Burma is the largest country in Southeast Asia, and Golden Triangle’s menu reflects that: a sprawling, multi-paged document offering well over 80 options. The ginger salad is a great start, a slaw-like mix of shredded ginger, bits of coconut, tomato, garlic, yellow peas, ground peanuts and sesame seeds all held together with a subtle lemon [...]

Whittier’s Golden Triangle continues down the path

PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES
The headlines out of Burma are a horrifying sort: a country at war with itself, its military government burying dissidents and turning children over to prostitution. As the country rumbles through all this turmoil, Burma (officially the Union of Myanmar) seems lost even among its neighbors—and, [...]

Halloween comes early this year

How afraid do you want to be?
The Press-Telegram promotes its annual Halloween scary story competition on the website–but its scariest online story today has to be the one about a pipe bomb explosion last night at Pine Avenue and Ocean Boulevard. That just gets scarier the more you think about it.

Looking into the (forgotten) legacy of the last governor of Mexican California

PIO PICO by JOE MCGARRY
Strange as it may seem, there was a time in California when everything curved towards God. It was back then that the streets and houses and churches were all planned according to the heaven-sent laws of the Spanish government, when [...]

Razteca versions with Quinto Sol

ILLUSTRATION by LUKE MCGARRY
So Bob Marley took a trip down Whittier Boulevard, and there waiting was Quinto Sol, a nine-piece (Mizraim Leal, Javier Villalobos, Martin Perez, Cesar Villalobos, Abel Gonzalez, Armando Padilla, Mando Gonzalez, Bernie Bran, and Sal Magallon, plus a quintet of auxiliaries as demanded) reggae-centered band that started out [...]