Object of Desire: Kakiage, the Bloomin' Onion of the tempura world

Perhaps you are in Little Tokyo, as one often is, and you are in the mood for noodles, and you fear that you may perish from hunger, pure hunger, if you are forced to endure the wait at either Daikokuya or Shin-Sen-Gumi.

Jonathan Gold • Los Angeles Times • January 7, 2015

Perhaps you are in Little Tokyo, as one often is, and you are in the mood for noodles, and you fear that you may perish from hunger, pure hunger, if you are forced to endure the wait at either Daikokuya or Shin-Sen-Gumi. So you settle in at...

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Jonathan Gold's 6 favorite Asian fried chicken joints in the L.A. area

Jonathan Gold • Los Angeles Times • July 1, 2016

Does Los Angeles live by Nashville hot chicken alone? No — not as long as there’s a universe of Asian fried chicken too. Max’s Restaurant Is Max’s the Coco’s of the Philippines? Yes, Max’s is kind of the Coco’s of the Philippines, the Glendale...

You’re probably going to want to try Gus’s Fried Chicken

Jonathan Gold • Los Angeles Times • October 7, 2016

Have you tried Gus’s Fried Chicken? You’re probably going to want to try Gus’s Fried Chicken. Because it’s pretty remarkable stuff, even in chicken-obsessed Los Angeles: a burnished red-gold, pieces bigger than they are small, whose peppery heat...

Ten Essential Fried Chickens in OC

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • January 27, 2015

In The Matrix, a character tells Keanu Reeves' Neo that he thinks that everything tastes like chicken because the machines couldn't figure out what to make chicken taste like–so they made everything taste like chicken. But what if the machines...

Where to find the best fried chicken in Orange County

Brad A. Johnson • Orange County Register • December 12, 2019

In the four years since I originally published my bucket list of the best fried chicken in Orange County, several of those restaurants closed while other strong contenders opened. So it’s time for an update. This rewrite begins with the same...

10 Great Chicken Dishes in Orange County (and Long Beach)

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • May 18, 2012

There are lot of chicken dishes out there and I have only ten slots on this list. So I picked out my faves using my own unscientific criteria of what constitutes a chicken dish, ruling out others because chicken wasn't the star. What remains are...