ramblings of a Seattle travel, food and photography hound
What do you get when you blend perfectly cooked squid and shrimp, succulent chicken breast, meaty shiitake, shaves of dry cured and smoked ham reminiscent of a Smithfield, chicken meatballs and nappa cabbage, each revealing its essence in a rich chicken broth as fine as I've ever tasted? You get the Shanghai Café Tofu and Cabbage... Continue Reading →
On the heels of eating at Chef Cheng Biao Yang's Uway Balatang did a friend and I have lunch at Yang's previously-owned restaurant just down the street, Seven Stars Pepper, in the Ding How Shopping Center in Little Saigon. Truth be told, this was not our first choice today but rather Lemongrass in the same... Continue Reading →
In the relative obscurity of the Pacific Rim Center that sits just east of I-5 (and therefore qualifies it as technically located in Little Saigon instead of Chinatown), the art of hand-pulling noodles is being practiced by Chef Cheng Biao Yang in his latest restaurant venture, Uway Malatang. The man seems like a restless spirit... Continue Reading →
For authentic Szechuanese food in the Seattle area, I've yet to find a place that is more so than Spiced (a previous review here) in the Crossroads area of Bellevue. The menu seems to have gotten more extensive if that's possible; there were plenty of items on the older one. New to the menu are helpful... Continue Reading →
Without a GPS unit or an internet map, it would be difficult to find Szechuan Bean Flower, a Chinese restaurant that, being so hidden away in Issaquah, surely has to be concerned about customer volume. You can't even see it driving along Gilman Blvd, the main drag past Gilman Village that parallels I-90. From what I... Continue Reading →
Despite the name's association with businesses Chinese, especially with 99 Ranch Market its anchor store, The Great Wall Shopping Mall in Kent also houses restaurants of other Asian nationalities. There are Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese restaurants inside, besides Chinese ones. Among them is a Vietnamese, or more accurately, a Chinese-Vietnamese restaurant, Húe Ký Mì Gia, that also calls... Continue Reading →
There are many good things on the menu at Yea's Wok, which I'd been patronizing for many years. It was an immediate success when it opened and has been going strong ever since. The dish that I seem to order more often than anything else is their Chicken with Black Bean Sauce (☆☆☆½). Spicy from fried... Continue Reading →
When chef Cheng Biao Yang, one of Seattle's luminaries of Chinese—and specifically Szechuan—cooking sold Szechuan Chef to pursue another restaurant opportunity, fans began to wonder the inevitable. Would there be a decline in quality? As the weeks went by, there began to be reports that, yes, things have started to go downhill. I used to go there... Continue Reading →
This was interesting. A Chinese restaurant that serves ramen and large signs in Japanese clearly in view behind the expansive storefront windows. A good friend of ours recommended this place for ramen. Located in the International District, Fu Lin has a special ramen menu, among which are included variations of shoyu, miso and tonkotsu ramen. Marketing ploy?... Continue Reading →
All the times before that we've dined at Din Tai Fung, we were never able to get seated at a table right away. Always there was a wait. It is that popular. Tonight was an exception. We waltzed right in after seeing Amour at Lincoln Square Cinemas (a remarkable, unsettling, superbly acted movie, by the way).... Continue Reading →
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