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  • Blogs

    April 26, 2012

    ¡Ask a Comida Critic!: How Can I Request a Re-Review?

    From Irene in the Land of the Intermittent Showers:My family recently took over an upscale Chinese bistro in downtown Portland, Oregon. We just had our first review by our local free weekly paper, Willamette Week, and it's a bad one. We feel it was not a true and fair review of what we are, and w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2012

    A List of Food Specials and Freebies on Tax Day!

    So have you subscribed to OC Weekly's The Spoon Feed newsletter yet? Do it now by entering your e-mail in that big old red box that you see to the right that says "SIGN UP".I'm subscribed and I got some tips about a few freebies and specials on tax day that I wouldn't have known about otherwise ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 21, 2012

    Free Shrimp at Panda Express Tomorrow Today (Wednesday)

    ​Have you noticed  that every time Panda Express introduces a new dish, they give it away first? You could almost call it the pusher business model: let them have the first hit free, and they'll come back for more.They've done it for every recent product launch I can recall. From the Hone ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2012

    Free Firecracker Chicken Breast at Panda Express On Chinese New Year

    ​The official line explaining why the Panda Express chain is giving out free food this coming Monday for Chinese New Year reads thusly:"The Chinese New Year's Eve feast features ingredients that carry special symbolic meaning. Firecracker Chicken Breast(TM) is created with chicken because it repre ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2012

    This Week In Food: Shit Vegans Say, New Girl Scout Cookie, Starbucks & Molotov Cocktails

    So the first week of January was pretty good to us, food-wise; Star Wars burgers, the best sushi in OC, and famous lesbian movie scenes as depicted by hot dogs. Read all about this amazing week on the blog!

  • Blogs

    January 4, 2012

    Panda Express' Next Venture: Dry Cleaning

    ​Not content in making the addictive substance called Orange Chicken available at every airport and mall food court (and yes, even friggin' China), the creators of Panda Express have now branched out into...dry cleaning?

  • Blogs

    June 27, 2011

    Five Alternatives to California Pizza Kitchen's 1160-Calorie Thai Crunch Salad

    Chasen Marshall/OC Weekly​The excellent Men's Health series called "Eat This, Not That" made its bones by mocking the atrocious nutritional bomb CPK sold as a "Thai Crunch Salad." In its original incarnation, it contained 2,238 calories if you added the heart-healthy avocado option.Shamed by this, ... More >>

  • Food

    June 2, 2011

    Pinoy Pam's Best Gets to the Point-Point

    Eating Filipino in OC means turo-turo, so go for the latest and greatest in Lake Forest

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2011

    This Week in Food: Great Pot-Laced Desserts, Cal-Mex, and Mega-Bacon!

    Flickr user zieak​As always, so many great things this week we have to give it to you after the jump!

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2011

    Panda Express Heading to . . . China?

    Wiki CommonsPanda Express may introduce the people of China to . . . Chinese food--or at least the American bastardization of it.​First, Taco Bell made its way to Mexico. Now, Panda Express, which we can thank for bringing glazed orange chicken to mall food courts across the country, may find a pl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2011

    This Week In Food: Pothead Fantasies, Jerk-Ass Burger Hostesses and Wacky Cranberries!

    Flickr user Half Chinese​Just like the headline says--and more!--after the jump!

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2011

    Panda Express Offering Free Food (Today Only!) to Celebrate Chinese New Year

    ​ If you decide to celebrate Chinese New Year by dining at Panda Express, the ancestors might scorn you from the grave, but just tell them, "It's free!" and they'll likely smile in approval.Today only, the chain is giving customers a complimentary single serving of its Firecracker Chicken Breast, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2010

    Mila Kunis Yet the Latest In-n-Out Celebrity Endorser

    Photo from Wikimedia CommonsKunis​Geez, between Edwin's Heather Graham post yesterday and this one, we're becoming a culinary TMZ! Or not...anyhoo, Mila Kunis is another Hollywood hottie who's appearing in some weird film with Natalie Portman called The Black Swan. I probably wouldn't see it--but ... More >>

  • News

    November 25, 2010

    Nativo Lopez Cries 'Racist,' Appeals Court Cries 'Defamation'

    [Moxley Confidential] Split decision in Overhill Farms case has chilling free-speech implications, dissenting justice asserts

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2010

    Nativo Lopez Slammed by Court For Calling Frozen Food Company "Racist"

    Nativo Lopez​Nativo Lopez, Orange County's most controversial political activist, helped organize a 2009 protest against a Southern California frozen food company and distributed leaflets branding the business a "racist employer" because it fired almost 300 warehouse workers who'd provided fake So ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2010

    Eat Here, Not There: Orange Chicken

    Dave Lieberman​This is Orange County. Our best efforts here at Stick A Fork In It notwithstanding, Orange County loves chain food, and we love our comfort food. Even we, your indefatigable food bloggers, occasionally succumb to the lure of the fast food and the national chain.That doesn't mean, ho ... More >>

  • Food

    October 21, 2010

    Aji Limon Is the Chifa Champ

    This Buena Park eatery just might be the county's first restaurant to specialize in Peruvian-Chinese food

  • Food

    June 10, 2010

    Buy Me Some Sushi and Cracker Jack

    [Summer Guide] A rundown of the best non-chain eats at the Big A

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2010

    Racist OC Register Fustercluck of the Day

    ​Headline: Worst teen job market in 41 years swankey1 says: So iam at Panda Express with my GF , she asked for fried rice and the Asian working the counter yells back , Fried rice POR VAVOR !! WHATA F!@#$ !!! We walked out !!

