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May 23, 2012
Sandwich Club, New Banh Mi Shop, Opens in Irvine
If you don't count the Vietnamese restaurants that offer it, Lee's Sandwiches has the monopoly on banh mi in Irvine. Now, not so much. Sandwich Club, the banh mi shop that replaces the crepe maker at Diamond Jamboree, will open tomorrow and its roster not only includes banh mi with cha, grilled pork ... More >>
Blogs
April 26, 2012
Sriracha Lollipops Give You Hot, Hot Lips
We enjoy Sriracha in just about every form--in pho, dried, on infographics, as Etsy products. As our sister blog CIty of Ate has found, there are only a very few things that cock sauce does not go on. Candy is not one of those things.
Blogs
March 26, 2012
Dispatches from the Dave Mau-Cody Requeno Pop-Up at the Crosby Last Week
Sorry for the delay, folks, but behold my write-up from last week's successful pop-up at the Crosby for Dave Mau (the pants-less genius above) and his partner in crime, Cody Requeno. Their four-course meal was home cooking at its most gourmet: no fancy preparation, no weird ingredients, just heap ... More >>
Blogs
February 29, 2012
Make It: Dried Sriracha!
I'm always looking for news ways to integrate Sriracha in my food (and life), so when my friend sent me this Tasting Table recipe for dried Sriracha, I had to make it immediately. Get this: The ingredients include Sriracha and . . . that's it!
Blogs
February 24, 2012
SoCal Has Its Own Pho Challenge
I've heard of people making the trek to San Francisco's Pho Garden to see if they can devour a 4-pound bowl within an hour, but now, there's no longer a need for that journey. D'lite Pho Lee in Rowland Heights has its own pho challenge. Finish its XXL Pho Ribeye--a 4-pound beast--and the restaura ... More >>
Blogs
February 14, 2012
Another Pho Joint To Open In Irvine
I've actually lost count on how many places there now are in Irvine to have pho. I'll date myself in saying that I remember a time where there was exactly one place that did. Last year saw three pho joints opening almost simultaneously as if it were planned that way.Now there's another planned fo ... More >>
Blogs
January 13, 2012
5 Foods That Always Taste Better Made at Restaurants than Made at Home. Always.
If I hear someone pronounce EVOO i-vuu one more time, I'm going to shoot myself...You. Yeah, I know you. Your knife skills are up there with the best line chefs in Orange County. Your knife block costs more than a month of my rent. Every time you watch Top Chef, Chopped, or Iron Chef, you come up ... More >>
Blogs
December 8, 2011
Battle: South County Pho!
ProfessorSalt.comPho King Way's brisket two ways, and a side order of oxtailLittle Saigon's pho shops make the best in the Orange County, and we dare say, the best in the country. That community is home to the largest population of Vietnamese outside of Vietnam, after all. We haven't yet found a ... More >>
Blogs
November 26, 2011
10 Great Pho Places in Orange County
I dare say that I'm the only Forker who has tried pho since our epic Final Pho Tournament earlier this year--but the weather is about to get chilly, so I guarantee Dave, Shuji, and Edwin will slurp anew. For the rest of ustedes, here's the 10 best pho palaces in Orange County--all familiar names, ... More >>
Blogs
October 14, 2011
Stick a Fork In It Reacts to the 2011 OC Weekly Readers' Choice Awards
It's Best Of time . . . you have your dead-tree copies, right? No? Go get one . . . we'll be here when you get back.Unfortunately, whoever was supposed to tabulate the Reader's Choice poll this year into one easy-to-read guide must have had a huge hangover because it's nowhere to be found online- ... More >>
Blogs
September 29, 2011
ShopHouse, Chipotle's New Asian Concept, is Reportedly Good--Now, When is it Coming Out Here?
Chipotle taught the nation how to say chipotle (or was that Jack in the Box?)--is bánh mì next to become a household term? Maybe. ShopHouse Southeast Asian Kitchen, the new build-a-bánh mì (or bowl) casual restaurant concept by the Denver-based burrito chain, opened its doors ... More >>
Blogs
August 17, 2011
Sriracha: Five Etsy Items to Show Your Rooster Sauce Devotion
Etsy user printerettepress It's no secret that around these parts, we really love Sriracha. And other than slathering the spicy Thai condiment on everything from pho to tacos, how else can we show our love for rooster sauce? We took to Etsy, home of just about handmade-everything-you-c ... More >>
Food
August 11, 2011
Dat Thanh Sells Nom Nom Nem Nuong Cuon
[Hole In the Wall] This Westminster family restaurant has the best barbecue spring rolls in OC—but the broken-rice dishes are even better
Blogs
July 22, 2011
No. 60: Pho Ga from Pho Quang Trung
Dave LiebermanWelcome to the Weekly's list of our 100 Favorite Dishes for 2011! Tune in every day until we get to número uno! Now, on to numéro soixante, the latest entry.
