Happy Family Mocks Meat

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • December 16, 2010
More than six months have passed since Happy Family Vegetarian replaced May Garden in Costa Mesa, but practically every other person who walks in the door asks the same question: “What happened to May Garden?” One night, the hostess, by now no...
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