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By JONATHAN GOLD
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Where to find the best Belgian waffle? A magnificent mole verde? To-die-for dim sum? Times restaurant reviewers Linda Burum, Michelle Huneven, Jonathan Gold, Max Jacobson and S. Irene Virbila give their favorite platters a spin.

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Golden Triangle, an unexpectedly authentic Asian restaurant in the genteel precincts of uptown Whittier, may be the only restaurant in the Southland to specialize in the exotic cooking of both Burma and Thailand. The Burmese food is alive with citrus, ginger and the musk of fermented shrimp paste, nutty with roasted pulses and toasted coconut, crunchy with peanuts and fried garlic. If Burmese restaurants were as common as Thai places, ginger salad--biting shreds of the herb tossed with coconut, fried garlic, fried yellow peas, peanuts and sesame seeds--would be as popular as pad Thai.

Golden Triangle Restaurant, 7011 S. Greenleaf Ave., Whittier, (310) 945-6778. Ginger salad, $6.

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Jonathan Gold

Jonathan Gold was the restaurant critic for the Los Angeles Times. He won the Pulitzer Prize in criticism in 2007 and was a finalist again in 2011. A Los Angeles native, he began writing the Counter Intelligence column for the L.A. Weekly in 1986, wrote about death metal and gangsta rap for Rolling Stone and Spin among other places, and was delighted that he managed to forge a career out of the professional eating of tacos. Gold died July 21, 2018.

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