Organization
Golden Lake Eatery
Golden Lake Eatery is a restaurant in a busy Chinatown plaza in Los Angeles, California. It opened in October 2014 serving home-style Cambodian food.[1][2] Its cooking carries Chiu Chow and Vietnamese influences.[2]
History
The restaurant took over a former Vietnamese eatery in October 2014.[1] Johnny Yee opened it to serve the roughly 600 Cambodian residents of Chinatown. It has been called the first Cambodian restaurant in the city of Los Angeles, a sign of how few Cambodian restaurants the area had. In November 2014 the Los Angeles Times named a mother and daughter from Cambodia as the team behind the restaurant.[2] It is one of the few Cambodian restaurants in the region outside Long Beach.[1]
Food
The two dishes that defined the restaurant in 2014 were beef lok lak and a dry combination noodle dish with soup on the side.[2] The lok lak is quickly seared, tender beef with a dipping sauce of lemon juice, fish sauce and a great deal of pepper, served with rice, and is close to the Vietnamese shaking beef.[2][1] The noodles, called kuy teav, are rice noodles seasoned with shallots, thinly sliced meat and fish, and they come with a rich beef knuckle soup. The dish is the Cambodian counterpart of the Vietnamese hu tieu.[2] A taro cake of glutinous rice, shaped into a disc and filled with taro and pork, is served as a starter.[1]
Other dishes have included a chive rice cake (banh he hap), Teochew-style dry rice noodles (hu tieu trieu chau kho) and a stir-fried seafood noodle dish with fish cakes, fish balls, chives and bean sprouts (banh loc xao do bien).[3] Fresh coconut juice is the drink, and the menu has photographs of the dishes. The staff showed diners how to eat the noodles and which sauces to use.[2]
Visiting
There is seating indoors and out, with parking in front of and behind the building.[4]
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 PBS SoCal, Cambodian restaurants in Los Angeles
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Los Angeles Times, Beef knuckle soup and more Cambodian cuisine at Golden Lake Eatery (November 2014)
- ↑ WaCowLA, new restaurants in Chinatown (February 2015, in Chinese)
- ↑ Golden Lake Eatery, online ordering site (2026)