What Makes a Soup Turn Pink?

A Los Angeles Magazine columnist recently paid a visit to a North Hollywood Thai restaurant where he sampled a bowl of soup that glowed like a pink neon sign from the 1980s.

Sanam Luang Cafe's yen ta fo owes its peculiar hue to red fermented bean curd paste.

Toss in some jellyfish and writer Eddie Lin says you've got a dish that somehow hits the spot.

"Masticating the jelly is similar to chomping into a wet, floppy, crunchy carnation with its intricate folds and petals. It’s very strange and somehow very satisfying," he wrote.

Click here to read the full review.

Sanam Luang is located inside a Thai shopping center at 12980 Sherman Way.