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You know, I haven't had huevos in a while. Hmm, it'd be a good choice for a brunch one of these weekends.

it's beer, right? Gotta be beer. Whew. Hmm, so it's a PG site, eh?

I agree. I don't see the attraction. I'm not. I've known some people who don't like that juniper berry smell. Now if she said she didn't like alcohol, that'd be a shock.

Hey Bob, Do you know any distributors in the area? We gotta get somebody to stock that. I'd buy a case. It'd be great at parties. Edited: Scratch that. I guess Marlton's not too far.

If I read that correctly, I read that as saying Lou Reda's place and Penang in East Hanover were the exceptions to the crap that most restaurants on route 10 pass for.

I agree with skipping Buddakan. Of course, I also understand appeasing friends. What about steering your friend towards another Starr place, maybe Alma de Cuba or Angelina? If I had to go to one of his places, those would be my choices. About Tony Luke's, my favorite sandwich there alternates between the chicken cutlet or the roast pork, either one with broccoli rabe. But that's taking you off your cheesesteak hunt.

Yup. It does look very Euro.

I gotta admit, in the Philly Hundred Years War, I don't really care about the best cheesesteak. Anyone who wants to use that as something to taunt my lack of credibility as a Philadelphian can bite me, after we talk about the relevance of Bobby Jones and Marc Iavaroni to the '83 Sixers. I've been to Pat's, Jim's, D'Alessandro's, that place right down Frankford from Grey Lodge, and a few sidewalk carts. Assuming you're trying to stay within the general central Philadelphia area, Pat's, Jim's and and Geno's are a good start. Of the other ones (all of which pretty much require cars, or at least a cab), Tony Luke's would be a reasonable place to check out. Since you're coming down from someplace north, if you're driving, Steve's is a place you could pop in at on your way down or back. Now on to non-cheesesteak dining. Buddakan I could care less about. It's a big "celeb" place, and probably not worth the scene. If you do go, report back on the black cod. If you're in NYC, don't bother. Wait a few months until Buddakan NYC opens. It'll be damm near exactly the same.

Noticed the place the other day. Didn't know it was Dutch tho. I did think they had their marketing and interior together much more than most small business owners of that ilk.

That's okay, she can save them for later, when they're just as incriminating, and even easier to reveal.

If you decide not to go with any of the numerous choices Beans gave you (and you're feeling a little adventurous), you can always infuse your own vodka with peach flavors.

Slightly OT but, I just like Sammy Smith beers. Whether Imperial Stout, Oatmeal Stout, or Nut Brown Ale, they're all damm tasty. Shame I haven't had one in a while. I'll have to remedy that soon.

Well, Yuengling's getting hip too. It's got a lot of cache up in NYC, and evidently is considered a cool, premium thing to bring to house parties. Haven't seen it on a bar list there, but I haven't drank in a lot of NYC bars either. Except for B&B's having live entertainment (still gotta check out the Drag Show sometime) Frank's and McGlinchey's fit that role too, or at least used to. But around 1998 it started getting cool to go to dive bars, so the college kids were there (at Frank's, at least) in ever increasing numbers. I hung out at Frank's tonight for the first time in a while. It was thankfully not crowded due to the rain.

Thanks. While your information wasn't exactly unknown to me, it did fill in some things. Still wondering about percentages though.

Maybe you're just using the wrong ruler/tape measure/scale.

Hey, the camel didn't break. Only its back did. Not quite as bad. Oh well, that's too bad. I liked what I saw of it based on the website menu.

Taiwanese, really? That's interesting. Not entirely suprising though. An overwhelming majority of those that left Hong Kong are likely to be Cantonese. Of course, now that has me wondering what is the percentage of Chinese in Hong Kong who are not of Cantonese extraction.

I'd be eager to try their pizza just because of that. Tranny's Pizza? That takes guts.

The Chinese in the US were predominantly Cantonese. That's changed within the past 2 decades, as more people from Shanghai, Beijing, Jiangsu, Fukien, etc. left China. Wild guess, but nowadays, I'd guess half the Chinese in the US are Cantonese in origin. But I've never met a Sichuanese person in the US, although I imagine the Sichuanese restaurants in the NYC & northern NJ areas to be run by Sichuanese. This makes me curious about Sichuanese emigration patterns. It's something I know absolutely nothing about. It's entirely possible there's a large immigrant Sichuanese population in London or somewhere.

Also check out the restaurant at People's Light Theatre in Malvern. Let me shill for Katie's friend Mike Merlo who runs the kitchen there.

I've always liked John's at 7th and Christian. The 2 times I've been to Rita's (Port Richmond Shopping Center and 24th and Passyunk) they've been good.

Um, it's pretty much the opposite of that description. It's about 3-4 times the size of a spring roll, filled with cabbage, roast pork, chopped or small shrimp, etc. It is actually called an egg roll because after you assemble the roll, you dip or wash the entire thing with egg right before frying, it adds a bubbly crunchiness to the finished roll. That must be a new development, sometime in the last 8-10 years. Back in the day, the whole roll wasn't dipped in egg. Egg was only used to seal the roll. In my experience, a different wrapping (thicker) is used for egg rolls than spring rolls. It's a square, flat piece of dough, and the corner is cut off to be used for fried noodles (the kind that come to the table with duck sauce and mustard for picking on). Course, I haven't made or seen an egg roll made in about 8-10 years.

I believe that's correct, as I recognize those spellings from menus. Whether that's pronounced correctly or not will have to come from someone else.

Cop shop must mean something different where you live. Is that a mini-police station?

Damm, you beat me to it. Alternatively known as cheesy puffs. You could make cheesey poofs, named after South Park.