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umakemehungry · 2 years
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Missing Taiwanese Street Food? Let’s visit here to enjoy an extensive fare of Taiwanese Food without flying over to Taiwan (1) Oyster & Chitterling Mee Sua 综合面线 (2) Stewed Pork Belly Rice 八度卤肉饭 (3) Scallion Oil Chicken Rice 葱油鸡肉饭 (4) Marinated King Oyster Mushroom 香麻杏鲍菇 (5) Grass Jelly Milk Tea, Milk Tea with Pearls, Jasmine Green Tea with Pearls (6) Eggroll with Pork Floss 肉松蛋饼 (7) Fried Chitterling 炸卤大肠 (8) Brinjal with pork floss 肉松茄子 📍 8 Degrees
Location: 37 Teck Chye Terrace Singapore Followers will be entitled to 10% off total bill for island wide delivery by 8 Degrees! The promo code is 𝟖𝐃𝐔𝟏𝟎 at 8degrees.oddle.me Thank you @scalemicroinfluencers & @8degreesatsg for the invitation #umakemehungry #singaporeinsiders #burpplesg #singaporefoodie #ontheblog #foodporn #food #foodie #shiokfoodfind #foodspotting #foodiegram #autogramtags #foodlover #eatnonstop #nomnom #foodspiration #foodiegram #eateateat #foodphotography #foodgrammerph #foodshare #foodieheaven #likeforlike #TeamPixel #taiwanese #ForkYeahFoodies #TheFoodieInitiative #globaleats #teamhappyfoodies #eatwithfoodiez (at 八度空間 8 degrees) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkHMP7ZBa3U/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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foodgemsg · 4 years
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In the new online delivery menu, choose from ready-to-eat menu like Iberico Pork Jowl Bowl and Fullblood Wagyu Flank Steak Bowl with Nori Cilantro Lime Rice. When it comes to tenderness, I would go for Pork Jowl bowl. Both bowls are full of flavours that will have you feel revived and recharged. . Restyled by yours truly. . How to order? Angie’s Oyster Bar Order online at https://www.hiddendoorconcepts.com/angies-delivery (Singapore) https://www.instagram.com/p/CA2sLXbAokV/?igshid=k5ic0rmefknv
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victorl0 · 3 years
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福虎贺岁! 🐯 Reunite with your family & loved ones at Enjoy Eating House & Bar this Lunar New Year 🧧 & bond over thoughtfully curated set menus* that will toss your health & wealth to greater heights! Indulge in a medley of goodies from their Abundant Treasure Pot (Pen Cai) @ S$288 for 6-8 pax, consisting of Whole Pork Knuckle, Sea Cucumber, Abalone, Conpoy, Prawns, Pork Tendon, Dried Oysters, Handmade Crab Meat Ball, Fish Maw, Shitake Mushrooms, Chinese Sausage & Wok Fried Rice that will bring abundant of happiness to your friends & loved ones. Available for Takeaway 🥡 & Delivery 🚚 only. Be filled and be prosperous with their Reunion Set @ S$368 for 4 pax & S$458 for 5 pax, which will be available on 31 Jan 2022, 5.30pm & 7.30pm @ Stevens Road outlet. Call 8511 1478 for reservation. *CNY Menu will be available from 20 Jan to 15 Feb 2022. Featured dishes: 🥢Appetiser Duo - “Pitan” Tofu & Kurobuta & Crab Ngoh Hiong. 👍🏻😋 🐖 BBQ Pork rib with 7-Spice Mandarin Orange Baijiu Glaze - Tender barbequed premium pork rib slathered in a bold chef’s BBQ sauce made with burnt mandarin orange & baijiu. 👍🏻😋 🎣 Salt Baked Whole Barramundi - Baked in salt to bring out the freshness & natural sweetness of the fish. 👍🏻😋 🐓 Baked Herbal Kampung Chicken with Abalone in Aged Shaoxing - Juicy kampung chicken stuffed with 8-head abalones & baked with Chinese herbs & premium aged Shaoxing wine. 👍🏻😋 🦐 Singapore Style Chilli Prawns - Fresh prawns cooked in Singapore’s very own famous chilli crab sauce. 👍🏻😋 🥬 8 Treasure Vegetables - Eight different vegetables wok fried. Huat ah! 👍🏻😋 🍝 Truffle XO Scallop Dai “Fok” Mien - A stunning combination of wok hei, XO sauce & truffle to excite your palate. 👍🏻😋😋 🍐 Double Boiled Tianjin Pear & Snow Fungus - Simmered over low heat, this traditional Chinese dessert is soothing for both the body and soul, with health benefits to strengthen yourself for the new year. 😍😍😍 [CNY Promotion] 🧧 Enjoy FREE Delivery for orders above S$150 (except from 29 Jan to 2 Feb 2022). 🧧 Enjoy 10% OFF for all self-pickup orders. 🧧 Place your orders or reservation before 16 Jan 2022 to enjoy 10% OFF for Pen Cai & Reunion Set. (at Enjoy Eating House and Bar) https://www.instagram.com/p/CYOoVrbBiSa/?utm_medium=tumblr
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bloggings-posts · 3 years
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Hammer Mills Market Volume Analysis, Manufacturers, Segments & Strategies Insight 2021
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lilmissjlxy · 4 years
