{"id":350,"date":"2018-12-05T13:46:02","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T21:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/?p=999929924"},"modified":"2018-12-05T13:46:02","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T21:46:02","slug":"nashville-hot-chicken-ramen-lbx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/food\/nashville-hot-chicken-ramen-lbx","title":{"rendered":"Nashville hot chicken, ramen, and more coming to Long Beach Exchange next year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After one of its largest tenants, Orchard Supply, <a href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/business\/orchard-supply-hardware-to-close-all-stores-including-new-location-at-lbx\/\">closed up shop<\/a> this year, the massive retail complex known as the Long Beach Exchange has not been shy about amping up its tenant roster, announcing new businesses from <a href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/longbeachize\/urban-design\/tenants-virtual-tour-massive-lbx-long-beach-exchange-portola-coffee\/\">Portola Coffee<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/business\/massive-retail-complex-long-beach-exchange-adds-lululemon-susiecakes-to-growing-tenant-roster\/\">SusieCakes<\/a> to the <a href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/life\/food\/while-we-wait-for-the-kroft-and-grilled-cheese-bar-to-open-in-n-out-begins-serving-at-massive-retail-and-food-complex-long-beach-exchange\/\">Grilled Cheese Bar and Chef Thomas Ortega&#8217;s second restaurant<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Amid those culinary offerings, the retail complex has announced four new additions. Two of those\u2014fish taco chain Wahoo&#8217;s and L.A.-based Silverlake Ramen\u2014are extensions of existing brands while the other two\u2014Plancha Latin Kitchen and Jay Bird\u2019s Nashville Hot Chicken\u2014are two original concepts.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s start with the warmest welcome in the announcement: A joint dedicated to Nashville hot chicken is finally coming to Long Beach.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"ANADfZN4SQ\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/food\/while-we-wait-for-the-kroft-and-grilled-cheese-bar-to-open-in-n-out-begins-serving-at-massive-retail-and-food-complex-long-beach-exchange\">While we wait for The Kroft and Grilled Cheese Bar to open, In-N-Out begins serving at massive retail and food complex Long Beach Exchange<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;While we wait for The Kroft and Grilled Cheese Bar to open, In-N-Out begins serving at massive retail and food complex Long Beach Exchange&#8221; &#8212; the Hi-lo\" src=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/food\/while-we-wait-for-the-kroft-and-grilled-cheese-bar-to-open-in-n-out-begins-serving-at-massive-retail-and-food-complex-long-beach-exchange\/embed\/#?secret=N74TWOKVBl#?secret=ANADfZN4SQ\" data-secret=\"ANADfZN4SQ\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The region&#8217;s most proper introduction to this fiery piece of fried chicken came by the way of Howlin&#8217; Ray&#8217;s, a tiny-but-mighty bird shop tucked inside a mini-mall in DTLA&#8217;s Chinatown. With a line wait that rarely if ever dips under 45 minutes thanks to its cult-like following, this restaurant is the closest thing you can score to the joint that invented Nashville hot chicken, the famed Prince&#8217;s Hot Chicken Shack.<\/p>\n<p>What Prince&#8217;s created\u2014and, by extension, what Howlin&#8217; created for a West Coast crowd\u2014is an oddly addicting piece of incredibly spicy fried chicken that shouldn&#8217;t be addicting.<\/p>\n<p>Prince&#8217;s and Howlin&#8217; both offer six levels of heat, and if one ventures into anything beyond mild, let alone their most intense heat, you&#8217;ll find that it is a heat that doesn&#8217;t just make beads of sweat push themselves out onto your forehead. You&#8217;ll find that it&#8217;s a heat that doesn&#8217;t just make your lips intensely tingle. This is a heat that will linger with you, sometimes for days. (My Dude and I have made the mistake\u2014twice, mind you\u2014of mowing through an extra hot Howlin&#8217; Ray sandwich and it was with us for three days after. Three days, no joke, and many a bathroom trips.)<\/p>\n<p>No one should ever want to experience this repeatedly but, make no question, one ends up returning over and over. And that leaves\u00a0Jay Bird\u2019s Nashville Hot Chicken living up to a standard that no other place in the region has succeeded in getting to except Howlin&#8217;.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"tF8PMK1neb\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/food\/ramen-houses-guide-hakata\">Your guide to Long Beach&#8217;s ramen revolution<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Your guide to Long Beach&#8217;s ramen revolution&#8221; &#8212; the Hi-lo\" src=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/food\/ramen-houses-guide-hakata\/embed\/#?secret=j8S8vbBlQ3#?secret=tF8PMK1neb\" data-secret=\"tF8PMK1neb\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The other original spot, Plancha Latin Kitchen, is still developing its Latin-centric menu. According to the restaurant&#8217;s PR representative, Jordan Kruk, the place will be serving up &#8220;everything from arepas, Cubanos, and empanadas as well as build your own bowls, plates and salads using ingredients like <em>ropa vieja<\/em>, citrus-marinated chicken, fish, chipotle-rubbed cauliflower, Peruvian <em>aj\u00ed<\/em> sauce, soyrizo with potatoes, chayote stew, shrimp <em>mojo de ajo<\/em>\u2014all either braised or cooked on a traditional <em>plancha<\/em> grill. Plancha\u2019s menu is designed to be vegan, vegetarian and gluten-free\u00a0friendly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And we all know Wahoo&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>So that leaves Silverlake Ramen, joining <a href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/life\/food\/ramen-houses-guide-hakata\/\">Long Beach&#8217;s quickly-growing ramen scene<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The brainchild of owner\u00a0Jitaek Lim and Japanese-born ramen chef\u00a0Thomas Aono, Silverlake Ramen has built up a faithful following that offers the best ramen in Silverlake (hands down) and some of the best in the Angeleno landscape, including getting up there with joints like Daikokuya and Shin Sen Gumi. It even prompted them to open up another location on York Boulevard (Ramen of York) and a straight to-go spot next door to the original Silverlake Ramen.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, it&#8217;s a welcomed addition.<\/p>\n<p><em>Long Beach Exchange is located at\u00a03991 N. Lakewood Blvd.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Brian Addison is a columnist and editor for the Long Beach Post.\u00a0<\/em><em>Reach him at\u00a0brian@lbpost.com\u00a0or on social media at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BrianAddisonLB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/BrianAddisonLB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/BrianAddisonLB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/brianaddison\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LBX retail complex has announced four new additions, including fish taco chain Wahoo&#8217;s, L.A.-based Silverlake Ramen, Plancha Latin Kitchen and Jay Bird\u2019s Nashville Hot Chicken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":211,"featured_media":65876,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[47],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food","tag-long-beach-exchange","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=350"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}