Revisiting a Review: What Happened to True Food Kitchen's Chicken?

“What’s better: the chicken roulade from the dinner menu, or the fried chicken from the lunch menu?” I asked the Mr. G’s hostess who answered the phone and took my reservation. “The fried chicken,” she answered. “Definitely the fried chicken.”...

The most authentic Hainan chicken rice in OC. Photo by Cynthia Rebolledo The best meal I had in Singapore was a dish called Hainan chicken rice. And as with all great food found in Singapore, I had it inside an unbearably hot-and-humid hawker...

You may have seen El Gallo cruising the streets of Santa Monica. He’s a canary yellow 1973 Oldsmobile 98, with a rooster head bolted to the roof of the car and a curved feathery tail attached to the trunk. His deep red, wavy cockscomb adds an...

“Where are we going?” my friend asked me as I drove. “Place is called Krave,” I replied. “Didn’t you already review that?” “No, that was Crave with a C in Santa Ana,” I said. “This is Krave with a K. It’s behind the Souplantation in Irvine.”...

For a place that makes only one dish, the hype for Yang’s Braised Chicken Rice was deafening. Word that the restaurant—the first U.S. outpost of a Chinese chain with 6,000 locations in Asia and Australia—was opening in Tustin spread like juicy...