Peking Dragon's Sweet-and-Sour Splendor

Fresh Indo-ChinaIf you can find the place, Annapoorna offers a distinctively spicy blend of subcontinental and Middle Kingdom cuisine Even if you live in Irvine, I bet you havenNt heard of Annapoorna. ItNs only a month old, and its poor location...

We've made a list of great sandwiches, even devoted an entire issue of our dead tree edition to notable noodle dishes, but what about rice? We often take it for granted because, well, because it's rice. But rice is essential, rice is good, rice is...

You notice the wood-fire aroma the moment you walk into the new Inka Grill in Costa Mesa. It’s a campfire kind of smell, the sweet scent of carbon feeding the flames that crackle at the back of an open-ended rotisserie oven. You realize the...

The last time I had a perfect plate of Hainan chicken rice, it was in Singapore at some random hawker center I probably couldn't locate now if you gave me a map. Other than Savoy Kitchen in Alhambra, the undisputed king of Hainan chicken rice in...

A new Thai cafe has opened in Lake Forest, and it is intriguing. It is small. The dining room at Plern accommodates only about 30 people at a time, with some of those seats at a tiny counter facing the wall. I’ve not yet seen more than a dozen...