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Print Times Community News won 14 Orange County Press Club awards at its 2021 virtual awards ceremony on Thursday night. Daily Pilot reporters Sara Cardine and Andrew Turner combined for six awards. Cardine won first place in the education category for her July 2020 story on how a push for reopening schools without masks had ties to a pro-charter group. Cardine also earned second place in feature story, for her story on a goat herd clearing up a hillside headache, as well as second-place finish in environmental news for a story on Costa Mesa’s Fairview Park Wetlands. “It’s a privilege ...

Eight meals for $8 (or less) in Orange County Heemo Sushi in Orange is one of food writer Edwin Goei’s favorite places to get great, satisfying meals for $8 or less. (Edwin Goei) Print Inflation is rising to a 13-year high. Gas prices are inching closer to the $5 mark. There is nothing but bad news out there for our finances. With that in mind, here’s a list of this food critic’s favorite places to get great, satisfying meals for $8 or less in Orange County. Use it as a refuge from those forbidding headlines to eat well but within your budget without resorting to McDonald’s D...

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Print If you are new to dim sum, here’s a primer: It is a feast of dumplings and bite-sized snacks designed to be eaten with hot tea. There are two options to have it: You can go to a traditional dim sum restaurant for the whole experience, or you can get it as takeout, which is cheaper and more accessible. The focus of this article is takeout dim sum, but this isn’t another pandemic food story. Takeout dim sum existed well before COVID-19 and will continue to exist well after. During the lockdown last year, I enjoyed lots of takeout dim sum, but I would have even if there was no pandemic...

Print Scroll through DoorDash, Grubhub and Postmates, and you’ve surely seen a ghost — a ghost kitchen, that is. Designed for online ordering and delivery, ghost kitchens operate from rented spots at shared commercial spaces such as Smart Kitchens in Irvine and the Hood Kitchen Space in Costa Mesa. On the apps, you can sometimes tell the ghosts from the rest — they’re usually that new concept you’ve never heard of. Often the people behind them are aspiring restaurateurs who use the lower investment costs of these spaces to test their ideas and themselves. But since the pandemic hit,...