Feb/104
the perfect meal
i happen to think the perfect meal is a bowl of wonton noodles. and i think there’s two perfect examples of an ideal bowl, thankfully located right across the street from each other in central district in hong kong on wellington street.
for most of my life, i believed that tsim chai kee with its signature giant oversized wontons and cheap prices was my favorite small snack restaurant in the world. while the people over at chowhound and my mom argued more in favor of the favorite of both the rich and famous and time magazine/fodor’s and gosh near everyone else – mak’s noodles. luckily these two restaurants are located 20 feet away from each other.
jim tsai kee
mak’s noodles
Dec/097
i swear this isn’t a food blog
tonkatsu is japanese for fried pork cutlet. and the best and most traditional japanese restaurants tend to specialize in one thing – when in japan, you go one place for sushi, another place for ramen, and a third place for soba.
in shanghai, there’s a tonkatsu place located behind jing’an temple. i am part of this lunch group that meets on a semi-regular basis to, well, eat. on wednesday of this week we went to this tonkatsu place.
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Bang Qi Pork Chop
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Jing an district, Jiao Zhou Road No. 176, Near Beijing West Road
here’s the review on dianping.com (which is china’s answer to yelp, but for restuarants only)
they served about 10 different types of tonkatsu, depending on if you liked curry, or lean or more fatty. i chose the curry.
Dec/097
is there anything they can’t do?
i don’t want to make this into a blog-vertisement like woai does with marks & spencer, lawry’s and charlie chan’s.
but we were on our way back from lunch and we spotted people inside krispy kreme on wujiang lu, and we made our way in. apparently they’re doing an sms pre-opening promotion where you receive an sms and get a box of donuts.
since we weren’t part of the promotion, the american manager gave us each on hot sweet donut. mmmmmmmm.
here’s some photos of the fryer and glazer in action.
still opens on december 15. merry christmas!
Sep/094
double western bacon cheeseburgers
i grew up – and still am – a fast food afficiniado. los angeles is really kind of a car culture, fast food town and accounts for some of the greatest brand names in fast food. in-n-out burger, bob’s big boy, tommy’s original, fatburger and mcdonald’s were all founded in the greater los angeles area (ok, well, san bernardino is close enough to la for most people).
this is where you point me to thisiswhyyourefat.com. . . i know i know.
anyways, for months or even years there’s been rumors of carl’s jr. opening in shanghai’s raffles city on people’s square.
and as the summer progressed, and the construction began, anticipation was high amongst my california friends here in shanghai.
then i received this email yesterday from the star of shanghai rush, brian yang:
my cali kids,
we really don’t need more fatty food temptation, but hot damn, it starts on thursday – Carl’s Jr. opens here. hallelujah!
hallelujah indeed. this morning i’ve already had 3 conversations about fried zucchini and ranch dressing.
notes:
1. i don’t know why this blog has become so food obsessed. don’t i do anything besides eat?
2. i realize the double western bacon cheeseburger used to be the king of horrible for you burgers, only now surpassed by various concoctions as the hardee’s thickburger etc. etc, but it is still 1,000 calories of pure fat. not advisable to eat on any diet