Thursday
芥蘭牛便當
打從踏上美國的中國餐廳，我一直以為芥蘭指的是＂芥蘭菜＂，那種莖很粗有黃花的綠葉植物，但點了之後才知道，原來那是＂綠花椰菜＂！！完全顛覆我的想法。這也是在午餐特賣時買的，此可謂本區（Palo Alto downtown）價錢最漂亮的餐廳，想省錢的人可別放過這一家。不過可能老闆炒的太過火，肉焦掉了，這是失敗之處。（敢情這也是為了配合老美的口味，老美也喜歡吃焦掉的東西吧？之前吃過一個漢堡，那漢堡肉其中一面完全焦掉，哇塞，這樣也敢拿出來賣？我只好自認倒楣...）然後右上角那兩塊＂油炸混沌皮＂堪稱經典之小菜，成本絕對不超過台幣兩元，我想。
$ 5.35(with Tax)
Add: University Ave. & Emerson St., Palo Alto CA （旁邊有另外一家金金飯店，紅燒牛肉麵超讚的！肉質鮮嫩可口，湯頭又健，加上採用拉麵，吃完整個讚，莫怪被評選為最佳餐廳達數年之久，我吃到忘我而沒拍照片，請大家自行想像）
Labels: Chinese
Tuesday
蛋撻王茶餐廳 - 榨菜肉絲米粉
真的很好吃（淚）！尤其再加點辣椒醬，辣鹹辣鹹的超入口，肉絲燉的帶有嚼勁、榨菜也不是那種死鹹感，一定要去吃看看！$ 3.00
PS.我實在是搞不清楚哪些店該給小費，那些不用給，所以當小姐說只有三塊啊？我真想回她，難道不是嗎？給我ㄧ杯水打發，就要給你小費，哪有這麼便宜的事？不過這是本地的習慣，還是入境隨俗的好，以免被轟出來。我匆匆又在桌上留了小費便快步離開。
Labels: Chinese
Saturday
榕園 - 素菜撈麵Lo Mein
Thursday
西餐餅屋 - 三寶飯
$3.75 便宜又大碗，請各位看官趕快去吃吃看吧！
三寶飯顧名思義有三寶，三寶是哪三寶呢？當然不是人蔘貂皮烏拉草，也不是彩虹星星什麼鬼的，是油雞火鴨和叉燒，另外，你還可以選一樣副菜，加上免費的湯（幾乎每天都是水煮腐皮鹽巴湯，有點遜）和紅茶，真的很划算啦！
對啦！這裡同時也是我被一個墨西哥人搭訕上的地方！噗噗！
Add: 38th W St. & 8th Ave.
Labels: Chinese
Friday
Chinataste in Central Park
*包著鹹蛋黃、綠豆豆沙的鹹粽 $ 1
Chinatown is usually quite crowded. During the Taste of Chinatown food festival, is was super crowded there. So when we were full, we grabbed a 粽子 and a special bun with meat, and went to Central Park to eat. Very relaxing.
*烤鴨割包 $ 1 for each
Labels: Chinese
Taste of Chinatown
Some pictures from last weekend's food festival in China Town. Many delicious things were served, at a price of one or two dollars.
