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Beat the Heat: Where to Eat

June 4, 2009

Can’t think. Must type blog deliriously in heat. Must babble top 5 things to eat (and how to eat them) in Seattle during ridiculous heat invasion! 1) Sichuan Boiled Fish from Sichuanese Cuisine (or anywhere else that serves this awesome dish: 7 Stars, Chiang’s, many more). Hot, spicy peppers, soft flaky fish, this dish is delicious anytime of the year, but in the hot weather it feels especially good to sweat out the heat–it is your body’s natural cooling system anyways. Sichuanese Cuisine on Superpages.com 2) Ezell’s Fried Chicken because nothing says a picnic on the beach like fried...

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A Few Upcoming and Kind of Awesome Events

April 21, 2009

I don’t normally devote much space to events, despite the constant influx of emails telling me about them, mostly because I don’t believe in promoting events that I wouldn’t myself attend or be attending. And then sometimes I am scared they’ll sell out before I get my ticket. But there does seem to be quite a few things coming up that I’m excited about, so I wanted to give my readers a heads up, two of which I’ll be at and one of which I’m sad to say, I’ll miss out on by being out of town. First off...

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The Joy of a new (restaurant) Love: Bamboo Grill–Update: Closed

March 23, 2009

It’s the rush of adrenaline that comes as you push open the door of an untested restaurant, the thrill of finding that it is not a dud. From first bite to the last wave at our waitress, I knew that the Bamboo Grill would be a new favorite for us. Bamboo Grill is a Vietnamese restaurant, but not a hole in the wall pho place like Pho Bac or Than Brothers. Nor is it a shiny beacon of culinary fancies as are Greenleaf and Tamarind Tree. No, Bamboo Grill is what it is, a corner restaurant in my neighborhood...

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Am I Fooling Myself about New World Seafood?

January 24, 2009

I’m hesitant to post my feelings about New World Seafood, the new dim sum place I have found next to Seven Stars Pepper in the ID. Sometimes I wonder if I project my high hopes for a new dim sum restaurant onto the place and that is why I like it. I loved the food at Tea Garden at first, and that panned out okay, but not quite where I wanted it. Though I did know right away that Duk Li was bad news. Yet, while I thought the food was excellent at New World, I’m worried that as...

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The Magic Words at Lemongrass (Restaurant Review)

October 26, 2008

Near my house is an area known as “Little Saigon”. I call it the best corner of eating in the city. It houses two amazing Sichuanese restaurants, arguably the best Vietnamese restaurant, an unbelievably good Malaysian restaurant, a beautiful MiW (Meat in Window) chinese barbecue place and at least 7 permutations of the name “Saigon Deli” all of which serve a mean bahn mi. However, last friday night we were looking for something cheap and simple, and it was late. Late meant bahn mi was out, simple meant we didn’t want to tempt ourselves with fancy Vietnamese and the...

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Seattle’s Chinatown Night Market

August 24, 2008

I had only heard of the night markets of China and Southeast Asia, seen them on TV, heard of the delicious meats on sticks being purveyed in the hours after the sun goes down. So last year, upon hearing that the International District right here in Seattle would do their best to imitate this great tradition, I was devastated to realize that I wasn’t able to go on the two nights that it would be happening. Consecutive Saturday nights in August, a tough time to find me hanging around my fine city. Luckily, this year, with the addition of...

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Losing the Advantage at Duk Li Dim Sum

August 14, 2008

The advantage of not using carts at dim sum, as I’ve mentioned in some of my Vancouver dim sum posts, is that when you order, dishes can be steamed or fried to order. So when I heard that Duk Li, a new dim sum place in the ID was using the checklist order form, I was psyched. I had actually set out to try Szechuan Noodle Bowl, but that is closed on monday, and this was right down the street. Unfortunately for me, while Duk Li has you order off the sheet, everything is premade and precooked. I ordered...

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Best Food Deals: Pork Belly at Maekawa–$5 (11/6/07)

January 18, 2008

Sometimes a dish just makes you wonder how it can be so delicious and yet still fit into your budget. This my first of what will hopefully become a series of the best cheap eats in and around the city. We were at the bar at Maekawa, when my eye was instantly drawn away from conversation. These eyes don’t miss pork belly. Nor does this nose or tummy. It was flying by and I caught barely a glimpse, accompanied by a hard boiled egg. Searching the menu desperately for pork belly, I found this entry: Kakuni: Chunks of pork...

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When White Girls go to Dim Sum: Tea Garden: (7/16/07)

January 18, 2008

If you live anywhere besides in the International District, Dim Sum has just gotten a little bit easier to get to. Located at the corner of Ranier and Dearborn, Tea Garden is a mere block off the freeway and has its own parking lot, making access easy for those of us coming from the north. Despite the difficulty of getting to dim sum in other areas with a bad hangover, I have had dim sum many a time. We always joke that they treat non-asians differently, giving us lots of water, or offering us a fork, but I have...

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Sun-Ya

April 11, 2007

Oh how I love dim sum! This saturday we went out in search of a new place. My dim sum heart has not been at peace since the closing of Top Gun. I like Jade Garden, but I don’t fight crowds well. But I think I have a new go-to place. The first thing that drew us to Sun-Ya? The parking lot. When driving around the ID in search of a good dim sum place, there is endless advantage to having a place to park the car. So Sun-Ya was the choice. We went in and were quickly seated....

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