EMC Seafood & Raw Bar in Irvine Has an Ocean’s Worth of Treats

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • July 27, 2016
When you see uni pasta on the menu, do your eyes, like mine, gravitate toward it as though sparklers surrounded it? It seems to have become de rigueur at every Asian fusion restaurant that’s opened in the past few years. Fusion Bites, inside...
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