Gyutan Tsukasa's Tongue-on-Tongue Action

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • June 20, 2013

You won't see any English signage to indicate you've found Gyutan Tsukasa or any warning that what you're about to eat is beef tongue. If you're unfamiliar with it and don't know it's from Sendai, Japan—one of the first beef tongue specialists...

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Mitsuwa Costa Mesa Adds A Beer Vendor

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • June 8, 2015

Mitsuwa Costa Mesa, Orange County's preeminent Japanese food court, now has a beer vendor called New Japan Beer Company. It serves just four beers in 16-ounce plastic cups starting at $4.75. Three of them are the trinity of Kirin, Sapporo, and...

Gyu-Tan, Beef Tongue Restaurant, Opens at Mitsuwa Marketplace in Costa Mesa

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • April 9, 2013

Here's how I know we've come a long way from teriyaki chicken bowls: A new restaurant inside Mitsuwa Marketplace called Gyutan Tsukasa is a beef tongue specialist. The original Gyutan Tsukasa hails from Sendai, Japan and serves the BBQ'd meat...

Ten Great Beef Meals in OC and Long Beach

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • October 18, 2013

This list is designed so that you can have a cow. Steak is, of course, represented. There's also a burger in there, because, well, what better foodstuff has this creature from the subfamily Bovinae given to humanity? Without further ado, here are...

Review: This new Irvine ramen shop is a real tongue pleaser

Brad A. Johnson • Orange County Register • August 19, 2021

The great ramen swarm continues. More than a half dozen additional ramen shops have opened in Orange County in the past six months, and the most impressive of this new crop is Gyutan Ramen in Irvine’s University Center. “Gyutan” is the Japanese...

Review: Lebanese food done right at Mona's Kitchen in Tarzana

Bill Addison • Los Angeles Times • December 19, 2019

Samke harra means “spicy fish” in Lebanese Arabic, though the dish — usually flavored with some variation of garlic, cilantro and nuts — rarely smolders with anything more than a flicker of cayenne. Originally a staple of Tripoli, Lebanon’s...