Snowy enough for you? Is what your corny neighbor would say. Not me though. I am cool. But it’s totally soup weather, so I grabbed some homemade soup of the day from Unique Bouquet Cafe. The Cafe opened last week on South Street West and is still ironing out the kinks. For example, receipts were handwritten and it took a bit of time after I ordered a sandwich to be told they were out of the main ingredient. Hence why I only got soup.
I remember watching the sign go up for Hippot this fall, not particularly excited for another Shabu Shabu place in Chinatown. But the sub $9 lunch special advertised outside the restaurant was too good to not at least try once.
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My Cambodian dining experiences around Philadelphia have been largely positive, save for some corn starchy frog legs. When I read about I Heart Cambodia’s opening and later, saw the menu on their Instagram account, I immediately yearned for another Khmer adventure. Luckily, a friend with a car and identical taste for Asian food was able to take me.
Today is the Chinese New Year. (It also happens to be one year since I visited and ate my way around China!) We planned a dinner tonight for 10 hungry friends in Chinatown; I picked out a menu of scallops, eel, shrimp, whole fish, eggplant, string beans, lamb, and clams.
Chinatown isn’t the easiest to navigate (hence why I run my Chinatown food tours!), so I’d like to help.
Here are some suggestions for where you can celebrate tonight (and don’t forget to BYO, it is New Year’s after all)
Where are you eating tonight? Check my Instagram to find out where I picked!
a menu in China
slurping soup in an alley in China
