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2975 Harbor Blvd. Costa Mesa, CA 92626

714-751-8433

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OC Weekly
Recommended
Best Dessert
Award Winner 2008

Cuisine(s): Grocery, Japanese, Market

Hours: Sun 9:30am-7:30pm, Mon-Sat 9:30am-8pm

Price: $$
Payment Types: All Major Credit Cards, cash

Features: Kid Friendly, Takeout, Wheelchair Accessible

Serving: Breakfast, Lunch
Alcohol: None

Reservations: Accepted, Not Necessary

Parking: Lot Available

Description

Thanks to Marukai, your refrigerator can now be filled with tofu and cans of iced Kona coffee, your freezer stuffed with green-tea ice cream and frozen edamame, and your cabinets overflowing with wonton chips and wasabi-fortified rice crackers.

2008 | Best Dessert

It may not have taken off like frozen yogurt, and it's got a hell of a lot more calories, but we love Beard Papa's cream puffs for all their bulbous, craggy, pock-marked crustiness, with a vanilla custard cream that's pumped in only after you order. Once you pay your two bucks, consume it immediately. If you dilly-dally, it degrades into just another run-of-the-mill piece of pastry. But during its first few minutes of birth, no cream puff is its equal. It takes practice to eat... More »

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By MATT COKER | Thu, August 15, 2002

Photo by Jessica CalkinsWhen the Sav-Max store that used to be a Vons supermarket until the Albertsons became a Vons went out of business, my neighbors and I in northern Costa Mesa petitioned to get the cramped Trader Joe's on 17th Street to eithe... More »

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ocweeklybestof | Costa Mesa, CA | 160 Reviews

| Wed, May 6, 2009

It may not have taken off like frozen yogurt, and it's got a hell of a lot more calories, but we love Beard Papa's cream puffs for all their bulbous, craggy, pock-marked crustiness, with a vanilla custard cream that's pumped in only after you order. Once you pay your two bucks, consume it immediately. If you dilly-dally, it degrades into just another run-of-the-mill piece of pastry. But during its first few minutes of birth, no cream puff is its equal. It takes practice to eat one without dribbling out its filling and making a blubbery mess. The best technique is to simultaneously inhale while biting�a maneuver we call the "suck and bite." So while the proprietors of OC's only two Beard Papa's locations are lucky if they see more than two customers in line, that's just fine with us. The fewer witnesses there are to our oral fixation, the better.
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wcasar | Costa Mesa, CA | 415 Reviews

| Thu, May 27, 2010

Good grocery store to get fresh fish and other things to make sushi.
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rcox1 | Anaheim, CA | 186 Reviews

| Tue, April 20, 2010

This place is fun to go and shop for your Japanese food and alcohol. I come here to shop for Sake and cooking ingredients. They have fresh food and spices. If you read Japanese or understand Japanese, they have books and movies for you too!