California Asian strip-mall oases

Many of California's best Asian restaurants are found outside the big cities along the main streets and in the strip malls of suburbia.

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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