osakaorchid

what are considered some of the best, or the best restaurants to dine at in los angeles' chinatown and little tokyo? im looking for suggestions for good japanese restaurants in little tokyo and good chinese restaurants in chinatown.

Aduchamp1

There are some great Chinese restaurants in Monterey Park including NBC Seafood.

Jean

There are many very good Chinese restaurants in cities east of downtown, but these three in Chinatown are also very good IMO:

ABC Seafood
205 Ord Street
Chinatown

Empress Pavilion
988 North Hill Street
Chinatown

Foo Chow
949 North Hill Street
Chinatown

Although Little Tokyo dining options are pretty good, the "best" Japanese food is found elsewhere in L.A. Here are the highest rated restaurants in Little Tokyo:

A Thousand Cranes
Kyoto Grand Hotel
120 South Los Angeles Street
Little Tokyo

Frying Fish
Japanese Village Plaza
Little Tokyo

Izayoi
132 South Central Avenue
Little Tokyo

Oomasa
Japanese Village Plaza
Little Tokyo

R-23
923 East Second Street
Little Tokyo

Sushi Gen
Honda Plaza
Little Tokyo

Not in Little Tokyo, but the latest, hip place for Japanese food downtown:

Katsuya
L.A. Live
800 West Olympic Boulevard

SOCALOC

I second Empress Pavilion.

mlgb

My most recent visit to Empress was disappointing. The only thing it has going for it is parking. In fact most of the Chinatown Restaurants have really gone downhill as the good ones have moved east. Try CBS for seafood or dimsum.

Sushi Gen is a reasonable choice in Little Tokyo.

Oomasa is inexpensive and okay, not great.

For a cafe with cheap lunch specials, Suehiro.

Thousand Cranes has a nice atmosphere.
And do pickup some mochis at

mlgb

Fugetsu-do!

Jean

mlgb, that's too bad about the Empress. We haven't been there in at least a year but were just talking about going there before seeing "South Pacific" at the Ahmanson in a couple of weeks. I do think Chinatown has suffered a bit from the population shifts, but IMO it's much better now than in the late '60s and '70s. Little Tokyo has also seen better days. I so miss Tokyo Kaikan.

MBnancy

Jean, I was looking for a post where you had activity today from home or see if you are out of the country. I just got an email from you saying you were stranded in Wales and had lost all your money from a mugging. It is your email address that was used.

Is it a scam? They used your name, so led me to believe it's you. I didn't want to respond reply to that email. Let me know if you are OK.

Jean

Hi, Nancy. I hope you got my legitimate email explaining my account was hacked into. What a pain.