Chinatown has a ton of bakeries selling similar delicious baked good and drinks, plus a few with specialties like Yummy Yummy with their waffles and New Harmony with their “pop” smoothies. Cube Cafe has both, along with a menu of food that is… Pan-Asian inspired? Really though, the photo menu on the counter covers food from Vietnam, Malaysia, Korea, and China. Plus breakfast and dessert.
Emei Szechuan Style Restaurant is a newish Szechuan Chinese restaurant that replaced Chung King Garden. Like its predecessor the menu has both Szechuan and American-Chinese type food. I tried a bunch of appetizers and their spiciest lunch special.
Yue Kee is a popular Chinese food truck in University City. The menu is super long, and the line of people made me want to chose quickly. General Tso’s Chicken? No. How about Grandfather’s chicken.
Posted at 1:40 pm, April 28th, 2011 under Chinese, University City, food truck.
Last week, I had a really disturbing Chinatown dining experience. Though several commenters called me out on being a wuss, I was semi-traumatized, I have issues with hair… They say that when you fall off the horse, you should get right back on. So with that in mind, I marched myself back to Chinatown to have another meal.
Chinatown Restaurant, on the corner of 10th and Arch, is one that I would never ever have gone into, it looks completely generic. But a trusted friend advised me that there were some dishes of interest, so I figured I had nothing to lose. As long as nothing was hairy.
Two menus are available at Chinatown restaurant, one with American-Chinese staples and the other with more authentic fare. Ask for both.
A while back some ladies were selling sticky rice and congee outside of Ming River Side Walk House, they were delicious but I wanted to check out the actual restaurant. Inside, Ming River has a small menu with an emphasis on soups.
My meal went from good, to edible, to scary. Ladies and gentleman this story is not for the faint of heart. I have eaten at my share of dives and places of questionable practices, but I have never really dealt with grossly unappetizing food like this. I’ll start you off easy, but be warned there will be a twist of M. Night Shyamalan proportions.
Luncher Aubre needed some soup, off to Sang Kee…
During this brutal winter of bitter cold and high winds, I became a lunchtime fiend for the big noodle soup bowls at Sang Kee. A bunch of the Profiled Lunchers on this site have mentioned Sang Kee’s lunch combo deal and Nick enjoyed the Shanghai Noodles—but no one has yet mentioned their big noodle soup bowls. No one has trekked across the icy tundra of Market street at least once a week to warm their soul with a ten gallon bowl of soup, no one, except for me… and the hundred other people who are always eating there and making wait for a table.
Posted at 10:30 am, March 3rd, 2011 under Chinese, University City, soup.
Harmony Bakery is my #1 obsession of the moment for the fresh strawberry smoothie with yogurt bubbles in them. Since trying them in November I have been make countless times to get my bubble fix. Along with my regular order, I recently tried some more of the food on the menu and I was pleasantly surprised.
