I’m having two cravings that seem to be difficult to satisfy in Chicago, as great a food town as it is: 1) I gave up dairy a year ago because it’s so damned hard to digest. I crave pizza! Surely somebody makes soy...

better. I had high expectations and coming from the SF Bay Area, it wasn’t as good as the best Bay Area places. About as good as Fook Yuen or Mayflower Milpitas, not as good as HKFL or Joy Luck. Would make it into the dim sum war...

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to have at Joy during weekend lunch: hot soy milk, beef noodle soup, Taiwanese style fried pot stickers. If you like starchy baked items there are many other delicacies there that I wouldn’t be able to translate. Bring a...

simmered the leftover soybean remains (okara) with some soy sauce, mirin, and vegetables and ate it on top of rice with a hardboiled salted duck yolk. The SoyaJoy was $90. You do have to make sure that you clean out the filter cup...

also simmered the leftover soybean remains (okara) with some soy sauce, mirin, and vegetables and ate it on top of rice with a hardboiled salted duck yolk. The SoyaJoy was $90. You do have to make sure that you clean out the...

I first visited Lowell years ago, hunting for Cambodian and Laotian food. I’d heard that many Southeast Asian immigrants lived in the area, but drove for hours without finding a single restaurant.

. Nancy’s SOY yogurt. Nancy’s yogurt is available everywhere, but I need the soy kind. Whole Foods used to have it, but no more. I know there’s other brands of soy yogurt, but I like this one the best. 2. T....

posting. No dim sum this time, but lots of other goodies: soy sauce chicken, roast duck, steamed rice noodles with mushrooms and chinese chives, excellent stir-fried vegetables. Cost will not be as cheap as Joy Luck of course!...

Joy restaurant in Foster City is a great place for a Taiwanese breakfast/lunch (soy milk, fried dough stick, xiao lung bao, baked chive pastry etc etc) and my wife who is also Taiwanese thinks it’s very close to home. There...

You can dress cold noodles with a mixture of: a) soy sauce, reduced chicken stock, toasted sesame oil, touch of sugar, chile powder or your fave hot sauce, and chopped chives, or b) toasted and ground sesame seeds, vinegar,...

to the pink, which is typically soggier and less intricately flavoured, IMO). House made soy was a joy, a taste that wasn’t familiar to me but delightful. The meal ended with green tea ice cream and came to $65 before taxes.

selections like Tao Hu Hor (bean curd skin wrapped around mushrooms and bean curd, topped with a bean sauce and spinach) or Hobo Noodles (simple but perfect: broad noodles in a tomato-y soy sauce with basil). Joy the owner is a...

Ah yes, they do have the best do-fu gan in SF or East Bay. Do-fu gan translate into dried bean curd, but it’s really regular tofu that has been double pressed and then stewed in aromatics like star aniise and soy sauce. Joy...