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    Restaurant of the Week (6/15-6/21) Little Swan Bakery

    Since opening its first U.S. location in Alhambra in 2014, Little Swan Bakery has introduced generations of local customers to a wide range of Chinese and Asian-inspired pastries, breads, and specialty cakes. Originally established overseas in 1989, the bakery combines traditional favorites with modern desserts, creating a display case filled with everything from wife cakes and pineapple buns to elaborate layered crêpe cakes.

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      Restaurant of the Week (6/1-6/7) A De Luo Si Fen

      A De Luo Si Fen is part of the wave of specialty noodle shops that have introduced regional Chinese cuisines to the San Gabriel Valley, focusing on the distinctive rice noodles of Liuzhou in Guangxi Province. The restaurant’s signature dish, luosifen, has developed a passionate following for its unmistakable broth built from river snail stock, pickled bamboo shoots, chili oil, peanuts, tofu skin, and vinegar. The result is a bowl with a flavor profile unlike almost anything else in Chinese cooking, balancing sourness, spice, fermentation, and rich broth in a single spoonful.

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        Restaurant of the Week (5/25-5/31) Yung Ho Dou Jiang

        Yung Ho Dou Jiang has been one of the longstanding destinations for Taiwanese breakfast in the San Gabriel Valley, drawing early morning crowds for soy milk, rice rolls, pancakes, and other traditional breakfast staples. Long before Taiwanese breakfast became a trend outside of Taiwanese communities, Yung Ho Dou Jiang was introducing many local diners to dishes built around fresh soy milk, youtiao, and handmade breakfast pastries. Its reputation has made it a fixture on Valley Boulevard and a point of nostalgia for many who grew up eating Taiwanese breakfast.

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