Soy Tofu: Tofu or Not Tofu

You haven't really lived until you've sucked on raw crab. At the newest Koba Tofu Grill in Irvine, the spicy blue-crab dish called gae jang starts when the critter is hacked into pieces after it has been freshly killed. Cooks brush off the innards...

When I say you should eat this now, I don't mean just here. Get it anywhere you can get it. You are closer to a soondubu (soft tofu soup) joint than you realize. Look it up! This is the weather for it. Consider soondubu the best natural antifreeze...

In one sprawling Irvine shopping center, there are three Korean restaurants that serve soondubu jjigae, the Korean soft tofu soup that comes out in a boiling cauldron. All of them are worthy. All of them are good. But Dae Myoung Ok Korean...

This episode of Dueling Dishes is about soft tofu. Korean soft tofu. This week we pit together two houses of curd, BCD Tofu House and Kaya, who compete in the same town, serving the same dish. That town would be Irvine, where there exists six or...

I blame the innocent-looking little metal teapot in which JuJu Pocha serves its yogurt soju. It obscures the amount you’ve had to drink and the amount there’s left to consume. Somewhere between sloshed and hammered, you lose count. Is this your...