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Uno's on 2nd St closed about 18 months ago and is now Kildare Irish Pub. Center City is Pizzerio Uno free. Steve R ← Yeah!

A couple of tips: the post number is in the upper right hand corner of each post, so you could just scroll up a few and you can find it also, Sandy made the post number a clickable link, so you could just click on that text. and finally, if you read through the last few posts, you'll see that H-Mart is the name of the Supermarket near 69th street in Upper Darby that you first asked about. Go, it's a great store! ← Thank you! I have a hard time seeing the very slight change in the shade of blue that indicates a link. I'll be there before the week is out! It sounds great!

¡Muuuuchas gracias! My favorite place for pinchos morunos in Madrid used to be an outdoor place on Plaza Sta. Ana (north side of the plaza). The marinade had a distinctly yellow color. Do you think they might have used turmeric?

See Post #310. ← Sorry to be so stupid, but I tried '310' in 'site search' and got nothing. Is there another way to find a specific posting number?

I submit to you that this dish sounds worse than it tastes. ← But . . . but . . . it sounds GREAT!!!!! ← OK, I finally have to ask. What is a garbage plate?

Thanks for the tips in general. I'm supposed to go to Rembrandt's tonight to meet up with a friend and former Penn colleague who is one of a few friends who also enjoys jazz; pianist Sid Simmons is playing there tonight. I'll keep that in mind, and if I decide to order one, I'll report back to this board. So far, the vote tally is South Philly 2, Center City 0--though it also sounds like the Center City stop on the tour should also be split in two, West and East. Keep in mind that except for the Didn't Deserve the Honor to Begin With places (e.g., Pizza Hut, the winner in the all-'burbs 1982 BoP, or Pizzeria Uno, the winner in that same year's sidebar "for diehard city lovers"), our aim is to visit all of the past winners, even the ones that have gone downhill, as it appears Towne Pizza and Apollo in Media may have. (See the Northeast report for an example from this category.) The polls are still open through the weekend. After that, we will settle on a date. Weekday evenings are okay too. Edited to add: IMO, Pietro's is not so much more upscale that it cannot be compared to the more prosaic places. Patou in Old City, OTOH, is. I've eaten at both. ← I can't bring myself to even taste anything at Uno. I ate there once, in the 1980s, and got violent food poisoning. The memory is too horrible for words.

Umeboshi--yum! I have a jar in the fridge now. Cook some sushi rice and pat it into a patty with an umeboshi plum tucked inside. Lovely snack. :-)~~~ I discovered this treat when a Japanese family moved into my neighborhood and we became friendly. Her son and my nephew are the same age and they played together. She made these for lunch. I was hooked.

I remember seeing H-Mart in your blog! The food court was pretty decent. The Korean place in the far corner seemed, that Saturday afternoon, to be the most popular option, so that's what we went with. We ordered two soups because we were trying to pace ourselves for the eating marathon that lay ahead -- if I was buying groceries, I'd definitely stop by beforehand for some bibimbap. There's also a fried chicken place that NO ONE was trying, so I was a little suspicious (still, it's fried chicken; how bad can it be?) and a bakery and a sushi bar and maybe one more place. Anyways, I don't think it's worth a separate trip, but if you're at H-Mart and hungry, why not? ← H-mart?

Vernor's I can handle. But you gotta have a lot of moxie to down Moxie. AFAIK, the beverage is confined to New England these days. I hope it doesn't break loose and contaminate the rest of the country again. ← I've never heard of Vernor's ginger ale. How is it different from any other ginger ale, such as Schweppes? As for root beer, you have to drink the right kind. Some are vile. But then there is Stewart's, really good root beer!

I love the S Philly idea! About Towne: In the days it won the prize, it had for several years been a favorite of my late DH, our circle of friends and me. By the early 1980s, it seemed to have deteriorated. We all stopped going there or ordering delivery from there. Butyou never know--in another 25 years it may have found its froove again. Pietro's is definitely upscale--not really to be compared with the neighborhood places, IMO. Anyway, I'm game to join in! :-)~~~~

The store is at 7050 Terminal Square. Exit 69th Street Terminal on its south side (main entrance) and cross over to the south side of Market Street. Terminal Square is the street just past Garrett Road, which ends at Market at 69th Street Terminal's west end. Hang a left onto Terminal Square and walk up a half block. You can't miss it, but if you pass the Shiseido store, you've gone too far. ← Thank you!

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Now that I no longer live in Spain, I miss pinchos morunos. Can you tell me how to make them at home? !Gracias! ← This should be asked on the cooking forum or in the Middle East & Africa forum, but... Find a moroquian shop, buy the specially mixed spices for pinchos, buy a minced lamb leg and marinate it with the spices, onion and lemon for three days. Roast over a charcoal grill. But if you want the fake version of what they sell as pinchos morunos on the spanish bars. Do it with pork chunks and paprika. Not my cup of tea if you ask. ← Thank you! Do you know what is included in the spice mixture? There are no Moroccan shops where I live.

Somebody mentioned a market at 69th Street. I was especially interested in the reference to Korean food, including sesame leaves. I have not been there in quite a few years... What days does this market operate? What are the hours? If I take the El to 69th Street from Center City, what are the directions once there? Thanks.

Now that I no longer live in Spain, I miss pinchos morunos. Can you tell me how to make them at home? !Gracias!

Thanks!

It's also about the spicing, the flavor.

Cantimpalos is my favorite. I wish it were available in the US!

I'm going to have to stop over in Frankfurt a few times in the next year or so. How much did this meal cost? Do you know other good restaurants there, too? Thx.

I appreciate your list and links. Now, can anybody tell me, would Checkhov have likely eathen the same? If ot, what do you think he'd have eaten?

I have a 10-oz./300ml bottle of Baroody Pomegranate Concentrated Juice, product of Lebanon. Haven't opened it yet. If you tip it sideways, you see it is so thick it coats the half-inch of headspace at the top and takes a few seconds to flow back down. Nothing on the label indicates how concentrated it is, or how much to dilute it to use in recipes or just for making juice to drink. Does anybody have any idea?

I never buy cakes or cookies; I make them. The only thing I ever bought from Braverman's was truffles, and they were the best. I miss those truffles.

i can't believe someone beat me to the punch! that was the first thing that came to mind when i read the title of the thread. Salo is not smoked but it is cured in some way and is basically just the fatty part of bacon...sliced thicker and very delicious with some fresh bread, salt, and green onion! ← Yes! A kind of buterbrot. Are you Ukrainian and a lifelong eater of salo or a later-in-life fan like me? ← i was born in ukraine so i grew up eating it, but i haven't had it since living in america...have tried some stuff in russian stores but it doesn't compare to the stuff in ukraine ← Ah! You noticed too. I thought it was just me. Where in Ukraine were you born? Where do you live now? I live in Philadelpia and am working on adopting a sibling group in Sumy (northeast).

What wonderful pizza excursions! I hope there will be another one soon.

[in place of Celebre's, we finished with water ice at Rita's, one block down at Jackson Street, partly in response to a request from a reader of my foodblog. Jason went with the lemon, which was flecked with bits of peel. Oh, yessss! Rita'sa has the wrld's best lemon water ice! (Wwe need a drooling smily!)