Eat This Now: Sushi at Tabi-Ji

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • April 2, 2014
When you sit at the Tabi-Ji sushi bar, prepare to be fed. This offshoot of Shiki–one of the oldest (if not the oldest and continuously running Japanese restaurants in OC)–is barely months old, but it already has regulars who know that they will...
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