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Asian grocery stores in San Antonio
There used to be an Asian grocery store near Ft Sam right off I-35. They had many different items, including dishes and cookware. Is it still there? I may be in SA this fall and want to know.
Restaurants near SF Airport
This one looks good too with food I like and they also have takeout. I will definitely put these on the list.
Restaurants near SF Airport
This one looks promising and they have takeout. The food sounds good.
Restaurants near SF Airport
Wolfe, most of the places I've been to with a smoking ban, i.e. Germany, have smoking at the outside tables. I was in San Diego last July and could smoke at the outside tables. We have a smoking ban here now too, but you can still smoke at the outside tables.
Restaurants near SF Airport
Thank you for your prompt response. Unfortunately, Sodini's Bertoluccis is closed on Monday, which is the day I will be there.
A friend, who lives in Marin County, says the SF Airport has lots of restaurants and some of them are pretty good, but I would like to avoid the airport restaurants since I smoke and don't enjoy non-smoking restaurants. f I thought I could get it past Customs, I would bring leftovers from home and eat in my room since I usually have good leftovers and I will be eating out in Asia for a month..
In Berlin and looking for Kaya (Singaporean coconut jam)
The best Asian market I found when I was there was the Vinh Loi. They have 3 locations, but the biggest, and in my opinion, the best was the one on Rheinstrasse. There was also a newer and very good Asian market on Kantstrasse in Charlottenburg a few blocks from Aroma and Good Friends Chinese restaurants. I did find some things there that Vinh Loi didn't have.
Restaurants near SF Airport
I will be staying at a hotel near the SF airport one night in mid-March and want to find a good restaurant with outside seating, preferably no Asian since I'm on my way to Asia and no Mexican since I live in Mexico. Also I would prefer something not too expensive. I'm always appalled at the prices when I go to the US, which isn't very often. I found better food and better prices in Germany when I lived there.
Any memories of "poor people food" from your childhood that you still crave?
My parents were ethnic German (north German) and Norwegian so we had boiled potatoes 6 nights a week and then the 7th night we had fried potatoes made from all the leftover boiled ones. we also had either Norwegian meatballs or Frikadellen once a week. I never thought of this a "poor" food; this is what north Germans and Norwegians eat. I didn't realize until I was in my 20s that Americans (not ethnic German or Scandinavian) thought meatballs were a great economy dish and was what you had when you couldn't afford anything else. We had roast beef (with boiled potatoes of course) every Sunday and always had some kind of meat, usually beef or pork, for dinner. My parents both worked and we always had good food, not fancy, but good.
Restaurant recommendations for Manzanillo
Does anyone know of any good restaurants in Manzanillo with outside seating? I will be there for 3 days next week.
Recommended pressure cooker?
I have a WMF Perfect double I bought in Germany 10 years ago. It has one lid and two bottoms. It's excellent. You can't remove the lid until the steam goes down as a safety feature.
German between Dallas and Ft. Worth
This place sounds really good, but Spaetle isn't Bavarian; it's Schwaben. My late husband, a native of a small town in Schwaben not far from Stuttgart, made Spaetzle and wanted to eat it all the time. He hated boiled potatoes, the old North German favorite.
The best sausage you ever had
My uncle Arno was born on a farm and lived on a farm his entire life. My father's grandparents immigrated from the German states (Hessen and Preussen) in the 1850s. Uncle Arno butchered his own meat, had a smoke house and made his own sausage, not too many different kinds, but the kinds he had were as good as I've had in Germany. My father used to say you have to use some of the better cuts of the meat to make good sausage and not just use the worst cuts that aren't much good for anything like Americans tend to do. Uncle Arno (and my grandfather's) sausage was a mixture of pork and beef and had some fat too, but wasn't too fatty, enough to cook or smoke properly and taste good. And Aunt Sophie's homemade white bread just made it all taste that much better; they had homemade butter too.
What is Chicken Fried Steak? Is Brown Gravy a Travesty?
Paulj, calling it Texas Schnitzel is the easiest way to describe CFS to Germans, but, as we know, es ist nicht zusammen total. Schnitzel is coated with egg and bread crumbs; CFS is coated with egg and flour. As you know, Wiener Schnitzel has NO Soss. Many people serve cream gravy with CFS, but my Norwegian mother made pan gravy (and just breaded the cutlet in flour without the egg before she fried it in her cast-iron skillet in melted Crisco) and served it with boiled potatoes. Norwegians (and north Germans too) eat lots of boiled potatoes and make fried potatoes out of all those left-over boiled ones.
I live in Mexico and you're right about the Milanesa, but it is usually served without sauce/gravy. The cut my mother used was thicker than the Mexican Milanesa. They tend to cut all meat very thin here, even such cuts as rib eye that we would normally cut much thicker.
