Well Seasoned at Four Seasons Hot Pot

What is it like to eat at Hai Di Lao, the Ferrari of Chinese hot pot restaurants, to assemble your dipping sauce from an infinite bank of possibilities, to swish your bits of meat and fish through your own pot of seasoned broth instead of having...

The Southern California invasion of chain restaurants from mainland China continues. One of the latest to land in Orange County is Haidilao, a hot-pot concept that opened in Brea last spring and in Irvine a few weeks ago. (The chain’s first — and...

I can't imagine a more Chinese way to eat right now in OC than dipping your chopsticks into a Mongolian hot pot at Little Sheep in Irvine. This kind of dish, which can be best described as a variant of fondue, is reportedly so high in demand in...

Happy Chinese New Year! Red envelopes and lion dances for all! If you want to celebrate at a Chinese restaurant, and I can’t see why you wouldn’t, here are a few places to ring in the Year of the Rooster.   Ask Jonathan Goldbot where to eat on...

If it's true that Taiwanese cuisine is “disproportionately popular” in California, Irvine has to be the epicenter of that popularity. In OC's unofficial Taiwan Town, there are more Taiwanese eateries than there are McDonald's and Taco Bells...