Rebecca Roland is the deputy editor of the Southern California/Southwest region, who covers the evolving landscape of LA’s food scene. Look for the red lantern in the alleyway tucked behind Long Beach ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A bartender pulls a daikon radish from a sink behind the bar at Tokyo Noir, a small speakeasy off 4th Street in Long Beach. The ...

A bartender pulls a daikon radish from a sink behind the bar at Tokyo Noir, a small speakeasy off 4th Street in Long Beach. The vegetable is more than a foot long, and the width of the barrel of a ...