Dish: Bitter Melon Beef Chow Fun Place: Happy Times Bistro, International District Price: $7.50 On the plate:Pan-fried noodles with slices of beef, bitter melon, green onions, mushrooms, carrots, and black bean sauce. Supporting cast/What to do: Your main decision with this mein dish is what type of noodles you want. Choices include rice noodles, rice [...]
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The Mein Man: Bitter Noodles at Happy Times Bistro
April 18th, 2013 · No Comments
Find Some of America’s Best Chinese Food…in Flushing
January 7th, 2013 · Comments Off
New Year celebrations may be behind for most people, but I’m still looking forward to my favorite of the year: Chinese New Year. It’s about a month away, and as with Thanksgiving day and Christmas day, I’ll likely spend it in a Chinese restaurant in Seattle. Or, more likely, Bellevue, as that’s where the better [...]
Tags: beyond Seattle · Chinese · events and adventures
10 Terrific Tofu Dishes in Seattle
December 13th, 2012 · 1 Comment
Yesterday, Serious Eats posted my roundup of “10 Terrific Tofu Dishes in Seattle.” An excerpt: I probably wouldn’t have connected the words “tofu” and “terrific” twenty or thirty years ago. Before I’d been exposed to the wide array of Asian cuisine, tofu was merely a meat substitute that I considered bland and boring. Now I [...]
Tags: Chinese · Japanese · Korean · Thai · vegetarian · Vietnamese
Sexy Feast: Din Tai Fung, Xiao Long Bao, Sucking and Blowing
September 21st, 2012 · No Comments
It’s been nearly two years since Taiwan’s Din Tai Fung opened its second restaurant in the United States, in Bellevue’s Lincoln Square Mall. Locals went crazy, celebrating the arrival of the trademark xiao long bao (soup dumplings). People lined up for hours just to get a seat at a table. I went close to the [...]
Tags: Chinese · dumplings · Sexy Feast
The Mein Man: Szechuan Chef Brings the Heat in Cold Noodles
July 17th, 2012 · No Comments
Dish: Szechuan Cold Noodle Place: Szechuan Chef, Bellevue Price: $5.99 In the bowl: The menu says nothing beyond the dish name. So I asked my server, and she explained that the sauce is made with garlic, green onions, vinegar, chili oil, and soy sauce. Supporting cast/What to do: Eat before it gets cold? No such [...]
Tags: Chinese · noodles · Sichuanese
The Mein Man: Pandasia Serves the Mein Man Some Pandameinia
July 3rd, 2012 · No Comments
Dish: Pandameinia Place: Pandasia, Interbay Price: $9.50 On the plate: Per the menu: “The ultimate chow mein: assorted vegetables, shrimp, chicken, beef and two flavors of homemade noodles.” Supporting cast/What to do: Just dig in and explore the noodle dish. There’s truly a bit of pandemonium in Pandemeinia, as there are so many ingredients to [...]
The Mein Man: Sichuanese Cuisine, Glass Noodles, and Ants Marching
June 19th, 2012 · No Comments
Dish: Ants on the Tree Place: Sichuanese Cuisine, International District Price: $6.95 On the plate: Per the menu: “Stir-fried vermicelli noodles with ground pork, green onions.” Supporting cast/What to do: Last time I ate these noodles at Sichuanese Cuisine, I asked for them to be super-spicy, but was disappointed with the tameness. This time, I [...]
The Mein Man: Lucky 8′s China House Is Sweet, Spicy, and Bold
May 8th, 2012 · No Comments
Dish: Sweet and Spicy Beef Noodles Place: Lucky 8′s China House, Capitol Hill Price: $9.95 On the plate: From the menu: “Thin egg noodles with beef, garlic, and sweet chili sauce.” You’ll also notice bamboo shoots, onions, carrots, water chestnuts, celery, and green onions on the plate. Supporting cast/What to do: You’ll find soy sauce [...]
Sexy Feast: Chen’s Village Serves Up a Scary Hookup
May 4th, 2012 · No Comments
It’s rare that I eat dinner alone in Seattle. But two weeks ago, my partner had gone to Tokyo ahead of me, and I had eaten everything perishable out of the refrigerator, leaving only condiments and beverages. It was my last night in town, I was by myself, and I was busy, hungry, and desperate. [...]
Tags: Chinese · Sexy Feast
Why Seattle’s Chinese and Japanese Restaurants Give Me the Blues
May 2nd, 2012 · 2 Comments
I remember the first time I saw a blueberry bagel. “That’s a Christian bagel,” my dad bemoaned, adding, “Or a stale doughnut.” We both believed a bagel should be simple—either plain, seeded, or maybe onion. Me…I’m a sesame man. And I’m a New York Jew, or at least was born that way. As such, I [...]