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[GIVEAWAY ✨ - #BNSeasonOfGiving] • Are you ready for the festive season? Sink your teeth into @portasg's 4-course Festive Favourites and experience a gastronomical journey that will tantalise your tastebuds! Start your meal right with their silky smooth Butternut Pumpkin Soup, followed by their Succulent Hokkaido Scallops. Then choose between a tender, flaky Black Cod with smoky chorizo and a tangy tomato base, or a wonderfully, umami-rich Beef Tenderloin with King Oyster Mushrooms and a red wine sauce. To finish off your meal, relish their decadent Chocolate Logcake served with raspberry puree. Guaranteed to make you say Ho-Ho-Ho Jiak at the end of your meal! 😉 • You can check them out at https://tinyurl.com/Xmas-Porta! ✨ Islandwide delivery at $15nett ✨ Free delivery for orders of $100 and above ✨ Limited time offer until 31 Dec 2020: 30% off Porta's A La Carte, Brunch, and Green Monday Menus (Use Promo Code: INTRO30) ✨ Additional complimentary 2 cans of 350ml Asahi Super Dry Beer for first 45 purchases of $150 and above • To celebrate this Season of Giving, we are giving away 2 sets of 4-course Festive Favourites to 1 lucky winner! ✨ • Here’s how to join: 1. Follow @therealbeyondnorm and @parkhotelclarkequay 2. Like this post 3. Tag a friend that you would love to spend some quality meal time with ✨ 4. Share this post to your story and tag @therealbeyondnorm, @parkhotelclarkequay, AND #BNSeasonOfGiving for a bonus entry. *Repeating these steps on @parkhotelclarkequay's Giveaway Post will entitle you to extra entries. • This giveaway ends on 19 November 2020, 2359 SGT. The winner will be randomly selected and notified via Instagram DM. Winners have 24 hours to respond and claim their prize. Failure to do so will result in another winner being picked. • This giveaway is open to those residing in Singapore only. Beyond Norm’s decision on Winners are final and no disputes will be entertained. Accounts used solely for giveaways and incomplete entries will be disqualified. The management reserves all rights to amend the T&C of this promotion/giveaway without prior notice. • #BeyondNormEats #supportlocalsg #SGunited #parkroyalclarkequay (at Park Hotel Clarke Quay) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHhC3QNjcGY/?igshid=nf3mlswgf4pg
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easyfoodnetwork · 4 years
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How to Bring This Portland Restaurant’s Colorful Outdoor Oasis to Your Home
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The fun of dining at Gado Gado isn’t just in the menu. It’s also in its signature playful spirit.
While restaurants around the United States are figuring out how to shift their business to adapt to a new culinary landscape, some teams are having more success making it work. In Portland, Oregon, Thomas and Mariah Pisha-Duffly, the owners of the hit Indonesian restaurant, Gado Gado, have not only figured out how to operate in a socially distanced manner that continues to draw customers (even inspiring them to open a second spot called Oma’s Takeaway), but they’ve managed to maintain the restaurant’s signature playful spirit along the way.
The fun of dining at Gado Gado is apparent in the amped-up flavors of its menu, which draws on Thomas’s Indonesian-Chinese heritage for dishes like Sumatran-style spicy beef rendang (served with coconut rice and a green chile tomatillo sambal), ayam lawar (a shredded chicken and coconut salad with galangal dressing), or a pandan jelly dessert. But it’s the restaurant’s thoughtful Peranakan-inspired design accents mixed in with some psychedelic vintage finds that truly make it an experience. Even now with a closed dining room, the Pisha-Dufflys have brought some of the restaurant’s bold design scheme to its two outdoor patios.
“When we were designing the restaurant, it felt like a really great opportunity to communicate ourselves through design,” says Mariah Pisha-Duffly. “There were a lot of spaces opening up around us that were extremely beautiful but minimal, and we wanted to go the opposite way and do something maximal and full of pattern.” When reimagining the dining room for the outdoors, the duo continued the theme with mismatched rugs, oilcloth tablecloths, and other delightful personal touches, all while trying to keep costs low.
Below, Mariah Pisha-Duffly explains how they made Gado Gado into a colorful outdoor oasis, and how to bring the Gado Gado brand of power-clashing onto your patio or into your home.
Remix your old stuff with new purpose
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The black light poster works as decor and a way to communicate instructions for social distancing.
“When we started to rethink the patio for the year of COVID, it felt like working with what we had, and being really resourceful was necessary,” says Pisha-Duffly. “The bathrooms inside Gado Gado are filled with themed ’70s fantasy art. We brought this black light poster outside, and we made little word bubbles on it to let people know where to find their takeout. It didn’t used to be that you needed all these instructions for customers, but you do now, and we wanted to make it beautiful and fun.”
Shop it: Black light posters
Whether you place them in the bathroom or the bedroom, ’70s-style black light posters give the space a trippy element.
Add bold personal touches
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Design features like this gallery wall and custom-designed wallpaper had to remain inside.
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“Thomas’s family is Chinese, but his grandmother lived in Indonesia, Singapore, and Malaysia, before coming to the U.S. You see a lot of Peranakan design throughout Southeast Asia — full of patterns, tiles, and intricate carvings. Inside, we have a big portrait of his grandmother painted on the wall by artist Kate Blairstone (she also did our amazing wallpaper with shellfish and birds) and a mask that my grandparents got while living in Indonesia. Whenever you collect something it tells the stories of who you are and what you like, and getting the opportunity to put that in the restaurant was really special.”
