Lu's Garden

Lu's Garden is SGV's answer to Taiwanese cooking on the quick and the cheap. Start with a rice—choose steamed or gruel-like congee, loaded with chunks of sweet potato. Then, pick (or rather, point) and choose three to four items from the glass-display counter. Rows of vegetables, fish and meat options are aplenty such as sliced Chinese sausage, pickled mustard greens, spicy string beans with mushrooms and black beans, stewed tofu skin and crunchy radishes set ablaze with red chiles, seeds and all. $7.75 gets you three items, while $9.75 upgrades you to four, with free refills on rice or congee for both. It's late night eating (or the next day’s hangover cure-all) at its best.