Tony Hu is harboring a great pastry chef in Chinatown.
Tag: Chinese food
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How to get Bob Nanna of Braid to write your sweetheart a Valentine’s Day song
Thanks to the songwriting service Downwrite, Bob Nanna of Braid makes a pretty affordable cupid.
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Chengdu Impression shows Lincoln Park how to burn
Real Sichuan food arrives in the least likely of places.
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Sing’s Noodle House, starring ace noodle puller Liu Chang Ming
A new noodle shop snags Chinatown’s second-most-recognized celebrity chef.
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“The Fox,” “Chinese Food,” and annoyance as a pop strategy
Our love of irritating sounds makes two recent hits
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Cathleen Schine’s flower children
The protagonists of Cathleen Schine’s ninth novel, Fin & Lady, wander 1960s New York.
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There’s a sucker born every minute at Foo Noodle Bar
Don’t bet on the noodles at the Horseshoe Casino.
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Suck your bones with a straw at Crazy Pot
The hot-pot spot Crazy Pot has a number of broth bases new to Chinatown
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One Bite: Northern City’s baby potatoes with soy sauce
Dongbei style meat and potatoes at Bridgeport’s second northeasten Chinese restaurant
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Tony Hu’s expanding empire
Tony Hu’s expanding empire now includes Chicago’s only Yunnanese restaurant
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One Bite: Asian carp hot pot at Ma Gong La Po
Do your part in the war on Asian carp with this blazing Sichuanese hot pot
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One Bite: false banana bread at an Ethio-Chinese joint
Lake Langano is one of the only places in the U.S. that serves the southern Ethiopian fermented staple qocho
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Food porn: dim sum at Cai
Some dim sum done well, some dim sum not, at a gaudy new Cantonese restaurant in Chinatown
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One bite: Phoenix spicy tofu stir-fry
In defense of offal eating—as virtuous as a bowl of bean curd.
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Food porn from Chinatown’s Snack Planet
A few shots of some tasty snacks from Snack Planet, a Sichuanese food stall in Chinatown’s subterranean food court.