100 Favorite OC Dishes, #65: Chanko Nabe at Torizo

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • July 26, 2016
You’ve may have hot pots before. Orange County has a menagerie of them, from nearly every country in Asia you can name. But have you had the one from Japan that feeds its sumo wrestlers? It’s called chanko nabe, and it’s essentially a stew of...
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