"Wait times at this Northern Chinese spot in Rosemead from the Ji Rong people can reach up to an hour on the weekends, and the reason is their guan tang bao. And after trying these bulked-up soup dumplings, we get it. Good Alley’s fills their signature pork and crab variety with so much gravy-like broth each one glows yellow in their steamer basket. Aside from a few rounds of beautiful dumplings, make the wait worthwhile by adding an order of chewy scallion oil noodles and the wagyu-stuffed Chinese hamburgers on flaky pastry buns." - sylvio martins, brant cox, garrett snyder, cathy park