I always felt that Moo Goo Gai Pan was so popular in the East because it was so fun to say, much more fun than "mushroom chicken." One difference between the two coasts was that Chinese menus on the West Coast typically had...

sotanghon refers to very thin, clear bean-thread noodles, often in a chicken and mushroom soup but not necessarily (can be stir-fried instead). Pansit bihon is the only one that’s always stir-fried — though it is the...

; prawns with a palm sugar-coconut glaze, cucumber radish salad and ocean-scented rice; duck with truffle-scented broth and mushroom ragout; and chocolate cake with raspberry and nougatine tuile.

the gazillion other Indian options in Berkeley first before trying it again. CHEESE BOARD PIZZA: The pizza of the day had mushrooms, yellow and red onions, feta, mozzarella, and a sundried tomato pesto. It was topped with garlic...

treasures wrapped in clay and mud baked. The origin of that mud needs to be checked. This town is next to some major oil refineries. They also have a page of specials that change every two weeks. The Long Life meat balls with...

looking for distinctively Oregon or unique foods; I’m not so interested in specialties from other U.S. regions or Asia (plenty of that in SF). I would like to have at least one meal built around Oregon pinot: wild salmon...

had sukiyaki on Sunday afternoons. American holiday fare was all-American. Japanese holiday food was all Japanese. The family ate clams and abalone gathered at the coast. The cousins and I fished (trout) and hunted (dove, duck,...

I’ve had biscuits and gravy all over the south, Tennessee, Georgia, The Carolina’s, Texas and while it can be very good it cannot match the variety and depth of congee. Plain with pickled vegetables, with pork,...

for free, and cheese, mushrooms, sautéed onions for a little extra. The italian steak, chicken cutlet, and meatball sandwiches are all great, too, but veal is the specialty of the house, line up to order it, and a bottle of...

crab tail, a real irish coffee at the buena vista, pacific oysters, a tasting of napa and sonoma valley wines, maybe a hangtown fry, maybe some abalone somewhere if available. Even the mission style sf burritos with i believe...

There’s another thread about MSG “sensitivity.” What folks don’t realize is that it is naturally occuring in soy products, mushrooms, tomatoes, cheeses, etc. So are they “sensitive” to those...

frozen chicken or Hamburger helper or worse yet a concoction of ground meat and mushroom soup on a bun. You know the kind of ground meat that the minute is cools a little you realize just how much grease is in it. Sunday: Some...

for canned vegetables that are included as “fresh” - canned corn, water chestnuts and slimy mushrooms. Again, if I don’t ask for these ingredients to be eliminated, they’re thrown in as fillers. Can you...

is readily available, wherever we end up. In Germany I had to go to a larger town to pick up mushroom soy sauce (at an Arab store), but there I also fell in love with Quark, which I have never found in any other country. Mexican...

Glad you brought up the soup nazi. The difference there is that the soup was THAT good. Yes it was $10 for lobster bisque, but there were large chunks of lobster. Pretty much a chunk in each bite. The portabello mushroom chili