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Fu Wing Low: Young At Heart
[Hole In the Wall] This Fountain Valley restaurant is a Chinese-American classic
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February 21, 2013
"I'll have what I always get," said the middle-aged man upon entering Fu Wing Low, sounding as satisfied as Mike Trout flying across the outfield... More >>
Thanh Ha's Crepe Expectations The Vietnamese crepes at this Westminster restaurant are a worthy challenger to those at the venerable Van's Restaurant
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February 14, 2013
You're one of two kinds of bánh xèo eater. Are you the kind that takes a whole leaf of lettuce to wrap a shard or two of the crispy Vietnamese... More >>
Nubia Cafe Is the Jewel of Little Arabia
[Hole In the Wall] This Anaheim hookah lounge bests its competition with great food
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February 14, 2013
Anaheim's Little Arabia neighborhood has a slew of hookah lounges, each favored by a certain segment of the county's vast Middle Eastern/Muslim... More >>
Rebel Bite's Headquarters This Long Beach luxe lonchera settles down to become a great restaurant
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February 07, 2013
Did you know that Rebel Bite, a newly minted restaurant in Long Beach, used to be a food truck? I only realized this when I saw a mention of it... More >>
Buns N Rice: The Chosun Ones
[Hole In the Wall] This Costa Mesa deli is slowly introducing office drones to Korean cuisine
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February 07, 2013
If Cambodians run the doughnut-shop industry in Orange County and Cuernavacans the loncheras, then Koreans are surely the masters of the... More >>
The Globe's Beer Goggles This Garden Grove tavern appears to be from a previous era, but its Belgian beers and food are wonderful
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January 31, 2013
You'd be mistaken if you assumed the Globe was just another newfangled, fashionably modern gastropub. It may bill itself as that, but when you... More >>
301 Cafe Is a Cal-Mex Shrine
[Hole In the Wall] This Placentia dive serves chimichangas, enchiladas, and the best wet burrito around
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January 31, 2013
If you haven't checked out our cover story this week, make sure to do it now: It's one big love letter to beer in OC, pegged to promote our... More >>
Scraps: The Real Asian Tapas This Huntington Beach restaurant serves small plates with promising, if as-yet unfulfilled, results
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January 24, 2013
The first topic of conversation that might come up when you go to Scraps will probably be the same one that came up for us: "Scraps" isn't the... More >>
Pho Song Hai's Drip In Time
[Hole In the Wall] This Westminster pho shop sells a unique type of the legendary chicken soup
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January 24, 2013
Make sure to take a book when you visit Pho Song Hai—may I suggest The Iliad or something similarly hefty? Because the wait will be long—like,... More >>
Earl of Sandwich Is Hardly Upper Crust Downtown Disney is the latest conquest by the growing chain
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January 17, 2013
The story behind the Earl of Sandwich chain sounds too surreal to be true. The men behind it are none other than the actual 11th Earl of Sandwich... More >>
Ararat Armenian's Second-Gen Success Story
[Hole In the Wall] This Anaheim restaurant manages to serve great Armenian and Middle Eastern cuisine from a hidden location
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January 17, 2013
Three restaurants in Anaheim have confounded me for most of my adult life for their ability to stay open. One is Tony's Deli off Anaheim... More >>
Soy Tofu: Tofu or Not Tofu This La Palma Korean dive serves soft tofu soup to warm your bones
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January 10, 2013
It's cold out. Rainy, in fact. The wind pricks at your face as though made of daggers of ice, and you can't remember the last time your toes... More >>
Bristol Food Court: Multi-Culti Mexi
[Hole In the Wall] This Santa Ana collection sells Chinese, Vietnamese, Turkish—and, of course, Mexican food
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January 10, 2013
Perhaps no shopping plaza in Orange County is more Mexican than the one occupying the southwest corner of Bristol Street and McFadden Avenue in... More >>
Wild Goose Tavern's Sausage Party The new Costa Mesa eatery knows its wieners
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January 03, 2013
A lovely loaf cradles the sausage sandwiches at Wild Goose Tavern. It's big and pillowy, thicker than the average hot-dog bun, and when you bite... More >>
The Grilled Cheese Spot Is Spot-On
[Hole In the Wall] Aron Habiger's Santa Ana restaurant makes nothing but grilled-cheese sandwiches—brilliant!
