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…
Tag: asian
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,…
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…
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…
K-ZO
My next DineLA adventure was inspired by His Majesty, King Arthur. He spoke great things about Chef Keizo and his extraordinary sushi skills. Too bad King Arthur wasn’t around this time to foot the bill to his pharm rep buddies. Lucky for us, the DineLA menu offered 3 courses at $44, which actually still amounts…
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…
Nem Nuong Khang Hoa
The Vietnamese spring rolls usually brings to mind a rice paper roll filled with rice noodles, lettuce and aromatics, and pork and shrimp slices to be dipped in a peanut sauce. My family never ate this very much. I don’t know why. In recent years we’ve become fans of nem nuong cuon, or grilled pork spring…
Ondal 2
You’re probably thinking, how’s Ondal 1? That is a question I have no answer, but I would guess it’s probably closer to Ktown than this place. Yes folks, this very KOREAN restaurant is not really located in the general vicinity of Koreatown. There’s a lot of Hispanic businesses around. In any case, the place was…
Break of Dawn
In an attempt to be more adventurous in the OC, my family and I tried a Vietnamese fusion restaurant in Laguna Hills for brunch. All of those descriptors are totally atypical for the H.o.P. We don’t eat “Vietnamese fusion.” We certainly don’t do brunch. And who the heck eats in Laguna Hills? The chef/owner of…
Musha
I often don’t get too many opportunities to try small portioned foods such as izakaya, yakitori, or tapas (somehow dim sum does not fall under this category) because Dumpling Man likes his food in large sizable quantities. My sister on the other hand, Triple F (for Food, Fun, and Frivolity), not to be confused with my sister-in-law,…
Vien Dong (The Best Northern Vietnamese Food in Westminster!)
When you think of Vietnamese food, what do you think of? Pho , right? What else do you think of? Spring rolls? The more informed foodies may know of rice noodles and broken rice. And then what? There’s a whole other world when it comes to Vietnamese food. I am referring to Northern Vietnamese food….
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