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2010

    Alice Waters Speaks At the LA Times Festival of Books

    Doyenne of the locavore movement, defender of the schoolyard organic garden and quintessential Berkeleyite Alice Waters spoke at the L.A. Times Festival of Books yesterday morning. A crowd of nearly a thousand gathered to watch her present, completely extemporaneously, a series of demonstrations on ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2010

    Chinese, Part 1

    Entire years, entire careers, entire lifetimes have been spent writing about Chinese cuisine, and yet it's arguably the cuisine least well-represented in the vast bulk of America. As hard as it to hear, the Chinese food that comes delivered in those little white Tetra-Paks™ with the red pagodas an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 15, 2010

    The Five Hardest Foods To Give Up For Lent

    tea_time @ flickr.com CC BY-NC-SA 2.0​Ash Wednesday, lovingly known as Dirty Forehead Day, is this week. For Christians, this marks a time of penance and sacrifice before Easter. One of the common practices is to give something cherished up during Lent. Some things are very easy ("I won't eat frog ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2010

    Jersey Mike's To Open in Irvine

    ​Our friend Brekkie Fan tipped me off to a Jersey Mike's opening right underneath my nose.  But it's even more notable because the chain's seventh store in O.C.is taking root in a shopping center that's practically a ghost town these days. The once thriving Irvine minimall, at the corne ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2009

    Cafe Rio Opens In Lake Forest

    Edwin Goei ​Cafe Rio, that Utah chain I mentioned in past posts, debuted this week in Lake Forest. But, alas, I was a touch too early to try them. I took the picture above just days before they officially opened, but now that they have, I'm curious on hearing about anyone's who's tried it, e ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2009

    Edwin's Top Five Dishes of 2009

    John Gilhooley​You've read Gustavo and Dave pick out their Top 5 Dishes of '09. Now it's my turn! At first I thought this would be an easy task, but it is not. To pick out just five dishes out of the hundreds I've sampled this year is like asking a toddler to choose only one toy -- he'd rath ... More >>

  • Food

    December 24, 2009

    [Hole in the Wall] Korean-Chinese Fusion Fun Time at Young Pung

    John Gilhooley​You've read Gustavo and Dave pick out their Top 5 Dishes of '09. Now it's my turn! At first I thought this would be an easy task, but it is not. To pick out just five dishes out of the hundreds I've sampled this year is like asking a toddler to choose only one toy -- he'd rath ... More >>

  • Culture

    December 17, 2009

    Bird Cage Theatre's Annual Productions at Knott's Get to the Heart of What the Holidays Are About

    John Gilhooley​You've read Gustavo and Dave pick out their Top 5 Dishes of '09. Now it's my turn! At first I thought this would be an easy task, but it is not. To pick out just five dishes out of the hundreds I've sampled this year is like asking a toddler to choose only one toy -- he'd rath ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2008

    Benihana--You Knew This--Sucks

    The greatest shame of my life is that my siblings--raised on the stove of a Mexican mami--loves crappy food. The eldest son of the Arellano clan has covered food for the Weekly for more than six years, knows all the great joints in Orange County--but they prefer Papa John's. I urge them to visit Ruf ... More >>

  • Food

    November 13, 2008

    [This Hole-in-the-Wall Life] Mad Mongolian at Mad Wolf Mongolian BBQ

    The greatest shame of my life is that my siblings--raised on the stove of a Mexican mami--loves crappy food. The eldest son of the Arellano clan has covered food for the Weekly for more than six years, knows all the great joints in Orange County--but they prefer Papa John's. I urge them to visit Ruf ... More >>

  • Food

    October 30, 2008

    Garden Grove's Warung Pojok Is the Best (And Only) Indonesian Joint in OC

    The greatest shame of my life is that my siblings--raised on the stove of a Mexican mami--loves crappy food. The eldest son of the Arellano clan has covered food for the Weekly for more than six years, knows all the great joints in Orange County--but they prefer Papa John's. I urge them to visit Ruf ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 31, 2008

    Warung Pojok: New Indonesian Eatery Opens in Garden Grove

    When Asian Deli skedaddled to Diamond Bar a few years ago, it left Orange County deprived of its only Indonesian restaurant. The nearest alternative for hungry expats existed just beyond the Orange County line, at Toko Rame in Bellflower. Meanwhile, in O.C., Indonesian food remained the Rodney Dan ... More >>

  • Food

    August 7, 2008

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

    When Asian Deli skedaddled to Diamond Bar a few years ago, it left Orange County deprived of its only Indonesian restaurant. The nearest alternative for hungry expats existed just beyond the Orange County line, at Toko Rame in Bellflower. Meanwhile, in O.C., Indonesian food remained the Rodney Dan ... More >>

  • Food

    March 20, 2008

    Boneheads in Lake Forest May Be a Chain, But It's a Good One

    When Asian Deli skedaddled to Diamond Bar a few years ago, it left Orange County deprived of its only Indonesian restaurant. The nearest alternative for hungry expats existed just beyond the Orange County line, at Toko Rame in Bellflower. Meanwhile, in O.C., Indonesian food remained the Rodney Dan ... More >>

  • Food

    November 8, 2007

    Sucking in the '70s

    The grub at Wong’s is sublime, if you don’t mind dangly tassels

  • Features

    June 22, 2006

    Sun, Fun and Felonies

    A summer sampling of one week in Orange County crime*

  • Food

    February 23, 2006

    Moo Shoo Muslim

    Sister Jamillah returns with Mas Islamic Chinese Restaurant

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    December 15, 2005

    Diary of a Mad County

    Record of the year?

  • Features

    October 20, 2005

    La Habra

    Record of the year?

  • Food

    November 14, 2002

    Good Food, Bad Food

    A tale of two Woos

  • Food

    May 9, 2002

    Battle of the Strip-Mall Chinese Restaurants

    Plowing through the suburban-sprawl experience

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