Shop it: Patterned wallpaper and paintings
Blairstone has made dozens of custom wall accents that speak to each individual owner’s story. Whether you fancy a version with oysters, flowers, or carrots, she’s available to make works on request that speak to one’s story. You can also find wallpaper with similar motifs on Etsy.
Don’t be afraid to mix and match
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Plates and bowls come in various vintage patterns.
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“Once I knew we were going to open Gado Gado, I could finally get all this thrift store stuff that I’ve wanted to buy for forever. I would go to Goodwill three or four days a week, just collecting things.”
Shop it now: Power-clashing vintage plates
Part of what makes dining at Gado Gado special is that none of the plates and glassware match, which means each time you dine there it might be a little different. The cornucopia of palettes somehow never feels like too much, but rather, it functions almost like a sewn-together quilt that uses a kaleidoscope of fabrics that come together beautifully. Vintage, granny-esque floral plates are given an exhilarating new life here.
Serve your drinks in ice cream sundae cups
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Now that it’s colder, slushie cocktails aren’t on offer. Instead, Gado Gado serves cocktails like this one, the Honey Honey, in sundae glasses.
“This summer we were doing a lot of slushy cocktails made with things like freshly juiced turmeric and ginger, tamarind, coconut, lime, and tequila. We like to add fun garnishes to them, too.”
Shop it now: Old-fashioned ice cream sundae cups
These clear glass tumblers are usually the vessels for heaping scoops of strawberry ice cream with a fudge swirl, whipped cream, and sprinkles, but they are equally useful for spicing up an after-work drink. Add a fun garnish to complete the effect.
Have fun with lights
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Gado Gado’s disco takeout tent is no more, but string lights still provide some whimsy.
“Initially we were doing takeout and delivery that was extremely no contact and figuring ways to make the experience personal and hospitable within the framework. We had a takeout tent with disco balls, flashing lights, and fake mangosteens — things that still communicated fun and warmth without physical contact. Someone called it a “block party for one.” And it’s true, we love rainbow lights, to the point that we have a giant fruit bowl full of LED remotes because at this point we own so many rainbow light set-ups.”
Shop it: Party lights
Bring the party back home with these funky light options. “For lighting we like to go really cheesy,” Pisha-Duffly says.
Incorporate more pattern with plants
“We worked with this great company called Appetite that brought us plants such as palms, yucca trees, succulents, and ginseng plants. They have fabric buckets, and when they stopped by they were like, ‘What color palette [are you] thinking of for the bases?’ and we were laughing, like, ‘Nothing is off the table, our restaurant is a rainbow.’”
Shop it now: Fabric planters
Make your table restaurant-worthy
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Oilcloth is practical and has the added benefit of being in keeping with Gado Gado’s colorful style.
“Oilcloth is so cool. It’s durable and it’s fairly inexpensive — we have versions with golden floral prints, orange, and a sort of blue and red floral thing happening.”
Shop it now: Oil cloth prints
As Eater has documented in the past, oilcloth is a popular choice for many restaurants, and you can bring it into your own space. Even the messiest of eaters won’t have trouble cleaning them, and the more tablecloth options you have, the more backdrops for taking Instagram-worthy food photos.
Bring rugs outdoors
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“Having all the rugs outside was a fun way to create a sense of comfort that’s super affordable.”
Shop it now: Outdoor rugs
Rugs don’t only have to stay inside. These versions can bear the brunt of rainy Portland weather, bringing a little bit of sunshine as they do.
Emma Orlow is a writer for Eater, Grub Street, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, and Bon Appétit (among others), where she covers the intersection of the food and design worlds. Celeste Noche is a Portland-based photographer.
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The fun of dining at Gado Gado isn’t just in the menu. It’s also in its signature playful spirit.
While restaurants around the United States are figuring out how to shift their business to adapt to a new culinary landscape, some teams are having more success making it work. In Portland, Oregon, Thomas and Mariah Pisha-Duffly, the owners of the hit Indonesian restaurant, Gado Gado, have not only figured out how to operate in a socially distanced manner that continues to draw customers (even inspiring them to open a second spot called Oma’s Takeaway), but they’ve managed to maintain the restaurant’s signature playful spirit along the way.
The fun of dining at Gado Gado is apparent in the amped-up flavors of its menu, which draws on Thomas’s Indonesian-Chinese heritage for dishes like Sumatran-style spicy beef rendang (served with coconut rice and a green chile tomatillo sambal), ayam lawar (a shredded chicken and coconut salad with galangal dressing), or a pandan jelly dessert. But it’s the restaurant’s thoughtful Peranakan-inspired design accents mixed in with some psychedelic vintage finds that truly make it an experience. Even now with a closed dining room, the Pisha-Dufflys have brought some of the restaurant’s bold design scheme to its two outdoor patios.
“When we were designing the restaurant, it felt like a really great opportunity to communicate ourselves through design,” says Mariah Pisha-Duffly. “There were a lot of spaces opening up around us that were extremely beautiful but minimal, and we wanted to go the opposite way and do something maximal and full of pattern.” When reimagining the dining room for the outdoors, the duo continued the theme with mismatched rugs, oilcloth tablecloths, and other delightful personal touches, all while trying to keep costs low.
Below, Mariah Pisha-Duffly explains how they made Gado Gado into a colorful outdoor oasis, and how to bring the Gado Gado brand of power-clashing onto your patio or into your home.
