What We're Into: The brilliant namesake tahchin from Golden Rice Co.

We've made a list of great sandwiches, even devoted an entire issue of our dead tree edition to notable noodle dishes, but what about rice? We often take it for granted because, well, because it's rice. But rice is essential, rice is good, rice is...

Every year, my grandmother's fried rice is the star dish on the holiday table. The family marvels over the large CorningWare vessel (the same one every year) full of fried rice flecked with lap cheong sausage, shrimp and mushrooms. After dinner,...

At Nature Pagoda, the crucial moment of your meal is when the super-heated clay pot hits your table, a small bowl of dark sauce balanced on its dome-shaped lid. A server hands you the sauce. A server removes the lid. You dribble the liquid down...

Rice-IranianHouse of KabobNs sublime Persian rice used to be just a Lake Forest treat, but now itNs in Irvine, too Is there any starch more glorious than Persian rice? At House of Kabob, itNs loose, free-flowing like sand in an hourglass, and...

The most authentic Hainan chicken rice in OC. Photo by Cynthia Rebolledo The best meal I had in Singapore was a dish called Hainan chicken rice. And as with all great food found in Singapore, I had it inside an unbearably hot-and-humid hawker...