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Quick Reviews: London, Edinburgh and Glasgow

Itadakizen London. Near King’s Cross St. Pancras train station, Itadakizen is a plant based Japanese restaurant that serves deep fried vegan gyoza. The gyoza were excellent as was the Goma-Q, the vegan Karage and the Shoyu Ramen. I recommend this … Continue reading

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Ray’s Café and Tea House, Philadelphia, PA

Ray’s Café and Tea House is a family run Taiwanese café that introduced siphon coffee brewing to Philadelphia and serves some great house made dumplings.  Ray’s is a small place that sells drinks and food and ground coffee and packages … Continue reading

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Stargazy, Philadelphia, PA

Philadelphia’s Stargazy is styled as a classic east London pie and mash shop, and totally hits this mark, even down to the green parsley liquor sauce on the mash.  It is a small store front shop with counter service and … Continue reading

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Ramen Kuraku, New York, NY

Ramen Kuraku opened during the pandemic in a Columbia University building neat the 168th street medical center, making it one of the northern most ramen restaurants in Manhattan.  The restaurant offers shio black, miso and shoyu ramen broths, served spicy … Continue reading

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Dim Sum Bloom, (ne Shun Lee Cafe, and Shun Lee 98th), New York, NY

The food at Upper West Side’s Dim Sum Bloom was meh when I ate there, but the back story of the restaurant is interesting.  It originally opened, to great anticipation, as “Shun Lee Cafe” and then later changed its name … Continue reading

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Moon Kee, New York, NY

Moon Kee opened back in October of 2023 selling Cantonese style food and dim sum.  The restaurant traces its origins to the owner’s father, who learned to cook in China in the 1950s and after moving to Hong Kong in … Continue reading

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3 Times, New York, NY

The origin story of 3 Times, a local NYC mini-chain of dumpling joints, is that an expat from Nanjing who was working as a tour guide in New York wanted a good Chinese restaurant to take his groups to. He … Continue reading

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Ba Le Bakery, Philadelphia, PA

There seem to be several Ba Le Bakery stores around the U.S. – California, Dorchester, Falls Church, Chicago and the one I hit in Philadelphia.  It is unclear whether they are related to one another.  The website for the Ba … Continue reading

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BB Tee House, Philadelphia PA

BB Tee House is a new Vietnamese café in South Philly specializing in bubble tea and Banh Mi sandwiches. They also sell Vietnamese coffee, prepared foods, frozen foods and Vietnamese pantry staples.  They have excellent Banh Mi sandwiches and Bao … Continue reading

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Stick to My Pot Potstickers

Stick to My Pot, Potstickers is a small dumpling restaurant on West 35th street near Penn Station.  The restaurant has a long wooden counter, with metal stools, along one side of the space, and counter service at the back, where … Continue reading

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