu Taste, a new restaurant in Alhambra which specializes in the Sichuan cooking of Chengdu, a region defined by their unrestrained use of Sichuan peppercorns. He recommends the boiled fish with green pepper sauce, numb-taste wonton, cold diced rabbit with younger sister’s secret recipe, couple sliced beef in chili sauce, dan dan mian, tofu pudding, rice-flour steamed pork and the ice powder for dessert.
Chengdu Taste
828 W Valley Rd
Alhambra
(626) 588-2284
All of Jonathan Gold’s restaurant suggestions are on the Good Food Restaurant Map.