Labels: Chinese
Aki筷子樓 - 湖南牛飯
這是一家日本餐廳，不過我買到的食物卻是中國菜（這景象在紐約很常見，服務生甚至廚師都說中文，總讓人覺得是假的）。商業午餐組合為主菜+飯（白飯或糙米飯）+湯（酸辣湯或蛋花湯）或春捲，老實說很划算，加上份量大，吃完只能躺在地上等他消化完畢才走得動（當天我外帶到中央公園的綿羊草場Sheep Meadow野餐，隨後倒在地上曬太陽）。
湖南牛我真的不知道為何叫做湖南牛，沒去過湖南，無法明說。裡面混合著綠花椰菜、草菇、甜椒、紅羅蔔、荸薺與口感滑嫩的牛肉，很下飯。
$ 5.xx~6
Add: 128 W 36th St. NY
Labels: Chinese
Tuesday
雙喜飯店 - 星洲炒米、酸辣湯
我對星洲炒米這個名詞好奇許久，這次終於下定決心試試看啦！星洲炒米原來是新加坡式炒米粉，至於何為新加坡式呢，而且菜單還說這道菜會辣，唉呀，不過就是用了咖哩粉！話說回來，雖然只有咖哩粉、蝦仁、豆芽、蔥......不過味道好極了（一點都不辣）。我在家試過炒麵炒飯炒米粉炒冬粉，為什麼都不會像餐廳一樣＂根根分明＂啊？都會糾結在一起，是沒有分叉斷裂，但是就是口感與視覺不太好，這非常困擾我，可能的原因是我的油放不夠多，但是油放太多又不好.....另外一個是酸辣湯，總算是有正常的口感了，雖然跟＂四海遊龍＂比起來還是差些。
$ 星洲炒米 6.95 / 酸辣湯 1.95(?)
Add: 81 Mott St.
Labels: Chinese, Singaporian
Wednesday
蘭州拉麵、水餃 - 羊肉拉麵
我這個麵條愛好者，總算是找到一個不錯的店啦！麵條是師傅現做的（不時傳來麵團被摔在木板上的聲音），口感實在、料與湯頭都不錯，價錢也只要四元，可以來吃吃看！他們另外還有包的很精緻的水餃，十顆只要兩元！這麼便宜你還等什麼。$ 4
Add: 144 E. Broadway (close to the subway station)
Labels: Chinese
Sunday
Chicken with asparagus
April 14, 2007: The lunch today was chicken with asparagus at the second of Palo Alto's four Chinese restaurants. The chicken was good, and the asparagus as well. But the sauce mixed with the rest was not very delicious. It made the food taste...American!Score: 6/10
Price: $14
Priceworthness: 4/10
Labels: Chinese
Wednesday
Chinese chicken wrap
April 11, 2007: Grabbed a wrap on my way back to downtown Palo Alto from Stanford University. And the wrap was not bad. Or was I simply too hungry and jet lagged? I turned it into a combo with rice, beans, drink and some chips for an extra dollar and a half.Score: 6
Price: $9
Priceworthness: 4
Chinese lunch bargain
April 3, 2007: There is a restaurant named China Palace, close to my work on Park Avenue. There are three good things with that place:1) They serve food really fast.
2) You get much food, it is cheap, and a soup is included
3) They like to speak Chinese with me
Today I choosed their tofu with vegetables and fried chicken. Delicious, quite healthy and cheap :)
Price: $4
Score: 7
Priceworthness: 8
Labels: Chinese
Tuesday
Chinese food, too salty?
CNN
Until now, I guess I know why they have this kind of impression. One Turkish friend told me that he thinks Chinese food is too PLAIN, so when he gets food, the first action he will do is to add more salt on it! Oh my!... And I recalled when I was in Istanbul, I found their food sometimes too salty, like stewed meat, oh, it's so impressive. So to conclude, in order to adapt "foreigners'" taste, Chinese chefs changed their way to cook!?
A-pei mama said, the less salt you add, the healthier you will be.
Until now, I guess I know why they have this kind of impression. One Turkish friend told me that he thinks Chinese food is too PLAIN, so when he gets food, the first action he will do is to add more salt on it! Oh my!... And I recalled when I was in Istanbul, I found their food sometimes too salty, like stewed meat, oh, it's so impressive. So to conclude, in order to adapt "foreigners'" taste, Chinese chefs changed their way to cook!?
A-pei mama said, the less salt you add, the healthier you will be.
Labels: Chinese
Sunday
本樓撈麵House's special LO MEIN
This one is unlike what we ate before (tasted like all the oyster sause was poured on the dish, terribly salty). It's quite ok. And because of "House's special", you can eat at least four kinds of meat and five kinds of vegetable, very nutritious. But, it is still too oily...$ 4.5.
