Dish: Braised crabmeat and dry scallop yee mein
Place: 663 Bistro, International District, Seattle
Price: $9.95
On the plate: A mound of soft-looking noodles with slices of shiitake mushrooms, small pieces of crab, and even smaller pieces of dried scallops.
Supporting Cast: Nothing more than what’s on the plate.
What to do: Just eat the noodles, securing whatever bits of [...]
Dish: Thin Noodle Soup with Pork Intestines and Oysters
Place: 101Yess
Price: $6.95
In the Bowl: True-to-the-word thin noodles floating in what looks like brown gravy. Some fried onions and garlic below the surface, my requested pork intestines and oysters piled in the center and rising above the surface.
Supporting cast: It’s all in the bowl.
What [...]
Leave me breathless instead of brothless
Nearly seven months ago, on April 24, I broke the news that Din Tai Fung was coming to the Seattle area. My prediction came true:
“Knowing the food scene here, knowledge of Din Tai Fung’s arrival will be cause for every food lover in Seattle to have a simultaneous orgasm – first when [...]
You’re together at last, just you and the Beef Bing you’ve ordered at Henry’s Taiwan (either the Bellevue or Seattle location). You’ve played the field, but perhaps you’ve never been with a Bing. It’s time to get acquainted. Laying (and, indeed, lying) before you, a Bing is like a Chinese flatbread, this one the size [...]
Tags: Chinese
Note (11/22/10): Din Tai Fung has opened. Please read my challenging update.
A friend with Eastside restaurant knowledge told me first, and then a representative from the restaurant just confirmed it: Din Tai Fung (famous for its xiao long bao, pictured to the right, courtesy of Din Tai Fung) is apparently coming to the Seattle area.
Knowing [...]
Since today is International Hot and Spicy Food Day, my thoughts turn to the Eastside, home of some of the spiciest food in the area.
So, what better place to try than Bellevue’s Boiling Point? The clientele is almost exclusively Chinese, and the menu is simply a selection of hot pots – along with some bubble [...]
Tags: Chinese
Still catching up on all my pre-December restaurant reports. Consider these quick bites of the Asian variety:
Buddha Ruksa serves up some beautiful plates, placing it in the upper echelon of Thai restaurants in the Seattle area. Not as high as Noodle Boat in Issaquah, which might be the best around, but certainly a solid choice [...]
Tags: Chinese · Korean · Thai · Vietnamese
Spiced, the new restaurant across (somewhat) from Crossroads Mall in Bellevue, is further evidence that most of the good Chinese food is across the water from Seattle – and not in Seattle itself.
But how good is Spiced? Worth the recent wait for it to reopen after being shut down for weeks by the Health Department? [...]
Tags: Chinese
“Yeah, right.”
That’s what I said when I heard that Dahlia Lounge was cooking up congee for brunch.
Monkey bread? Makes sense. Eggs Benedict? Elegant. But congee? Can it be any good?
In a word: Yes. I often complain about the quality of Chinese food in Seattle, so it’s sort of strange that Chef Tom Douglas is the [...]
This Seattlest writer knows this site is about appreciation of Seattle. We love it here, for sure.
But part of what we love is its proximity to Vancouver, as we’ve discussed before. And to that we must add its proximity to Portland.
Dishin’ disappeared for a week because we were on a feeding frenzy down south. In [...]
