This week's must-try dishes are from pop-ups that are destined to stick around, including wagyu shawarma pita in Studio City and Vietnamese butter chicken wings in Garden Grove.
Critic Bill Addison details the reasons to love Hollywood Shawarma, plus where to celebrate the Lunar New Yearon 3rd Street in 2019. People waited in line for more than two hours for a taste of his shawarma-stuffed pitas. One customer offered to give him a space for his next pop-up and Yalin accepted. He was still working in construction, with little time to devote to the pop-up and no staff. But the offers kept coming, with fans from one pop-up offering locations for the next.
The pita was toasty but soft, arriving half-baked and frozen from Angel’s Bakery in Israel and finished fresh in the oven at the restaurant. The stuffed pita ate more like an excellent steak sandwich, with buttery, tender, simply seasoned meat cooked just shy of medium, and cut away into sizeable chunks. There were none of the crisp edges I’m used to on thinner cuts of shawarma, but they weren’t missed. The tahini and the tang of the pickled mango in the amba bound all the components together.
“I was fairly surprised with the response when I opened the doors,” Yalin said. “I expected my pop-up crowd but saw so many new customers.”Chicken wings from Mama Hieu’s in Garden Grove. “From then on, the neighbors found out and pretty much started ordering from us,” Jimmy said. “We started an Instagram and word spread pretty quickly.”“Hieu means respected and pious,” Jimmy explained. “Hieu suits an honorable baby who already carries themselves with a dignified air. My mom is the youngest out of her siblings. Our aunts, uncles and other family members call her by that name.”
I pulled up to a modest home near the end of a cul-de-sac. Woo was there waiting, with stools set up as makeshift seating behind the open trunk of his car.Jimmy emerged from the front door of the house with a tray of chicken wings, fresh out of the fryer.
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