Imagine our pleasant surprise when, walking through Chinatown last night, we discovered that the new Nan Zhou Hand Drawn Noodle House had quietly opened in its new, much larger location at 1022 Race Street. (Former home of Pho 75, which were sad to see go, but this makes up for it.) Fans of those hand-drawn [...]
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Dept. Of Things We Found At Spring Garden Market: Xiao Meng Xiang Hot Pot Soup Mix
Aired February 8th, 2012 on Asian Fusion, Noodles, Pho, Ramen, Spicy, Supermarkets and soup.0 CommentsWe’re lucky to live in a city with handy access to a variety of Asian supermarkets, where grocery shopping often doubles as full-immersion education, but by far our favorite is Spring Garden Market at 4th and Spring Garden. Of the ones we’ve visited in the city, SGM is the largest/cleanest/best organized, and its aisles are [...]
If The Roundeye Noodle Pop-Up Looks Anything Like This, It Won’t Be A Pop-Up For Long
Aired January 27th, 2012 on Food Porn, Pho and Pop-Ups.0 CommentsA little while ago, we told you about the Roundeye Noodle pop-up that’s slated to happen this Sunday at Matsyon. The creation of Matyson chef Ben Puchowitz and ideas-guy Shawn Darragh, Roundeye is looking to satisfy your various Momofuku and experimental ramen hungers that have been developing over the last few years. While no sample [...]
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Quite Possibly The Greatest Lunch $4.50 Can Buy In The City
Aired January 9th, 2012 on Chinatown, Chinese, Noodles and Pho.1 CommentConfession: While we love the noodles at Nan Zhou Hand Drawn Noodle House in Chinatown, where you can see the kitchen staff pulling yards upon yards of perfectly imperfect noodles almost out of thin air, the meat options for the soups that serve as the vehicle for said noodles have always freaked us out a [...]
Attn. People Of Port Fishington And Surrounding Area: There Is A Pho Emergency
Aired February 11th, 2010 on Pho, Vietnamese and soup.2 CommentsTO MY OFTEN-BESMIRCHED PEOPLE OF THE EAST: You may not know this, but the denizens of South Philly and West Philly — yes, your own friends, in all likelihood — talk a lot of smack about you. Oh, I can’t believe so-and-so moved up to Asperger’s Beardytown, they say, where there’s no decent Thai and [...]
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At least it wasn’t when I was there this past year.
