The Best Dishes Eater Editors Ate This Week: July 21 | Eater LA
"On a sleepy afternoon the reviewer ordered the lamprais (also spelled lumprais or lump rice), described as a baked packet of short-grain rice, sambal, meat curry, eggplant curry, a boiled egg, and frikadeller, a fried ball of minced meat; the entire package is fragrant with banana leaves and balanced with spice (though there’s certainly a good amount of heat throughout the dish). The name, taken from the Dutch word lomprijst, and that hefty meatball are noted as vestiges of colonization, but the reviewer adds that the dish “doesn’t need that moniker or the meatball.” Lamprais is recommended as a great first-time solo dish, and on weekends a wider array of curries and other flavors go on full display in a reasonably priced buffet—worth making the trek into the deep San Fernando Valley on a Friday or Saturday for a cavalcade of deep, spicy, comforting flavors." - Eater Staff
