stephenc

Hey guys! In mandarin chinese, Chow mein is actually pronounced like: Tsao mien, with a low flat tone on the first word, and a downward accented tone on the second. But everyone pronounces chinese wrong. It doesn't bother me at all.

Stinky Tofu Durian Spicy fermented bean curd Bitter melon Thousand-year-old egg

Anyone been to Taco Riendo, a block north of Girard on 5th?

Margaret Kuo has soup dumplings on the lunch menu. They're pretty good.

Being poked with a stick is just a walk in a park when compared to being gutted alive or eaten alive by another big fish. I wouldn't make such a big deal over it.

If you like Italian and/or seafood, go to Pan e vino on Schoenersville Rd in Bethlehem. byob. no reservations. The most authentic Mexican is at Garibaldi's, in Easton. it's a dive, but the food is good.

How did he poach that duck? That thing looks sweet. Pan sear followed by a quick poach?

Back in school, I remember Four Square and Magnolia being pretty good, from being treated there by my parents, or friends' parents. However, one time one of my frat brothers treated us to a dinner at Il Palio after winning a ton of money gambling. That was absolutely incredible.

I think they place a little more meat between the buns.

I always thought egg, tomatoes, and beef was more of a Taiwanese thing.

At every chinese dinner party we've ever been to, at least in the United States, we don't do "banquet style". It's more of a homestyle, with every dish thrown in the center of the table. For 10 or more people, we often just lay out a buffet. You don't need expensive equipment to do homestyle cooking. You can steam a fish in a regular pot or steam ricecooker. Hell, my mom has even microwaved a fish, topped with salt, ginger, greenonion, hot oil, soy. No one could tell it wasn't steamed. Greens are easy. Check a few homestyle chinese cookbooks for some stirfrys. They're tough to mess up. Lo mein or rice noodles are good too. You could conceivably just get order this takeout to save time. Everyone likes dumplings right? There was a whole thread on here about them a couple of months ago. You could make some dumplings ahead of time, freeze them, and boil them up. Make a soup. Buy some fruit for dessert, especially oranges. If all else fails, cook up some fried chicken. People may have different tastes, but EVERYONE likes fried chicken.

From the weakly: http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/view.php?id=9381 Hahahaha.

What a sellout.

Oh wow. Southwark got three bells? How do you pronouce this restaurant? South-wark? Suttherk, or Sutthuck? I've never been there, so I have no idea.

I dunno. I usually chop as I go along. I'm a fast chopper so I can get everything chopped as the oil warms up. Then it all goes in the skillet. I cook chinese most of the time, so I usually finish cooking in 10-20 minutes total.

The middle eastern-spiced Chicken Philly from ID in Durham. I'm from Philly. This sandwich was a revelation.

Back in when I was in college, my buddies and I would do this thing every week where we would walk (or drive out), usually starting from East Campus. We'd then go to whatever restaurant we came to first, that none of us ever ate at. Fun stuff, and in exploring in this way, we found a couple neat little places. There's a Jamaican Jerk place in Downtown, Durham, just outside the downtown loop. Forget what it's called or where it's located. We came upon Shrimp Boats and got the best fried chicken we've ever tasted. Imagine that, fried chicken from a place called Shrimp Boats. If you're talking about fine dining, I don't know much about it. I remember Magnolia and Four Square being good back when I was there. I remember going to Nana's a couple times back in the day, but only because I was friends with the bartender. The food I remember most from my 4 years there.... Shrimp n grits at that place in Chapel Hell, and the chicken philly made by Jihad at ID on 9th street. The chicken Philly was nothing close to a chicken philly. But it was the best middle-eastern spiced chicken hoagie I've ever tasted. And the dude was a total ketchup-nazi too. I also like the tabbouleh. You guys should feel lucky. The triangle has weekend breakfast/brunch places that are ten times better than what we have up here in Philly.

Umm, forget all those and just watch Rocky.

I love scrapple. And no part of the pig is too scary for me to eat. I grew up eating my grandmother's barbecued pig's feet.

Make a marinara sauce in case some eaters wanna turn their cheesesteak into a pizzasteak. Maybe mushrooms too for a mushroomsteak. Or cold fixin's to make hoagiesteaks.

Frosted Flakes Lucky Charms Honey Bunches of O's.

cool pics. But is it just me, or does Tex-mex food look really weird in white china. Something's just isn't right. I guess I'm used to seeing Tex-mex in cast-iron or earthtone ceramics.

I don't like them steamed. I like them stirfried or sauteed.

yeah, on any "chinese menu" you'll always find the neat stuff like tripe, intestines, chicken blood, bitter melon, sea cucumbers, pigs ears and sardines.

Well, I take it Bookbinders will be pulling their ads from the Weakly.