January 2009
15 posts
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Ariel Sichuan BBQ Restaurant
[caption id=”attachment_199” align=”aligncenter” width=”500” caption=”Chongqing Fish”][/caption] About Located in a slightly dingy Sheung Wan mall, this restaurant hasn’t really done much to distance its decor from the functionality of the shops around it. The owner greeted us enthusiastically in English honed during past years living in Canada, and...
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Beijing Beef (Halal) Restaurant Kowloon City
[caption id=”attachment_190” align=”aligncenter” width=”500” caption=”Beef Parcels - The Highlight at Beijing Beef (Halal) Restaurant”][/caption] About Anyone hoping to have distinctly Islamic-chinese dishes here might be a little dissapointed. When we asked which were special dishes, the waiter said that everything on the menu was Islamic because...
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Cooking Huhng Siu Yuhk
[caption id=”attachment_176” align=”aligncenter” width=”500” caption=”Everything Laid Out”][/caption] I really like Fuschia Dunlop’s writing on food, and her recipes for reproducing authentic dishes. She has a recipe for huhng siu yuhk (red brasied pork belly) that I’ve been meaning to try for some time. There are some good places to get...
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Boh Loh Bau
[caption id=”attachment_167” align=”aligncenter” width=”500” caption=”The Humble Magnificent Boh Loh Bau”][/caption] This is a personal ode to one of my favourite snacks in Hong Kong. The wonderful boh loh bau, or pineapple bun, which actually doesn’t contain any pineapple at at all. Nobody seems to have quite made up their mind why its got...
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Ka Kee
About I had walked past this place many times and been intrigued by the traditional wooden front and the crowds inside, but never actually got round to trying it. Finally, in search of some authentic Cantonese food, I managed to get along and was really impressed by what I found. This place offers very solid Cantonese food at affordable prices. Chinese soups can sometimes be watery and really...
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Hong Kong Flower Lounge
About I have previously lived in Hong Kong where I would go for Dim Sum about once a week. Although the Flower Lounge’s Dim Sum here doesn’t quite match that, it is pretty close and is probably the best of all the Chinese Restaurants I have tried in the bay area. Unlike a lot of the restaurants around here, the Dim Sum is not swollen to suit American appetites and I feel this...
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Sichuan Delight
About I’ve eaten Sichuan food mostly in Hong Kong and part of the reason this doesn’t get 5 stars is because I compare it to there. For America, this really is very good chinese food. I like the way these have a seperate part of the menu - Sichuan Traditional A La Carte - with more authentic Chinese dishes, whilst still offering all the American standards like ‘sweet and...
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Suppenkuche
About Excellent! Really huge portions, with very well cooked steak, chicken, venison, and more (circa $18 for entree). You really have to be a meat lover to enjoy the food here, but if you are it is so much better than most meat heavy US restaurants. It is also accompanied by really good spatzle (small twists of potato pasta commonly eaten in Germany and Switzerland) and other great vegetables...
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Great Eastern
About After an uninspiring trip to Gold Mountain Restaurant, did a scan of Yelp, Chowhound, Zagat et al and skeptically came down to this place for Dim Sum. Having lived in Hong Kong for two years, I’m fairly particular about my dim sum and compare what I get here to excellent experiences there. Great Eastern’s dim sum is very impressive. The Cha Siu Bau (barbeque pork steamed buns)...
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Pizzeria Delfina
About Delfina’s is probably the best place I’ve been in the city for Italian style pizza. They keep their ingredients list and range of pizza’s simple. Their dough is nice and floury and homemade. They throw it out really thin in an authentic way, so that it isn’t spongy and doesn’t overwhelm the toppings at all. A lot of places get wood fired ovens, but don’t...
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Fo Kee
[caption id=”attachment_109” align=”aligncenter” width=”500” caption=”Silk Tea and French Toast at For Kee Cha Chaan Teng”][/caption] About This cha chaan teng (tea restaurant) is hidden away in the back streets of Sheung Wan where it has been serving regulars for over 50 years now. Cha chaan teng’s like these started up in the...
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Tibetan Food
[caption id=”attachment_97” align=”aligncenter” width=”500” caption=”Chili Beef, Tingmo, and Tibetan Tea at Tee Dee’s”][/caption] About Settled by Tibetan’s who fled their country after it was occupied by the Chinese, Delhi’s Tibetan Colony is a pocket of Tibetan culture in India. There’s a sense that the people here cling...
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Sitaram Dewen Chand - Chole Bhature
[caption id=”attachment_92” align=”aligncenter” width=”500” caption=”Chole Bhature from Sitaram Dewan Chand”][/caption] About Chole Bhature is probably the best of all the street foods I found in Delhi. Rather than something really fancy, this is hearty food for the ‘common man’ - eaten by people across India. But its subtle taste...
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Little Chili
[caption id=”attachment_87” align=”aligncenter” width=”500” caption=”The Laat Zi Gai at Little Chili”][/caption] About This is a good solid sichuan restaurant in North Point. The food’s not quite as good as that at Sijie or Mum Chau’s private kitchens, but it also costs a lot less. Its easily possible to have a meal here for under...
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Jalebi Walla
[caption id=”attachment_77” align=”aligncenter” width=”500” caption=”Crisp on the outside, soft on the inside - freshly fried jalebi”][/caption] Jalebi Jalebi are a delicious kind of India sweet that you see being made at street stalls all accross Delhi in the evenings. Strands of dough made using maida flour are poured down onto the surface of a...