DeWe and a gas station corndog. A meal at the best in the DF and a visit to Taco Bell. AYCE Chinese (using my buffet tricks) and a 30 course state dinner in China. And I generally prefer street and market foods over fine dining in...

laid); faux cafeteria nostalgia (Scholl’s never served anything fresh, you know); City Lights of China (booooorrrrrinnnnngggg; try Wheaton for dim sum); and any place recommended by the late, unlamented Phyllis ("Hello???...

have no problem whatsoever having people who are expert in other arenas guide and educate me. When I visited China, I had no problem putting myself in the hands of people who knew better than I did, who grew up eating that food,...

). It was a nice meal to cap off our trip with, the Vietnamese flavors being a needed break from a French heavy week. Our trip was amazing and so was the majority of the eating that we did. It was a treat for us to do all of this...

experience at Neo & only ever returned bc different friends had booked it for dinner 2 other times & I didn’t want to be difficult. Needless to say all 3 “dining experiences” were horrible & were capped by the...

. your situation is certainly familiar and i do commiserate— mostly i hope that you and your crew are still having fun, since it’s for charity, and that no-one is getting overwhelmed or stressed out. if it were me,i...

slouchers, slobs, and doofuses in very expensive places—baseball caps on backward at table and all. And damned if all those 20-something professionals who keep the sushi joints alive don’t seem to be always chowing...

. Mei Wen means America China but it also means beautiful brilliant.

Ah yes, overly sugared cereals. I was conditioned against those as a kid, and therefore can’t stand Froot Loops, Cap'n Crunch, etc. I think it has a lot to do with the icky-colored sweet milk they generate.

of the best “comfort food,” that I have eaten. The portions were large enough to share “bites,” with others, and not so much that you imagined that your mother would spring from the kitchen and admonish you about the “starving...

glass bottles with the little tin foil caps. A few years later, when my mom did get a car, we expanded our horizons, and found artisan cheese and bread makers in the area that also gave me an appreciation for the local nature of...

Yeah, I thought the MLV ones were just ok. That northern china food is just generally heavier and blander than what I like.

than something to be proud of ;) it’s all about the iced cap.

does not necessarily equal good. Inauthenticity does not necessarily equal bad. One example: my highly-cultured food snob FIL has spent quite a bit of time in China and Japan and says that he thinks American chinese food is much...