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I've never been to the 2 fillepino groceries. one is next to a filepino restaurant and one is on lee highway.
I'm Filipino, so I can say that the one next to Little Quiapo is pretty good. I prefer Mabuhay in Springfield, mainly because of the availability of tasty snacks like cuchinta and hopiang munggo.
Thanks for reminding me, because I've been meaning to drag my fiancé out for some lechon baboy and halo-halo.I'll PM now for the D.C. stuff. Thank you for your fabulous helpfulness!
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Fried chicken livers?!
I must know more. Where are these Popeyes?
Personally, I love with a secret and guilty delight:
-Popeyes spicy chicken. Especially the fatty parts...
-McDonald's sausage egg mcmuffin. Death on a paper wrapping, but so good...
-McDonald's apple pie thingy. Oooh. Two for a dollar? Don't mind if I do!
-Clam strips. Though except in New England, it's always a bitter disappointment.
-Subway sweet onion chicken teriyaki sandwiches, with extra sauce if the sandwich people can be conned into doing so.
-Anything fried from Chik-fil-A. :swoon:
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The Melting Pot is a fun place if you're going with friends. Better food can be had elsewhere (I'm thinking about the salad and main courses), but the whole skewer-and-dip thing is very fun. Though if you have a fondue set-up at home, I'd say just stay home!
The best courses are the cheese course and the dessert course -- though I'd steer away from the cheddar and beer fondue. The main courses are trendy without actual tastiness and heavy to boot, and are best avoided.
What personally squicks me out the most is the hideously officious service that I always seem to get at these places.
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Check out the Latin market on Wilson Blvd. across from Whole Foods. The meat counter has great chorizo, and the store has a broad selection of Mexican, Central American and South American products. There's a refrigerator case full of hand-made tortillas.
Another source for Middle Eastern foods with a real, old-fashioned butcher shop (lamb, goat, veal, chickens) is Halalco in Falls Church, just off Lee Highway (Washington St.) near the overpass over Rt. 50.
Further out Lee Highway in Falls Church is the German Gourmet for sausages, deli meats, German-style breads, Scandinavian herring, Polish preserves, German wine, good mustard, real crackling lard.
Thank you! I am really impressed with the area's diversity in terms on markets. If impressed means "going to eat a lot in the next few years" that is.
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Don't forget the Euro-Latino Grocery for all your Portugese food needs, including fresh sardines and the dried salt cod. 2700 Pershing Dr. (at Washington Blvd).
Bacalao! Thanks ever so much.
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Hanh-ah-Reum is the Aitch in Supah Aitch Mart. The same craziness, in a smaller space. If I feel inferior in Super H, I usually wind up a trip to Hanh-ah-Reum (aka "Trapmart" in my house and among my friends) clutching my squab (they sell squab!) feverishly and gibbering. Never, ever go there late in the day on a weekend. Utter. fucking. bedlam.
Go to Bangkok 54. Very yummy pork belly. Good for hangovers.
Squab's probably the only thing that would fit in my fridge. I wish I was kidding, but I am not.
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c_ruark told me about this Chantico stuff. He also mentioned something about 540 kCal per serving? :boggle: I think this stuff must be basically be liquid truffles!
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Also, in the same complex as Bangkok 54 on Columbia Pike (near Walter Reed), there's an Asian grocery called, um, Bangkok 54. I only stopped in there for a minute this weekend, but was impressed. Hell, I found palm sugar. That's cool, right?
Yes, palm sugar is very cool. I hate to say it, but the reason that I think Thai salads are so great is probably due to that stuff. (I must have been a hummingbird in a past life.)
Actually, the neat this is that I can walk from my apartment to Bangkok 54 -- my apartment is in the complex up Walter Reed Ave. I kid you not! I saw some very favorable reviews so we will have to screw up our courage and trudge in the bone-chilling cold.
I may lose some toes, but I do like me some curry.
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Han Ha Reum on the corner of Gallows Rd and Lee Hwy just past Falls Church has an amazing assortment of Asian groceries, fresh/unique produce as well as fresh fish and seafood - and it's extremely affordable! Best to go during the evening on a weeknight though, you can spend a day in the check out line on the weekends!
Thanks. I'll have to try somewhere else besides Lotte and Super H. Though I love them with a great deal of irrational affection!
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Head down the 395 to the Landmark Mall exit, swing around the off ramp, past Landmark Mall, go about 3 traffic lights, and turn right onto S. Pickett Street, look for the Home Depot shopping center on the left (after a couple car dealerships) and check out Mediterrean Bakery and Cafe...lots of imported goods. Huge selection of olive oils, vinegars, mediterrean cheeses, olives, house baked pita, great hummus, sweets, sausages, come hungry and have lunch.
Oooh, that sounds great. I know there's also a Middle-Eastern bakery by Duangrat's/Rabieng -- it's across the street by Neisha Thai. But I haven't tried it yet -- we always get waylaid by Duangrat's desserts.
