Shabu Shabu Lunch Special at Mitsu E in Fullerton

Have you ever had a bite of food you wanted to last forever? For me, there was that first bite of otoro at Sushi Noguchi, and then the oyster I gulped while a cool breeze blew across Tomales Bay in Northern California. This past week, I added to...

Photo by Edwin Goei It’s hard to overstate how humongous BWON Shabu & BBQ is. Imagine a bowling alley, then take out all the lanes, add tables and dangling exhaust vents, but keep all the flat-screens. It is so huge that if you had to sprint to...

There are exactly three restaurants dedicated to shabu shabu in Irvine: House of Shabu Shabu at the 99 Ranch plaza on Jeffrey, Ayame Hot Pot on Portola Parkway, and SWSH at Diamond Jamboree, which was the last entrant in a city that previously...

Leonard Chan might be Costa Mesa's youngest, most prolific restaurant mogul. Though I don't know exactly how old he is, I'm pretty sure Chan has more eateries in this town than anyone in his age group. He began with an outpost of California Shabu...

It's good to have tipster on the inside. Such is one Suzie Won, who works for Diamond Jamboree. She knows I keep tabs on what's new in this dynamic plaza where a few years ago, there would be a restaurant debuting every other week. It's slowed...