The vacant spots next to Gina's Pizza in the Albertsons-anchored shopping mall near UC Irvine are getting new tenants. It was in January that Saigon Basil, the Vietnamese restaurant that replaced the long-lived Oriental Kitchen, folded.
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And now we're getting another Asian restaurant in its place. MJ Cafe Express looks to be affliated with the eatery of the same name in Monterey Park, which serves boba drinks and Taiwanese food.
Next door to MJ will be another branch of the slowly growing sandwich chain Which Wich . . . which made my list of 10 Great Sandwiches in OC.
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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.