Best thing I ate: Ramen so rich it should come with a defibrillator

Ramen noodle soup comes in many forms. The ultimate ramen, for me, is made with a rich, decadent pork-bone broth loaded with so much collagen that the soup appears milky and viscous, like the ones at HiroNori, Kopan and Yoshiharu. The problem with...

There's a new izakaya in Fullerton. No, not Honda Ya. That's old news. Izakaya Kopan is taking over the spot of Red Chopsticks, a pho purveyor located next to the popular sushi joint Chomp at 141 E. Commonwealth Ave. ] According to a Facebook...

I think all of us who write and review restaurants get this question asked at least once, “Aren't you worried that you'll some day run out of restaurants to write about?” The answer is, of course, that it's impossible. Just as nurses will always...

Kopan Ramen, which has multiple locations including branches in Fullerton and Rowland Heights, has opened a new store in Garden Grove. 10031 Garden Grove Blvd., Garden Grove, CA 92844 A new coffee shop called Coffee Muse has opened in Santa Ana,...

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...