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Sichuan Province

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2012

    Bamboo Garden's Dan Dan Noodles Are Hot Hot

    Dish: Cheng Du Dan Dan Noodle Place: Bamboo Garden, Bellevue Price: $6.95 In the bowl: You'll see slightly yellowish egg noodles topped with little bits of ground pork and thin slices of green onion. The chili sauce is at the bottom of the bowl. Supporting cast/What to do: It's all there, in the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2012

    Bamboo Garden Keeps It Kosher in Queen Anne

    Dish: Gourmet Chow Mein (Lo Mein) Place: Bamboo Garden, Queen Anne Price: $8.95 On the plate: Per the menu: "pan-fried thin noodles with mixed vegetables, sausage, and chicken." That description will warrant further explanation. Supporting cast/What to do: Dig in. There's no option for spice leve ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 16, 2012

    King Noodle Will Make You Feel Like Royalty

    Dish: "Noodles Combo" Place: King Noodle, International District Price: $6.99 In the bowl: Your choice of soup base, noodles, and toppings (including vegetables) Supporting cast/What to do: Your server will give you a form (in Chinese and English) and a pen. If you're having a noodle bowl, you'l ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2012

    The Peanut Recipe That Will Have Everyone Asking for Raw Peanuts

    ​Yesterday, Walter Lee spoke fondly of his grandmother's flavored eggs. Such recipes gave way to a diverse menu at Chino's, a Capitol Hill joint offering Mexican and Taiwanese street food alongside a bevy of tiki drinks. Husband and wife team, Walter and Mari Lee left their former careers and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2012

    Spicy Talk Bistro Will Have You Chatting Up Hot Hand-Shaved Noodles

    Dish: Chow Mein (with Hand-Shaved Noodles) Place: Spicy Talk Bistro, Redmond Price: $8.25 On the plate: Hand-shaved noodles with your choice of pork, chicken, beef, vegetables, tofu, or prawns. Pictured is pork. It's just noodles and meat, along with some cabbage and green onions, plus chili pepp ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2012

    Comfort Comes in Noodle Form at Chiang's Gourmet

    Start-of-the-week solace comes in the form of flour and water at Chiang's, where the handmade noodles are on each of the four different menus that float around the restaurant. On the 'Chinese' menu--don't worry, it's in English--you'll find "Home Made Pan Fried Noodles Shanghai Style." On the Szechu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2011

    I Wanna Bigger Portion at Wanna Noodle

    ​Dish: Asparagus Beef Noodles Place: Wanna Noodle, Queen Anne Price: $9.50 In the bowl: Per the menu: "5 pepper black bean sauce, asparagus, mushrooms, red peppers, egg noodles." Also: onions and green onions. Supporting cast: Nothing. What to do: Dive right in. Noodling around: First of ... More >>

  • Food

    November 3, 2010

    Bottomfeeder: Postal Kitchen

    Cheeky Café is where the ID meets the CD.

  • Blogs

    October 29, 2010

    Cheeky Cafe's Mega-Mutt Menu

    The sky is celebrating breast cancer awareness month.​Only jingoistic freedom fryers and six-year-olds order hamburgers at Asian restaurants. And, really, it's neither group's fault; they've no doubt been outvoted and damn near shoved through the door by their dining companions or parents. Ch ... More >>

  • Food

    June 2, 2010

    Top Chef

    The Lams' cluttered, delicious Asian-American dream.

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2010

    Going Down to Dumpling Town at Mandarin Chef

    Photo courtesy Peter Mumford​"Mandarin Chef has been around now for 13 years in this one shotgun shack of a space, serving Sichuan chicken wings, dumplings and noodles to generations of college students and starving grubniks questing after that sweet hit of Chinese authenticity. It exists wher ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 28, 2010

    Seattle's Essential Dishes: Jiao-zi from Mandarin Chef

    Photo courtesy Peter Mumford​ Jiao-zi from Mandarin Chef: Dumplings are a little like magic--a shared magic, common across almost every culinary canon, present, in wildly differing forms, in nearly all cuisines. From Japanese gyoza and Chinese potstickers to Tibetan momo, Russian pelmeni and ... More >>

  • Food

    May 12, 2010

    Macky's Is Back in Town

    China Gate's proprietors resurface with dim sum in Issaquah.

  • Food

    April 7, 2010

    Versus: Snappy Dragon's Down in the Dumplings, While Szechuan Noodle Bowl's Looking Up

    China Gate's proprietors resurface with dim sum in Issaquah.

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2010

    Versus: Down in the Dumplings

    The Dish Dumplings. The term isn't quite an onomatopoeia, but the name certainly suggests eating little doughy drops of goodness. Just the thought of popping these chubby purses stuffed with meat and vegetables that dribble tasty juices into your mouth makes you happy, right? Everyone loves dumplin ... More >>

  • Food

    December 23, 2009

    Spice Like Us

    Last week, we gave you the bland. This week, we give you the five spiciest dishes in Seattle.

