100 Favorite OC Dishes, #29: Bentos at Tenkatori

When done properly, chicken karaage are wondrous things. Though you think you've never had them, you probably have: On some poorly translated menus, I've seen them called sesame chicken, even though sesame doesn't always figure into the list of...

On this week’s episode of "The Bucket List," we head to Tokyo. Well, we head back to last year, when I was in Tokyo with some friends, running around eating ramen, aged sushi, really expensive fruit and, of course, karaage. When most people in the...

Baker Street in Costa Mesa is California’s Ramen Row. There is no other street or neighborhood — not even L.A.’s Little Tokyo or San Francisco’s Japantown — that is so richly saturated with Japanese ramen noodle soup as Baker Street. Until a few...

As we said in a previous post, the Honda-Ya empire has claimed a shuttered sushi joint in Costa Mesa and turned it into a take-out joint. And this week, it opened for business. Honda-Ya Box, as promised by the Honda-Ya person I spoke to months...

If you’re ever stuck in a rut of sushi, ramen, and teriyaki, wondering what else is out there, try these ten other great Japanese dishes that you can eat right now in OC. Bento (Lunch Box) at Mitsuwa You can go at lunch time to get a bento box...