Posted by
foodzings | 21 Oct 2007 |
chinese,
noodles,
suburbs |
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Last Tuesday, the new Chipotle on City Line Ave was giving away free burritos. It’s the first Chipotle in the area. I don’t know why, but there are many people crazy about it. Really, it’s just fast mexican food. It’s not any better than any of the other chains. But there are people obsessed with it. It’s bizarre. I thought it would be amusing to head down there and check out the madness. As expected, it was nuts. The line was at least 100 yds long, and probably about 2-4 people thick. If I had gotten in line, I may have gotten to eat by 10PM. Not really my cup of tea. What we did notice is that two stores down from Chipotle was the not-yet-opened Pei Wei, the casual “asian diner” from PF Chang’s. The menu looked pretty cool, so I’m excited to check it out once it opens.
So M and I headed over to SangKee in Wynnewood because we both like it and we wanted to eat right away. M got the pan fried noodles, which is her standard go-to item there. I went with the roasted pork wonton noodle bowl. I was really wanting some roasted pork. Everything was good. Even later on a Tuesday night, the place was pretty much full. Service was attentive, as usual. My pork was a bit more fatty than I would have liked, but it was still plenty of food, tasty, and really cheap.
Posted by
foodzings | 31 Jul 2007 |
noodles,
soup |
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Yes folks, once in my life, oh, when I was a young teenager, I loved hanging out at malls. After all, what girl didn’t? Nowadays, not so much. But I had to go to one the other day, and since I was starving, had to eat. The “japanese” place in the food court had some scary japanese and chinese looking selections. I decided to go with chicken udon. It looked like a safe choice.
I love udon in general, but it can be very plain depending on where you get it. After all, it’s just thick noodles in a broth with some veggies and protein thrown in. This particular one was so much more than that! Instead of plain chicken, they threw in some chopped teriyaki chicken. It was made with chicken thighs so it was wonderfully tender. It also came with some steamed veggies. Because of the teriyaki flavoring from the chicken, the broth was jazzed up with this extra flavor. And man, was it filling! I could hardly stop eating it because it was so good. So what if it’s from a crappy mall food court place? It was still darn good. I wouldn’t be so sure about their other stir fried dishes, but this udon was great.
We took a grocery trip to hong kong supermarket on washington ave and found some adorable long and skinny eggplant. When we got home, Z whipped up some steak tips with eggplant, red onions, and shallots, using a baja chipotle marinade. I don’t know how people just make up stuff. I can’t ever make up dishes on the go. I can only do recipes. He does this making up his own dishes stuff all the time! And it was great. I did cut up and steam some red potatoes. Haha. Look at me! I’m a chef! I did take pictures and eat the meal very well!
Posted by
foodzings | 19 Apr 2007 |
chinese,
japanese,
noodles,
suburbs |
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There’s this Cherry Blossom Festival thing going on in the Philadelphia area. Last Saturday, they were having a japanese food tasting at this japanes marketin Narberth – Maido. I’ve never been to it before, even though it’s very close to my house. I thought this would be a good opportunity to check it out and taste some good food, for free.
The market is very cute. I would say 95% of the food is Japanese, and the rest various Asian. They even have a food counter so you can get some hot food. So far as this food tasting goes, they made it out to be alot bigger than it actually was. They did give away some ginger flavored miso soup, which was weird, some japanese pancake called okonomiyaki, which was pretty good, some sushi rice sprinkled with mixed seaweed, which I just loved, a few different drinks, snacks, and desserts. But it certainly didn’t fill you up! We were hoping to make a lunch out of it. Ha. I did pick up a few things and it’s nice to know that a missing ethnic ingredient can be had only 5 minutes away. And if I ever feel the need for some yakisoba, I know where to go.
So in order to eat real lunch, we ended up at Sang Kee Asian Bistro again. I ordered the roasted pork wonton noodle. It came with some shu mei type dumplings and roasted pork. The pork was delicious. The broth itself was very bland, which I expected because it just comes in a chicken broth, but with a little hot sauce, it tastes just great. We also had a house special noodle bowl, which was much bigger, and had a little bit of everything.
On the non-soup side, we had an order of penang baked seafood fried rice. That was delicious, in a curry sauce with seafood, including scallops. It seemed like an asian paella. I’m a big fan of this, and next time I will order this. Also, the seafood pan fried noodle, which is in a ginger wine glazed sauce with big bits of seafood with crispy thin egg noodles. This is plain, but tasty. Finally, we had the beef mei fun in black pepper sauce. I expected this to be very spicy and peppery, but it actually was quite good and not heavily peppery. As usual, the service was pretty good. I also noticed that at their bar, they have little built in TVs into the bar so you can eat and watch TV. Strange.
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