My father came to visit San Diego recently, and while I would usually never take visitors coming from Asia to eat Chinese food, my dad can’t live without it. So S and I decided to revisit one of our favorites, Spicy City. We haven’t gone in a while because we’ve been trying to eat less [...]
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I love Szechuan cuisine, and actually one of my favorite Szechuan restaurants is 35 Chinese Restaurant in North Carolina. In the Bay Area, my favorite was Great Szechuan Restaurant (川味王) in the Pacific East Mall plaza in Richmond. Here in San Diego, I have tried Spicy City and did not find it too impressive. Recently, I visited Dede’s Teajuice [...]
As you probably already know, I love spicy food and Szechuan cuisine. So, I was very excited to try Spices 3 (辣妹子) in Oakland Chinatown. First impressions of the restaurant actually weren’t so great: the place was small and mostly empty on a Sunday evening, and it was rather dimly lit and depressing. But I was still [...]
I have wanted to try Spicy City since the second time I visited San Diego, back in November. However, both times Sid and I have gone there, the line had been so long that we left in disappointment. On New Year’s Eve, I was determined to get a table – so we showed up just [...]
Finally made it to Gourmet Kingdom in Carrboro the other day for one of my good friends’ birthday lunch. I had been looking forward to trying out this place since everyone compares it to 35 Chinese Restaurant so much. We had eight people and ordered 2 ‘appetizers’ (cold dishes) and 7 entrees. Of course, plenty [...]
Went back to 35 Chinese with a different group – this time, with people who were more tolerant of spicy foods (yippee!). We still ordered the same appetizers: 夫妻肺片/ sliced roast beef and tendon (fuqi feipian) and 蒜泥白肉 / sliced pork belly in garlic sauce (suan’ni bairou). Otherwise, I think most of the dishes were [...]
After yum cha at HK Chinese Restaurant, we still weren’t quite satisfied with our fill of Chinese food, so we decided to make a trip to Cary for 35 Chinese Restaurant’s Szechuan cuisine. (Note: there are two 35 Chinese Restaurants in the area, one in Cary and one in Chapel Hill. What I’ve heard is [...]