Blogs
June 27, 2011
#80: Fish Pho at Pho Vinh Ky II
ProfessorSalt.comFish pho is an unusual star in the galaxy of Vietnamese noodle soup within Little Saigon. Is it because fish filets are trickier to cook perfectly? Is it because fewer restaurants are willing to commit to keeping the more perishable protein on hand? Whatever the reason, only a fe ... More >>
Food
June 23, 2011
Nuoc Mia Mania: Catch It This Summer!
[Hole In the Wall] Where to find the best Vietnamese sugarcane juice in Little Saigon
Blogs
May 27, 2011
Introducing OC Weekly's 100 Favorite Dishes for 2011: No. 100, Lemongrass Chicken, Extra Spicy at Vietnam's Pearl
That's right, folks: Welcome the return of our 100 Favorite Dishes list! How does it differ from last year's supposedly authoritative list? That was 2010; this is 2011, silly! Some dishes from last year will appear on this year's list; some, alas, no longer exist or didn't exist last year. Why ar ... More >>
Blogs
April 27, 2011
Girl Gets a Pho and Sriracha Tattoo
Fuck Yeah, Tattoos!We sure love pho and Sriracha, but this girl wins (or loses?). Via Fuck Yeah, Tattoos! Follow Stick a Fork in it on Twitter @ocweeklyfood or on Facebook!
Blogs
March 25, 2011
Oxford English Dictionary Adds 'Banh Mi' to Dictionary
Ah, the august Oxford English Dictionary (OED), grammatical gatekeeper to all that is proper and just in the world of the English language. The great thing about the tongue of Shakespeare, of course, is how it absorbs foreign words as they inextricably become part of the Empire--and, just this we ... More >>
Blogs
March 11, 2011
Final Pho: The Participants!
Photo by Professor SaltCan a fish pho place take it all?!Behold, the 16 lucky pho shops that Dave, Edwin, Shuji and I have selected to participate in Stick a Fork In It's inaugural Final Pho, the tournament to end all tournaments to finally decide who makes the best pho in Orange County (if not t ... More >>
Blogs
November 26, 2010
Le Van Ba, Founder of Lee's Sandwiches, Dies At 79
Flickr user evangThe San Jose Mercury News reported that Le Van Ba, a sugar baron from Vietnam and the founder of the omnipresent chain of Vietnamese sandwich bakeries, Lee's Sandwiches, died Tuesday from cancer at the age of 79.
Blogs
November 13, 2009
Business Week On Subway's $5 Footlong Success
Fascinating article in Business Week this week about Subway's stumbling into the goldmine that is their current $5 footlong sub deal -- a promotion that started as a lark at an "obscure Miami franchise" and has grown to give the chain $3.8 billion in sales. This is the kind of story professors u ... More >>
Blogs
October 22, 2009
Damn You, Lee's Sandwiches!
Good bánh mì choice for the Iowans; for everyone else, try Bánh Mì Cho Cu or Ba Le...I hadn't been to Lee's Sandwiches in years, but ended up there last week after giving a lecture at UC Irvine. I gasped at the $2.75 price for a bánh mì, but still enjoyed the xa xiu selection, even if the b ... More >>
Food
September 24, 2009
Vietnamese Cajun Crawfish With Funnel Cake for Dessert: Thank You, Q Restaurant
Good bánh mì choice for the Iowans; for everyone else, try Bánh Mì Cho Cu or Ba Le...I hadn't been to Lee's Sandwiches in years, but ended up there last week after giving a lecture at UC Irvine. I gasped at the $2.75 price for a bánh mì, but still enjoyed the xa xiu selection, even if the b ... More >>
Blogs
September 17, 2009
Dueling Dishes: Aioli Smackdown?