Restaurant recommendations
stevewag23, Suehiro (I think it's on Av. LaPaz) has a bar where you can smoke and beautiful decor - the food's the best Japanese in Guadalajara. It's close to downtown. Suntory on Av. Chapultepec in the Zona Rosa has outside seating and also has good food. Both are expensive by local standards.
The local zoo's nice too, although it can't compare with the German zoos, particularly the Tierpark in Berlin (the old East Berlin zoo during the Communist era),which has the best cat house I've ever seen; the Berlin Zoo (the original Berlin zoo downtown near the Kaiser Wilhelm Gedaenktnis Kirche - the one damaged in the war with the unrepaired, but covered spire, now a museum to peace),also with a good cat house; and the Thueringen Zoo in Erfurt. The German zoos exhibit the animals, particularly the cats, better than anywhere I've ever seen, although the new zoo in Poznan has an excellent Siberian tiger habitat, much like their habitat in the wild.
Thanks to all of you for your help.
Restaurant recommendations
Stevewag23, lucky you! I left eastern Germany on the Polish border last year. You could still smoke in restaurants in Poland, but Germany passed smoking ban that took effect in January 2009 (I think that's when it started).
I will consider one indoor, non-smoking Chinese restaurant if the food is really good for just one time. Where I live in Mexico and, in fact, all of Mexico, is a wasteland for Chinese food. No good Chinese restaurants that I've found. There are two good Japanese restaurants in Guadalajara; one has smoking in the bar and the other has outside tables.
When I travel, I only eat out one meal a day and get food from the grocery store to eat in my room, so I only have to worry about one meal a day for about 3 days.
I'm going to the zoo. Does anyone know about the food places at the zoo? Are any of them any good, cost, etc?
Restaurant recommendations
Thank you. I will probably stay at the Motel 6 on Hotel Circle and will have a rental car. I would prefer outside seating since I smoke (unless the restaurant has an indoor smoking area).
Restaurant recommendations
I may be in San Diego for a few days around 20 July. I would like to have lunch on the 20th in a nice Chinese restaurant, preferably Sichuan or Hunan cuisine with outside seating. Other restaurant recommendations are also appreciated (no Mexican or steak houses, I live in Mexico). I like Greek, seafood, Italian, Japanese, Thai.
Thank you.
Best Butter- European or American ? [Moved from The Best board]
I prefer the European butter. Here in Mexico I buy Lurpak (unsalted); when I lived on the Geman-Polish border, I bought Polish butter. I only buy unsalted butter. The European butter is richer and has better flavor than the American butter. I think the reason European butter doesn't come in quarters is that European recipes, i.e. German recipes in German, measure butter in grams not cups or half-cup, quarter cup, etc.
If you could only eat products from ONE animal for the rest of your life...
I'd pick pork. It's one of the most versatile meats around, has excellent flavor, cooks well. I lived in Turkey for a year and couldn't get pork and really missed it. That's when I realized how much pork I really eat. I took a short trip to Germany while I was there and brought back some ham and sausage!
Chinese restaurants in Guadalajara
Welcome to Mexico!
There is an Asian store with 2 locations called Toyo. One location is on Manuel Dieguez just off Av. Mexico close to the Guadalajara government building. The other location is off Av. Lopez Mateos in Chapalita on a side street that runs into the glorieta; I don't know the name of the street. There are also Toyo Japanese restaurants owned by the same people (Japanese); one is on Av. Mexico on the corner of M. Dieguez and the other is beside the Toyo store in Chapalita. In addition, Goiti's on Av. Mexico (farther out from town) also has some Asian food products.
I don't know about calling Asia from here. The telephone company is TelMex and I don't know if they have any spec ial rates for calling Asia. I don't think there are any phone cards with special rates, just what TelMex offers.
Chinese restaurants in Guadalajara
This restaurant wasn't open when I was there in May and didn't look open in June either. The man in the artesan shop said it would be open in late May.
What dishes do they have besides wonton soup? Do they have dim sum, Peking duck? I want to go with some friends for my birthday Tuesday, but PF Chang's sounds too expensve for us. Do either this restaurant or PF Chang's have a smoking area or outside seating? All of us except one smoke.
We all live in Chapala and have cars, but we're taking my Beetle since I know how to find things in Guadalajara. (How many old gringas can you stuff in a Beeetle? Hopefully at least 4)
If I can't find any decent Chinese, Guadalajara does have some good Japanese restaurants. Suehiro is beautiful, elegant, has excellent food; Nikoy is also very good.
I just moved here ffrom the German-Polish border in January. I used to go to Berlin 1-2 a month. I found some very good Chinese restaurants there, but then it's a major world capital with all kinds of restaurants with food from everywhere like NYC, There was one called Heaven's Gate (Himmels Tor) that looked just like the original in the Temple of Heaven compound in Beijing, absolutely gorgeous deco. Unfortunately, the food wasn't very good, but going there was an experience. And you can buy frozen dim sum and all kinds of things, dishes, cookware, etc in the Asian markets.
