In our quest to find the best lemon chicken in Chinatown, Candy and I tried out Great Hunan Restaurant. Walking by all the pictures of the deep fried and sauced up chickens posted on their window finally caught on to us. Just by looking at the outside, you could tell that it’s generally a White [...]
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The Tuttimelon in Chinatown/North Beach reopened this weekend, now as a self-serve frozen yogurt shop and as a hybrid store along with Tea Way, i.e., they now offer pearl milk tea drinks and fried snacks. They also still serve gelato (since they also used to be Yoogo Gelato). They were offering free frozen yogurt today [...]
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Everyone raves about the honey chili chicken at Chef Jia’s Restaurant, but I’m really digging their honey chili prawns. The prawns are huge, battered, fried to a nice crisp, and sauced up in a honey chili sauce, giving a sweet and mildly spicy flavor. I also tried the lemon chicken, which was not bad. The [...]
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We had a small get-together for lunch at R & G Lounge to celebrate Lina’s birthday. The hot and sour soup was a little on the sour side. The beef chow fun was a bit greasy but not bad. The dried scallops egg white fried rice I liked – it had some parts harder/dryer, which [...]
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Another workday, another lunch in Chinatown with Candy, this time at The Pot Sticker in Waverly Place alley. We originally wanted to go for Chinese donuts and soybean milk (油條豆漿) but ended up getting other stuff. We wanted four pieces of potstickers, but the woman marked us down for eight … again! We wanted something [...]
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I had lunch with Anita at Bund Shanghai in Chinatown. In addition to our usual soup dumpling (小籠包) and noodle soup order, this time being the eight treasure noodle soup, we also got their pan-fried dumplings, or in Chinese, sheng jian bao (生煎包). It was amazingly good. It was moist and crispy at the same [...]
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I was just at Broadway Cafe in Chinatown last week and decided to go again this week, this time taking advantage of their Monday lunch specials: broccoli beef or black pepper sauce chicken steak for $4.75. I went with the latter. The chicken steak was pretty big – crispy and all sauced up. Add spaghetti [...]
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I usually go to Broadway Cafe (formerly D&A Cafe) for some milk tea or watermelon juice – $1.50 only! This time, I went for their lunch special. Everyday they offer two lunch specials, and Wednesdays are sauteed chicken or tomato sauce fish. Both come with either white rice or spaghetti, and a cup of hot [...]
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Anita, Candy and I haven’t done lunch at Bund Shanghai in a while. There was a time it felt like we were going every week. anyway, we just shared a few things: beef noodle soup (牛肉面), rice roll (飯糰), mu shu shrimp (木須蝦), and of course, their soup dumplings (小籠包). I usually like their soup [...]
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I can’t believe I haven’t tried The Pot Sticker sooner. It always stuck to me as a touristy restaurant because of its bright green awning and lanterns hanging down. I ended up really liking this place. I love Shanghainese food and there really aren’t too many options in Chinatown, so this along with Bund Shanghai [...]
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