on this side of downtown. Mr Taster’s Recipe for a Great Evening Out: Get a few friends together. Order several plates of yang rou chuan Get a couple of Tsingtao beers Let the good times roll. Feng Mao Mutton Kebab 3901 W....

I’ve been sad for a long time that I’ve been unable to find acceptable yang rou chuan or lamb kebabs in Los Angeles. The Northern Chinese Restaurant did have some on the menu, but they weren’t very good. I was...

Passed it on our way to Sa Rit Gol the other night. It’s on Olympic, west of the Galleria........ the large Chinese characters on the roof of the building on the north side of the street were unmistakable (and rather...

Decent yang rou chuan, finally.

Grill, meat, let’s eat.

The closest I’ve seen is cumin flavoured lamb or lamb “satay” (yang rou chuan) at New Taste of Asia.

I’ve been lamb-happy since returning from Shanghai (mostly because I didn’t find it as often as I craved it) and while cruising Clement Street I recalled that the new owners of Lee Hou had been pushing “Turufan...

with a pork filling. Not bad, but Qingdao Garden and MuLan do better with thinner, lighter skins and more interesting fillings. MEATS Lamb with Cumin (Zi1Ran2 Yang2Rou4, special). Lamb is apparently a special at last for the last...

pot - ming tai yu dun dou fu – fish and tofu hot pot - suan cai huo guo – pickled vegetable hot pot - hei shan yang huo guo – black mountain lamb hot pot - chuan bao rou tang – spicy white meat hot pot? #11...

I’ve been wanting to try this place forever, if it’s the one in the same mall as mei long village. In the window they have a sign in Chinese advertising their "yang rou chuan(4)" - basically shish kebab/shashlik. Did...

. And the yang2 rou4 pao4 mo2 (lamb stew) was quite excellent. You are given a big bowl with a very dense, thick bread cake and you should rip it up into little shreds yourself. As soon as you do this, the bowl will be whisked...

for a proper stick-based snack. Which brings us to #2.... 2. The blatant omission of yang rou chuan (charcoal grilled lamb kebabs)? (@ Feng Mao Mutton Kebab and 818). Or perhaps since it’s been 3 years since I was in Beijing,...

, and they feature good yang rou chuan'r (lamb kabobs) and other muslim fare. However, their menu is missing my favorite dish da pan ji (literally, “big plate of chicken”). Anyone know where I can find this dish.

If Beijing didn’t impress you as a food city, you must have eaten in all the wrong places! Grilled lamb on skewers is called yang rou chuan'r in China. Shashlik is a Central Asian term.

the central throughfare (Zhong Shan Lu), staying on the left sidewalk. Around Yang (yang of yin/yang) Chiao (Sun Bridge), look for a kind of kiosk set right in the middle of the broad sidewalk. You are looking for a fairly large...