Remix your old stuff with new purpose
Tumblr media
The black light poster works as decor and a way to communicate instructions for social distancing.
“When we started to rethink the patio for the year of COVID, it felt like working with what we had, and being really resourceful was necessary,” says Pisha-Duffly. “The bathrooms inside Gado Gado are filled with themed ’70s fantasy art. We brought this black light poster outside, and we made little word bubbles on it to let people know where to find their takeout. It didn’t used to be that you needed all these instructions for customers, but you do now, and we wanted to make it beautiful and fun.”
Shop it: Black light posters
Whether you place them in the bathroom or the bedroom, ’70s-style black light posters give the space a trippy element.
Add bold personal touches
Tumblr media
Design features like this gallery wall and custom-designed wallpaper had to remain inside.
Tumblr media
“Thomas’s family is Chinese, but his grandmother lived in Indonesia, Singapore, and Malaysia, before coming to the U.S. You see a lot of Peranakan design throughout Southeast Asia — full of patterns, tiles, and intricate carvings. Inside, we have a big portrait of his grandmother painted on the wall by artist Kate Blairstone (she also did our amazing wallpaper with shellfish and birds) and a mask that my grandparents got while living in Indonesia. Whenever you collect something it tells the stories of who you are and what you like, and getting the opportunity to put that in the restaurant was really special.”
Shop it: Patterned wallpaper and paintings
Blairstone has made dozens of custom wall accents that speak to each individual owner’s story. Whether you fancy a version with oysters, flowers, or carrots, she’s available to make works on request that speak to one’s story. You can also find wallpaper with similar motifs on Etsy.
Don’t be afraid to mix and match
Tumblr media
Plates and bowls come in various vintage patterns.
Tumblr media
“Once I knew we were going to open Gado Gado, I could finally get all this thrift store stuff that I’ve wanted to buy for forever. I would go to Goodwill three or four days a week, just collecting things.”
Shop it now: Power-clashing vintage plates
Part of what makes dining at Gado Gado special is that none of the plates and glassware match, which means each time you dine there it might be a little different. The cornucopia of palettes somehow never feels like too much, but rather, it functions almost like a sewn-together quilt that uses a kaleidoscope of fabrics that come together beautifully. Vintage, granny-esque floral plates are given an exhilarating new life here.
Serve your drinks in ice cream sundae cups
Tumblr media
Now that it’s colder, slushie cocktails aren’t on offer. Instead, Gado Gado serves cocktails like this one, the Honey Honey, in sundae glasses.
“This summer we were doing a lot of slushy cocktails made with things like freshly juiced turmeric and ginger, tamarind, coconut, lime, and tequila. We like to add fun garnishes to them, too.”
Shop it now: Old-fashioned ice cream sundae cups
These clear glass tumblers are usually the vessels for heaping scoops of strawberry ice cream with a fudge swirl, whipped cream, and sprinkles, but they are equally useful for spicing up an after-work drink. Add a fun garnish to complete the effect.
Have fun with lights
Tumblr media
Gado Gado’s disco takeout tent is no more, but string lights still provide some whimsy.
“Initially we were doing takeout and delivery that was extremely no contact and figuring ways to make the experience personal and hospitable within the framework. We had a takeout tent with disco balls, flashing lights, and fake mangosteens — things that still communicated fun and warmth without physical contact. Someone called it a “block party for one.” And it’s true, we love rainbow lights, to the point that we have a giant fruit bowl full of LED remotes because at this point we own so many rainbow light set-ups.”
Shop it: Party lights
Bring the party back home with these funky light options. “For lighting we like to go really cheesy,” Pisha-Duffly says.
Incorporate more pattern with plants
“We worked with this great company called Appetite that brought us plants such as palms, yucca trees, succulents, and ginseng plants. They have fabric buckets, and when they stopped by they were like, ‘What color palette [are you] thinking of for the bases?’ and we were laughing, like, ‘Nothing is off the table, our restaurant is a rainbow.’”
Shop it now: Fabric planters
Make your table restaurant-worthy
Tumblr media
Oilcloth is practical and has the added benefit of being in keeping with Gado Gado’s colorful style.
“Oilcloth is so cool. It’s durable and it’s fairly inexpensive — we have versions with golden floral prints, orange, and a sort of blue and red floral thing happening.”
Shop it now: Oil cloth prints
As Eater has documented in the past, oilcloth is a popular choice for many restaurants, and you can bring it into your own space. Even the messiest of eaters won’t have trouble cleaning them, and the more tablecloth options you have, the more backdrops for taking Instagram-worthy food photos.
Bring rugs outdoors
Tumblr media
“Having all the rugs outside was a fun way to create a sense of comfort that’s super affordable.”
Shop it now: Outdoor rugs
Rugs don’t only have to stay inside. These versions can bear the brunt of rainy Portland weather, bringing a little bit of sunshine as they do.
Emma Orlow is a writer for Eater, Grub Street, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, and Bon Appétit (among others), where she covers the intersection of the food and design worlds. Celeste Noche is a Portland-based photographer.
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igrublocal · 4 years
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10 best Chinese food restaurants in the Long Beach area for takeout, delivery – Press Telegram
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It is, easily, the most iconic to-go container in culinary history — a Totem of Takeout, an origami box built for noodles, pork, shrimp and chicken. It’s technically an isosceles trapezoid solid, a three-dimensional representation of a high school geometry problem.
