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"Revived in Los Angeles decades after the family’s original Lima restaurant opened in 1975, this chifa is a living “family table,” showcasing generational recipes from Cantonese, Peruvian, and Taiwanese heritage. The menu highlights Chinese-influenced Peruvian classics like lomo saltado—here made with wood-fired, wok-tossed filet mignon and cherry tomatoes—reflecting techniques brought by Chinese laborers in the 1800s. With California’s access to Asian and Latin American resources and local farmers, the team also experiments joyfully, creating dishes like a beef soup noodle French-dip-style sandwich, a bolo bao burger, a Taiwanese pastrami sando, and a dim sum beet cake alongside those beloved family recipes." - Daniel He