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A&J Restaurant

Taiwanese/Chinese · Irvine · Arbor Village Shopping Center

Last mentioned Jul 2025

9 source comments from 9 contributors across 9 threads. Community score 22, based on shared upvotes and repeat contributors.

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u/jnjs0825 · Sep 2023

japanese food make the small drive to tustin/costa mesa. • fukada for udon or don (irvine, near spectrum) • honda-ya (tustin) • mogumogu for mazemen (costa mesa) • oak and coal for yakitori (costa mesa) • kagura for katsu (costa mesa) • kaisen bordering costa mesa and santa ana (near south…
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Author unavailable · Aug 2021

Can't go wrong with any of the Chinese restaurants in Orange Tree Square Shopping Center (Walnut and Jeffrey, where 99 Ranch is), and across the street in the Arbor Village Shopping Center, there's A&J.
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u/cuoreesitante · Oct 2020

A&J Restaurant, beef noodle soup is the best in Irvine. Boiling Point, Taiwanese style hotpot. Furai Chicken, Korean style fried chicken, inside Zion Supermarket.
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u/Psych10ne · Jan 2025

Laguna Hills - Classic Chinese, they have a wide variety of cantonese food to choose from. Better than the other cantonese food places in Irvine. They have roast duck but you may have to order in advance. No dim sum here though. Beef noodle soup in irvine… I’d rank them He’s Noodle, bafang…
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u/suboptimus_maximus · Jul 2025

If you were leaning towards dim sum and want something that you won't find too many other places in the USA, A&J Restaurant by Jeffrey and the 5 is a legit Taiwanese restaurant, very authentic. Quite a different menu than a Cantonese dim sum but some overlap. I've taken visiting Taiwanese friends…
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u/Chufield · Dec 2023

I’ll chime in since I haven’t seen any responses yet. For your further curation/public comment: • Ma’s House: Chinese Halal. I haven’t visited in some time, but used to visit more often when I went to school in Fullerton. Lamb w/ pickled cabbage warm pot, sesame bread w/ green onion come to mind.…
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u/pkfireeee · Dec 2024

• uroko cafe (poke) - belacan grill (malaysian) - a&j restaurant (taiwanese) - pho 79 / phoholic / pho 54 (in garden grove / westminster, a bit farther) - kaju soft tofu - tang 190, yuk dae jang (korean comfort food) - meiji seimen (udon) - siam station / thai cafe - shancheng lameizi hotpot - all that shabu (AYCE hotpot) - kagura (best katsu i've had)
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