Email Author EDWIN GOEI

2012 Stories by EDWIN GOEI

• Roe Your Boat to Roe Restaurant

  published July 19, 2012

  Though it's called Roe Restaurant & Fish Market, don't expect much on the restaurant front because that part isn't quite ready. For now, what... More >>

• Mare Culinary Lounge Is the Pixar of OC Italian

  published July 12, 2012

  I knew I was in for a good meal at Mare Culinary Lounge in Laguna Beach, but I didn't expect to find one of the best dishes I've ever had. The... More >>

• Woo-hoo for Wahoo's Fish Taco!

  published July 5, 2012

  There's a certain cynicism that a restaurant invites when it grows up and starts franchising. It's almost as if having street cred and being a... More >>

• Sit Like a Shogun at Honda-Ya

  published June 28, 2012

  The first Disneyland fans to walk into Disney World when it opened in 1971 might have had the same feeling I had eating at the new Honda-Ya in... More >>

• Mongolian Hot Pot Counting Sheep

  published June 21, 2012

  I can't imagine a more Chinese way to eat right now in OC than dipping your chopsticks into a Mongolian hot pot at Little Sheep in Irvine. This... More >>

• Slapfish Truck Stops Here

  published June 14, 2012

  Have you had an oyster from Carlsbad Aquafarms yet? Grown not more than an hour's drive from OC, in the briny Pacific coastal waters of the... More >>

• Simmzy's Is Breaking Down the Wall

  published June 7, 2012

  There are no walls at Simmzy's. No, really, there aren't any outside walls. Every seat along the border of this street-corner... More >>

• Bistro Bleu Comes Out of the Bleu

  published May 31, 2012

  If you opened a French restaurant, you, too, would have the songs of Edith Piaf playing so that her rich-as-foie-gras voice could float through... More >>

• Brasserie Pascal Bids a Foie Farewell

  published May 24, 2012

  I had my first real piece of foie gras as everyone usually does: at a French restaurant, seared and served with fruit to cut through the... More >>

• Pho Bo Vang, Ann's Pho & Teriyaki and Maison de Pho and the Closing of the Pho Frontier

  published May 17, 2012

  If Little Saigon is to Vietnamese restaurants as LA's seminal Chinatown is to Chinese food, then Lake Forest might be OC's San Gabriel Valley.... More >>

• Anepalco's Cafe Has Le Mexique

  published May 10, 2012

  Like Break of Dawn's Dee Nguyen and the Playground's Jason Quinn, Danny Godinez cut his teeth and proved his chops during stints at the most... More >>

• Umami Burger Brings Something Savory This Way

  published May 3, 2012

  You have Adam Fleischman to thank for bringing the Japanese word "umami" into the mainstream consciousness. Before he came along and started... More >>

• The Hobbit Is Orange County's Precious

  published April 26, 2012

  The Hobbit is from a dying breed, a group of the proud and expensive that once included La Vie en Rose, the Arches, and the Riviera at the... More >>

• Mil Jugos Is One in a Thousand

  published April 19, 2012

  Despite the name, there aren't a thousand juices on offer at Mil Jugos—only 24, but that's plenty because you're in the presence of... More >>

• North Shore Poke Co. Has a Poke-Man

  published April 12, 2012

  We Mainlanders like to stereotype Hawaiians as obsessed with heavy meals such as plate lunches or loco moco, but the true religion is poke. A... More >>

• CUCINA enoteca Is the San Diego Treat

  published April 5, 2012

  We sat under a leafy olive tree. If not for butcher-paper placemats, the cold, metal surface of our table would've sapped the warmth from the... More >>

• Class 302: A Course to Audit

  published March 29, 2012

  You're sitting at an actual wooden school desk. There's a cubbyhole for stowing your books and an indentation carved at the top so your pencil... More >>

• The Starling Diner's Fine French Toast

  published March 22, 2012

  You might better know the mile-long stretch of Anaheim Street between Atlantic and Junipero in Long Beach as Cambodia Town, the center of all... More >>

• The Riders Club Cafe Goes Back to Basics

  published March 15, 2012

  When I re-evaluate the best burgers I've eaten in my life, the most memorable are usually from dives, greasy spoons, places where I can see,... More >>

• THE RANCH Offers a Fistful of Dollars

  published March 8, 2012

  It's said that Walt Disney created Disneyland because he wanted a place to spend time with his daughters. Andrew Edwards, the owner and... More >>

• Orea Taverna's Greek Chic

  published March 1, 2012

  There are two things you must get at Orea Taverna: the saganaki and the pyato souvlaki. Both are table spectacles of the kind that make you... More >>

• Ramen Yamadaya Offers Oink Noodle

  published February 23, 2012

  Ramen Yamadaya's tonkotsu ramen is the closest thing to melting a whole pig into a bowl. The broth is so thick and so rich the viscosity is... More >>

• Mozambique Peri-Peri Does the Mazavaroo

  published February 16, 2012

  The last time I ate the woefully underappreciated sausage called boerewors, it was at a now-shuttered South African bar in Long Beach. It's as... More >>

• Han Yang Has a Bone to Pick

  published February 9, 2012

  Have you noticed? Little Seoul, once constrained within the confines of Garden Grove, is slowly spilling into sections of Buena Park, spreading... More >>

• Bru Grill and Market Features Drunken Masters

  published February 2, 2012

  I'm willing to bet that most people have never met beer-can chicken in the flesh. You may have seen the dish on a recent episode of Top... More >>