Review: Dun Huang brings mostly familiar flavors to Irvine’s Diamond Jamboree

Whenever I see Chinese chicken salad on a menu, I gravitate toward it. It’s not as if I’ve liked most of them; the dressing is almost always too sweet, and the chicken stringy. But ordering one guarantees there’s at least going to be some sort of...

Chinese food in Orange County comes in many guises, from the Beijing-inspired cooking at Peking in Westminster to the tongue-numbing, chili and peppercorn-laced hot pots of Sichuan Impression in Tustin or Meizhou Dongpo in Irvine. Meanwhile,...

Peking Restaurant    Din Tai Fung    Meizhou Dongpo    J Zhou    Sichuan Impression    Yang Ming Garden    Ta Chen    China Moon    A&J    New Moon   

Time to Crown Royal?China Garden is still the king of IrvineNs Chinese restaurant scene, but Royal Kitchen just might be cooking up a palace coup For years now, Irvine has needed a Chinese restaurant to come along and break the monopolizing...

Happy Chinese New Year! Red envelopes and lion dances for all! If you want to celebrate at a Chinese restaurant, and I can’t see why you wouldn’t, here are a few places to ring in the Year of the Rooster.   Ask Jonathan Goldbot where to eat on...

Photo by Edwin Goei Last week, the owners of Yen Ching, the venerable Chinese restaurant in Orange, sent out the following email to its customers announcing their retirement. To Our Dear Customers and Friends: After 39 years of serving the...