ISO - Barbeque or baked bean recipe
Te'xas Barbecue Beans
Cooked pinto beans (I use the pressure cooker to cook them) with pork
LBJ's barbecue sauce
Dark brown sugar
Tabasco sauce to taste
Garlic and/or onion to taste
Salt to taste if needed
Drain the liquid from the cooked pinto beans. Place beans in oven-proof pan and add enough barbecue sauce to cover beans (you want them a little soupy at this point), then add other ingredients. Bake in moderate oven uncovered for 20-30 minutes, checking on them periodically to make sure there is enough liquid (barbecue sauce, etc).
Note: I always undersalt the beans when I cook them so I don't have to worry about getting them too salty when I use them.
What you want are beans that are both spicy and sweet when they are finished cooking.
Chinese restaurants in Guadalajara
Thank you, deeb . Is it next to the Chinese artesanias place? I passed by too quickly to get much of a look last week when I was in Guadalajara. I have to go back to Plaza del Sol at the end of this week or first of next and will check it out, also the artesanias place too. Last week I ate at Qin in Plaza Gallerias. For a fast food place this one is consistently good, particularly in comparison to most of what you get here. I had an egg roll, sesame chicken, fried noodles and a bottle of water for $94 pesos. The portions were generous and it tasted good.
Chinese restaurants in Guadalajara
Thank you, Cristina. Most of the ones I've tried have been lacking to the point of making my homecooked Chinese food look like something good enough to serve to the late Emperor of China or President Hu.
There is a very small Chinese restaurant in Jocotepec owned by a couple; the wife is from Taiwan. Many locals say it's very good.
I live in Chapala and go to Guadalajara a couple of times a month to shop. I always want to go to a restaurant that has something different than what we have out here.
Chinese restaurants in Guadalajara
Are there any good Chinese restaurants in Guadalajara? All I've found are some places in the food courts of some of the malls and some restaurants that don't look at all promising.
Old World Chile in New World Chili?
While you may think Germany is more open to spicy foreign cuisines, it's difficult to find truly spicy Chinese, Thai or Indian food in the restaurants in Germany. You have to ask for it "Asien Scharf nicht Deutschen Scharf" and even then you may not get it really hot unless they know you. The Brits on the toytowngermany Berlin forum decry the blandness of the Indian restaurants there and the overuse of joghurt, making most dishes too creamy for their tastes. The more traditional Germans, i.e. older, less traveled, prefer their standard German fare at home, but will eat foreign food in restaurants, although, as I said, it isn't as spicy as you would find in similar restaurants in the US.
I am now back in Mexico and had lunch yesterday at a Japanese restaurant. In true Mexican fashion there was a container of soy sauce with sliced jalapenos on the table in addition to the container of regular soy sauce.
Cheap yet good cuts of meat
As Gordeaux said, chicken thighs taste much better than breasts, which tend to dry out quickly.
Bein Scheiben (shins) are excellent cooked in the pressure cooker for about an hour and a half and it will give you the best beef broth you have ever seen. Brown them first, then cook them and remove the bone and tendons afterwards with your fingers. You can then use your favorite sauce and cook the meat for a little while in the sauce to absorb the flavor. These are particularly good for something that uses shredded meat or chunks like Mexican or Indian.
Restaurants in Magnolia, TX
Are there any good restaurants in Magnolia, TX? I will be there for a few days in early February and don't want to eat at my cousin's all the time (my aunt, who's now 95, used to make the best gumbo around).
Can you smoke in restaurants there?
Thank you,.
Menu suggestion...what to make with Swedish Meatballs and Potato cakes
How about green peas with tiny pieces of mushrooms and roasted red peppers, well-seasoned of course? Why not make the meatballs with regular pan gravy (after browning the meatballs, make the gravy from the pan drippings, then cook the meatballs in the gravy for a half-hour like my mother and all of our Norwegian immigrant friends did), then serve the lingonberries on the side?
Asian in Berlin -- and Germany, in general
Hey, Linguafood, I was in the Tian Fu Noodle House abou 10 days ago. I had the homemade noodles with crispy duck. It was delicious. I also bought some Har Kow dumplings to take home in the store that were store made (they were frozen). They were also great.
Since i'm going back to Mexico where I lived for 10 years, I'm learning how to make steamed buns and will try to learn how to make the Har Kow.dujplings. I've been making the Jiao Ze and bought a large aluminum Chinese) steamer to take with me. The area of Mexico where I'm going (Lake Chapala near Guadalajara is a wasteland when it comes to Chinese food. There is a Japanese/Thai place run by a young man who worked in CA for many years that they say is good (it wasn't open when I left there). Guadalajara has some Japanese restaurants that used to be good, but again not much for Chinese.
