Ken N Mary Morrone's Hot Dog Stand at REI in Santa Ana

“Hey Brad, where should I eat this week?”  I hear some version of that question every day, so one might think I’d have a canned answer queued up and ready to go. More often than not, I’ve replied “Hana re.” Or else Taco Maria or Vaca. Looking back...

Burger Boss, the burger chain that allows you to customize your burger order via a giant touch screen, has opened at the Village at Tustin Legacy. The official grand opening festivities will happen this Saturday, September 30. 15080 Kensington...

“Are you on Yelp?” the waitress at Mizuki asked when she noticed my camera on the table. “No,” I replied. “We’re getting pounded on there,” she said and sighed, a pained expression clouding her once-bright smile. I pretended like I had no idea,...

Two stories involving Chinese food caught my attention last week. First, there's local news about what is arguably one of OC's best Chinese restaurants, China Garden in Irvine. Fellow OC Food Blogger Julian Hsu has the scoop. In his post, he...

Ah, the xiao long bao. Shanghainese in origin, these diminutive dumplings begin life as balls of raw, minced pork embedded with bits of aspic. The pork morsels are then carefully wrapped around flattened rounds of dough, their tops pleated into...