Apologies if I’m being too picky, but it’s Sam Woo, not Sam Woo’s. It is not a person’s name; I think it means “Three Harmonies” in Cantonese. In Mandarin, it’s pronounced like “San Huh”.

I’m a little surprised to hear Sam Woo being called a hole-in-the-wall, but I don’t know what the Alhambra restaurant is like. But Sam Woo is a well-established chain, considering they have restaurants in Vegas and Toronto.

“LAist knows there generally isn’t much to be said about Alhambra”. Are they fucking kidding me? Chinese restaurants include the Phoenix Inn, Regent Cafe and Garden Cafe. They have a Hat for great pastrami and Kang Kangs for good cheap food…3 entrees for 4.25 plus rice and soup. Chinese video stores and shady cel phone vendors operate out of Alhambra. Oh man, that post steams me up!

I’m not sure someone took “everyone who writes for LAist” to Sam Woo – I think the writers there always refer to themselves in the third person (“LAist was unsuspectingly whisked off…”).

I still think Sam Woo is overrated. I think Shiau Mei (aka the Kang Kang Food Court) is better… and cheaper!

Oren: hello captain obvious.

Sam Woo BBQ is the stuff.

Nothing is better than cha shu on rice.

Oh. Sarcasm. Nice.

Anyone who knows anything about food in SoCal knows the best food (not just Chinese food, but any food) is to be found in the Alhambra and San Gabriel areas. Jonathan Gold has my back on this one. Personally, my favorite restaurant is Mei Long Village. Get the dessert soup with the sesame balls.

Dear Mr. Bonner,

Oren’s confusion is understandable. If you’re going to use an entire post to diss LAist’s little style conceit, you should try to do it in the form of a coherent sentence.

Tom, I actually only used one incoherent sentence to diss the LAist’s little style conceit, the rest of the post is about Sam Woo. The blogging.la style guide allows up to three incoherent sentences per post so I’m in the clear on this end. But thanks anyway!

Man, those “we” people at LEast are just too thin-skinned.

I do kind of find it odd how LAist (which is a great site) always uses the “Laist” term when talking about themselves. I find it odd because each post has a byline. Usually if you use the publications name as your own, you don’t use a byline. So that always rankles me even though, for all I know, others do it too. But I don’t think so.

for the record, laist rocks the body that rocks the party. or something like that.

IS LAist a blog? I thought it was an online magazine.