The Chinese food takeout container was born in the last decade of the 19th century, when it was known as an “oyster pail” because, well, it was used for to-go orders of oysters. It was also used, for many years, for honey — and was until after World War II, when Chinese takeout competed with pizza for the food most Americans took home to eat while watching The Beatles on “The Ed Sullivan Show,” on small black-and-white TV screens. And for most Chinese restaurants, it’s still the standard for takeout.
This white, waxed container more often than not comes with a red drawing of a pagoda on the side (which is, of course, Japanese) and the words “Enjoy” and “Thank You” emblazoned on the top, and over the fold. Some years ago, the Smithsonian paid tribute to the container with an exhibit called “Sweet & Sour: A Look at the History of Chinese Food in the United States.” And the phrase “sweet & sour” is especially apt, for this is not a container built for searing spices of Szechuan and Hunanese cooking. I guess dim sum will work okay in the boxes. But dim sum isn’t what comes to mind.
Rather, the box is for the classics of Chinese-American cooking. For meals consisting of one from column A, two from column B, white rice and fortune cookies at meal’s end. It meant chicken chop suey, pork fried rice, sweet-and-sour something or other, egg foo young, and lots and lots of tea. It was something you ate on Sunday nights with family. And an hour later, in the old American anti-vegetable parlance, you were hungry again. Or at least you were if your basic diet consisted of white bread and deep-fried everything.
Chop suey is the defining dish when it comes to Chinese-American cooking. The name may (or may not) come from the Cantonese sap seui, which translates as “mixed leftovers.” It was a mishmash, created in the mid-1800s by Chinese immigrants to make their native food more appealing to American taste, what there was of it.
Since there was no bok choy or white radishes or soybean sprouts to use, celery, bell peppers and onions became the ingredients of choice, with shredded meat added, and enough soy sauce to turn the white rice black. Louis Armstrong recorded a song in the 1920s called “Cornet Chop Suey.” It was culinary jazz. There’s an Edward Hopper painting called “Chop Suey” — which is not of food, but of two women, seated in a restaurant, with a sign out the window that reads “suey.”
And it was chop suey that I went looking for. Or at least chow mein and lo mein. In the case of chop suey, old school Chinese-American cooking. In the case of chow mein and lo mein, the Cantonese cuisine which faded in recent years behind a veil of super-spiced cooking. In either case, this is soul satisfying food to take home, and be filled with nostalgia, as you sip your tea, eat your rice, and enjoy your chow, eaten directly from the container with chopsticks, if you can’t muster the energy to put it on a plate or in a bowl.
This is food that tastes good no matter how you gobble it. And if you want, you can still find Ed Sullivan on YouTube. This is a journey into the past, taken one bite at a time.
2930 Clark Ave., Long Beach; 562-982-4288
Let us begin, then, with a Chinese restaurant that exists for takeout only — the perfect restaurant in these difficult times.
The original Yang Chow in Chinatown (with a branch is Pasadena) has been a much-loved destination for those hungry for a cult collection of Chinese dishes — especially the Slippery Shrimp, a dazzling, and deeply addictive creation of chubby shrimp, tender and firm textured, battered, crisped, then cooked in a sauce that’s both sweet and spicy at the same time.
Yang Chow 2.0 is not far from Long Beach Airport, with a handful of tables and a limited menu. There’s Slippery Shrimp, Slippery Chicken and Slippery Tofu, along with sweet & sour chicken, sweet & sour pork, beef with broccoli, Szechuan beef, Szechuan chicken, string beans and a handful of fried rice dishes. The only appetizer is the spring roll. That’s pretty much it. And aside from not offering my much-loved cold noodles with sesame and chicken, I’m happy as a clam to grab an order to go, which emerges from the kitchen with crazy speed.
I’m told the original chef from Chinatown is making the dishes. He’s been working the wok for decades. One bite, and it’s clear — and the food travels very well.
Egg rolls are a tasty starter for a lunch or dinner featuring Chinese food — and also make a wonderful snack anytime of the day or night. (Shutterstock)
What’s known as an oyster pail — a folded, waxed or plastic-coated paperboard container — is the perfect transport vehicle to keep Chinese food deliciously hot from the restaurant to your home. (Shutterstock)
Chinese noodles, fried rice, dumplings, Peking duck and dim sum are among the Chinese food favorites seen here. (Shutterstock)
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Chinese food, including stir-fried pork with red sauce, has long been a tasty option for takeout and delivery. (Shutterstock)
18349 Pioneer Blvd., Artesia; 562-924-4567, www.nankingchineseca.com
Can you be both post-modernist Indian and old school Chinese at the same time — with a menu that often combines the two? Nanking Indo-Chinese manages that hat trick, which is no small accomplishment. This is a classic Chinese restaurant and not a classic Chinese restaurant at the same time. Here, they manage to walk and chew gum at the same time, with no trouble at all. You want chow mein with chicken or shrimp? There it is. Ditto kung pao lo mein (“kung pao” is code for “cashews and peanuts”), kung pao vegetables, fried rice, chili-garlic fried rice, and hot & sour soup.
Nanking offers the food of both the leading cuisines of Artesia, both Indian and Chinese, under one roof. It’s a restaurant where you can order both chicken tikka masala, and kung pao cashew chicken, at the same meal. And why wouldn’t you want to? Variety, after all, really is the spice.
