Los Angeles

Best Chinese Restaurants in the San Gabriel Valley

The 626 along Valley Boulevard

East of Los Angeles, the San Gabriel Valley holds one of the largest concentrations of Chinese and Taiwanese communities in the United States. Along the Valley Boulevard corridor through Alhambra, Monterey Park, San Gabriel, Rosemead, and Arcadia, the regional cooking of China runs deep: Shanghai and northern dumplings, Shaanxi and Yunnan and Guilin noodles, Chongqing roast fish, Hunan and Cantonese kitchens, and Chinese Islamic and Taiwanese cooking. Monterey Park, at the western end, is often called the first suburban Chinatown in the country. This guide is a starting point across the valley and its range.