The Best Dishes Eater LA Editors Ate in 2024 | Eater LA

"Few foods are more perfect than a tray of crispy fried wings swathed in a sticky, sweet, sour sauce. Enter Shlap Muan, a Long Beach Cambodian restaurant that also pops up at Smorgasburg on Sundays; its namesake means “chicken wings” in Khmer. The headlining Dirty Elvis wings are “violently tended to” in a searing hot wok, although the result is all love: a batch of fatty wings tossed with verve in a glossy, rich caramel sauce that coats each flat and drum from top to bottom. Finished with thinly sliced green onion and fish sauce-soaked chiles, there’s nothing to not like about this, whether ordering a batch to eat at home before the big game or making it part of a greater Smorgasburg stall crawl. — Nicole Adlman, cities manager" - Eater Staff