Update: found Chinese grilled whole fish at Liu Roast Fish
Posted a few days ago looking for a place that did Chinese-style whole grilled fish. Thank you to this sub and the Food Los Angeles sub for recommending Liu Roast Fish in San Gabriel!
We paid about $130 total for the fish, a beef noodle soup (for the kid), a steamed bun, and a plum soda.
The fish is sea bass in the mala sauce (medium spice level) with soft tofu, tofu skin, potatoes, winter melon, wood ear, enoki, and shrimp. It’s a lot of fish - I think they said 2.5 pounds, so you might get one big fish or two smaller fish to get to that amount.
The fish was great! My only complaint about it was that the mala sauce had cumin seeds which I wasn’t really expecting and don’t really like. So next time I’d probably try one of the other spicy sauce options. It’s also a big portion and we were just 2 adults. The people next to us were a group of 6 splitting it. It’s probably best for something like 4 people. We tried our best but could not finish it 😅. The beef noodle soup was not good in our opinion but our kid ate it.
Ordering is via iPad or QR code. I think they have an English menu but my husband is a native Mandarin speaker so we had no issues. Was pretty empty when we arrived and was moderately busy by the time we left.