Here, Chef Wu substituted dried scallops and placed thick, chewy mushrooms on either side of the rice (above). Click the link to my story about lunch there to see what that looks like. Another soup combined mushrooms and pig tendon.Īt A-Sha in Tainan, sticky rice is topped with crab. The crab seafood soup that came next was thick and slightly sweet (above). First came a cold plate (above) that included chicken, mushrooms, cucumbers, fresh bamboo shoots, and sweet-tasting nuggets of ground pork and shrimp.Īlongside this was a famous Tainan delicacy, charcoal-grilled mullet roe (above). We sat in typical Chinese fashion at tables of 10, sharing platters of food. One exception was a bottle of vinegar (above) that he couldn't duplicate here. Not in a dream and this time not in Taiwan but in El Monte, only a few miles from home.Ĭhef Chien-Hao Wu from A-Sha (at the top) flew in to prepare a 10-course lunch and give two cooking demonstrations at the Culture Center of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Los Angeles.Īgain, the food was extraordinary, although Chef Wu apologized for not being able to bring the ingredients from Taiwan. You can read about that extraordinary meal by clicking here. To get there I flew to Taipei and took a high-speed train to Tainan City in southern Taiwan. Some of my favorite restaurants are so far away that I can only dream about eating in them again. The restaurant is in the same mall as a 99 Ranch Market, a bakery and other places for shopping after lunch. The regular menu includes Taiwanese dishes such as beef noodle soup, fried rice with Taiwanese sausage (above) and Taiwanese style porridges. My Way Deli draws local people, Chinese seniors and others who want good, economical food. Perhaps the accompaniments change from day to day, but these came with my order. Fried green beans are naturally sweet.Ĭhinese eggplant with ground pork (above the beef) is as good a rendition of this dish as I've had. The clear soup contains egg shreds and seaweed. I chose beef, and this is what I got: Taiwanese stewed beef with carrots, daikon and green onions, scented with star anise. Reading from the top down, they are beef, pork, chicken and fish, which come with soup, a couple of vegetable dishes, rice and tea, all for $6.25. The blackboard (at top) lists four dishes. You can still get one of the best lunch bargains around at My Way Deli in Monterey Park. and Alexandria in Koreatown.Ĭan't read Chinese? It doesn't matter. on Sunday.Ĩ5☌ Bakery Cafe, 3377 Wilshire Blvd., #101, Los Angeles, CA 90010, which is at the corner of Wilshire Blvd. to midnight Friday and Saturday, and 8 a.m. Now that opening day excitement is out of the way, the bakery will be open daily, from 7 a.m. Teas, smoothies and espresso drinks are on tap, but the famous specialty is sea salt coffee or tea. There are savory snacks too, such as a Taiwanese cheese dog and garlic cheese bread.Įach item is placed in its own bag rather than jumbled together so that they mash and crumble. This tray includes the two tarts and a berrytale, which is filled with blueberries milk pudding bread, a cranberry cream cheese bun, a boroh Danish, with a crunchy top that looks like a pineapple shell walnut raisin multigrain bread, a chocolate chip bowl, and a chocolate cream bread. The Portuguese tart (dotted with brown) has a flaky crust, the Hokkaido tart, a cookie crust. A Hokkaido cheese tart is cheesy as in cheesecake. Portuguese style egg tart is a big seller. The company is Taiwanese, and its baked goods are Taiwanese, European and Japanese in style plus Danish and "other," a category that includes a ham and tuna sandwich. And it's in a buzzy part of Koreatown, packed with restaurants, a market, a branch of the Korean bakery Paris Baguette and shops selling bingsu and other cool treats. But this is the first in central Los Angeles. There's one downtown and more scattered around Southern California and one due to open in Santa Monica next year. Once inside, shoppers received a bakery tote bag, tongs and a tray to heap with breads, buns, cookies and cakes.Īnd who wouldn't heap, when the total would cost so little, compared to other bakeries? Some standees even got free coffee samples, until they ran out. That's the way it was this morning, when 85☌ Bakery Cafe opened in Koreatown. Who wouldn't stand in line for icy, creamy sea salt coffee paired with a slice of sea salt coffee brûlée?Įven if the line lasted an hour, or more?
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