Midtown Lunch

Photo Courtesy of Associated Press

• Joey Chestnut consumed 68 hotdogs in 10 minutes at this year’s Nathan’s hot dog eating competition. The female winner, 45 year old, 100 pound Sonya Thomas ate 45 [Huffington Post]
• Stateside has starting serving lunch, including a $14 buffalo fried oyster sandwich [Foobooz]
• Two Eat Philly is not impressed with the burger or tilapia at Hawthorne’s Cafe [Two Eat Philly]
• Pure Tacos opens Monday [Eater]
• Khmer Kitchen is Philly’s newest Cambodian restaurant in South Philly [Meal Ticket]

Asian Fusion Garden Thai & Noodle Bar, whose name adequately conveys its menu, is opening tomorrow. The menu is divided into two sides, one being the Chinese side with  Lan Zhou hand pulled noodles,BBQ skewers, hot pot, and smoothies, and the other side consisting of Thai food, with curries, more noodles, and chicken lunch specials. The hand pulled noodle chef was formally cooking in Chicago’s Chinatown, while another chef works on the Thai stuff. Prices are a few dollars higher than what you might find in Chinatown; hand drawn noodle soups range from $7-$10. Looking forward to seeing if its worth it!

The full menu after the jump:

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The 2nd Annual Vendy Awards will be here before you know (July 28th), start getting excited. Nominations for your favorite Philly food truck CLOSE TODAY!

VOTE HERE.

Hope you all had a lovely 4th of July. I am no Hawk Krall, but I have tried a good amount of hot dogs in this city. For some reason, I put off trying Hot Diggity- despite having won Phila Weekly’s hot dog battle against Underdogs. For the most American day of the year, I couldn’t put off a visit any longer.

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Enjoy your day off! I will be enjoying a hot dog from a place that has taken me way too long to get to- more on that tomorrow!

Here is a list from Foobooz of specials going on today.

Triumph Brewing Company wooed me at a tasting event with there “Something Else” beer, a beer with so many ingredients you would think they were making soup: pickled and grilled lemons, cardamon, sea salt, thyme, black pepper, mustard seed, bay leaf, brown sugar. An amazing beer that I needed to have again, so I headed to Old City for another pint along with some lunch to go with it.

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