Taste of Asia serves up fresh, flavorful, and healthy Asian dishes for your dining pleasure. Blending their culinary instincts with recipes from Southeast Asia, they have created an extensive, unique menu offering the finest authentic Asian cuisine.
Taste of Asia offers over 40 dishes—many with your choice of meat or vegetarian as well as various levels of spices to satisfy your palate while maintaining the authenticity of each dish. In addition to using only the freshest of ingredients, their specialty lies in the use of exotic ingredients, such as fresh herbs, lemon grass, basil, mint, galangal, ginger, and kaffir lime leaves, creating a refreshing blend of flavors unique to Asian cuisine.
Virada Khowong is a certified chef having completed many culinary programs in Thailand. It was great seeing her in a chef's coat cooking her heart away in the kitchen.
She features exciting dishes from Thailand, Vietnam, China and even from Laos.

A Few Customer Reviews
Justin L. La Verne, CA
I went back for lunch and dinner. I cannot get enough of this place. The owner, who is also the head chef, is really friendly. This is probably the only place in La Verne I can get my parents to eat without them complaining. The Tom Yum soup here is out of this world and delicious—the tropical fish a bit pricey but is a very unique experience for the taste buds. My mom also had a 4* (spiciness is chosen on a 1-5 star system) spicy fish for lunch and that stuff was spicy! This place is a hidden gem of deliciousness in La Verne. I just wish more people would discover it, but not so much to the point where I have to wait two hours to enjoy a perfect bowl of Tom Yum—accompanied by a heaping mountain of drunken fried rice.
Michelle V. Claremont, CA
Hidden in a little shopping area in La Verne, is this little gem called Taste of Asia. From the outside, the appearance does not do it any justice. The neighboring businesses (Kumon, a salon, and loan place) and the old “brown and off white” look of the building does not, in any way, reflect what is inside. Walking inside the restaurant, you see a promise of promises just from the interior design alone. The table settings invites you to fine dining. When you look at the menu, you notice a wide array of “traditional” dishes from various Asian cultures with a commoner’s budget. The menu consisted of dishes like Pad Tai, Chow Mein, Pho, Korean BBQ, and pineapple fried rice. You would think they would be your standard dishes. I was definitely wrong. We ordered pineapple fried rice (which was pineapple fried rice with a twist...curry), Chu-Chi Shrimp (shrimp that was surrounded with a distinct and delicious Chu-Chi curry sauce, and Pad Thai—an interesting twist on a classic with some unique but familiar flavors). Jon and I wanted to finish everything even though we were full.
Taste of Asia is located at 2007 foothill Blvd. in La Verne. Phone number is (909) 392-7777.