Happy Dining, OC's First “Dry Pot” Restaurant, Opens in Irvine

The Dungeness crab at Hip Hot, Tiantian Qiu’s Monterey Park Sichuan seafood restaurant, is stir-fried with ungodly amounts of chiles and Sichuan peppercorn, tossed with potatoes and vegetables, and served in a gleaming heap. It has been expertly...

Water-boiled fish is one of the most impressive dishes in the Sichuan repertoire: an enormous bowl of vegetables and broth bloodied with a half-inch of vivid chile oil. At Fang’s Kitchen, the sleek new Chengdu-style Sichuan restaurant in Monterey...

Happy Chinese New Year! Red envelopes and lion dances for all! If you want to celebrate at a Chinese restaurant, and I can’t see why you wouldn’t, here are a few places to ring in the Year of the Rooster.   Ask Jonathan Goldbot where to eat on...

I'm not saying that Boiling Point's opening of their second Irvine restaurant mere steps away from the first one was planned to coincide with the coldest week we've had all year, but boy is it good timing. This kind of weather is made for their...

I'm not saying that Boiling Point's opening of their second Irvine restaurant mere steps away from the first one was planned to coincide with the coldest week we've had all year, but boy is it good timing. This kind of weather is made for their...