Beijing Massage Parlors: The Find: Beijing Restaurant in San Gabriel
The Find: Beijing Restaurant in San Gabriel
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The amusingly undescriptive name “pork with cooked pie” is a steamed white bun, smushed flat and crisped on the outside, then sliced halfway open, and stuffed to the brim with soft, sweet cubes of pork and a few beautifully gelatinous cubes of pork fat, and spiked with cilantro. The bun is surprisingly, happily dense; the pork is soft and falls apart a moment after it hits your mouth. It’s like the Beijing version of a sloppy Joe.
Authentic Beijing-style cooking is strangely rare in Los Angeles. Other styles of Chinese cooking, such as Sichuanese and Shanghainese, are omnipresent, but Beijing specialties are almost impossible to findable. The only other place one might find ge da, for example, is Tianjin Bistro, which Wang used to own.
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Afterward, if you need help jump-starting your carb digestion, try a foot massage. There are three different foot massage parlors in the same strip mall, all offering the same deal: a one-hour foot massage for $15.
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