Two New Restaurants Planned for Irvine's Campus Plaza

Edwin Goei

The vacant spots next to Gina's Pizza in the Albertsons-anchored shopping mall near UC Irvine are getting new tenants. It was in January that Saigon Basil, the Vietnamese restaurant that replaced the long-lived Oriental Kitchen, folded.  And now we're getting another Asian restaurant in its place. MJ Cafe Express looks to be affliated with the eatery of the same name in Monterey Park, which serves boba drinks and Taiwanese food.