Is the Limited Supply of the One Dish Yang’s Braised Chicken Rice Makes Worth the Long Lines?

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • October 19, 2017
For a place that makes only one dish, the hype for Yang’s Braised Chicken Rice was deafening. Word that the restaurant—the first U.S. outpost of a Chinese chain with 6,000 locations in Asia and Australia—was opening in Tustin spread like juicy...
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