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| - Chino Bandido has undeniably become one of my favorite restaurants. Back in L.A., they're just now discovering fusion food and it's roaming around the city in lunchtrucks using Twitter to guide their customers. This brick-and-mortar place has been around for 20 years.
On walking in, we were greeted with, "Is this your first time? I've got samples for you!" with a kind worker behind the counter giving us tastings of several of the meats, rice and beans.
I got a combo with a jerked chicken quesadilla, a pile of the red jade chicken, pork fried rice and refried beans, and I wasn't disappointed with any of it. Jerked chicken was REALLY spicy, but damn good. Outstanding blend of food. It transported well (took it to-go) and tasted just as good the next day after 2 minutes in the microwave.
And it's so easy to get into the spirit of the place.
While waiting for our order, these two guys came in and started taking pictures posing with the autographed poster of Guy Fieri and checking out all of the news clippings on the wall. While they discussed what they might want to try, I mentioned that if it's their first time, they can sample the food. Their eyes lit up and they raced to the counter where another nice worker gave them sample cups of everything. One of them excitedly piped up with, "I'll have whatever Guy had."
Yep, definitely a favorite.
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