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January 03, 2013
It's the restaurant launched by a simple $5 sandwich, this Grilled Cheese Spot, this cubby hole of a gem that's as close to an NYC state of... More >>
Read Stick a Fork In It! If you're still not reading our food, then you're mean
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December 27, 2012
So you like our food section in this infernal rag? You don't know the half of it. Every day, our Stick a Fork In It blog brings you the best in... More >>
The Attic: Old Folks At Home The Long Beach gem serves great Southern fare in a creaky Craftsman house
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December 20, 2012
I'm seated next to an honest-to-goodness fireplace in a Craftsman house built in the 1920s. When a server walks past carrying a tray loaded with... More >>
Go to Nimroz for an Afghan Holiday
[Hole In the Wall] This Lake Forest restaurant is lonely, so go give it some love!
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December 20, 2012
The view outside Nimroz in Lake Forest right now is out of a New England township come fall. Deciduous trees are losing their leaves; their... More >>
Embarcadero: The San Francisco Treat The bistro brings a little bit of the Bay Area to the boonies we call RSM
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December 13, 2012
You're on the 241, heading as far east as you can go before hitting the Cleveland National Forest. The LA radio station you're tuned to begins to... More >>
Koo's Catering Truck: Are You Hot for Hotteok?
[Hole In the Wall] This Garden Grove food truck makes awesome Korean pancakes—but they're not pancakes!
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December 13, 2012
Koo's Catering Truck is a misnomer in many ways. It's not, for instance, associated with the late, great Koo's Café of local DIY fame. It doesn't... More >>
Au NatuRaw: Cooks Who Don't Cook The Santa Ana eatery offers raw food to downtown Santa Ana
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December 06, 2012
I respect the dietary choices made by all vegans and vegetarians, but I'm particularly in awe of the commitment required by the raw-food... More >>
Rance's Chicago Pizza Serves Cheesy Bricks
[Hole In the Wall] This Costa Mesa spot makes legit Windy City-style deep-dish and stuffed pies
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December 06, 2012
Rance Ruiz is planning for something big—you can sense it upon entering his eponymous spot in Costa Mesa. IPAs and other craft beers flow from... More >>
The Ally Goes All In The Garden Grove restaurant has an overachieving, enthusiastically erratic menu that includes a killer spaghetti dish
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November 29, 2012
I nearly choked on my water when a tablemate called his dish of spaghetti with ground beef, bacon and a fried egg "trailer-park food." Since he... More >>
Phuong Restaurant's Viet Funk
[Hole In the Wall] This Garden Grove classic serves messy, wonderful bowls of soup and noodles
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November 29, 2012
Even in the messy world of Vietnamese dining—in which the gentlest noodle slurp unleashes a cascade of soup drippings; a bite into a bánh mì... More >>
Dana Point's the Point: Spot On Check out this bar where kids are welcome
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November 21, 2012
Who says you can't take your kids to a bar? That's the point of the Point, a new bar and restaurant that pretty much encourages you to do so.... More >>
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At Inka Mama's, Mami Knows Best
There used to be a different Peruvian restaurant at the very spot Inka Mama's has recently claimed as its fourth Orange County location. By all accounts, it did a very… More >>
Pho Quyen: Absolutely Sweet Little Saigon
We're now reaching a point in Little Saigon's history where the old-school places are slowly but surely changing. Some are closing shop; others are moving to richer environs in South… More >>
For a Hot Time In Old Huntington, Go to the Black Trumpet Bistro
The eateries you'll see on the 5-mile stretch of Beach Boulevard as it extends from the 405 down to Pacific Coast Highway can have the randomness of what sticks on… More >>
Chixy Natural: Twirl-a-Bird
"Hey, man, you still going to use that?" the surfer-ish type guy asked as I scarfed down my meal at Chixy Natural. Oh, my lack of manners! This Costa Mesa… More >>
Urban Seoul's Bulgogi Nation
It's impossible to talk about Urban Seoul without mentioning Roy Choi, the creator of Kogi, the pioneer of luxe loncheras, America's unofficial ambassador to everything hipster ethnic, last seen traipsing… More >>
Delicias Peruanas' Great Chicken Salad?
You know what is the most overlooked city in Orange County? Lake Forest. It's a seeming no-man's-land between North and South County, a place where the politics are dirty, the… More >>
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