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As for hypermarkets, Harris Teeter can't compete with Super H, but then, nothing can. The only supermarket chain I know of whose patrons can turn milling about apparently lost and aimless into an organized agressive action that would impress Napolean. My shopping-fu is weak, weak, weak.
Grasshopper, when you can put this pebble in your shopping cart (and not have a horde of Asian mothers yelling at you), then you are ready for Super-H.
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the obvious, overplayed, cheesy, yet cheap option would be Trader Joe's: I head out there once every couple of months to stock up on dried goods, frozen dumplings, niman ranch bacon bacon, granola, and wine which most of our cohorts here would scorn.
I confess to liking their snacky, prepared foods and wines. They are good for private snacking and for when I am throwing a super-drunk party and have eaten through the first group of hors d'oeuvres.
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There's a Harris Teeter up at Glebe and Randolph (I think?), just before Wilson. If you go up Wilson, there's a Farmer's Market Saturdays near Clarendon Metro, and, further up, a Whole Foods with a decent, Whole Foody butcher. If, from Columbia Pike you turn left on Glebe and go down to where it divides into North-South and East-West Glebes, right near 395 exit, you'll see M. Slavins, a dandy fishmonger on the Alexandria-Arlington border.
Welcome to Glebeland.
edit: If you dunno Harris-Teeter btw (many MDers don't, I know), the reason we Virginians are so excited by it is that it's a run-of-the-mill grocery store with aspirations. It's just a touch better than your average Safeway, Giant, or what-have-you.
Thanks for the tips! Is the farmer's market year-round?
As far as the whole hypermarket trends: I admit to being a big fan of Super H and Wegman's. (Though Weggies is admittedly quite a drive from MD.)
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Well, there's the Harris Teeter in Pentagon Row, Slavins fish market on S. Gleebe road near 395, and Cheesetique on Mt. Vernon road in Alexandria. Arrow Wine is supposed to have good stuff, but I'm not entirely sure where it is. Other than that, I'll be watching this thread, too!
Welcome to the area!
Thanks a bunch for the tips. We live right by the Columbia Pike library, so we've seen the Harris Teeter. Hopefully, I'll get to check out the wine and cheese places at some point! :mmmm wineandcheese:
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Well, we moved to Arlington this week and the cupboard is bare.
Okay, technically the cupboard isn't empty. It has risotto, clam sauce, dry spaghetti, and a lot of anchovies. The freezer will have duck legs confit from D'Artagnan (a housewarming present) and currently has a bottle of strawberry wine.
Yet man cannot live on duck legs and strawberry wine forever. (We'll try, though.)So this means shopping. I can walk to a Giant's, I can walk to a Safeway, but I want the down-low from local denizens: are there good fishmongers, butchers, ethnic markets, farmer's markets?
-Most Cordially,
E.
PS. Filling the pantry is always another challenge. I tend to be a better cook when restricted -- I like to improvise ingredients from the cupboard. Buying ingredients makes my head hurt!
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Oh, a restaurant recommendation: Cowboy Cafe in Adams Square shopping center. Very cute: breakfast all day, all sorts of hamburgers, and chess and checkers available behind the bar. Sadly, they'll be closing in June, leaving only one location open.
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What a timely topic!
We just moved to Arlington last weekend -- right off Columbia Pike. From my house, we walked down to Matuba for dinner. (Pretty good, a little older looking than the one in Bethesda. Also... no eel in a sake box? Feh.)
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People!
It is all about Good Humor's Chocolate Candy Crunch.
The components are:
1. Outer chocolate shell with a suspiciously waxy mouth-feel. Mmm, suspiciously waxy!
2. Innocuous vanilla layer.
3. Inner chocolate candy with MORE suspiciously waxy mouth-feel.
Oh man... They sell them in D.C. by the museums and on passing ice-cream trucks. I believe that they are about 350 kCal per stick
but I justify the guilt by sharing them with my sweetie as breakfast before we go to the Sackler. -
My very first "serious" dish was cream puffs. No jest here, I was 13 and had a few home ec classes under my belt. I wanted cream puffs and my chef-inclined sister had just moved away, and by God I was going to have cream puffs. Three hours later, with the kitchen looking like a wreck, I had perfectly produced cream puffs. (I didn't really believe that they would actually puff up so I destroyed a few to check and see if they actually had holes.)
They were delicious and lasted one evening under intense grazing from my family.
As far as my first stab at cooking for my fiancé, it was when I was a freshman in college -- I stopped by his apartment with two dishes of tiramisu! With my schedule nowadays, he tends to take care of dinner... but I have been known to braise porkchops and make tuna au poivre for him.
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Filling up One's Pantry in Arlington
in DC & DelMarVa: Cooking & Baking
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Mmm. I have to confess that Italian stores around here haven't been the same since my visit to Boston. (A kingdom for some pignolis!) Thank you for the tip, though.