Best thing I ate: Finally, this is how Thai curry is meant to be made

“Do you like it spicy?” I love hearing those words. It’s a question I got recently from the cashier at Southern Spice in Irvine. When I said, “Yes. Yes I do,” she steered me toward an incredible eggplant curry. “You want it spicy?” asked a...

Long Beach’s Anaheim Street is to Cambodians what OC’s Bolsa Avenue is to Vietnamese. And for close to eight years, one of the most successful and beloved restaurants there was Sophy’s Thai and Cambodian. But in late 2008—a year after the largest...

Global GrooveCafé Piccolo stuffs Thai and Indian cuisine into its Italian   Though many have asked why a paper called OC Weekly also covers Long Beach, the fact that we do gives this reviewer an additional 50 square miles to explore. And thank...

Angkor Management Cambodian food with decibels at Hak Heang Put down that Big Mac for a second and come with me on a trip to Cambodia by way of Long Beach's Anaheim Street, a claustrophobic stretch of road better-known as Little Phnom Penh, where...

The best thing you can order at Coastal Kitchen is also the unhealthiest thing: the pork belly bites. What is it? Well, it's pork belly, covered in a corndog-like batter, deep fried to a crunchy golden brown. It's a good thing that Coastal Kitchen...