Tien Nguyen

When we last left Bobak Roshan, he was at the tail end of building out his coffee shop, Demitasse, and trying to figure out how many parking spaces he needed in order to comply with the myriad of confusing, and often conflicting, local laws and regulations. Now, a little over......

Maybe that orange chicken doesn't taste so great after all: Last week, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed a lawsuit against a San Jose location of Panda Express for allegedly discriminating against the store's Latino employees and violating Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. After......

They came, they ate, some conquered, some were conquered: More than a dozen professional and amateur eaters; one "lucky" audience member who "won" an auction to compete in the contest; and the 2010 Nisei Week Queen and her court eating as one, competed at Saturday's Day-Lee Foods' World Gyoza Eating......

Way back in 2004, University of Washington researcher Adam Drewnowski explored the relationship between poverty and obesity, finding that foods in supermarket middle aisles - mostly processed junk - delivered the most calories per dollar. One dollar spent on soda, for example, delivered 875 calories, versus only 170 calories found......

The annual World Gyoza Eating Championship descends upon Little Tokyo this Saturday, August 20th, an event in which tiny 100-pound Sonya Thomas, a.k.a. the Black Widow, and others will attempt to eat as many gyoza as inhumanely possible in 10 minutes. As the eaters are no doubt too intimately aware,......

Gloria's Cafe is a just few blocks away from Culver City's downtown proper, underneath a violently purple neon light which, if the restaurant weren't on a strip mall that also houses a liquor store and a tire shop, would seem out of place. Gloria's is an excellent alternative to the......

If you watch Mad Men too much and make a habit of drinking a Scotch or two before going to bed, Don Draper-style, you might want to consider warm milk instead. And your drinking habits in general. Scientific American gives us at least one reason why: according to the magazine,......

Everyone has a Julia Child story. Nancy Silverton has one. Martha Rose Shulman has one. Mary Sue Milliken has one. We have one. We bet you do, too. Today is Julia Child's birthday -- it would have been her 99th -- and it's hard not to appreciate this wonderful woman......

Drink Vita Coco or O.N.E. Coconut Water because of its health benefits? Use either liquid as a cure for a nasty hangover? Shocked to learn that, according to a recent study, neither brand of coconut water has as many nutrients they claim? If so, you may be putative members of......

There are many things wrong with orange chicken. For one, it was shamelessly concocted to suit the American penchant for fried, overly sweet chunks of meat, a far-off distant cousin of a cousin of the original Hunanese dish that supposedly was its inspiration. As a cultural ambassador, it's a terrible......