Restaurants specializing in specific regional Mexican food—ranging from the hearty and meat-heavy dishes found on the ranches of the north to the rainbow of moles that hail from the state of Oaxaca in the south—are rare in Atlanta.

As its name suggests, Hattie B’s Hot Chicken serves hot chicken, a style of bird born and perfected in Nashville (and, so far, unrivaled elsewhere) that’s coated in an earthy and fiery slick of spiced fryer oil after it’s been cooked to a golden crisp.

You can learn a lot about the origins of Momonoki, a new fast-casual joint in Midtown, from the Instagrams of Taiwanese-American chef Jason Liang and Taiwanese pastry chef ChingYao Wang (who’s also his wife).