Capital Seafood's Glitzy New Irvine Location Fits Right Into Diamond Jamboree Plaza

Time to Crown Royal?China Garden is still the king of IrvineNs Chinese restaurant scene, but Royal Kitchen just might be cooking up a palace coup For years now, Irvine has needed a Chinese restaurant to come along and break the monopolizing...

Legend has it that ma po tofu is named after its creator, a woman with pockmarks on her face who first popularized the dish in China's Sichuan province. You see, ma po loosely translates to “pock-marked woman”, as I'm sure our resident translator...

Barbecue-pork-filled buns at Tim Ho Wan. Photo by Edwin Goei A Taiwanese co-worker had something to tell me: He said he’d just gone to a new restaurant I’d be interested in. But before he even got the chance to pull the business card out of his...

If we're in a recession, someone forgot to tell the Chinese. Yesterday, the dim sum crowd at New Capital in Rowland Heights was as crazy as always.  Judging by the number of people milling about outside waiting for a table, this go-to place for...

The last time I had a perfect plate of Hainan chicken rice, it was in Singapore at some random hawker center I probably couldn't locate now if you gave me a map. Other than Savoy Kitchen in Alhambra, the undisputed king of Hainan chicken rice in...