a very diverse crowd. Home-cooked dishes like short ribs and pot roast at pretty good prices. A great place in many ways. Mellow Yellow A pleasant enough restaurant but ignore their claims for best chili in Chicago. Things like...

I used to go to Thanh Long years ago before the fancy remodel. It was/is great. When I took my husband there and it started a “Best Crab in San Francisco” frenzy. We haven’t been to La Vie, so I’ll put it...

red duck curry -Char Kgnei: stir fry with ginger, onion, and chicken in a very mild red chili sauce -Trob Trung Kor: smoky eggplant with prawns, pork, and lime sauce -Shrimp shish kebab -House specialty Amok Trei: fish steamed in a...

I think he missed the point. Comfort food, to me, is food that makes me feel good. There is a Thai restaurant in my neighborhood, not spectacular, but very good. They make a dish of basil noodles with chili, with a choice of...

is of Korean origin (it comes in a fire engine red container) and is this ultra-firey hot kimchi flavor with a ton of dried chili pepper in it. I like it a lot, but man is it hot.

, chili, slaw, egg rolls, and so on. Mix it intop mashed potatoes and a little hungarian paprika, and you’re well on your way to some REAL POTATO SALAD! It wakes up most any food and couples with hot spices to form a real...

were both fine, but the shrimp were the small rock shrimp kind (disappointing after being served giant shrimp with heads still on elsewhere). These would have been more disappointing had they not been served sizzling in chili...

/chicken/quail based broth, the latter is smothered in a very spicy chili-paste based sauce. Moms tend to prefer the latter for some reason. Nothing like old remembrances of mom getting together with her high school classmates...

down to “normal”...and they’d find themselves “out of practice” and overwhelmed if they later ingested even half their previous dose of chili. In my experience (pretty wide, actually...I eat with a...

I live in NC, and every restaurant I am in serves lemon in ice water, and my husband hates it too. He specifically asks for “no lemon” and sometimes they put lemon in there anyway. Restaurants such as the local...

love them. Quinoa-now a staple in our house. Great light grain with high protein content. Super easy to prepare, and ready in 15 minutes. Srirachi chili sauce-(sp?)I first tried it when I had ordered spicy green beans in brown bean...

tuna mixed with hot black bean sauce (dinner when too exhausted to care), fermented tofu in chili oil straight out of the jar (sometimes I can barely coax people into it if I spread it on a nice hot steamed bun or english muffin)...

Wow- this is a great thread! Thanks for so many ideas! As for me, that dried basil just sits and sits. The dried mushrooms too. The star anise sits. But my worse offense is buying those humongous bags of dried chili peppers at...

no hidden agenda here either, went in with an open mind, and was disappointed with the service and the food. This place in my humble opinion is on the same level of a Fridays, Bennigans, or Chilis.. Nothing special .

We have Super Suppers and Dinner Station (I think) in Dallas. 2 of my coworkers swear by them. But they both have small kids to feed, so it’s the alternative to hauling the family to Chili's every night or waiting until 9pm...