SAWTELLE, CALIFORNIA – The Los Angeles neighborhood of Sawtelle can strike visitors from Japan as a little kitsch at first sight.
Tacky signs advertise pan-Asian restaurants, and while some Los Angeleans still refer to the neighborhood by its “Little Osaka” moniker, it looks less like Japan’s second city than it does a mecca for hard-core fans of tapioca tea.
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