Xi’an Famous Foods Midtown West 24 W 45th St. New York, NY 10036 (multiple locations throughout New York) Yelp I’ve seen so many TV pieces on various food and travel shows highlighting the famous noodles at Xi’an Famous Foods. Spicy food isn’t my favorite, but I can appreciate the heat if the food is good. It…
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Marukame Udon
Marukame Udon 1104 Fort Street Mall Honolulu, HI 96813 Yelp After many days cooped up at the Disney Aulani, Mama H.o.P. was getting cabin fever. We had a rental car for one day, so drove into Honolulu to see the sights, find pleasures that could not be had in the same damn lazy river and…
Ngự Bình
Ngự Bình 14092 Magnolia Ave. Westminster, CA 92683 Yelp For many people, spring rolls, bánh mì, and phở are all they know when it comes to Vietnamese food. If you have those 3 dishes down, pat yourself on the back because you’ve covered just a small fraction of Vietnamese cuisine. I am, by far, no expert on…
Crystal Jade
Crystal Jade Multiple Locations Hong Kong When it comes to xiao long bao aka XLB aka soup dumplings, Din Tai Fung aka DTF reigns supreme. Many may argue whether DTF truly makes the best XLB out there, considering it is a Shanghainese specialty made famous by a Taiwanese chain. Few will deny that is probably the…
Ippudo
Ippudo Lab Concept Queensway Plaza 93 Queensway Admiralty Hong Kong Ippudo was the one spot in Japan that I didn’t get to visit. People said it was better than my favorite, Ichiran. I found that very hard to believe, but that only made me more intrigued by the place. In the States, there’s only a…
Tsim Chai Kee
Tsim Chai Kee 98 Wellington Street Central Hong Kong Next up on the wonton noodle train was Tsim Chai Kee, which as far as I know has no relationship to the Mak family of restaurants. It was actually awarded a Bib Gourmand designation by the 2016 Michelin guide. Boldly enough, it’s located just across Mak’s…
Mak’s Noodle
Mak’s Noodle 77 Wellington Street Central Hong Kong With dim sum checked off my list, I moved onto another Hong Kong favorite and must eat, wonton noodles. There are many other Mak restaurants opened up by relatives or disciples of the original Mak Woon-chi. However, my research concluded that the original location of Mak’s Noodle on…
Gau Gee (Kau Kee)
Gau Gee 21 Gough Street Hong Kong Island Doing the research for Busan restaurants was a fruitless effort. Busan is just not as big of an international destination like Tokyo or New York City. Some simple Google search terms will get you a ton of results for the best of anything in those major cities, unlike…
Mapobonga
I do love Korean BBQ and I do love Korean cold noodles, or naengmyun. Mapobonga serves some of the best of this side by side. It’s a pretty unassuming joint with no frills and maybe no more than 10-15 tables. We sat on the ground yet again, which can be uncomfortable even for me after 15…
Omen Udon
Omen Udon Multiple locations throughout Kyoto On our last day in Kyoto was spent checking out the multitude of temples around Kiyomizudera Temple. The temple, the view, and the surrounding narrow streets were breathtaking but severely marred by the THRONGS of tourists teeming through every nook and cranny of that area. It made the morning…
Sobanomi Yoshimura
Sobanomi Yoshimura Google Maps After taking the Shinkansen (bullet train) without incident, we arrived to Kyoto Station ready to eat our way through the city. I swear those stations were so frustrating. We didn’t know how to walk through it without having to pay for a ticket, so we walked around it. That was a bad…
Ichiran Ramen
Ichiran Ramen Multiple locations throughout Japan While Rokurinsha was hands down AMAZING beyond words, it didn’t quite satisfying my ramen craving. I still yearned for hot noodles bouncing about in an ocean of opaque fatty flavor rich broth. Chuka Soba Inoue obviously did not satisfy me to this degree, though I was quite full from…
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