Tien Nguyen

While some of us were reaching for copious amounts of coffee yesterday to cope with the loss of the hour, the city of Santa Cruz had its fill of caffeine. Over the weekend, more than 40 baristas from California, Hawaii, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, New Mexico and Colorado converged on the......

If you've ever been stuck at the supermarket register with an apple that's lost its Price Look-Up Code sticker, and a cashier who, despite flipping laminated page after laminated page, can't figure how to charge you for this one piece of fruit, you might appreciate Toshiba's efforts to make everyone's......

David Lentz's The Hungry Cat opened seven years ago, a little ode to New England seafood shacks located in what might be the antithesis of a breezy seaside town: a tiny courtyard off of Vine between the smoggy nightmares that are Hollywood and Sunset boulevards, kitty-corner from a now-defunct Borders......

LaOn Dining is a tapas restaurant located right next door to Don Dae Gam, the immensely popular, pork-intensive Korean BBQ restaurant. If you walk into one because you thought it was the other -- depending on where you were trying to get to, the presence or absence of the tabletop......

For a town whose cultural and culinary landmarks are two hot dogs -- Pink's, for better or worse, and the Dodger Dog, also for better or worse -- the hot dog nonetheless is greatly overshadowed by its other half, the hamburger. While there may not be as many great hot......

Eikichi Matsuda opened Yoshinoya in 1899, in a fish market outside Edo Castle in Chuoku, Tokyo. Over the following century or so, the company expanded well beyond fish markets in Japan and, starting this month, its presence will extend to the skies. From now until May 31, Yoshinoya will offer......

Movie theaters make a good chunk of their profits selling exorbitantly overpriced snacks to those of us who believe the moviegoing experience is not complete without a box of Sour Patch Kids and a bag of popcorn. Not so for Joshua Thompson, who filed a class-action suit against his local......

Is it a good idea to have a cannabis-infused dinner with a guy who often shows up at food festivals as a banana? If your answer is absolutely, then Nguyen Tran of Starry Kitchen -- who also has arrived in full lederhosen garb or, more recently, a tauntaun -- has......

What distinguishes the Lady's Set from the Kid's Set at Ton-Chan Ramen is spam. Specifically, both combinations offer a half order of shio, shoyu or miso ramen, but the Lady's Set comes with sushi or salad, and the kids get what apparently is the Happy Meal toy of ramen combinations,......

While astronauts clearly get a kick out of taking advantage of zero gravity and eating M&Ms like Pac-Man eating Pac-Dots, what they want the most isn't candy. According to recent reports from NPR and ABC News, the men and women who boldly go where few have gone before constantly reach......