Charlie and Mel Succar specialize in destination-worthy Lebanese flatbread sandwiches tucked with fillings like shawarma and falafel.

Kurrypinch serves some of Los Angeles’s best Sri Lankan food from a tiny storefront in the heart of Van Nuys. Based on portion size alone basically everything there is a great deal, but particular attention should be paid to the $7 curry bowls and sub-$2 mackerel fritters.

The jianbing to order at this Vancouver-based chain is the Peking duck crepe that includes coriander, hoisin, cucumbers, and chopped duck.

This Silver Lake restaurant serves Ray Yaptinchay and Jay Tugas’s reimagined take on Filipino food. Order the adobo belly nigiri, slow-cooked pork belly with an adobo glaze served over rice, and the chori-burger featuring house-made Filipino pork chorizo on a toasted Hawaiian bun.

One of LA’s top phở restaurants, Phở Filet does classic Southern-style phở bo with a rich but mostly clear broth that lets the flavor of the beef and its aromatics shine. Everything on the menu is excellent, and a casual meal usually runs around $15 to $20 per person.

Alex Carrasco, who hails from Mexico City and trained at some of Los Angeles’s top restaurants, has a wonderful gem of a taqueria with a large outdoor dining area and top-notch tacos in West Adams. The prices are certainly higher than a street-level taco spot, but the portions are very generous, with the standard tacos made on housemade tortillas. The flavors and quality of the ingredients are worth the extra cost, and overall the meal is still budget-friendly. Try the chilaquiles.

Mama’s Chicken, the 56-year-old Hyde Park institution, is known for several things. For one, owner Karen “Mama” Whitman still makes all the chicken and turkey link sausages herself, while locals know to head for the breakfast combinations with two eggs, two hot cakes, and two pieces of sausage for $11. One could opt for the $6 BLT or Whitman’s fried chicken dinner with a roll, fries, or potato salad for only $8.95, too.

Longtime food truck Tamales Elenas has a handy drive-thru and casual restaurant in Bell Gardens now, with some of the city’s best tamales, pozoles, and guisados that come in generous portions.

Cult favorite Pakistani restaurant Zam Zam Market serves some of the best stews, rice dishes, and breads around, perfect for a hearty, warming winter meal.

Japanese restaurant Kagura has an approachable stand at the Tokyo Central Market along Artesia Boulevard in Gardena serving everything from tonkatsu platters to katsu sando at prices that are a fraction of its Torrance and El Segundo restaurants.

Tantalizing methai (sweets) and chat (snacks) are what it’s all about at Surati Farsan Mart, a stylish shop specializing in Gujarati-style nibbles since 1986. The pani puri are pitch-perfect — delicate whole-wheat shells filled with mung beans, potatoes, and jaljira, a cool liquid imbued with herbs and spices, and drizzled with chutneys.

Busy Bee may well be the most famous restaurant in all of San Pedro, owing to its giant and meaty belly-buster sandwich. Still, great deals can be had for at or around $10 a pop, from pastrami to roast beef and beyond.