Jollibee, Red Ribbon, & Valerio's To Open In Irvine With Seafood City

I used to joke that there are a total of two Filipinos in Irvine and I knew both of them. I reasoned that this was why there was no Filipino restaurants and markets in the Kingdom of Bren and will never be. But then Seafood City opened up and...

If you aren't Filipino or haven't been to the Seafood City in Cerritos, you'd probably think it's some sort of Chinese restaurant. It isn't. It is a supermarket–a Filipino one that is opening its first store in Orange County at a space vacated by...

Filipino Fill-UpReaching maximum capacity and then some at Ellen’s Pinoy Grille Filipino food has been misunderstood, underappreciated and disrespected—even by me. When I was younger, I got exposed to it at catered events (weddings, baptisms)...

When you hit Irenia at the right time in the afternoon, maybe late on a Saturday when the lunch rush has faded away, you may run into a couple of old guys who look as if they’ve never left their table in the bar, nursing bottles of San Miguel and...

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We are here once again at the Far East Plaza, the modest Chinatown mall that is home to the recently reviewed Howlin’ Ray’s, Pok Pok Phat Thai and Chego, among other players in the current food movement. We are in Unit 120, the self-described...