Eat Here This Weekend: Dumplings and Dessert

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You Kitchen: In the shadow of the quite famous 101 Noodle Express is You Kitchen, which serves a similar but more dumpling-heavy menu. It's fantastic. Though I do wish they wouldn't called the sesame-scallion pancake, pictured above, "Chinese pizza." I've seen multiple groups get confused by that. But it all works out in the end, because it's delicious. (Alhambra)

Ululani's Hawaiian Shave Ice: This is legitimate shave ice. (Not shaved ice.) Newbies will be pleasantly surprised by the texture, and the syrups are high quality. I particularly recommend the "Party in the Mouth" with tamarind, passion fruit, and calamansi. I can't even write about it without craving it again. (Los Feliz)

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