Shaanxi-Cuisine Specialist Qin West Noodle Opens in an Unlikely Place

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • April 3, 2019
Photo by Edwin Goei Alongside the cramped driveway of the Plaza Condominiums—one of Irvine’s towering mixed-use urban developments—wasn’t where I expected to find an unapologetically authentic Shaanxi-cuisine specialist, but there it stood, in the...
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