THE BEST SIDE OF MEAL DEALS LOS ANGELES

Like many of the menu items at this Chengdu-homaging restaurant in Bridgeport (with additional spots in Lincoln Park and Uptown), these supple, crescent-shaped pork dumplings arrive swimming inside a searing, brilliant-pink oil made from dried chilies and numbing Sichuan peppercorns. They're painfully addictive, as well as a gradual burn off will h