grew stronger and stronger as it cooled, leaving the last bites bitter and untouched. The tom yum was most disappointing. It was more of a vegetable soup with chicken and lemongrass than anything I recognize as tom yum. Stay away...

- a Korean restaurant that up until recently did double-duty as a pizza/sub shop and serves the best soon dofu I’ve ever had. For an odder, but still very tasty, experience, there’s Ola’s Diner on E.185th Street...

Korean joints are: Yongsusan for offering subtle royal delicacies from the Kaesong cuisine of the ancient North Korean capital of the Koryo Dynasty. Dae Sung Oak for bulgogi and other well marinated and well marbled barbecued bites...

's in Silver Spring. Very tasty and better than Guajillo’s. But again, great list!

seriously cim, If you are keen to try, start off with fishing. Grab a rod and head for your nearest pier. It’s that easy. Don’t get bogged down with details like "the whiting are only biting on pippies".. grab a squid...

both the cans and the tube. I would just repackage any open can and reuse as you suggest (same as cracking open a can of chiles in adobo!). The tiniest Ziploc cup/containers are very handy in this case! Parmigiano-Reggiano is...

scallops in shell, those tiny and tasty oysters (Japanese name), spanish mackerel, and other goodies. Have not tried Sushi Shibucho or Wasabi down the street. But will soon, to compare. Hard to beat Yoshino’s quality for...

Do you chuckle when people next to you talk loudly on the cell phone when you are trying to eat your dinner? How about if the food was so tasty, they stuck their fingers in it and then sucked their fingers? Blew their nose...

. Intermission is way too new and expensive to be a dive. (If you’re looking for a dive and a bite in that area grab a slice at NY Pizza and go to the Tam.) Does the Pleasant Cafe in Roslindale have a bar side as well as a...

that are the best of their kind in the country (possibly the world)... but none that captures the essence of the city in one big bite. You could eat a dish that represents a segment of L.A. three meals a day, every day, for a...

to me, that sound bite of jen insisting, once again, that she was doing it for zoe, was a flashing neon sign that she was getting the boot tonight.

. They look like vaguely obscene orbs in hot water, but when you bite into them, there is a surprising sweet sesame taste. (The waiters seem surprised when non-Chinese people order this dish.)

, will often pour a little water into her wine (like the Ancient Greeks and Romans did!) to cut the tannic bite of the first glass. She says she picked this up on one of her trips to Italy, where she had seen it done in nice...

serves me right, there was a discussion of Thai restos at the recent Chowhound dinner at the New Shanghai. You really should attend one of these functions, we really, really don’t bite, and you can get some pretty good...

“Overly-composed” and “too many flavors that did NOT work well together” are accurate descriptions of my experience the other night. I have heard good things, too, about the place and have even recommended it...