The 20 Best Chinese Restaurants In Los Angeles - Los Angeles - The Infatuation
"Firstborn is a Chinese restaurant in Chinatown from a Chinese American chef, but that doesn’t tell the full story. This nods to Chinese cuisine on the menu are rarely literal, and the best dishes treat tradition as a loose starting point: chilled mapo tofu as a base for smoky steak tartare, cumin lamb as a thick saddle cut in sichuan peppercorn jus, and savory egg custard bulked up with soft bay scallops. The green-tiled space inside Mandarin Plaza exudes a polished cool, and the cocktails—like the mandarin negroni or paloma with Sichuan peppercorn—are just as creative as the food." - sylvio martins, brant cox, garrett snyder, cathy park
