What I thought I was watching last night as I sat down in front of the TV to eat dinner was one of those incessant “Food Paradise” shows, which, frankly, I've grown tired of. It only takes a hundred pronouncements by the people they interview proclaiming their local hot dog, burger or BBQ is “to die for” for it to get old. But as I was about to change the channel, I realized this wasn't that show, but a new show called “Fast Foods Gone Global”…and was that Irvine's 85°C Bakery they're going to profile next? And Yoshinoya? And Din Tai Fung? And Beard Papa's? And IKEA's meatballs?
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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.