冠軍食品 Champion food

The place TO GO if you miss traditional Taiwanese snacks. On top of that, they have tasty home made dumplings, wonton, duck wings and many different taiwanese food to go. My personal favorite snack is their pork jerky. I can’t never have enough.

It was my first time visiting the champion food in LA. My friend told me lots of good things about this place and wanted me to try it out. Yes indeed, champion food provides wide variety of transitional Taiwanese snacks. Their homemade Taiwanese style beef jerky comes in both dry and wet kinds. They have spicy and non-​spicy ones too. They all have strong flavors! Furthermore, they also have marinated chicken feet and duck wings which are the highlight of Taiwanese snacks! In addition, one of the kind sautéed dried wide mushrooms serves as a healthy snack alternative. They also have Ten Ren’s tea inside their store as well. It’s a great store to get you off the craving of Taiwanese snacks!

i would fly across the country just to get some snacks here.

I need to start exploring everything around my hood.
As I await for my take out order from Boston Café &
sipping my milk ice tea from Tea Station, I run across
this place a few doors down.
Ive been addicted to 85 degree’s brioche these past
few months so how dare I enter this bakery. Eh… Im
not that loyal yet… hahahaha…
Whole wheat with brown sugar sliced bread. Pretty
damn good.
Butter cookies. Absolutely soft and silky in texture.
I would return easily.

LOVE their tea! I used to go next door to tea station but my BF’s sister told me to go here and I’ve been hooked!
At first glance you wouldn’t think much about their drinks because they have all this other stuff going on but they have a wide selection of different teas you can get. I really need to start branching out because they have really cool flavors like lavender but I’ve always been a green tea gal. It’s not overly sweet like tea station’s and it’s not overly watered down with milk so it still has a nice kick. I really haven’t tried their bakery or any other stuff but if you’re looking for good tea, you’ll be surprised to get it here.

According to my mom, they have the BEST marinated duck tongues here. It’s not cheap though… I don’t think anything in here is on the cheap side but supposedly all their marinated goods and jerky is top notch. I like the ‘iron eggs’ they sell here (packaged).

So after posting my first thread (
) on Unilocal,I got some help from fellow Unilocalers on where to get pork jerky. I totally forgot there’s a location at Hacienda Heights for the Champion Gourmet. So without hesitation, I told a lady (who seems to be the owner) that I would like $ 12 worth. (They are $ 18 per lb.) There’s only two flavors, sweet and spicy. I told the lady I wanted half and half. She replies, «I can’t get it exactly $ 12». Well, that I knew. Strangely though, when I order in terms of exact dollar amount, I can usually do so in Asia.
Anywhoo, I got 4 pcs in one bag and 3 pcs in another for $ 10.98. The girl over the counter seals the end of the bag for me. (see picture… www.yelp.com/biz_photos/vcLpaWGQjqPemiIeMwCY6g?select=8SPKgLkr6YcAFIbg8­NUEuA)
Not vacuum seals, just a regular bag with a resealable end. Might as well as put it in a ziplock, it wouldn’t be any different.
The pork jerky was just okay for me. Honestly, I couldn’t tell the taste difference between the spicy and the sweet. It both tasted like it was coated in honey and brown sugar and it masked the flavor of the pork. Sorry, I guess I am a pork jerky snob. I’ve had better at more reasonable prices. The search continues…

The people were very nice, and the ambiance isn’t awful either.
I went there with a group of co-​workers, only one of us spoke Chinese so she was able to order for us. We didn’t have any jerky (which was probably where we went wrong) instead, we came for the crepes.
I ordered the Mushroom Yummy Crêpe – which I assumed (because of the name, obviously) would be awesome. The crêpe started out okay, but then it got really soggy and very bland tasting. In the end, the yummy hurt my tummy and I didn’t feel good for the rest of the day.
I did get the chance to taste a dessert crêpe and it was pretty good. The guy making them cut all the fruit fresh and he makes all of the crepes on the spot as well.
I would recommend people go there for the dessert crepes, or the jerky. Don’t forget to bring cash and avoid the Mushroom Yummy.

the people here are super nice. they kept feeding me samples without me asking. it was overwhelming cause they just reached into the boxes and pulled out different pieces of pork and beef jerky even when i told them i didn’t want any. but i think its cause they couldn’t understand what i was saying cause they were taiwanese. there were two of them serving me so it was like being gangbanged by samples of meat. it was tasty though cause thats the best kind of gangbang there is. they also let me try the preserved fruits. i bought curry beef jerky, preserved red plums, and tamarind candy. all for only $ 15. :) good deal. they didn’t have alot of selection though, but they did have a tofu snack section which i have never seen before.