High Pearl – Lunar New Year
March 13, 2012 by Feisty Foodie
Filed under Around NYC, Asia, By Name, Cheap Eats, Chinese, Cuisine, Elmhurst, Queens, Restaurants
You may remember last year when I went to Hop Kee with a bunch of friends to celebrate Lunar New Year. Well, this year, we decided to plan a little better, and go to one of my tried-and-true places – High Pearl a few days before Lunar New Year eve (when it would be super busy). (This is why I was happy Snorlax chose a different place for his birthday dinner – otherwise, I would have been here twice in 3 days, which isn’t a bad thing, but I thought I’d be repeating a lot of the same dishes.) As [...]
Canton Gourmet
March 9, 2012 by Feisty Foodie
Filed under Around NYC, Asia, By Name, Chinese, Cuisine, Flushing, Queens, Restaurants
As it is every January, Snorlax’s birthday came and like the good big brother he is, he arranged for his birthday dinner to be the day after I returned from Montreal instead of while I was there (his birthday is suspiciously close to MLK weekend every year…). To my surprise and delight – you’ll find out why in a few days – instead of choosing his usual go-to, High Pearl, he chose Canton Gourmet, where I’d been a few times but rarely for dinner. Per usual when dining at a Cantonese restaurant with my brother, he chose to start with soup. I forget [...]
Joe’s Shanghai (Flushing)
February 27, 2012 by Feisty Foodie
Filed under Around NYC, Asia, By Name, Cheap Eats, Chinese, Cuisine, Flushing, Queens, Restaurants
As I mentioned in my post about Joe’s Shanghai in Chinatown, DLS had remarked that he’d liked the soup dumplings at Joe’s Shanghai in Flushing. For completeness’ sake, I decided to visit the one in Flushing and compare myself. Unfortunately, due to schedules being what they are, I had to visit alone – and therefore only ordered the soup dumplings. At least they look okay, unlike the ones at Joe’s Shanghai in Chinatown. Unfortunately, though these were marginally better than Joe’s Shanghai in Chinatown, they still weren’t all that good. Gummy, thick, and not quite as flavorful soup as one [...]
Red Egg
February 23, 2012 by TT
Filed under Around NYC, Asia, By Name, Chinatown, Chinese, Cuisine, Feisty Fun, Manhattan, Restaurants, Tuesdays with TT
To wrap up CT’s Birthday weekend full of delicious food, we went with her family for one of our favorite breakfasts/brunches, DIM SUM! Since it was an extra special meal, she decided we should go to a more upscale place. We ended up at Red Egg. Being a more “high-end” place, they take reservations, so we didn’t have to wait, which is always nice. On the other hand, this meant that prices were a lot higher compared to other dim sum restaurants with dishes ranging from $2.75 all the way up to $6.50. CT says: Umm… I didn’t think it [...]
456 Shanghai Cuisine
February 22, 2012 by Feisty Foodie
Filed under Around NYC, Asia, By Name, Cheap Eats, Chinatown, Chinese, Cuisine, Manhattan, Restaurants
Directly after eating at Joe’s Ginger, we walked over to 456 Shanghai after a tip from a food blogger who will remain anonymous lest he comment here telling me that I’m wrong for no longer trusting his food opinions after he gave us this suggestion… Deviating from our normal Shanghainese order, I chose to start with what I thought would be light – cold sesame noodles. I actually thought this was a fake Chinese dish, but StB informed us that it was actually authentic – I confessed my first time having this dish was at Ollie’s and that got a [...]
