Xa Sweet & Savory Café Brought the Chicken First

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • February 28, 2013
For the first five weeks after it opened directly across from CHOC, Xa Sweet & Savory Café offered only one kind of protein: chicken breast. But it was juicy, full of flavor, a pleasure to eat—all things chicken breast rarely is. And Shawn Xa, the...
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