Best thing I ate: It’s like strawberry shortcake but better

Critic Brad A. Johnson says he didn’t want to love the strawberry milk foam dessert at a new boba tea shop in Costa Mesa, but the Strawberry Princess had other plans.
Brad A. Johnson • Orange County Register • June 30, 2021
“Please let it be terrible.” When I heard that a new boba tea shop had opened in Costa Mesa in the same overcrowded complex as Kitakata Ramen Ban Nai, that’s the thought that immediately rang through my head: “Please let it be terrible.” It’s not...
The full article can be read on the Orange County Register website.

Related Articles

Eat This Now: Cheesecake at L’uxweet

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • January 17, 2018
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...

Leaf n Cream, Boba and Ice Cream Shop, Opens In Tustin

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • July 28, 2015
I admit I was wrong. In more than a couple of posts here and on my personal blog, when I noticed the boba milk scene stagnating in the aughts, I prematurely pronounced that the boba milk tea craze was finally dead or dying. Even as the old...

Eat This Now: Coconut Strawberry at It's Boba Time

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • November 5, 2014
If you've been to any new boba shop or Asian drink/dessert shop lately, you've probably noticed that they like lists–Top Tens of their most popular items, to be exact. “It's Boba Time” (yes, that's the whole name), the new outlet of the drink...

Eat This Now: Popcorn Chicken Salad at Guppy House

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • January 23, 2013
Can you still call a dish that's half fried chicken a salad? Probably not. But who cares? This, ladies and gents, is the salad you want to eat when you want to say you ate a salad, but you were actually craving something fried and something...

Best thing I ate: My new favorite fish at Momoyama in Fountain Valley

Brad A. Johnson • Orange County Register • December 2, 2021
Last January when the pandemic was at its peak, I wrote about the takeout from Momoyama, a new sushi restaurant n Fountain Valley from chef Taiki Kuramoto, a longtime veteran of the upscale Hamamori in Costa Mesa. I said I would make it a priority...