Subject: Bangkok

• Business Class On A Budget

  The Los Diablos Times just chimed in (read: posted an AP release) on the luxurious conditions of John Mark Karr's flight to California. Karr, in case you're allergic to the 24-hour news cycle, is the guy who says he killed six-year old beauty queen (a truly shudder-worthy compound adjective) JonBenet Ramsey. It's said he apparently knows apparently secret details about the murder scene. He'll stay for an indefinite period of time - fathers, lock up your daughters! (No, really. I mean it.) It'll

  August 20, 2006

• The Crosby Still Not Ready for Prime Time

  We like the Crosby, we really do. We cheered their fight against the idiot SanTana bureaucrats. We like co-owners Chris Alfaro, Phil Nisco and Marc Yamaoka 'cause they always sport a smile and some weird-ass T-shirt (one of their workers was wearing one with Steve Urkel's mugshot--I remember that episode!). Their lair's vibe is happening, the music ever-eclectic, the ambitions lofty. But in the matter in which I'm concerned with professionally for the purposes of this post--great food in OC--th

  October 7, 2008

• Thai Bistro Cuisine

  September 15, 2005

• Bangok Taste Closed for a Week--No Worries. I Hope.

  Had dinner earlier this week at Bangkok Taste in SanTana, my current fave Thai restaurant, with the mysterious Ben Dayhoe (contrary to popular rumor, he's not Mr. X). We enjoyed soups, fried tofu, their famous roti dessert, and the peanut-butter soup called khao soy. After our dinner (we ate with our respective ladies), the kind owner, who puts fresh roses on each table every day from her garden, gave the gals a Christmas present: flowers in a glass bubble. She then told us Bangkok Taste is clos

  December 19, 2008

• Gustavo's Top Five Hole-in-the-Walls of 2008

  I tend to stay away from lists 'cause they're so easy to spit out, but guess what? With crazy deadlines this week, a cover story to turn in ASAP, and the fact that most of ustedes are probably too drunk to get up and read, you get lists for the next three days from me! Here's the first one: my top five hole-in-the-wall restaurants I reviewed this year:1. Las Brisas de Apatzingan: Yeah, it's in a seedy part of SanTana, and the restaurant can sometimes get dirtier than what's acceptable even for d

  December 29, 2008

• Commentator Shout-Out: Hungrymomma and Hungrypoppa

  Almost a month ago, I invited ustedes to eat with me and get a free dessert at Bangkok Taste in SanTana. Only two readers did: Hungrymomma and Hungrypoppa, a young Latino couple who leave some of the best comments on this infernal blog. We talked food, the Paramount Swap Meet, SanTana, and so many other things that I can't wait to hang out with them again next time I make a free food offer. Best of all: they agreed with me in thinking Bangkok Taste's roti, a flatbread fried and topped with frost

  January 27, 2009

• O.C. Restaurants With No Corkage Fees

  I got the following e-mail from a reader named Dorn: I know you are not an alcohol drinker, but I suspect many of your foodie fans love wine. I would love to see a topic covered on OC restaurants that do not charge a corkage fee. Considering that most restaurants mark-up their wines 200% - 300%, this would be a HUGE money saver for many who dine out regularly. My wife and I have discovered that Houston's, Bandera and Gulfstream never charge a corkage fee (all part of the Hillside Group I t

  February 11, 2009

• Hot Little Pony Are Actually Emo Icons Far. Or Are They?

  October 9, 2008

• Summer '08: Batman Saved the Season, While a Little 'Sex' Went a Long Way and the Indies Went South

  September 4, 2008

• [Food Issue 2008] For Our Recessionary Times, 54 Orange County Meal Deals Between 99 Cents and $15

  August 7, 2008

• [Web Exclusive!] Summer Grows Up: The Season of Big-Budget Bangs Uses Its Brain

  May 15, 2008

• Thai Swan in Orange Is Home Cooking Made Simple and Comfy

  April 17, 2008

• What Rent Payment?

  Hamamori is pricey, but worth every bite

  January 24, 2008

• This Hole-in-the-Wall Life

  January 10, 2008

• Grub Guide

  September 28, 2006

• From Hunter to Hunted

  In his quest to free slaves around the world, Aaron Cohen thought hed seen it all. Then he went to Myanmar

  June 28, 2007

• New Reviews

  Becket; Constellation; Hurricane on the Bayou; The Messengers

  February 1, 2007

• Grub Guide

  July 6, 2006

• Take Me Out (to Eat)

  Franz Ferdinands tour-food diary . . . yum!

  January 25, 2007

• This Hole-in-the-Wall Life

  December 14, 2006

• Yellow Fever

  November 2, 2006

• Grub Guide

  September 21, 2006

• Grub Guide

  June 8, 2006

• Grub Guide

  June 1, 2006

• Grub Guide

  May 25, 2006

• New Reviews

  January 19, 2006

• The Low Cost of High Wages

  American Apparel wants to follow Wal-Mart to Chinafor all the right reasons

  December 8, 2005

• This Week in Randomness

  May 26, 2005

• Elbows of Fury

  February 10, 2005

• Repetition in Politics, News, Big Business and Human Suffering

  December 2, 2004

• Suds for Studs

  October 9, 2003

• HotFlix

  June 5, 2003

• Seeing Double

  May 15, 2003

• Piscean Post-Prandials

  March 6, 2003

• Patriot Games

  November 1, 2001

• Fate Dont Fail Me Now

  October 18, 2001

• Art of Glass

  February 1, 2001

• Eat Cheap

  March 16, 2000

• Miss This Saigon

  September 16, 1999

• Invisible Enemies

  March 11, 1999

• Grub Guide

  September 20, 2007

• Serial Pedophile Who Bought 5-Year-Old Vietnamese Sex Slave is Up For Parole

  England wants freedom but hasn't admitted his sick sex crimes​A convicted California serial pedophile who despises Jews, cops and African Americans and who forced a kindergarten-age girl he purchased in Vietnam to become a sex slave to not only himself but also his German shepherd and basset hound, both males, becomes eligible for parole in December. George Joseph England--a self-proclaimed Christian who remains unrepentant, according to law enforcement sources--is scheduled to make his pitch

  September 18, 2009