The Best Dishes Eater Editors Ate This Week: August 25 | Eater LA

"For years, when I owned a business in Palms, Simpang Asia was one of my neighborhood go-tos for reasonably priced Indonesian food that burst with flavor, and now that the team has expanded to Venice, the pretty dining room with traditional elements and a tightened menu of classics feels like a smart evolution. I loved the mie tek tek (also known as mie goreng) — a longtime favorite my wife and I would order regularly — prepared here with sharper, more elegant execution on floral plateware with a tangle of microgreens. The wok-fried noodles are well-sauced, lightly seared, and tossed with fragments of tender chicken; crunchy cabbage and chopped greens add texture, making it feel like chow mein but more dimensional. Simpang Venice’s other dishes — beef rendang, chicken sate, and penyet fried chicken — were all stellar as well, and the Westside restaurant’s natural wine list hits hard, too." - Eater Staff