I went into the 99 Ranch Market on Jeffrey and Walnut in the City of Irvine. I like this store. Its so incredibly clean. Even when you go into the fish section, it doesn't reek of beat up fish....
http://eatoc.blogspot.com/2005/06/authentic-tasty-taiwanese-food-easy.html
Consistency. Its so important these days. Be consistently bad or consistently good. Don't ever change. Help me live my routine life. When ownership changes at restaurants, I get nervous. Hardly...
http://eatoc.blogspot.com/2005/06/maharaja-palace-orange-great-taste.html
We have passed this place many times and what always grabbed my attention was the sign outside the store. I always love to go to places that specialize primarily in one thing and do things well...
http://eatoc.blogspot.com/2005/06/el-portal-orange-our-specialty-is.html
On a Lazy Sunday afternoon at about 1PM, we decided to go to China Garden in Irvine for Dim Sum. There were only 2 of us and when we arrived the restaurant was full, but clearing out. There were ...
http://eatoc.blogspot.com/2005/06/china-garden-irvine-dim-sum-i-feel.html
We were hungry at 11pm on a Friday and EVERYTHING in OC was closed except fast food! You gotta love the OC where at the stroke of 10 PM, everything stops. We headed to Little Saigon to Pho Than...
http://eatoc.blogspot.com/2005/06/perfect-pho-well-as-perfect-as-you-can.html
For those of you that know me, you know that my favorite Pho (Pho is pronounced Fuh BTW) place, Tan Hoang Huong on Chapman in the City of Orange changed owners recently. This was devastating fo...
http://eatoc.blogspot.com/2005/05/pho-bac-ky-phoin-great.html
Last week I was selected as the "designated driver" So it was soft drinks for me all night. We went to this bar in a Brazilian BBQ. We didn't eat there. We are anxiously awaiting the opening of...
The Kentucky Derby cleaned me out and I spent over $100 bucks on that fabulous sushi dinner (see prior review) last night. Although I was hungry, I was feeling especially cheap tonight. Where c...
http://eatoc.blogspot.com/2005/05/farmer-boys-fish-chips-cheap-eats.html
Perfection. Something that we strive to experience, but rarely do. I found it tonight. The perfect sushi experience. NO, its not in New York, Las Vegas, Japan...its right here in OC. South County...
http://eatoc.blogspot.com/2005/05/uoko-sushi-nirvana-in-orange-county.html
The festival was relatively small. It was in a park and was about the size of a large get together in a park. If you didn't know about it, you probably would not have guessed it was a festival....
http://eatoc.blogspot.com/2005/05/burmese-food-festival_01.html
This dish was some sort of noodle thing. It was absolute ASS. It tasted like noodles mixed with sawdust and shrimp feet. It was very fishy. It came with a soup that was equally as fishy. I had ...
http://eatoc.blogspot.com/2005/05/burmese-food-festival-part-ii.html