What’s on it? Roasted turkey, cabbage-citrus-serrano-chili slaw, pickled carrot, miso-sesame aioli, cilantro, furikake and sliced almonds on Bub & Grandma’s focaccia
Allow us to preempt your avocado toast wisecrack: If there’s a sandwich that tastes like Los Angeles, it’s actually this. Served only at Wax Paper’s Chinatown outpost, the roasted turkey sandwich is eclectically L.A. in every way possible, from its KCRW DJ namesake to its Mexican-inspired slaw, smear of Japanese seasoning and the fluffy focaccia from farmers’ market staple Bub and Grandma’s. It’s an umami-laden colossus that’ll leave you scavenging for every last scrap of the sweet-and-spicy cabbage-citrus-serrano slaw (a hyphenated concoction that the menu cheekily reassures is “all one thing”). Maybe it’s best that we’ve enjoyed its messiness in private this past year, but we can’t wait to grab a seat again at one of the half-dozen bar stools tucked inside of a mini-mall.—Michael Juliano, Time Out Los Angeles
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