Peking Gourmet's Chachiang-Cha-Changes

Garden Grove has too many of my favorites. It took me a few days to chop my first draft of this list down to the ten you see below. If you hadn't noticed, Garden Grove is that Venn diagram sweet spot where O.C.'s own Korean District overlaps with...

It was Sunday night at Peking Dragon Restaurant in Dana Point, one of only three Chinese eateries in the seaside city, and every Naugahyde booth was taken. You had to wait at least 15 minutes if you didn't have a reservation. Standing there in the...

Here’s how you can find out if you’re in a Korean Chinese restaurant: Look for the jjamppong and the jajangmyeon. Jjamppong (spicy seafood noodle soup in a red-chile hell broth) and jajangmyeon (noodles smothered in an inky-black sauce made of...

If you happen to find yourself slurping braised beef noodle soup in Irvine, you're likely in a Taiwanese restaurant. The big names in town—A & J, Lao Dong, Chef Hung—are all Taiwanese. And each claim to serve the best bowl of niu rou mian, which...

The first thing you see when you walk into Noodle St. in Fullerton is a small kitchen wrapped in glass. In one corner a chef is making Chinese noodles. He never stops moving. He stretches the dough, raising his hands as high as they will go before...