Review: Chang’An is the most lavish Chinese restaurant in Southern California, but is it worth it?

Hats off to all the new restaurants that opened this year. It was a long list that included a new wave of Thai restaurants, several new Italian restaurants and pizzerias, plus sushi, ramen, burgers, Mexican, Chinese, French, Spanish, American… But...

This week’s recommendations will have you pining after a cheeseburger with a Hollywood twist and traveling to the top of a shopping center in the San Gabriel Valley for crab and karaoke. A really well-made cheeseburger I may have been the last...

To say that the new Meizhou Dongpo in Irvine is unlike any other Chinese restaurant in town would be an understatement. The outside resembles something out of a Zhang Yimou wuxia film set in ancient imperial China. The building, which was once a...

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...