Defining the cooking at Nanking can be a tad challenging, even for the restaurant. At one point on the website, the owners say they “offer traditional Indian, Chinese and Nepali food.” A few sentences down, the cuisines fuse into “Indian-Chinese food.” One sentence later, Nanking is a “truly Indian restaurant.”
Even the name of the city is somewhat befuddling. Nanking is the capital of Jiangsu Province, on the eastern edge of China, not far from Shanghai. But far from India. It’s all a big jumble. Which would be bothersome, if it weren’t so much fun. Especially when it comes to parsing the roots of the dishes, most of which are either Indian or Chinese, but several of which hit both points on the culinary compass.
There is, for instance, a dish called Chinese bhel. It seems to be a modified variation of the snack dish called bhel puri, a very tasty mix of puffed rice, veggies and tamarind sauce — one of the many small chaat dishes that you’ll find at the numerous Indian snack shops in Artesia. In this case, it’s made “Chinese” with the addition of thin crunchy noodles, in a spicy-sweet sauce. Is it Indian? Is it Chinese? Is it both? Whatever…it’s a good snack, and goes well with beer.
That’s also the case with the Szechuan fries, which is just what they sound like: French fries flavored with Szechuan spices. If anything, they’re more an American-Chinese dish; Rachael Ray has a recipe online, and there are numerous YouTube videos of how to make it. Which doesn’t take much skill. Less skill than the chicken lollipops, which are essentially Buffalo chicken wings, but once again with a Szechuan sauce. It’s nice how a few spices can turn one cuisine into another.
Perhaps the most blended dish on the menu is the Szechuan paneer, which involves tossing usually bland Indian paneer cheese, which is like a child of cottage cheese and ricotta, with that same Szechuan sauce, turning spiceless into happily spicy — a very good idea. Under the enticing heading “Bombay Style Chinese” — Szechuan prawns, chili chicken, shrimp & cashew curry and so on.
Four of the five noodle dishes are straight-forward Chinese, with the red curry spice Malaysian noodles being the outsider. There’s a very small section of Nepalese dishes, just four. But among the rice dishes, the cuisines of origin move around Asia; Kashmiri pulao, Chinese fried rice, Szechuan fried rice, Thai fried rice. The desserts are solidly Indian — though I’m not sure of the mango soufflé, which may be French, and causes that much more ethnic confusion.
6563 E. Pacific Coast Hwy., Long Beach; 562-430-6888, www.nomadasianbistro.com
Like Nanking Indo-Chinese, Nomad Asian likes to move around the map — appropriate for a restaurant named “Nomad.”
In terms of old school Chinese dishes, there are plenty. Chow mein (described on the menu as as “spaghetti chow mein noodle”), with chicken, beef, shrimp, vegetables or a combo three-flavor. The chow mein is also available “handmade” (“wide flat noodle”) for $2 more. There’s Three Flavor Spicy Curry Fried Rice (“blendo” time again!), three-flavor fried rice, and Singapore noodles.
The menu stretches to about 100 dishes. And among them, you’ll find many of dishes so many of us grew up with — good, old-fashioned chop suey, made with chicken or beef. (And with sole, which is a new one on me.) There are wonton “stars,” filled with cream cheese and “krab.”
If you long for wonton soup, here it is. The classic dishes here are well prepared — they bring back lots of happy memories of the Chinese food we used to live on. I’m happy to dig into a plate of spring rolls, with chicken or with veggies. The honey-ginger chicken wings are pretty sweet, maybe too sweet, but that didn’t keep me from inhaling them. And much the same can be said of sugary preparations like the orange chicken, the honey-ginger fried chicken, the orange beef, the honey walnut shrimp and so forth. A reminder that back in the day, we liked our Chinese food sweet.
Indeed, we probably liked all our food sweet; remember Jell-O salads? But times change, and tastes evolve. Which is why the Hui dishes (or at least the dishes from the Northern Provinces) are so appealing. Northern Chinese cooking involves a lot of lamb — and over there, more likely mutton than lamb.
The cumin lamb is a wonderful thing — tender and sweet, as lamb tends to be, in a thick basting of pungent cumin. The lamb with scallions, is also heavy with garlic and ginger — a major flavor explosion. There’s lamb with pickled cabbage and dry red chiles, and lamb with garlic and jalapeños. There’s lamb tripe and lamb offal. Which is not a dish for those who dream of fried rice. Lamb offal is also served as a soup. And, there’s lamb with pickled cabbage. A litany of strong flavors that set Nomad apart.
11740 Artesia Blvd., Artesia; 562-809-3887, www.omarskitchenla.com
You’ll notice that there’s no pork on the menu at Omar’s Halal Chinese, for “Halal” refers to the Islamic code of permissible ingredients, of which pork (akin to kosher) is not one. The menu also notes that the chicken, beef and lamb are “100 Percent Zabihah” — which means they’ve been slaughtered following a well-established code of ethical rules (once again, akin to kosher).
This is the cooking of northern and western China, with its sizable Muslim population. And of the Uyghur people who live in the adjoining regions — and have their own adjoining section of of dishes on the menu. And having taken care of the technical details, let me tell you how good the food is. If it’s the classics you hunger for, there’s kung pao beef and kung pao chicken, General Tso’s chicken, orange chicken and Szechuan chicken. There’s chow mein with lamb, beef, chicken or shrimp; and fried rice with the same foursome.