Add: E 106th St. & Lexiton Ave.
Labels: Chinese
Chinese pecan chicken in Harlem
I was really hungry after visiting a church in Harlem, New York. So, while looking for an African restaurant, a Chinese suddenly popped up instead. Well, why not grab a pecan chicken with some wonton soup? It was not bad, and not too salty. But the vegetables could maybe have been more fresh.Score: 5/10
Price: $5
Priceworthness: 6/10
Labels: Chinese
Dim Sum
March 24, 2007: Stopping by a Chinese restaurant to have some wonton soup and some kind of steamed dumplings. The soup was not bad, and the dumplings were really delicious! The reason for the non top score for the soup is that it was a little bit to sweet; The lips actually got sticky after eating.Price: $7 for all
Score: 7/10
Priceworthness: 6/10
Labels: Chinese
Saturday
Home made dumpling soup
March 24, 2007: This is a delicious home made Miso Dumpling Soup. But in fact, the only thing which is home made is the cooking... The dumplings were in fact made in advance and comes from a shop, as well as the miso soup touch. But is was still very delicious! :)Price: Really cheap
Score: 7/10
Thursday
Master Yap葉 - 中國菜
再次申明，在國外點湯之前真的要三思！
我只點雲吞湯，因為價錢最便宜$1.25。但嚐後我真有想立刻衝出店外的感覺。
第一，湯頭，失敗。縱使是雞湯或是骨頭熬出來的高湯，但也不需要放這麼多的鹽巴吧？加幾片叉燒肉並不能使湯頭提味，ＯＫ？亦或這是你們想要彌補一時失手放太多鹽巴的錯？超˙級˙鹹！
第二，雲吞，大失敗，徹徹底底的失敗。你那叫做雲吞？讓我死了吧，雲吞皮有三公厘厚，這樣煮出來，怎麼會有雲朵的感覺？叫＂麵皮包肉＂還差不多！內餡更是不用說了，感覺是＂剩肉＂加上太白粉裹在一起的感覺，罷，罷。
第三，很像油條的玩意，失敗。一看顏色就知道是＂炸過頭＂的產物。傷身啊！也傷心，我好歹也是付了錢，結果只有這樣的味道。
＊不是我嘴刁，到目前為止，雲吞湯好吃的，只有丹麥Aarhus那一家，瑞典Ski....鎮上唯一的中菜店的雲吞湯也很令人懷念，不過只侷限於加了蛋花等芶芡的湯頭，雲吞本身也不行。
Add: 155 East 52nd St. New York
Labels: Chinese
故鄉味 - 中國菜
這家店在曼哈頓中間靠東邊區塊，價錢自然是高貴不貴>"<。本餐廳以四川菜為主。-雲吞湯：$1.65，失敗中的失敗，我從來沒喝過這麼難以下嚥的雲吞湯，雲吞本身基本上還可以，雖然只有三粒，但是那個湯！我真是一口也喝不下肚，超級無敵宇宙爆炸鹹！想提早得腎臟病的，這個是你最好的選擇。
-糖醋魚片：$16.95，還不錯，適合配飯（意思就是稍鹹）。
-清蒸雜菜雞：$9.95，雞胸肉與什錦蔬菜的組合，另有醬料搭配食用，有白醬、棕醬、蒜蓉醬與豆豉醬可選。雞肉相當滑嫩，讓人不禁懷疑他們加了什麼，沒辦法，大陸來的東西不太叫人放心。我對面的食客對這兩道菜稱讚有加，如果你可以接受這嚇死人的價錢，可以來試試。
-棕飯：這裡的飯有白飯、棕飯（糙米飯）可選，單點菜後，飯是免費的，如果不夠要續碗，一碗一美元。
Add: 1049 2nd Ave. New York (Bet. 55th & 56th St.)
Labels: Chinese
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