i love panda express. the hot plates with just an assortment of food and then you get rice, it's huge in taiwan. andy: i think taiwanese food is absolutely ready for the spotlight. people are already embracing the flavors. it's just time for people sort of to, you know, even explain to you, "you are eating taiwanese food." jon: i grew up in walnut. it's the easternmost city in the san gabriel valley. susie hsiuhan ling: the san gabriel valley is the epicenter of huaqiao. "huaqiao" means "chinese outside of china." what i think a lot of people don't undersnd is los angeles had many chinatowns. the old chinatown was called "calle de s negros" and got destrod when union stationas bui in 1938, '39. so a loof us call what is between broadway and hill "new chinatown" because in the970s, there was an asian-american movement, and a lot of chinese-americans and asian-americans came out to try and improve chinatown, but anyone who was making it and being able to, were moving to the 'burbs, ok, and that included mont