? Tarter sauce replaced with mignonette? Gosh, this is like people going into Chinese restaurants and wanting sweet and sour chicken because eating authentic Asian food seemes seems “to have the exact opposite cooking...

(and Cambodia, Laos, and elsewhere) as people were slowly able to again become Asians in the sense of jubulant street foods and markets. Have you been back? One of the joys is that the Vietnamese, having won the war, almost never...

If the menu is posted outside, I really am kind of perplexed why people sit down, order drinks, eat freebies if offered (fried noodles at an American Chinese restaurant, banchan at a Korean restaurant, tortilla chips at a...

Bearnaise at a hotel trumps what you get at a place like The Square in my book. Asian Fusion – I love this category of food and I went to The Sugar Club and then Bali Sugar and I couldn’t figure out what all the fuss...

’s an easy place to miss. Queen Albert’s Asian-American Cuisine has been mentioned repeatedly, with great curiosity, mostly by Mike G, but recently within a massive RST post he revealed intelligence that it too serves...

. One of the worst salsas I’ve ever tried. The chicken florentine in the deli case is about 20,000 calories of bland white sauce with some chicken and noodles thrown in for good measure. I don’t mind the meat lasagne...

Thanks for the article...I had missed it but I did read the part in the NYT series about diabetes that reports that more and more Asian Americans are becoming overweight and diabetic because of our trashy fast...

, service and comfort when I’m craving homemade noodles, curried lasagna, mango tea, sweets I go out of my way to stop there. They are closed on Monday and do not accept cc’s.

it would drop) would be to fill up on the big English breakfast offered at my hotel, and then just head to some nondescript noodle shop in Chinatown for an early dinner. (I could keep belaboring the point of cheap, cheap, cheap...

for the main course (consumed with water, not coffee.) Without further ado, I will just say that this dish redefined gnocchi in all ways. Unlike Italian gnocchi, the French style utilized butter in the noodles along with the...

that fascinating Manchurian herb shop (Harbin herbs), passing through blocks and blocks of “Koreatown” to end just past Pulaski at that great Korean grocery (one of the city’s great ethnic groceries: no "pan-...

hand, SF SUCKS for anything Asian, with very few exceptions. This is where OC has half a chance. OC is better at Korean, most Japanese, probably Mexican (not my turf, that’s why I say probably) and obviously vietnamese. For...

, broccoli, cauliflower, eggplant, zucchini, etc. You can also use asian vegetables from the pantry: bamboo shoots, straw mushrooms, water chestnuts, whatever. Simmer together for about 5 minutes until the veggies are tender and...

But yeah, in general Melanie is right. L.A. has more selection, and if you pay attention to the L.A. Ch’ers you’ll do alright. The superiority of the Asian food in general down here is one of the reasons I refuse to...

: Tagliatelle with prosciutto di Parma, Sage, and Parmesan. This was very disappointing. Essentially a plate of buttered noodles with three slices of prosciutto slapped on top. I like simple fresh food, but this really had not...