In March, Tea Garden closed temporarily to move to a new location. S was quite distraught since it was his favorite place and most-frequently-visited place before I moved to San Diego. (Actually, even after moving to SD, it’s probably been our most-frequently-visited place.) Even though the food isn’t amazing, we like the homestyle and simple [...]
When S and I are looking a quick Asian meal, our usual stop is Tea Garden on Convoy St. They have decent Taiwanese dishes – I’m particularly fond of the crispy chicken, Taiwanese sausage, and fried rice, in addition to the milk teas and brick toast. However, Tea Garden is temporarily closing for a few [...]
S and I both had to work on Thanksgiving Day this year, so we decided to keep everything simple and didn’t plan for big dinners or parties. One of our good friends, who also had no holiday plans, came to hang out with us, and we decided to go to Tea Station for dinner. Why? [...]
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I recently visited Boiling Point in Irvine with some friends for Taiwanese hot pot. And since we were already there… of course we had to go to Class 302 for snowflake ice! I didn’t get the snowflake ice last time I visited Class 302, and I was determined to make up for it this time. [...]
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I’ve heard about Boiling Point, an LA-based Taiwanese hot pot chain, for quite a while now – my friends rave about it. Hot pot is what I fondly call “Chinese fondue”: you have a big pot of simmering broth in the center of the table, and you add various ingredients such as sliced meats, seafood, [...]
Every once in a while, S and I crave Liang’s Kitchen. I learned something interesting about the cuisine style recently: it is called “juan cun” (眷村), which refers to the villages that housed Chinese Nationalist soldiers during the Chinese Civil War. So “juan cun” cuisine started with the food served in these villages, with all [...]
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I love Taiwanese food, and S and I sometimes lament that there really aren’t enough options in San Diego (which would be why, every time we go to LA, we eat five meals per day and bring back as much as possible). Recently, we went to a concert in Irvine, which also has a number [...]
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Sorry for the lack of update in the past couple of weeks! I’ve been pretty busy, and ever since we set up our kitchen, I haven’t gone out to eat much – and I’ll be starting some recipe posts soon, so stay tuned ^^ S and I visited our dear friend in Seattle last week, [...]
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Liang’s Kitchen (梁媽媽家眷村料理) is a Taiwanese chain restaurant, with locations throughout California. I first visited the location in Fremont and had their “signature” beef noodle soup and beef wrap. But the same items are much better at Chin’s, at least in my humble opinion. So, I never actually went back to Liang’s Kitchen, even though they [...]