The Most Classic Restaurants In Los Angeles - Los Angeles - The Infatuation

"If there's one constant in Chinatown, it's people crowding the sidewalk on Broadway outside Yang Chow on weekends. The main attractions are the namesake fried rice and the slippery shrimp—a dish so popular the staff wears shirts telling you to order it—though almost everything on the classic American Chinese menu is good. The dining room is a portal to a bygone era complete with '70s-style carpet and upholstery and photos of old celebrity guests lining the walls. Yang Chow even has surprisingly strong—and reasonably priced—cocktails, so you can sip a mai tai or lychee martini while you wait for your pile of sticky-sweet shrimp to arrive. Spicy wonton soup, Yang Chow fried rice, baby cabbage with chinese mushroom, slippery shrimp" - brant cox, cathy park, garrett snyder, sylvio martins