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  • Blogs

    May 3, 2012

    Two New Restaurants Planned for Irvine's Campus Plaza

    The vacant spots next to Gina's Pizza in the Albertsons-anchored shopping mall near UC Irvine are getting new tenants. It was in January that Saigon Basil, the Vietnamese restaurant that replaced the long-lived Oriental Kitchen, folded. 

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2012

    Little Saigon Wah Ching Gangster Anh Duoc Nguyen Learns His Fate

    ​In less than 15 seconds in the middle of the night on June 2, 2007 in Orange County's Little Saigon, gun-happy Vietnamese immigrant Anh Duoc Nguyen, though just 17 years old, forever lost his youth and his freedom.Until Jan. 20, Nguyen--a onetime Garden Grove High School student and member of the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2011

    Koko's: A Hong Kong-Style Café Finally Opens in Orange County

    Edwin Goei​I posited the question last May: Why aren't there any Hong Kong-style cafés in Orange County?In that post, I said that the last Hong Kong-style café to grace our dining scene was O'Shine in Irvine, which then became Red Onion, a similarly styled restaurant that folded shortly after. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2011

    Taiwanese Hot Pot Restaurant Opens In Irvine

    Photo from Boiling Point Website​Just in time for the cold snap (it'll be in the 60's by the end of the week), the Taiwanese hot pot restaurant called Boiling Point has opened in Irvine offering gurgling, simmering stews that on its website it describes as "So hot. So bubbly. So sti ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 4, 2011

    "Boiling Point" Taiwanese Hot Pot Restaurant To Open In Irvine

    Photo from Boiling Point Website​What you see above is a Taiwanese hot pot from a restaurant called Boiling Point, a popular San Gabriel mini-chain that started sometime around 2007 specializing in the Sterno-heated dish. There are stores in Arcadia, Hacienda Heights, and Monterey Park, not to men ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2011

    Why Aren't There Any Hong Kong-Style Cafes in Orange County?

    Flickr User Roland​The question came from a reader on my personal blog who simply asked: "During my stay in the OC I have not been able to locate any Hong Kong cafes or restaurants. Do you perhaps know of any?"Which made realize, no I don't. It got me thinking that the last Hong Kong-style cafe to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 15, 2011

    Soup Dumplings in Mini-Tart Tins: Why Hasn't Anyone Else Thought of This?

    ​Ocean Star, in LA's new Chinatown in Monterey Park, now serves Shanghai-style soup dumplings, called 小籠包--xiao long bao. The problem with most services of soup dumplings is that they arrive four or eight to an order still in the steamer basket, and the act of transferring them to a spoon, d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2011

    Another Sushi Restaurant to Open Where Another One Failed in Irvine. What's So Special About This One?

    Edwin Goei​In the space left behind by Aomatsu, once the closest sushi bar to UC Irvine, yet another sushi restaurant called Gatten is poised to enter. It's about now that you might wonder: Are these restaurateurs suffering from amnesia? Don't they remember the last restaurant that tanked also d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 30, 2010

    Carl's Jr. Opens in Indonesia; Something Indonesian Opens Here

    Image from Google Maps Gustavo told me recently he heard news that Carl's Jr. opened its first franchise in Indonesia this month. And then on the same day, in a sort of bizarre cosmic coincidence, I got word a new Indonesian grocery store opened in Fullerton. In a bit of food quid pro quo, OC ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2010

    Feds Bust Massive OC-Related Ecstasy Pill Ring

    DEA agents now have lots of party favors​The price to party without inhibitions in Southern California likely just went up.Federal law enforcement officials announced this afternoon that a grand jury has indicted 15 individuals in Los Angeles and Orange County for conspiracy to possess and distrib ... More >>

  • News

    January 21, 2010

    Rodney Alcala's Murderous Romp Through Polite Society Brings Him to an Orange County Courtroom Again

    DEA agents now have lots of party favors​The price to party without inhibitions in Southern California likely just went up.Federal law enforcement officials announced this afternoon that a grand jury has indicted 15 individuals in Los Angeles and Orange County for conspiracy to possess and distrib ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2009

    Proposed LA to San Diego High Speed Train Would Avoid OC

    ​A Los Angeles to San Diego high-speed train proposal that's picking up steam (sorry) would bypass the traditional Amtrak Surfliner route down the coast through Orange County and instead head eastward from LA through the Inland Empire.The state plans new tracks for 220 mile-per-hour trains from Lo ... More >>

  • Food

    October 8, 2009

    [BEST OF OC] El Mesero (the Waiter): Rick Jones

    ​A Los Angeles to San Diego high-speed train proposal that's picking up steam (sorry) would bypass the traditional Amtrak Surfliner route down the coast through Orange County and instead head eastward from LA through the Inland Empire.The state plans new tracks for 220 mile-per-hour trains from Lo ... More >>

  • Columns

    July 23, 2009

    Letters From OC Weekly Readers

    ​A Los Angeles to San Diego high-speed train proposal that's picking up steam (sorry) would bypass the traditional Amtrak Surfliner route down the coast through Orange County and instead head eastward from LA through the Inland Empire.The state plans new tracks for 220 mile-per-hour trains from Lo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2009

    Is P.F. Chang's good? And News About Irvine's China Garden.

    Edwin GoeiTwo stories involving Chinese food caught my attention last week. First, there's local news about what is arguably one of OC's best Chinese restaurants, China Garden in Irvine. Fellow OC Food Blogger Julian Hsu has the scoop. In his post, he writes: "We just ate there for dimsum lunch t ... More >>

  • Food

    April 2, 2009

    Capital Seafood's Glitzy New Irvine Location Fits Right Into Diamond Jamboree Plaza

    Edwin GoeiTwo stories involving Chinese food caught my attention last week. First, there's local news about what is arguably one of OC's best Chinese restaurants, China Garden in Irvine. Fellow OC Food Blogger Julian Hsu has the scoop. In his post, he writes: "We just ate there for dimsum lunch t ... More >>

  • News

    March 26, 2009

    Less Than a Year Since She Was Appointed Sheriff, Sandra Hutchens Has Made Some Powerful Enemies

    Edwin GoeiTwo stories involving Chinese food caught my attention last week. First, there's local news about what is arguably one of OC's best Chinese restaurants, China Garden in Irvine. Fellow OC Food Blogger Julian Hsu has the scoop. In his post, he writes: "We just ate there for dimsum lunch t ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 4, 2008

    Pounded Pavement

    Pedestrian Perspectives

  • Columns

    November 22, 2007

    Letters

    “Why can’t polygamists be more like Mike Carona? He only has one wife (and a mistress and a couple of girlfriends)”

  • News

    October 27, 2005

    'Tittie Twister'!

    How the Los Angeles archdiocese stretched, twisted and contorted to hide bad, bad priests in Orange County and how we learned to love it

  • News

    June 7, 2001

    Black and Blue and Orange

    Demonstrator says May Day violence was the result of police misconduct

  • Food

    August 24, 2000

    Paradise Regained

    The teeming tanks of Sea Food Paradise

  • Food

    March 18, 1999

    Famous Food, Part 2

    Conductors! Rock Stars! Restaurateurs! Poets!

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