Basilur Tea & Coffee in Buena Park Serves Japanese Soufflé Pancakes

Fluffjacks. Photo by Edwin Goei If you keep up with Japanese culinary trends on YouTube and Instagram, you’ve no doubt heard about the soufflé pancake. It’s the subject of numerous how-to videos, a lot of them featuring overhead shots of mixing...

Boba is bigger than ever these days. In Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, the main characters don’t commiserate at a coffee house a la Central Perk; they go to a place called Cup of Boba. And in Tustin, a city that twenty years ago didn’t have a single boba...

OC Weekly Archives After closing its second store in Huntington Beach and then its original store in Orange, XA Sweet & Savory Cafe has reopened at a new location in Huntington Beach. 18685 Main St, Huntington Beach, CA 92648 Pirates Kitchen has...

Many of us are trapped in the Instagram vortex. In the absence of sleep or anything to do, you scroll and scroll (and scroll) until you pause at a video of someone throwing something into a pan. The ASMR of the sizzling is enough to inspire your...

In last week’s column, I alluded to the flood of San Gabriel Valley Chinese restaurants with the word “Tasty’” tucked somewhere into their English-language names. Depending on whether you count doughnut shops, burger stands or branches of the same...