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 Dangerfield of Asian cuisine. It gets no respect.
So when a reader* tipped me off to a new Indonesian restaurant inside the Orange Curtain, my exact words were: "HOLY SH*T!!!!"
The news couldn't hav
Fourth Street, SanTana: mid 1950s. What was so great about these segregated days?
Orange County is a place where booster myths have
masqueraded as fact and history since the days of Serra, but an article in this
month's Orange Coast by former Los Angeles Times writer Agustín Gurza
on SanTana and its Artists Village takes the orange crate label. It starts with the title ("The Resurrection
of Santa Ana," implying the county seat was once dead, which should come as a
surprise to all
