"Head to this broadly Chinese-Taiwanese spot in Alhambra during the day and you’ll find a menu of straightforward dishes that are designed to arrive quickly and fill you up. Think hearty breakfast plates and big helpings of cold sesame noodles. At night, though, things ramp up. The lights are dimmed, soft indie music hums on the speakers, and friends huddle around tables ordering bottles of orange wine. It feels like a cool bookstore cafe that doesn’t close when the sun goes down. Most importantly, this is when you can order the “larger bites,” dishes like nutty dan dan campanelle, creamy prawns and millet, and hainan fish rice with chili butter we’d nominate to go on the official SGV flag. If there was such a thing." - sylvio martins, brant cox, garrett snyder, cathy park