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Cruise food?
or knackwurst...burgers and fries aren’t bad either. There will be a couple nights where they’ll have poolside buffets, don’t miss them...some really fantastic deserts and stuff. While you’re at sea...
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Decent Cup of Tea in Even A High End Spot -- Rare As Bigfoot
fauchon – You responded to a post that I made long ago (maybe with a different Chow handle before this new set-up — in the days when we were paying for our subscriptions to ChowHound!) about finding good tea, and with...
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Name 5 Famous Tourist Traps
's in South Jersey. Granted, none of these places are the best at anything they do. But try to find an edible nova lox and onion scramble, or decent fried chicken or 100 year old bar in York Pa. As a frequent tourist and...
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Things to do with cucumbers?
with chips or on fried tortillas like a tostada. Good stuff.
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More about tapas, please
not find any postings on tapas. Could this be??? A major chow trend raised to mainstream phenomenon ignored? Or did I just miss it? I found one old mention by Jim Leff that he preferred the bar at Tabernera, and one positive for...
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Just got back from China... any tips on where I can get the same grub in L.A.?
Chongqing (Chungking) is a tiny hole-in-the-wall with delicious food. Try their water cooked dofu served with a blistering hot sauce that you dab on top before eating. Also good are their fried peppers. Rice, however, is mealy....
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Annoyed with the surprise price of a glass of wine!
wants the abalone, pan fried in hand-drawn truffle oil with saffron sauce, then maybe I will NOT have the foie gras 30-ways! To me, a server should know the menu and should NOT upsell any guest. To them: remember, the patron that...
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Classic Recipes Misrepresented
variations of the recipe. Confit is not a matter for interpretation. As far as I’m concerned this is like ordering chicken soup and getting a piece of fried chicken.
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New to irvine area
these places can easily be found via google, citysearch or digitalcity.com Let us know when you are ready to venture out a little farther for some good chow. Link: http://mealcentric.blogspot.com
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Where Are the Motown 'Hounds?
There’s been very little discussion on this Board in the past few months about Detroit-area chow (with occasional exceptions such as the always-reliable berkleybabe). There must be more Detroit-area chowhounds out there who...
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The Aesthetics of Mollusk Sushi
places also serve “spider maki”, which is a delicious roll made with a deep fried soft-shell crab. Personally I think they tend to be over-priced, but they are fantastic.
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Anthony Bourdain blogs about the Food Network...
He is practicing irony. Poking fun at the usual American distaste for the French. remember the Freedom fries?
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chowhound challenge - longish
appetizer with a bacon studdded tomato sauce. Then roasted monkfish over a deconstructed minestrone, and sauteed supreme of chicken (no doubt cooked in butter) with aspargus "home fries." The wine, a sauv blanc from Napa, had a...
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My daughter is going to FLORENCE!!!!!
out your responses and put them together in a “How to eat in Florence” book for her. (and just quietly, I am not as altruistic as I appear.. I want her to check it all out before I get ther, so I won’t waste time...
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Lets say you had a chef-in-training coming to visit
Jeep (or any other CHOW recommended Korean BBQ). Should be reasonable. -Musso & Frank’s (more for the old Hollywood experience, although decent steaks and chops). -Olvera Street – need I say more? -The Hat in SGV or...
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