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2009

    The Top 5 Spiciest Dishes in Town

    Spice addicts are a strange species: celebrating a food's ability to cause pain, chasing an endorphin rush accompanied by sweat, tears, and colon spasms. When talking about their meals, pepperheads sound more like marathoners than gourmands. This week's top 5 is for Seattle's culinary masochists. If ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2009

    The Upside to This Week's Freezing Temps: It's Hot Pot Weather

    Black-goat junggol at Sam Oh Jung. Photo: Steven Miller​It's cold, dammit. For a Northwesterner, paralyzingly cold. Can't-leave-the-bed cold. Hot-pink-ears-and-fingers cold. One-sweater's-not-enough cold. Hot-pot cold. It's prime weather for sitting around a tabletop burner, talking through ... More >>

  • Food

    September 16, 2009

    Sweat and Pain in Bellevue

    Test your spice mettle at a new Chinese haven near Crossroads.

  • Music

    July 22, 2009

    Rocket Queen: Monday Morning Bangover

    Red Fang induces whiplash at the Comet, and We Are Golden enlists a Screaming Tree.

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2009

    Noodles Not Worth Loving: A Roundup

    You know, not every noodle can make the cut for Thin Wheat Line, Voracious's weekly exploration of noodles in Seattle. Some are so mediocre that, when I look at the photo I've taken, the memory depresses me as much as the noodles did when I ate them. I've been storing some of these rejects for wee ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 27, 2009

    Restaurant Review Roundup: Thoa's, Gainsbourg, Spinasse

    I drove around eating roast chicken this week, but other local restaurant critics had different priorities: In the Times, Providence Cicero reviews Thoa's, the Vietnamese restaurant with the best view. Meanwhile, in the Dining Deals section, Nicole Tsong reviews Gainsbourg in Greenwood, the Franco ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2009

    Szechuan Beef Noodle Soup: Keep Your Nose to the Bowl

    Thin Wheat Line is a weekly exploration of noodles in Seattle. Noodle: Szechuan beef noodle with soup Source: Szechuan Noodle Bowl, 420 Eighth Ave. S., 623-4198, INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT. Price: $5.75 Szechuan Noodle Bowl is another one of those ID stalwarts I've passed by 20 million times, until ... More >>

  • Food

    March 11, 2009
  • Blogs

    June 24, 2008

    2.5 Notes About Meat From This Weekend

    Dining in the $20 to $30 range.

  • Food

    April 23, 2008

    Rumpus Room

    Wild times--plus waiters

  • Blogs

    April 17, 2008

    Why Fuchsia Dunlop Is My Hero

    Wild times--plus waiters

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2008
  • Food

    November 21, 2007

    Loving Asia's Quintessential Winter Meal

    Yeah, hot pot is the best feed.

  • Blogs

    November 14, 2007

    Resolving the Two-Menu Dilemma

    Yeah, hot pot is the best feed.

  • Food

    October 10, 2007

    How Many Burgers, TVs, and Hot Waitresses Can a Single Block Support?

    The answer lies beneath a 25-ounce mug of beer at Sixth and Pine.

  • Blogs

    October 3, 2007

    The Food Section: October 3, 2007

    The answer lies beneath a 25-ounce mug of beer at Sixth and Pine.

  • Blogs

    September 5, 2007

    The Food Section: September 5, 2007

    The answer lies beneath a 25-ounce mug of beer at Sixth and Pine.

  • Food

    May 23, 2007

    Culinary "British Exploration" at Marazul Lacks Focus

    My goodness, this pan–Latino Asian bistro and rum bar has a lot going on!

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2007

    Sichuan Food: Make Your Own

    My goodness, this pan–Latino Asian bistro and rum bar has a lot going on!

  • Food

    April 11, 2007

    101 Ways to Fry a Pepper

    At Bamboo Garden, the Sichuan food's sophisticated, but the heat's a little low.

  • Diversions

    August 23, 2006

    When Nouvelle Was New

    Thirty years ago in Seattle Weekly.

  • Food

    February 1, 2006

    Down the Rabbit Hole

    A little bit of everything, and then some, in the International District.

  • Food

    May 25, 2005

    Pass It On

    Because none of us is as smart as all of us.

  • News

    December 11, 2002

    Local Brilliance

    Foodie gifts with hometown connections.

  • Diversions

    January 9, 2002

    Dim sum or dim bulb?

    Foodie gifts with hometown connections.

  • News

    May 23, 2001

    Visual arts events

    Foodie gifts with hometown connections.

  • Arts

    May 2, 2001

    The mysterious west

    New discoveries poke a hole in imperial Chinese "history."

  • Food

    April 11, 2001

    The Hot Sheet

    What's in, what's fresh, what's cooking.

  • Food

    March 28, 2001

    Hurts so good

    Eating through the pain.

  • Food

    October 4, 2000

    Satay a while

    Pan-Asian goes palatial—without neglecting our favorite dishes.

  • Food

    February 16, 2000

    Jimmy's Table

    Madison Valley's latest be-seen spot is still rough around the edges.

  • Food

    December 15, 1999

    Earth & Ocean

    Down-to-earth food that's ultimately out of focus.

  • News

    July 21, 1999

    Best Bites

    Down-to-earth food that's ultimately out of focus.

  • Food

    June 9, 1999

    Roll your own

    Pleasures pile up as fast as the dishes in this neighborhood eatery.

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