The Kula Crowd at Diamond Jamboree

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • September 14, 2009
If you can judge what a city has been missing by the volume of a response, you'd have to conclude that by the crowds lining up at the newly opened Kula Sushi, Irvine should've had a revolving sushi bar a long time ago. My friends and I tried to...
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