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    "Ethnic" Stores in Phoenix area...

    in Southwest & Western States: Cooking & Baking

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    :that makes great sausages.  It's called Schriener's, it's located at 3601 N 7th St. in Phoenix.  Haven't actually been in the store, but they supply the fennel sausage at Pizzeria Bianco that makes me swoon.

    Went to Schreiner's on Friday. Loved the great selection and the shop. I thought I had a good selection in Reading but this was superior!

    Esther have also gone to 99 Ranch and House of Rice and loved both of them.

    Greater Phoenix Dining: Where To Eat?

    in Southwest & Western States: Dining

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    I haven't been the the places you mentioned (other than Trader Joe's), but I'll be sure to check them out. But if you like Pho Bang, you're almost certain to like the restaurant we call ORIENTAL (it has another name, but the sign in front at least used to say only Oriental). It's in a weird little shopping center at the southeast corner of Roosevelt and Hayden, and is primarily open at lunchtime; I think it closes by 7 or 8pm. Ostensibly it serves both Chinese and Korean food, but the Chinese stuff is wholly unremarkable. On the other hand, I've often made a meal out of their K1 and K2 appetizers. Plus, four people can stuff themselves for under $30.

    My most recent "find" is Cafe Ted, up here by me -- at Pinnacle Peak Road and Pima. (Okay, so it's 30 miles from where you live. Sorry. But if you come up this way...) Cafe Ted is "upscale late hippie" -- funky table settings, great quiche and gazpacho, and so on.

    How are you on Thai food? The best I've found is a place that, to someone from New York, would have all the danger signs. The main restaurant (there are two) is in a touristy area, it's owned by a non-Thai, and god help us they have *tablecloths* instead of worn out formica. How good could the food possibly be? Yet, Malee's on Main (in downtown Scottsdale, and up at the Desert Ridge marketplace at the 101 and Tatum) is one of my two favorite Thai restaurants in town, with a wide selection and really really wonderful food.

    The *other* favorite Thai restaurant is, fortunately for me, even closer to my house. Thai Pan is inexpensive and in the old "Sizzler" model: you order at the counter, get a number to put on your table, and they bring you the order. I can't say enough good about it, and I think I've eaten everything on the menu. They make their own curries from scratch, nothing at all from a jar.

    If you've found Trader Joe's, have you also found A.J.'s?

    Esther

    My husband and I started out today to find the Korean restaurant you mentioned. We really have no experience with Korean food, but thought it would be fun to try. We also wanted to get some coffee for my husband at the Asian grocery.

    We went down Camelback and it got sooo crowded, I got disgusted and thought this is worse than New York traffic. Is it like this every day????

    We got out of the traffic and went home.

    Found out later the traffic was because the Prisident was in town!!!! So I guess we will try it again.

    Love your suggestions Esther.

    beverly

    Greater Phoenix Dining: Where To Eat?

    in Southwest & Western States: Dining

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    Your choice of food and places fits my eating habits EXACTLY! As long as we are the only two people from Phoenix online let's continue.

    We did go to Pho Bang two weeks ago and liked it very much. There is also (i'm sure you know) just a marvelous Asian grocery there, the likes of which I've never seen.

    Another place we like is very near where we live, its called The Grande Orange. It makes me think I am in New York (where by the way) my husband and I were born. Have you been there??? It's fun to sit outside, read the New York Times and eat breakfast or lunch. Haven't been to the Postino Cafe, in the same area , yet, but understand that is an interesting place.

    Have found Trader Joe's and love shopping there.

    All in I am quite excited by Phoenix.

    Greater Phoenix Dining: Where To Eat?

    in Southwest & Western States: Dining

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    Esther, thank you so much for your informative reply. I have noticed that there is very little action on the Arizona "front". My own experience in the short time I have been here has been very good.

    It is fun, to me and to my husband to have so many new places to try. Reading Pa was a wonderful place to live and raise a family, but very short on "many" restaurants.

    Had one of my children visiting from San Francisco and he loved the few places I took him.

    Where are you from??

    Pickles!

    in Cooking

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    Here is a recipe always called Bread and Butter pickles in my family for many, many years.

    1 gallon sliced cucumbers (I use Kirby) and cut them with my Cuisinart slicer. 2 onions sliced thin, 4 cups of vinegar, 1/4 to 1/2 cup salt, 4 cups sugar, 1 1/2 tsp turmeric, 1 1/2 tsp mustard seed. Simply stir brine and pour over cucumbers (don't boil)

    I put them in clean pint bottles and keep, in the refrigerator. You can also just put them in a gallon jug with a light closure.

    Pretty easy and very good. I keep them in refrigerator a long time

    beverlyq

    Authentic Chinese food

    in China: Cooking & Baking

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    Nervously I send my first post.

    My husband and I were in Hong Kong the week, Red China opened up the borders for the first time. We were fortunate enough to be the second American group allowed into Canton.

    We were thrilled to go there at that time.

    Loving Asian food and traveling extensively we were not excited by the food we received. We felt that, at that time (the 70's) the caliber of the procuce and meat left a lot to be desired. I do think there are many changes since that time.

    I, for one would like to hear what it is like today.

    Beverly

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