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This one needs at least this hint: The Costa Mesa restaurant that served this no longer exists. And when it did, it only appeared at night. So where did I eat this dish?
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Before becoming an award-winning restaurant critic for OC Weekly in 2007, Edwin Goei went by the alias “elmomonster” on his blog Monster Munching, in which he once wrote a whole review in haiku.