Yang Chow - PlaceBee :

Address: 819 N Broadway
Zipcode: 90012
Phone Number: 213-625-0811
Website: http://www.yangchow.com

With its unassuming storefront location and windows tinted to avoid looky-loos, this Chinatown food mecca is packed with City Hall politicos, a family celebrating Aunt Fran’s 75th, Eastside hipsters and the occasional L.A. Laker. They’re all throwin’ down the pungent, saucy Mandarin and Szechwan that has led Yang Chow to open other locations and bag up non-stop take out orders. Request the succulent pan fried dumplings as soon as you sit down because they’re cooked to order and take awhile. Regulars don’t even open the menu; they can recite favorites in their sleep. Every white-linen tabletop boasts the crunchy, spicy, orange garlic nirvana known as slippery shrimp. Mountains of string beans with minced pork and sizzling rice dishes turn heads as they’re rushed through the clamorous three-section dining room. Oenophiles can drink grape if they must, but food this thick begs for a frosty Tsingtao beer. Stroll Chinatown, or make Yang Chow your early dinner choice en route to a Dodger game, a show at Disney Concert Hall, or the latest Pulitzer Prize-winning drama at the Taper.