Taste Test: J. Zhou Oriental Cuisine

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • June 18, 2014
The following represents just a few initial impressions of J. Zhou Oriental Cuisine. This is not a full review. First, the room is palatial–tall as a school gymnasium, decorated as though it were for royalty, with at least three kinds of dangling...
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