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Wing Lam

  • Food

    June 22, 2000

    Yahoo for Wahoos

    Theres no better fish taco. Period.

  • Columns

    March 14, 2002

    The Moral of the Story

    Its a tough road to ho

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2008

    The Curious Case of the Crapping Minuteman

    A couple of weeks ago, I received a fascinating envelope with the claim that a Minuteman Project member sent a racist letter to Wahoo's Fish Tacos founder Wing Lam AND took a shit in a Wahoo's trash can. The envelope carried a letter purportedly written by Minuteman Project member Brian Gilmore, and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2009

    Wahoo's Fish Tacos Turns Twenty-Years-Old

    Twenty years. That's how long Wahoo's Fish Tacos has been in business. When surfer dudes Wing Lam, Ed Lee and Mingo Lee opened their first Wahoo's in Costa Mesa, the original Batman with Nicholson as the Joker was the big movie. The Simpsons were still on Tracey Ullman. And me? Well, I was still ... More >>

  • Unknown

    February 28, 2002

    Award Addendum

    Twenty years. That's how long Wahoo's Fish Tacos has been in business. When surfer dudes Wing Lam, Ed Lee and Mingo Lee opened their first Wahoo's in Costa Mesa, the original Batman with Nicholson as the Joker was the big movie. The Simpsons were still on Tracey Ullman. And me? Well, I was still ... More >>

  • Food

    November 10, 2005

    This Week in Picking Restaurants by Pointing Blindly at My Computer Screen

    Twenty years. That's how long Wahoo's Fish Tacos has been in business. When surfer dudes Wing Lam, Ed Lee and Mingo Lee opened their first Wahoo's in Costa Mesa, the original Batman with Nicholson as the Joker was the big movie. The Simpsons were still on Tracey Ullman. And me? Well, I was still ... More >>

  • Columns

    September 2, 2004

    Gina Is a Punk Rocker

    We cause trouble at Patti Smith, Chris Isaak, the Hut and the Watermans Ball

  • Features

    October 24, 2002

    C

    We cause trouble at Patti Smith, Chris Isaak, the Hut and the Watermans Ball

  • Music

    April 11, 2002

    Huzzah! Huzzah!

    We cause trouble at Patti Smith, Chris Isaak, the Hut and the Watermans Ball

  • Columns

    April 11, 2002

    Dude, Wheres My Envelope?

    And white dopes are punks

  • Columns

    December 13, 2001

    Bar-Hopping Mod

    24 hours of hooch, music and tableaux

  • Unknown

    October 11, 2001

    Jesus Christ on a Bike

    24 hours of hooch, music and tableaux

  • Blogs

    December 18, 2009

    [UPDATED:] Deadline Looms in Quest to Raise $40,000 in 40 Days for Soup Kitchen

    ​The clock is ticking on a local businessman's campaign to raise $40,000 in 40 days for the Someone Cares Soup Kitchen in Costa Mesa.UPDATE: The campaign goes out with a bang as hundreds of volunteers are expected to work alongside such community leaders as Anton Segerstrom, Wahoo's Wing Lam, Edua ... More >>

  • Food

    March 4, 2010

    How Far Can Dexter Holland's Gringo Bandito Go?

    What started as a gag gift by the Offspring singer is becoming a serious business

  • Blogs

    June 11, 2010

    Someone Cares Soup Kitchen Fetes Wahoo's Fish Taco Founders and Their Mom

    ​The building on 19th Street in Costa Mesa that for 14 years has housed the Someone Cares Soup Kitchen was previously a Chinese restaurant run by So Ching Lee, whose sons Wing Lam, Ed Lee and Mingo Lee would go on to create the Wahoo's Fish Taco empire.Based on that simple handshake deal between M ... More >>

  • News

    September 2, 2010

    Killer Quince

    Happy Quinceañera to us! A look back at 15 years of telling the other side (that is, the real side) of OC's story

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2011

    On The Line: Wing Lam of Wahoo's Fish Taco, Part Three

    Photo by Meranda Carter​What else can we say about Wahoo's co-founder Wing Lam that we haven't already covered? How about that he's teaching at both Chapman and Concordia Universities (this fall and winter, respectively.)? A man that can often be found on his company's taco truck serving the local ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 17, 2011

    Wing Lam of Wahoo's Fish Taco Adds a Side of Road Opposition to His Latest Ford Commercial

    Photo by Meranda Carter/OC Weekly​Give Wahoo's Fish Taco co-founder Wing Lam credit for working his Mexican food chain into widely seen television commercials for other companies. In 2000, he and his righteous whiskers appeared in a national spot for Merrill Lynch and its small business services. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2011

    On the Line: Alan Greeley of the Golden Truffle, Part Two

    Photo by Meranda Carter​As the bustle of Newport Avenue traffic passes by, chef Alan Greeley tackles more of our journalistic inquiries, like how many degrees of separation are between him and a previous On the Line subject. With a full liquor license now under his belt, Greeley fixed up a special ... More >>

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