But beyond this, what dominates is a menu of lamb and spice heavy dishes. Indeed, an entire section of the menu is dedicated solely to lamb — 17 dishes that, recited in a row, sound a bit like the classic Monty Python Spam routine — jalapeño lamb, basil lamb, curry lamb, lamb with green onion, kung pao lamb and so forth. There are also lamb kebabs, cumin lab, cumin lamb kidneys, cumin lamb ribs, lamb dumplings and lamb potstickers. And lamb soup, which sits on the menu next to haggis soup — which is made with lamb parts.
I don’t think there’s any lamb among the seafood dishes. But I could be wrong. And the Uyghur cumin lamb dishes are so intense, they can be tasted days later. Their cold noodles are an exercise in taste, texture and temperature — the cold noodles with cumin lamb is essential at Omar’s. The fried lamb ribs with hot pepper sauce isn’t for the faint of palate. Luckily, there’s homemade yogurt to cool you down — though this is yogurt for those who love the sourness of yogurt; this isn’t Chobani. This is the sort of food that makes you sweat, cooling you off on a hot day in Artesia.
Tasty Noodle House
11316 South St., Cerritos; 562-809-1333
For those who keep track of such things — and there are more than a few of us who do — there are plenty of “tasty” Chinese restaurants around. Here in Southern California, there’s China Tasty, Tasty Dining, Tasty Duck, Tasty Wok, Hunan Tasty, Asia Tasty, Tasty Zones, Xi’An Tasty, Tasty Goody, Tasty Chinese and Tasty Garden. (Sadly, the wonderfully named O’Tasty, in Washington DC, is closed.)
And, for those collecting their “tasties,” there’s the Tasty Noodle House chain, with branches in Irvine, Hacienda Heights, Walnut, Chino Hills, San Diego — and right here in Cerritos, where every day, all day, you can get tasty noodles and tasty dumplings to go! How tasty is that? You could probably eat here a dozen times, and never order a noodle dish at all. With a dozen appetizers, nine non-noodle soups, 16 dim sum items, about 20 rice dishes, and more than 50 entrees, the noodles of the name can get lost. Though not for long. There are some some 50 noodle soups and noodle dishes as well.
But I wouldn’t pass on the the green onion pancakes, the chive and shrimp dumplings, the cilantro fish dumplings, and the soupy xiao long bao — a dish with a cult following that’s easy to understand, and which travels unexpectedly well.
Did I mention the grilled pork bun? I should; and I now I have. And I do need to segue into the noodles, if only to kvell over the spicy cold noodles with shredded chicken, a longtime passion of mine, that always makes me wonder why I love cold noodles so much. The taste seems so much more intense when the noodles are cold than when they’re hot — though that may be an illusion. But then, much of what we perceive as taste is hard to define.
As a vegetable dish, and there are many, I ate too much of the pan-seared green chile peppers, which aren’t quite as hot as they sound, though they are hot. Not hot at all, and maybe even better, was the eggplant and mixed mushroom with basil. But then, I have a thing for both eggplants and mushrooms, and lots of them. And for spice. It makes the long evenings at home so much more bearable.
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clairatlantic1-blog · 4 years
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Tickling your taste buds with the fresh seafood is a somehow perplexing job. Arranging fresh seafood in Singapore is really a daunting task. Most of the local sellers offer stale seafood after calling it a fresh one. And with stale seafood, it really becomes a challenging job to cook it deliciously and refreshingly. Thus, cooking and eating fresh seafood has no comparison.
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the-pbd · 7 years
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Every time one of my Singapore friends learned that I was going to be in Taipei for a few days, they would immediately give me a ton of suggestions for things to do. 90% of these suggestions usually involved eating some kind of street food- which was fine by me. I love street food. I love the idea of not having to commit to sitting down in a restaurant, sifting through too many choices, waiting for forever for my food to come, eating like a dignified human being, and spending too much money on the experience because sometimes I literally. just. want. the food.
So yeah, street food is my jam. I was pumped for Taipei.
I landed on Friday night around 9pm to meet my friend @Cole (shoutout to him for being such a homie and traveling with me again) at Taoyuan International. We took the airport train over to the Taipei MRT and eventually located my mom's friend's place, only after knocking on a few wrong doors (sorry, old guy who lives on the other side of the block) and then finally being rescued by a nice delivery girl who let us use her phone. It was too late and rainy to explore by the time we got there, so we just went to bed to get an early start the next day.
My mom's friend (auntie Martha) lives right next to Taipei National University, so there were a ton of cafes and little restaurants and convenience stores nearby. We were also within walking distance to the Chiang Kai Shek memorial, which is a huge outdoor garden with a beautiful temple in the middle dedicated to Taiwan's first president. We spent most of the morning exploring this area, which was nice because it was early enough to where there weren't that many tourists out and about yet.
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After that, we decided to check out what was called the Songshan Cultural Creative park. On the way we stopped at a random food stand and got breakfast. My Chinese is pretty bad (and in Taiwan they use Fan Ti Zi, which is a style of written Chinese that's like cursive but 100 times worse) but we were able to point at the food we wanted and get by.
On the way to the park, we ran into a Hello Kitty cafe (Taiwan was occupied by the Japanese for about 50 years and as a result, they have a ton of authentic Japanese food and vestiges of Japanese culture like Hello Kitty) which had a lot of little desserts that were SO CUTE but also SO EXPENSIVE so we didn't get anything. 
