Overworked. Underfed.

Beijing Hot Pot

What do you crave on a cold rainy day? Usually something hot and soupy right? I turned to my trusty Yelp to find something that would hit the spot on this cold rainy Portland night. I came up with 2 hot pot spots, one all you can eat (AYCE) and one traditional pay as you…

Maneki

Maneki is Seattle’s oldest Japanese restaurant at over 100 years old. Hard to believe a restaurant could be that old huh? The restaurant is typical for a lot of Japanese restaurants in my experience, small with limited seats. This place goes so far as to deny anybody without reservations a chance to dine. The first…

Lola

So in Seattle, Tom Douglas is King. You may ask why? Well when you own 6 restaurants and 1 bakery that garners outstanding reviews and is wildly loved by the masses, then you can be king too. Oh, when you stick all those restaurants within a 1 mile radius of each other, that just shows…

Restaurant Zoe

So for our first dinner in Seattle, we decided to go with Restaurant Zoë. This was Dumpling Man’s choice, and what a nice choice it was. I wouldn’t go so far as to say it beats a place like Providence or comes anywhere near it, but it definitely holds its own. Fresh ingredients, simple but…

Sweet Iron Waffles

I used Yelp for the majority of my Seattle eats for this trip, but I also turned to other bloggers. Namely, The Gastronomer, is a bit of a world traveler and she does a great job documenting all her eats throughout her travels. Sweet Iron Waffles happened to be the subject of one of her…

I Want Mee Sum Pastry!

Get it?? I usually don’t get lame or corny on the blog, but I could not resist with that title. Today I just saw a Chinese restaurant called Hung Far Low. I was cracking up. Sometimes you wonder if the naming is a deliberate process. Dumpling Man says Mee Sum doesn’t mean anything in Chinese,…

Pike Place Chowder

If you think about Seattle, 2 things probably come to mind: endless rain and GREAT food. When we decided to make a weekend trip to Seattle, I immediately started looking up places to eat. What is good travel without good food? That’s my philosophy anyways. I’ll probably never visit a place for the sole reason…

Davis Street Tavern

I haven’t had a bad dining experience in Portland. I wouldn’t go so far as to say that Portland is a “total foodie town” but it’s fair to say it does well for itself. It’s size and limited diversity will always be the limiting factor in its rise to greatness like the cities of LA,…

Red Onion

It’s official, I LOVE Thai food. I love the harmonious interplay of bold flavors: sour, sweet, spicy, salty. It’s probably the food I crave the most when I’ve gone a period of time without it. It’s a good thing Dumpling Man also likes Thai food, but his version of Thai food is limited to Thai…

Built to Grill

Another trip to Portland would not be complete without more visits to the Portland food carts. I ventured out to the 3rd & Stark food carts which are about 10 blocks away from where I’m staying. I didn’t go here last time because my little delicate LA feet thought it was too far to walk. …

Whiskey Soda Lounge

I think Portland has a lot of Vietnamese and Thai people. I could be wrong, but that is just my initial assessment just based on the type of Asian eating establishments. There just seems to be a lot more good Vietnamese and Thai places. Ironically, the most popular Thai restaurant happens to be owned and…

Kobawoo House

Since we had such a gay ole time at K-Zo, our gang of 3 (Me, Lo-Ma Linda, and Bighead Talksalot) decided to make another dining trip. It was my chance to show Lo-Ma Linda that there is more to Korean food than just tofu and bbq. It was Bighead’s chance to eat something more than…