The Crow Bar's cool-as-hell logo...Few culinary trends annoy me more than the spread of aiolis (pun intended)--just seeing the term on most any menu is a tell that the chef imagines himself to be some high-falutin', fusion-y maestro who's going to blow you away with something that's really glorif ... More >>
Blogs
August 17, 2009
Top Five Lunch Trucks I'd Like To See Roving Orange County
Edwin Goei After my friends and I saw the ridiculously long line at the Kogi stop in Costa Mesa this past Saturday, we turned around and left to have some Taco Mesa. But I got to thinking, what other foods might do well in Orange County via lonchera (other than tacos, which are already a s ... More >>
Food
August 13, 2009
[Hole in the Wall] The Soup and Cubism Special at Cafe Picasso
Edwin Goei After my friends and I saw the ridiculously long line at the Kogi stop in Costa Mesa this past Saturday, we turned around and left to have some Taco Mesa. But I got to thinking, what other foods might do well in Orange County via lonchera (other than tacos, which are already a s ... More >>
Blogs
May 22, 2009
This Week In Food
This week in SAFII:There was plenty of good news, in terms of appointments (Craig Strong as Executive Chef of Studio, at the Montage Laguna Beach), openings (a froyo shop--natch--a gelato shop attached to a Thai restaurant (of course!!) and a sparkly Vietnamese) and resurrections (Carl's Jr's Portob ... More >>
Food
October 16, 2008
[This Hole-in-the-Wall Life] Five-Napkin Pho at Pho Vie II
This week in SAFII:There was plenty of good news, in terms of appointments (Craig Strong as Executive Chef of Studio, at the Montage Laguna Beach), openings (a froyo shop--natch--a gelato shop attached to a Thai restaurant (of course!!) and a sparkly Vietnamese) and resurrections (Carl's Jr's Portob ... More >>
Blogs
October 3, 2008
Pho Cures All, Especially Pho Hien Vuong
HACK! SPLUT! COUGH! Sorry for the non-blogging 'round these parts, folks, but HACK! HACK! ACHOO! I got a nasty cold-turned-into-fever from visiting Minnesota earlier this week PHLEGM MUCUS BARBARA COE. Turns out my Weekly keeper, Nick Schou, was also sick, so we hit up our favorite remedy yesterday: ... More >>
Food
September 11, 2008
[This Hole-In-the-Wall Life] Where the Clucker Is Queen: Pho Dakao
HACK! SPLUT! COUGH! Sorry for the non-blogging 'round these parts, folks, but HACK! HACK! ACHOO! I got a nasty cold-turned-into-fever from visiting Minnesota earlier this week PHLEGM MUCUS BARBARA COE. Turns out my Weekly keeper, Nick Schou, was also sick, so we hit up our favorite remedy yesterday: ... More >>
Food
August 7, 2008
[Food Issue 2008] For Our Recessionary Times, 54 Orange County Meal Deals Between 99 Cents and $15
HACK! SPLUT! COUGH! Sorry for the non-blogging 'round these parts, folks, but HACK! HACK! ACHOO! I got a nasty cold-turned-into-fever from visiting Minnesota earlier this week PHLEGM MUCUS BARBARA COE. Turns out my Weekly keeper, Nick Schou, was also sick, so we hit up our favorite remedy yesterday: ... More >>
Blogs
July 13, 2008
Benley is Vietnamese food with an asterisk
First things first: if you are Vietnamese or otherwise familiar with the culinary terrain and back alleyways of Little Saigon, stop reading right now. If you do not heed this warning, I will not be responsible for the damage your spit-take will do to your computer screens. The restaurant I'm about ... More >>
Food
March 13, 2008
[This Hole-In-the-Wall Life] Vital Viet Vittles at Tan Hoang Huong Bakery
First things first: if you are Vietnamese or otherwise familiar with the culinary terrain and back alleyways of Little Saigon, stop reading right now. If you do not heed this warning, I will not be responsible for the damage your spit-take will do to your computer screens. The restaurant I'm about ... More >>
Food
February 14, 2008
Broken rice at Com Tam Tran Quy Cap in Fountain Valley
First things first: if you are Vietnamese or otherwise familiar with the culinary terrain and back alleyways of Little Saigon, stop reading right now. If you do not heed this warning, I will not be responsible for the damage your spit-take will do to your computer screens. The restaurant I'm about ... More >>
Columns
January 17, 2008
Letters
'Normally, writers of your muckracking calibur would drop the context out of a quote, but you actually left it in. Thanks for doing half the job for me'
Food
November 15, 2007
This Hole-in-the-Wall Life
The Hue of Things
Food
June 28, 2007
This Hole-in-the-Wall Life
Pricey (Get Over It) Sandwiches at Zon Baguettes
Food
February 15, 2007
This Hole-in-the-Wall Life
Your moment of Zen: Zen Vegetarian Restaurant
Food
January 11, 2007
This Hole-in-the-Wall Life
Shrimp and Yam Get Married
Food
August 10, 2006
Cock & Bull
Eating bull penis at Pho Nguyen Hue
Food
April 6, 2006
What the Pho?
Vietnam Pearl serves just what the doctor ordered
Food
February 9, 2006
Stately Soup
High-end pho reaches Little Saigon at Quan Hop
Food
December 8, 2005
This Hole-in-the-Wall Life
24-Hour Pho
Features
October 20, 2005
Westminster
24-Hour Pho
Food
July 14, 2005
The Asian Persuasion
Great Asian restaurants, and the Asians (and Chuck Devore) who love them
Food
March 24, 2005
Banh Mi, Dont Be a Hero
Trawling for the countys best Vietnamese sandwiches
Food
April 10, 2003
Temple of Tofu
Luck for everyone at Van Hanh Vietnamese Restaurant
Food
June 13, 2002
Mmmmmm, Subjugation
Banh mi and tortas: The French connection
Food
January 17, 2002
Pho-buloso!
El Camino, Kim Loan bridge the Soup Divide
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