🇦🇷 ARGENTINA / FREE FRIDAY FAVORITES: This popular Van Nuys restaurant is also a one-stop shop for everything Buenos Aires could offer.
📍 Mercado Buenos Aires, Van Nuys
🔗 eattheworldla.substack.com/p/mercado-bu...

🇯🇵 JAPAN / HISTORICAL: For years there was only one choice in Southern California for mazesoba. Mazesoba Hero in Walnut has changed this for the better.
🔗 eattheworldla.substack.com/p/mazesoba-h...

Feeling porky?

🇲🇽 MÉXICO (Michoacán)
16 years of some of the nicest carnitas and chicharrón in Los Angeles has been served from this humble South LA storefront.
📍 Chicharroland, South Park, South Los Angeles
🔗 eattheworldla.substack.com/p/chicharrol...

🇻🇳 VIETNAM
Hey Huế! The treasures of Vietnam's central region have a popular home in Fountain Valley.
📍 Huế Ơi Vietnamese Cuisine, Fountain Valley, Orange County
🔗 eattheworldla.substack.com/p/hue-oi-vie...

🇺🇸 TEXAS, UNITED STATES
Tex-Mex proves it worth when done right, like at this San Antonio-style puffy taco stand in Whittier.
📍 Arturo's Puffy Taco
🔗 eattheworldla.substack.com/p/arturos-pu...

🇯🇵 JAPAN
Hokkaido has its own spice blends for curry and fried chicken, and now Los Angeles can easily have a taste of its soups and zangi.
📍 Hokkaido Soup Curry/Hokkaido Fried Chicken, Pico-Union
🔗 eattheworldla.substack.com/p/hokkaido-s...

... donde Angie? 🇪🇨 ECUADOR / HISTORICAL: The location keeps changing, but maybe the newest incarnation will stick for Donde Angie.

🇪🇨 ECUADOR
A quick update on ...donde Angie? which closed in City of Industry a while back. Recently, they have reopened a new restaurant in Norwalk!
📍 ...donde Angie?, Norwalk
🔗 eattheworldla.substack.com/p/donde-angi...

🇵🇷 PUERTO RICO
Great news from the Valley! Taínos LA, whose ghost kitchen we wrote about in January 2023, has opened a full service restaurant in Woodland Hills.

Let's talk about them again, in this week's Free Friday Favorite!
🔗 eattheworldla.substack.com/p/tainos-la-...

🇱🇾 LIBYA / HISTORICAL: A wide range of the area's Halal eaters are catered to here, but it is the tiny bit of Libyan flair that makes this meat market unique.
📍 Aljibani Halal Meat Co., Diamond Bar
🔗 eattheworldla.substack.com/p/aljibani-h...

Eesti Vabariigi 108. Aastapäeva Aktus 🇪🇪 ESTONIA / Los Angeles has a home to celebrate the 108th anniversary of the independence of the Republic of Estonia.

🇪🇪 ESTONIA
Happy Independence Day! Los Angeles has a home to celebrate Eesti Vabariigi 108. Aastapäeva Aktus (the 108th anniversary of the independence of the Republic of Estonia).

And lunch is included!

📍 Estonian House, Adams-Normandie
🔗 eattheworldla.substack.com/p/eesti-vaba...

Eesti Vabariigi 108. Aastapäeva Aktus 🇪🇪 ESTONIA / Los Angeles has a home to celebrate the 108th anniversary of the independence of the Republic of Estonia.

🇪🇪 ESTONIA
Happy Independence Day! Los Angeles has a home to celebrate Eesti Vabariigi 108. Aastapäeva Aktus (the 108th anniversary of the independence of the Republic of Estonia).

And lunch is included!

📍 Estonian House, Adams-Normandie
🔗 eattheworldla.substack.com/p/eesti-vaba...

🇪🇨 ECUADOR
A home-based bakery has evolved into a full service restaurant on Gardena's main drag. Have you ever tried the hearty mountain breakfast of llapingacho enjoyed in the Andes?
📍 DulcisFama Ecuadorian Restaurant, Gardena
🔗 eattheworldla.substack.com/p/dulcisfama...

