Kaya Street Kitchen In Aliso Viejo Tries to Introduce Indonesian Food to the Masses

As with many of its food-truck contemporaries, Chomp Chomp Nation, OC's first and only Singaporean food truck, has gone brick-and-mortar. Well, sort of; it's actually gone “food court.” It now operates as a permanent counter next to other vendors...

In an article reviewing the original Kaya Street Kitchen in LA, LA Times labeled Kaya Street Kitchen as the “Asian Chipotle.” But really, what doesn't follow the Chipotle model these days? Kaya Street Kitchen definitely does. It's a build-your-own...

In one of his earlier standup routines, Jim Gaffigan had a great joke on how, during his time as a waiter at a Mexican restaurant in Indiana, he had to deal with clueless customer questions about the menu. They'd ask him, “What is nachos? What is...

This episode of Dueling Dishes is about soft tofu. Korean soft tofu. This week we pit together two houses of curd, BCD Tofu House and Kaya, who compete in the same town, serving the same dish. That town would be Irvine, where there exists six or...

Unless you're Indonesian or married to one, it's probably safe to assume you've never heard of gudeg, a dish of young jackfruit braised in coconut milk, palm sugar and spices until it turns soft and ruddy. In OC, where Indonesian food is too often...