100 Favorite OC Dishes, #26: Sauteed Shrimp at Cafe Hiro

As we said in our Best Of OC Issue (out today): Sushi Noguchi is the best sushi restaurant in Orange County. Now, what to order? Everything, but especially Hiro's Omakase. But if you're too light on the finances this month to spend the $100 per...

Until I'm lucky enough to be invited by a Vietnamese family to their home for dinner, Mai's Kitchen is, to my knowledge, the only restaurant in Orange County that specializes in Vietnamese family-style home cooking. These are meals that consist of...

I did a double-take when the Jidori chicken schnitzel at Ironwood landed on our table with a thud. It's covered end-to-end in golden-brown breading and has a surface area so large you could pick it up and wear it as a scarf. “Do chickens have...

If you’re a regular of Cafe Hiro, Hiro Ohiwa’s charming Japanese-Italian cafe in Cypress, you’ve surely have heard the Hawaiian music he loops as a soundtrack. I’ve been eating there for more than a decade, and it’s always been either Israel...

As I said in my review, eating at Mountain is like being fed by an army of Korean mothers and aunts who who want nothing else but to see you well-fed and happy. Upon seeing that we finished the first serving of their sweet potato salad panchan,...