Starting today (Thursday, July 16) and lasting until this Sunday, Mitsuwa in Costa Mesa is hosting their Kyusyu and Okinawa Fair, celebrating foods from those regions.
If you can read Japanese, you can check out more details on their website, which I link HERE. Or, just go. I'm pretty sure there will be udon of the stir fried variety, cream puffs stuffed with custard pudding, and more than enough vittles to satisfy your Japanese food jones.
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.