with the waitress about who their blue gill “source” was – she wouldn’t tell us. Very dive-ish. No web site. Not a fan of: Zelma’s on Windsor Tang Dynasty in Urbana Mall Rainbow Garden on Neil

but consistent) and Champa Garden (extensive menu, sometimes inconsistent).

All I’m questioning is terms like “is parboiling acceptable” or “the ultimate truth that it (parboiling) is indeed a shortcut”. I think they should be put into context. Your average, garden variety...

You Know You’re a “Home Cooking Chowhound” when... You bring a big bunch of fragrant, fresh-cut Genovese basil in from the garden and your four year-old says “Mmmm...smells like ice cream!”. (Had...

centres, gardens and fruit that stinks to high heaven. guess i’ll have to shoot back after the new year.

[yri] was found; the church is still deciding whether to open it.) The original basilica has been expanded and rebuilt many times over the millennia, and it is a beautiful site, including lovely, graceful cloisters and gardens....

and early afternoon are gone. Since there’s no good dim sum in DC, I think Gold Mountain, Lychee Garden, Y. Ben House (CHEAP and crazy filled with old people), would all satisfy.

Olive Garden is currently advertising something like “all you can eat pasta”: you can choose any combinations of pastas and sauces and eat all you want for something like $9.95! This is disgusting! They’ll keep...

Obviously you want multiple threads. But this was a situation in which a recent arrival made a great post (the ONLY post about this restaurant) with a terrific write up and he got one thank you. If you don’t nurture your...

, and on a par with XO dishes I’ve had at such Manhattan stalwarts as Cantoon Gardens. Plus, as the OP mentioned, the menu photos are of a very high quality, and helpful. Thanks, lwong, for this post. Next time I go, I want to...

not particularly like). I grew up in New York City but was sent to my uncles in New Jersey & Delaware in the summer. And my uncles had gardens! The experiences of eating tomatoes while sitting next to the plant, corn on the cob...

call them Chowhounds) can tell the difference between Olive Garden and a nice Italian restaurant... at least a portion of those people are on budgets and manage to have a nice meal despite the budgets, rather than eating whatever...

't do it for you. Pizza: Pauline’s Pizza is definitely like nothing I had in New York. Thin crust, fancy cheeses, fresh vegetables and herbs-many grown in their own garden I think, homemade chicken sausage, and expensive....

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