"Golden Leaf is a reliably great Taiwanese diner in a San Gabriel strip mall, with excellent braised pork belly rice and oyster pancakes. But our number-one draft pick here is the beef vermicelli soup, with heaping portions of green onion, suan cai (Chinese pickled cabbage), and spinach, in a marrow-rich broth. Golden Leaf also has their takeout game figured out, with everything individually packaged so nothing gets soggy on the drive home." - brant cox, sylvio martins