The culture park ended up being a really cool stop. It kind of reminded my of Ponce City Market in Atlanta where there are just a ton of little stores selling bougie homemade products ranging from socks with animal faces on them to delicate jewelry to tiny carved wooden figurines set up in nativity-like scenes. There was also some photography exhibition there shedding light on Taiwan's migrant workers. All in all, a worthy excursion.
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We walked from there to the Ximending area, which is basically just Taipei's main shopping district. There was only one thing I was interested in seeing there, which was the famous Modern Toilet restaurant, where all the guests sit on toilet seats and eat out of tiny toilet-shaped bowls (!!!) There's just something about eating green curry out of a toilet-shaped bowl that makes it look like something other than green curry. The food was really good, though, and so was the chocolate ice cream. It was kind of gross, kind of fun, and I'm glad I stopped there but it's not a restaurant I'd be able to eat at every day. 
After that, we took a bus an hour north to the National Palace Museum, which houses one of the greatest collections of Chinese art. I have to admit, I'm not as huge a fan of Chinese art as I am of European art, but there's something to be said of the painstaking process it takes to create a scroll with immaculate watercolors and then write in beautiful calligraphy an accompanying poem on top. A lot of poems are interpreted by their brushstrokes (where the poet chose to emphasize certain words or how they chose to paint certain lines within a character) and that in itself was a kind of art- painting and literature all in one. It was pretty cool.
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Shilin Night Market, Taipei's largest and most famous night market, is very close to the National Palace Museum, so naturally it was our final stop of the day. We got dropped off at the southern end and walked north. As we imagined, the streets were packed full of people queuing for stalls that offered everything from candied tomatoes to noodles to bubble tea to crepes to sausages to dumplings to lots of other foods that I didn't recognize. The first thing we ate was a freshly baked pancake/scone thing. After that we had some pigeon eggs on a stick. We then moved onto a huge savory crepe, and then finally splurged on octopus, fried in dough, covered in cheese, with soy sauce, hot sauce, and wasabi drizzled on top. It was wild and extra but so, so good.
After that we didn't have the capacity to do anything else. We made it home and fell asleep in a great food-induced coma.
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The second day, we woke up and met my auntie Martha for lunch at Tim Ho Wan, which is a dim sum place (Hong Kong food instead of Taiwanese, but delicious nonetheless). One of my favorite dim sum items is sesame mochi balls. Usually they're filled with red bean paste but at Tim Ho Wan they were filled with liu sha (drool) which is basically this beautiful, golden, sweet, custard-y egg yolk filling. In retrospect, I probably should've ordered like 10 plates of those and just nothing else but I guess I'll know for next time.
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After that big brunch, Cole and I made our way over to Elephant Mountain where there was a hiking trail that led up to a great view of the Taipei 101 tower. The day before had been kind of overcast but that day was absolutely beautiful, sunny and 75 with clear blue skies and a nice breeze. After so long in the sweltering humidity of Singapore, Taipei's weather was a welcome relief. The hike itself was short but steep. We camped out on some large boulders and admired the view for a while, then decided to walk to the tower to see if we could afford tickets to the observation deck (spoiler alert: we couldn't).
We walked around the downtown area after that, ran into a pet convention (so many little doggies!) saw another Cultural Creative park (this one was outdoors, with little stalls set up kind of like a night market), and then spent some time in Eslite bookstore, which was voted the #1 bookstore in Asia on account of its size and the fact that it's open 24 hours. Then, we made our way back to the south part of the city to eat some beef noodle soup (super hearty and filling) and xiao long bao, which are soup-filled dumplings. 
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For dessert, we waited in line for bubble tea (invented in Taiwan!) which was SO GOOD. I know I've said that about everything I've eaten here but as a self-proclaimed connoisseur of bubble tea I have to say that the boba I had in this tea was probably the best boba I've had in my life, hands down. They were soft and chewy and super fresh and sweetened with brown sugar and other syrups that altogether made some damn good boba. I was a fan. We were close by to two night markets (Shida and Gongguan) so we strolled around those for a while. Shida had a lot more clothes and Gongguan seemed to sell a lot more fruit than Shilin. Both were less crowded so it was really nice to just walk around and check out what the vendors were selling and not get accosted by crazy tourists and hungry mobs. It was a great way to end the weekend.
I think the thing I liked the most about Taipei was the atmosphere- even though it's definitely much more urban than Singapore is, with huge skyscrapers everywhere and a bustling financial district, it still has a great, laid-back vibe to it. The people all seemed really nice. In lieu of bars, they have an incredible array of cafes, some of which are uniquely themed and all of which seem worthy of checking out. I was really surprised by how many little coffee shops there were, given that Asia is kind of big on tea, but despite the Western influences there were still a lot of traditional aspects imbued into everyday life. According to my coworker, "Taiwan is the only place I’ll keep coming back to.”
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(*Side note: I talked to my friends and apparently I DID TAIWAN ALL WRONG by wasting an entire precious meal on dim sum because it's not authentically Taiwanese. Also, apparently I forgot to try a bunch of foods like oyster omelettes and some beef rice dish and also sweet soymilk with fried Chinese doughnuts so OKAY I GET IT it seems like I need to go back to do eat those things. Whatever, it was an awesome vacation and even better eating extravaganza nonetheless). 
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