Down and Dirty: Hole in the Wall Restaurants in the Greater Los Angeles Area
TweetTweetWhen I visit friends around the country and the world, I fear I sometimes frighten them with my lists of places to try. Often I’ve scoured the internet (and the brains of fellow foodies) for...
View Article(Stir-Fried) Water Boiled Fish
TweetTweet “You’ll like it.” These were the words that I was told the first time I tasted the Sichuanese dish known as water-boiled fish. That phrase may just be the most epic understatement in the...
View Article[Contest] Where to Eat at Pike Place Market: A Local’s Perspective
TweetTweetLike Eloise in the Plaza, I ran about the Pike Place Market as a child; ducking into stands and around tourists. If I were lucky, there was a post-swim-lesson lunch courtesy of my parents,...
View ArticleWordless Wednesday: DimSumCouver #7
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View ArticleDan Dan Mien: Hand-shaved noodles and a Favorite at Home
TweetTweet Dan dan noodles, or dan dan mien, is one of my favorite dishes in the whole world. In the five years since I first sampled it, I’ve tried it everywhere I could find it, in my own city, in...
View ArticleLittle Nibbles: Challah, Chocolate Wine, New Dim Sum
TweetTweetWarm up a chilly fall Monday morning with the scent of bread baking, the sound of wine pouring and the taste of dim sum on your tongue. A quick round up of all things delicious, in my...
View ArticleMy Year in Food, 2011
TweetTweetNormal is not what I do best. Thus my end-of-year top-ten list will be anything but. For starters, it’s not ten items. Instead, this is a peek inside my brain, where cooking and reading and...
View ArticleHow to Make Noodles in a Meat Grinder
TweetTweet Chinese noodles with perfect bite, chew, texture, with half the work? Sign me up. After creating the hand-cut noodle recipe, I realized that: wait, I’m way too lazy to use the peeler to...
View ArticleXinjiang-Style Lamb Skewers
TweetTweetThis post is for a contest being put on by the folks at the American Lamb Board. The prize is cool (cooking with a chef at an event) and I’d like to win, so please vote for me! Also, that...
View ArticleLove at First Sight: Yummy Mammy
TweetTweetYummy Mammy is the Zooey Deschanel of Chinese restaurants. It’s got her quirky looks and takes hints from the way she hides behind big glasses to fool people into thinking she’s not so hot....
View ArticleDumplings on a Seder Plate: The Closing of Green Village Restaurant
TweetTweetWendy Lu, on the final night at Green Village in Seattle’s International District. “You’ll tell them, right?” Wendy asked toward the end of the evening. She motioned toward the outside world,...
View ArticleBang, Bang, Biang: Amazing Chinese Noodles
TweetTweet http://www.thegastrognome.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Untitled_1.flv Bang, bang. Biang. Do you hear that? It’s the sound of of handmade noodles. They’re knocking on your door,...
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