Meizhou Dongpo Serves Upscale Meals for Irvine’s Chinese Nouveau Riche

Let us contemplate for a moment the phenomenon of la zi ji, the known in Sichuan-style restaurants as spicy fried chicken, Chungking fried chicken, Chongqing spicy chicken, chicken with chilies, or spicy diced chicken. A proper plate of la zi ji...

Looking forward to the summer? We’re too! Our new summer items are on their way! pic.twitter.com/PtUBJNNu5l — Meizhou Dongpo U.S. (@MeizhouDongpo) July 6, 2015 Irvine’s Marie Callender’s Restaurant closed this week after its landlord, The Irvine...

A new ice cream and dessert shop called Birthdae Cake has opened in Fountain Valley. Its signature flavor is called, you guessed it, “Birthdae Cake”—ice cream with cake pieces, cake batter, toasted milk and sprinkles. Other flavors include Red...

The menu at Meizhou Dongpo, a new Sichuan restaurant in Irvine, looks almost like a children’s book. A dozen oversized pages are filled with big, beautiful photos. Nearly every dish on the menu is illustrated. I look around the room on my first...

What’s your favorite celebration meal? For me, it depends on the day. It might be an entire bag of potato chips swiped through my colleague Ben Mims’ fried-onion chile crisp dip. Or a bucket of fried chicken from Tokyo Fried Chicken with extra...