You are a real one sir!
Haven’t had stinky tofu in awhile might have to hit up Tofu King in Rowland in the coming weeks.
Reading the Yelp reviews for Indian sounds like Uncle Yu/Taiwanese Doc Brown moved back to Taiwan and the food is not the same with changed owners. Sadly there is no more Taiwanese beer house in SGV.
Let alone any place that stays open past 9pm.
Asian Hooters I 'effin LOVED that place!
RIP Indian Restaurant 
Orange Bistro has like 6 different stinky tofu offerings including a hot pot of duck blood, chitlins, and stinky tofu. That sounds freakin amazing. Is this the spot now for stinky tofu? Or is there better. I like Tofu King in Rowland a lot.
Orange Bistro has an incredible looking menu. I’ll probably get 3 cup chicken because I would like to make it at home (see my recent home cooking posts) and would need a good reference. I’ll try Clarissa Wei’s and WoksOfLife recipes too.
Also they got a few sponge gourd/si gua dishes.
What other Taiwanese dishes should I try besides the basics like 3 cup chicken, Hakka stir fry, flies head, sacha beef and water spinach, cabbage with dry shrimp, a-cai, yam leaves, yam porridge, seems like I eat these all the time.
Love Orange Bistro. And it’s on (gads!) Main Street.
Orange BIstro is kinda hit or miss for me. Some stuff is crazy oily which is kinda surprising for a taiwanese place.
The Spicy stinky tofu hot pot (with duck blood/pig intestines) is really good. Shrimp roll is tasty too. If you’re gonna do a si gua I really like the dry shrimp one (kinda of in a broth).
The taro strips with peanuts is fucking CRACK.
What’s the Chinese name for Longo? A friend in SGV was wondering (since he’s interested in going and doesn’t recognize the Western name of the restaurant).
TIA.
No Taiwanese beer halls with snacks?!! Damn kids! 
Yeah, Tofu King still rules. It’s some time ago now, but I followed the advice of a Taiwanese friend who alternated between Tofu King and Lee’s Garden, depending which side of the SGV he was in (Tofu King has had an Arcadia location for around a decade now). I also used to get it at Old Country Cafe because it was open late and a great place to relax with some stinky tofu and a red bean milk.
Orange Bistro is run by Monica, who was behind the fairly acclaimed BeBe Fusion, and a fairly short-lived place in the old Ye Loy in Temple City, the name of which escapes me now. Main Street is far and away the best location she’s had, as BeBe was in some bizarre spaces/locations.
Their stinky tofu was quite strong. BeBe briefly had an item that was split stinky tofu with a slice of sausage in each piece I have got to get to Orange Bistro.
I love this place - their pork and leek pies are also fantastic.
Homie move. Much SGV street cred to you, Jim… In the immortal words of Food Ranger: " 太好了 !"
Longo closed for a banquet tonight!!! Argh. Friend recommended we got to Alice’s, to which I’ve never been.
Alice’s is solid. The mom & pop (and family) that ran the original Delicious Food Corner, in Monterey Park.
Minchi rice and baked pork chop rice 
No pics. Baked bolognese spaghetti, spicy salt fried squid (not sure what it might’ve been specifically called on the menu), and red-bean ice for me. 
And it was indeed solid!
The Northern Bistro replaces Mr. Breakfast in Rosemead serving Dongbei food. This is their Northern Chinese Casserole with corn cake.
And returns the space to Dongbei-style, since Chef Geng was in there for years prior to Mr. Breakfast.
How was it? I don’t know if I’ve ever Dongbei-style food.
There’s a fair amount of Dongbei food around. My dishes were quite good.
the first place i recall would have been shenyang on garvey near atlantic. tonyc raved about their naengmyeon (the region is close to the korean border) as they allegedly made their own buckwheat noodles.
other menu items included (fake) race dog meat and cumin chicken bones (the only iteration made in the SGV that i’ve enjoyed). that location has changed hands a few times, but has stayed dongbei IIRC. then there’s the aforementioned chef geng. my favorite dish here was the cold noodle which i found reminiscent of japanese hiyashi chuka.
there was thousands nasty, er, tasty, at the corner of new & valley. the location burned down a few years back. there’s another dongbei place on san gabriel that specialize in potato noodle. i tried them back in april. JCHF potato noodle is the name of the place.
the noodles looked machine made and i found them unremarkable.
there was a shenyang tasty whose menu provided some interesting items such as
but their version of naengmyeon wasn’t bad.
these were also a pleasant surprise.
there’s also a sheng yuan on san gabriel. been meaning to try them since they specialize in liaoning cuisine.
really small place (8 2 seat tables with one table typically occupied by the help).
most popular noodles there seem to be their spinach noodles.
the other noodles have decent Q
but there don’t seem to be the belt-sized noodles common to shaanxi on their menu. their roujiamo might be the best i’ve had in the SGV (at $7 it should be).
