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8 unique tea lattes and milk teas that take you around the world (opens the original)
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Growing up in Amoy, China, Amery Chen always understood tea as a daily ritual to unwind and recharge. When she landed in L.A. for medical school, the daily tea drinking routine stayed with her and kept her alert during long nights of studying. Now a full-time urgent care doctor who works 50-hour weeks, Chen is sharing her tradition with Angelenos at Torotea, her bustling Diamond Bar tea house that‘s expanding to its fifth location this month. Chen takes pride in Torotea’s selection of teas impor
A venture capital-backed coffee chain debuts in L.A. Are locals buying it? (opens the original)
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See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Set us as preferred After months of anticipation, Blank Street opened its first Los Angeles location in Studio City on Aug. 12. Launched as a coffee cart in Brooklyn in 2020 by former tech entrepreneurs Vinay Menda and Issam Freiha, the venture capital-backed cafe chain has since grown to more than 100 locations around the world. The company announced its West Coast debut in April, with locations in Studio City and Beverly Hills originally slated to
For L.A. college students, the GOP's $20-burrito debate is about more than lunch (opens the original)
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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Set us as preferred A slew of online discourse unfolded last week after Turning Point USA spokesman Andrew Kolvet shared that a college-aged member of the conservative nonprofit told him, “A burrito shouldn’t cost $20.” “Yeah, a lot of this is a hangover from COVID and Biden-era inflation, but the lived experience is the same: It just feels like basic things cost t
Chinatown elders need groceries. These teens go door-to-door delivering them (opens the original)
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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Set us as preferred Lynn Nguyen had just begun working at the Chinatown Branch Library in 2019, when she learned that Ai Hoa and G&G markets were shuttering. As the last two full-service grocery stores in Chinatown, these closures left a gap in food access in the neighborhood, where one in four residents are above the age of 65 and 30% of households live below the
As one family struggles to open a Chinatown grocery, neighborhood food scarcity persists (opens the original)
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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Set us as preferred Chinatown has always been a North Star in Jessica Wang’s life. Growing up in the San Gabriel Valley with her parents, both Taiwanese immigrants, Wang remembers regularly attending First Chinese Baptist Church on Yale Street with her family. “I knew we were gonna have dim sum,” Wang said, “or amazing, huge platters of fried rice.” The neighborhoo
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