In America, some places like to use "Spring roll" and some use "Egg roll", they are two different food. Since we are talking mostly about restaurant, I think they mean spring roll.
even if i had no reason to be in philly, this would give me one.......
he was "iron chef sushi"</strong><hr></blockquote>
Mmmmm, Morimoto. But that's Japanese (-_-)...
The coolest Japanese restaurant I went to was in London called Abeno. Though small, it was a great place for Okonomi-Yaki. Not the best but the waitresses were cute and it was three blocks from my hotel...
Now if I could only go to Japan or Hong Kong... <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />
It is strange. We only eat Spring Rolls (Or egg rolls as some of you call it apparently) for the new year and even during the new year period very seldomly.
The unending variations and flavors of the Asian cuisine make it my favorite food to eat~
There's a place I've been going to for years in a low-key shopping center that has the best hot and sour soup that I've ever had. Most of your strip mall Chinese restaurants have that same brown soup with tofu logs floating in it....but not this place. They have bamboo strips and carrots and pork and shrimp and black fungus and chili peppers....it's very, very tasty. Love it.
This same little place has a General Tsu's chicken that's unlike any other I've ever had before. Everyone knows that this is a batter dipped fried chicken, but the flavor of the batter and the texture of the batter at this place is different...it's like a thin porcelain coating, with a little bit of crackleture running over the surface of the coating. When you bite into it, it seems to collapse inward toward the chicken....amazing.
There are a few other places around town that I enjoy, and Atlanta has its own asian area north of the city in an area called Chamblee (pronounced CHAMbly, not like the wine "Chablis")......except locals call it Chambodia. There's an asian market with whole barbecued ducks (and more!).
And there's a chain in ATL called the Golden Buddha which is a dual restaurant...half Chinese, half Japanese. The one near Buckhead has a beautiful little garden in the back. Great food too.
<strong>It is strange. We only eat Spring Rolls (Or egg rolls as some of you call it apparently) for the new year and even during the new year period very seldomly.
How did it become so big all over the world?</strong><hr></blockquote>
Spring rolls and egg rolls are two different things. Spring rolls are eaten throughout the year and is a rather popular side dish or appetiser.
Egg rolls are mainly eaten during the Chinese New Year. It is sweet and tasty and We Chinese believe that it will mean that the coming year will be sweet too!
i also like to get sweet & sour chicken or pork... without the sweet and sour sauce. so basically chicken/pork nuggets and rice.
what are your favorite soups? i LOVE egg drop but i don't remember ever trying anything else. i'm just now starting to branch off into adult tastes by not ordering my "usual". I now eat like a 14 year old instead of a 9 year old
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"Cream of some young guy." <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
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By the way, Beggar's Chicken is really good.
It's cooked by wrapping a chicken in a giant lotus leaf. Like this, the fragrant smell from the leaf goes all the way into the meat.
And no, you do not eat it with a hammer.</strong><hr></blockquote>
I'm not sure if the hammer goes on the right of the salad fork or next to the soup spoon.
If they cook it in a pot you don't need a hammer.
If they seal it in clay, as I had, then they allow you the honor of breaking open the clay encasement.
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I wish... <img src="graemlins/cancer.gif" border="0" alt="[cancer]" />
<strong>Oh man there's better looking chinese women out there.</strong><hr></blockquote>
To each his own...but I don't want to switch the topic.
I walk through Philly's Chinatown everyday. The sights, the sounds and the smells...makes me hungry.
Funny, there's one 4 blocks out of there that rocks...Jin House! Oasis has fantastic asian food $25...all you can eat...num.
even if i had no reason to be in philly, this would give me one.......
he was "iron chef sushi"
<strong>oh man....philadelphia has<a href="http://www.morimotorestaurant.com/main.html"; target="_blank">morimoto</a>
even if i had no reason to be in philly, this would give me one.......
he was "iron chef sushi"</strong><hr></blockquote>
Mmmmm, Morimoto. But that's Japanese (-_-)...
The coolest Japanese restaurant I went to was in London called Abeno. Though small, it was a great place for Okonomi-Yaki. Not the best but the waitresses were cute and it was three blocks from my hotel...
Now if I could only go to Japan or Hong Kong... <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />
i looked at the menu and it looks japenese with global flourishes. they even have ribeye!
but i would order the sushi. sushi mmmmmm.
How did it become so big all over the world?
The unending variations and flavors of the Asian cuisine make it my favorite food to eat~
There's a place I've been going to for years in a low-key shopping center that has the best hot and sour soup that I've ever had. Most of your strip mall Chinese restaurants have that same brown soup with tofu logs floating in it....but not this place. They have bamboo strips and carrots and pork and shrimp and black fungus and chili peppers....it's very, very tasty. Love it.
This same little place has a General Tsu's chicken that's unlike any other I've ever had before. Everyone knows that this is a batter dipped fried chicken, but the flavor of the batter and the texture of the batter at this place is different...it's like a thin porcelain coating, with a little bit of crackleture running over the surface of the coating. When you bite into it, it seems to collapse inward toward the chicken....amazing.
There are a few other places around town that I enjoy, and Atlanta has its own asian area north of the city in an area called Chamblee (pronounced CHAMbly, not like the wine "Chablis")......except locals call it Chambodia. There's an asian market with whole barbecued ducks (and more!).
And there's a chain in ATL called the Golden Buddha which is a dual restaurant...half Chinese, half Japanese. The one near Buckhead has a beautiful little garden in the back. Great food too.
<strong>It is strange. We only eat Spring Rolls (Or egg rolls as some of you call it apparently) for the new year and even during the new year period very seldomly.
How did it become so big all over the world?</strong><hr></blockquote>
Spring rolls and egg rolls are two different things. Spring rolls are eaten throughout the year and is a rather popular side dish or appetiser.
Egg rolls are mainly eaten during the Chinese New Year. It is sweet and tasty and We Chinese believe that it will mean that the coming year will be sweet too!
i also like to get sweet & sour chicken or pork... without the sweet and sour sauce. so basically chicken/pork nuggets and rice.
what are your favorite soups? i LOVE egg drop but i don't remember ever trying anything else. i'm just now starting to branch off into adult tastes by not ordering my "usual". I now eat like a 14 year old instead of a 9 year old
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