🇨🇺 CUBA / FRIDAY FAVORITES:
More than sweets, this bakery is churning out some of the best Cuban sandwiches because the bread is freshly prepared in the back.
📍 Café Cuba & Cakes, Hawthorne
🔗 eattheworldla.substack.com/p/cafe-cuba-...

Have you chosen your side yet? Only two days left...

🏈 Not sure how exciting this Sunday's big game will be, but New England vs. Seattle in food form was exciting AND delicious. Wrote a Super Bowl special for this week's Substack article, which includes where to eat these iconic treats in Los Angeles:
🔗 eattheworldla.substack.com/p/super-bowl...

🇨🇳 CHINA (Jilin)
FREE FRIDAY FAVORITES: The food of the China-North Korea borderlands has a home on a second floor Koreatown plaza.
📍 Fei Xiang Gong, Koreatown
🔗 eattheworldla.substack.com/p/fei-xiang-...

🇬🇪 GEORGIA
Warm up today with Chakhapuli or chikhitrma from საქართველო Saqartvelo Georgian Cuisine:
🔗 eattheworldla.substack.com/p/saqartvelo...

🇬🇪 GEORGIA
🚨 NEW ARTICLE
After a full year in business, it can safely be said that Georgian food by and for Georgian people is alive in Los Angeles.
🔗 eattheworldla.substack.com/p/saqartvelo...

🇮🇳 INDIA
Let's be honest, once that holiday food coma subsides, you are going to be craving the street snacks of Ahmedabad, Gujarat. Subscribers, I have the just the place for you...
📍 Honest Restaurant, Artesia, Southeast Los Angeles
🔗 eattheworldla.substack.com/p/honest-res...

🇨🇳 HENAN, CHINA
The homemade noodles come with scissors, and the xiaolongbao come with an origin story from Henan Province. Let's talk about 3和面馆 (3 He Noodles) in Temple City!
🔗 eattheworldla.substack.com/p/3-he-noodl...

🇧🇿 Fancy a Belizean feast? Let's talk about Joan & Sisters on Western Avenue.
eattheworldla.substack.com/p/joan-and-s...

🇧🇿 BELIZE
Up tonight, a new Friday Favorite with the story of Western Avenue's Joan & Sisters, who have survived everything the city and world have thrown at them for over 40 years. Please check it out!
eattheworldla.substack.com/p/joan-and-s...

🇨🇳 BEIJING, CHINA
Just like Beijing, the specialties of the entire nation are available here. Make sure to see the kitchen excel with orders that include the many different methods of baking.
📍 北京缘 Beijing Tasty House, San Gabriel
🔗 eattheworldla.substack.com/p/beijing-ta...

🇵🇰 PAKISTAN
Options for South Asian grilled meats keep expanding in Southern California, with a new portal to Karachi's Burns Road now in Bellflower.
🔗 eattheworldla.substack.com/p/karachi-bb...
📍 Karachi BBQ Tonight, Bellflower

🇦🇷 ARGENTINA
This eye-catching restaurant is much more than a market, with a menu that shows off Argentina's many sides and influences.
📍 Malbec Market, Eagle Rock, Northeast Los Angeles
🔗 eattheworldla.substack.com/p/malbec-mar...

🇸🇻 EL SALVADOR
Weekends are made for Don Lencho in South Los Angeles.
🔗 eattheworldla.substack.com/p/don-lencho...

Does anyone know a nice Salvadoran home business that makes tortas hula hula on weekends (or any day) in their yard? The family that made the one shown here has closed their business unfortunately.

🇲🇽 SINALOA, MÉXICO
How about some weekend chorreadas and vampiros, machaca and chilorio, all in the style of Culiacán? The city of Bell has you covered.
📍 Tacos Culiacáncito, Bell, Southeast Los Angeles
🔗 eattheworldla.substack.com/p/tacos-culi...

🇹🇲 TURKMENISTAN
Would you like to try a meat pie from Central Asia, found in street food stalls and bazaars of Ashgabat? Los Angeles has a place for that:
🔗 eattheworldla.substack.com/p/oasis-rest...