Counter: Pig's tails and Panda trucks

A charcuterie platter includes Singaporean candied pork, lamb ham, Vietnamese meatloaf and smoked red sausage. (Michael Robinson Chavez / Los Angeles Times)Cheers, everybody,

Jonathan is back from Italy, for which we are all grateful — including him, or at least we hope he is. Instead of Italian 12-course meals, he's been eating pot-au-feu at Cassia, the new Santa Monica restaurant from Bryant Ng. Apparently it's pretty fantastic.

The rest of us have also been doing a lot of eating, or at least writing about eating. Jenn Harris considers a new organic Chinese place in Old Town Pasadena, as well as Panda Express, which has gone mobile. Free orange chicken! Elsewhere, Bon Appetit names four…