Boon Chu Thai Place

One recent day after a quick jaunt with a friend through my local Asian supermarket, I realized I was starving, and decided we should head over to nearby Boon Chu – bypassing both Pho Bang and High Pearl, two of my favorite area restaurants.  I’ve visited and posted about Boon Chu twice before, but always find myself at Pho Bang or High Pearl; I forget that Boon Chu is just another block away.  Oops!Bottle of water given to us so we could drink as much water as we wanted – nice touch, as in my first review from just over [...]

Outback Steakhouse

You may not know this, but I’m pretty close to BF’s family – especially his dad, whom I affectionately refer to as “Pop” or “PopPop”.  I love the man dearly, though his taste in food is about as limited as possible, and at his behest, the family gathered recently for dinner at Outback in Queens Place.  I decided to take pictures because… well, why not?  My argument over chain restaurants has been stated, restated, and continues to stand.  Since I seem to have some new-ish readers to the blog, though, I’ll toss it out again: I don’t detest chain restaurants.  [...]

Ten Years Has Gone So Fast

As with every year, shortly after celebrating life, we celebrate death.  Well, perhaps commemorate instead of celebrate, though we do wind up sharing a lot of laughs, maybe a few tears, stories about my father’s life, my father’s death, the beginning, the end, the middle… but always, good food.  Good food will always bring and keep my family together.  And so it was, this chilly Halloween evening, that we gathered at his favorite restaurant, and ordered some of his favorite dishes, and feasted together.  Some things have changed, and some things haven’t.  Under the watchful gaze of my mother, we [...]

Pho Bang

I keep talking about Pho Bang but every time I’ve posted about it, I managed to have ordered the bun (cold vermicelli salad bowls).  On this day, after visiting a sick relative at Elmhurst Hospital, FeistySis suggested Pho Bang and FeistyMom and I quickly agreed – it’s really very close by.  FeistySis ordered the pho, and consented to let me photograph her bowl of 22 regular (pho tai), which is just pho with regular beef eye of round slices (the soup is so hot that if you plunge the thin slices into the broth, they cook immediately).  Quickly, before she noticed or [...]

Jackson Heights Walking Feast

My dear friend StB has had an exciting year.  Long time readers may recognize her as my former partner-in-eating-crime; we ate many many meals together (as that link will show you), but then she did something horrible and moved to Ohio.  But this year, she moved back!  She got engaged!  She turned 30!  And when I finally had a minute to breathe during this intense, scary, terrible, awesome, amazing summer, we took a jaunt around Jackson Heights for food – cheap.  We started off at Mira Cali II for pandebono…This was $1.  We split one because we knew how much [...]

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