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Los Angeles has the best Chinese food. It's odd that at a time when New York is going through a chinese food rut, LA's going through a chinese food explosion, but it's pretty much the reality of the immigrant experience. The best chinese food is now in the ethnoburbs rather than in a city's Chinatowns. I've eaten in NY and SF chinatowns, but the suburbs in east LA was an absolute revelation.

Go to Din Tai Fung and Meilong Village for dumplings.