California is now home to nearly 5 million people of Asian descent, said Andrea Nguyen in Saveur. In a recent “food-focused tour of the state,” my husband and I discovered that California’s best Asian food can be found among “the unprepossessing strip malls and palm-lined main streets of suburbia.” The reason: The most concentrated Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Thai, and other Asian communities are situated outside the big cities. Here are our favorites:
Asian Garden Mall, Westminster
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Mei Long Village, San Gabriel
Set in a 12-acre complex known as “the Great Mall of China” for its wide array of Chinese cuisines. The pork-filled dumplings at this Shanghainese restaurant “were among the most delicate” I’ve ever tasted. 301 W. Valley Blvd., (626) 284-4769
Pho Bac Hoa Viet, Sacramento
A specialty here is savory pho, “the classic Vietnamese noodle soup.” 6645 Stockton Blvd., No. 300, (916) 399-1688
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