What We Crave
"You crave what? Red bean paste?" You might think we're crazy,
but we don't mind. We're happy to let you eat all of the fluffy coconut
buns or pineapple rolls. We'll chow down on Mee Sum Pastry's sesame seed balls.
By Lara Ferroni | June 11, 2008
If there's a single dish that defines comfort food for this restaurant critic, it's Asian soup noodles. Lucky me: The options around here are endless.
By Nancy Leson | March 14, 2008
Life Behind Bars
While you and I sit here, contemplating the vagaries of fate, another upscale bar has opened in Belltown. This is not unusual: Such bars appear in Belltown at the rate of one every six seconds. By the time you've finished reading this piece, every last scrap of real estate in Belltown will have converted itself to an upscale bar. The fish-throwers will toss their wares into martini glasses and douse them with gin; the upscale boutiques will ask you if you'd like to accessorize that new gown with a necklace of olives, on the house.
By Geoff Carter | March 6, 2007
Life Behind Bars
I'd rather be enjoying a Jamjuree Roll right now. This glorious piece of sushi -- made with shrimp, spinach, cilantro, mint, red pepper, cucumber, cabbage and spicy peanut sauce -- is a specialty of Liberty, an easygoing Capitol Hill bar that, by a not-so-extraordinary coincidence, is also serving my favorite cocktail of the moment: The Dragon's Toe.
By Geoff Carter | February 1, 2007
Life Behind Bars
Walking down Queen Anne Avenue, if you blink, you might miss the place — the O Lounge is a tiny blip of a bar. But wander by on just the right night and you may be pleasantly surprised at whom you'll find soloing on stage. In fact, maybe this blip of a bar is just what Seattle music fans are thirsty for.
By Lori Hinton | December 13, 2005
Short Trips
I am standing before a menu board listing more than 50 types of tea and desserts, but some of them, to my mind, look a bit scary: rei-pei with white jelly fungus, lotus seed with red bean in coconut milk, chrysanthemum tea with pearl.
No sign of my usual safe choice -- Earl Grey with a splash of milk. But I won't fully experience the vibrant Asian community of Richmond, B.C., a Vancouver suburb, if I am not a bit adventurous.
By Anne Mullens | March 18, 2004
Whether it means sipping a latte made from Japanese green tea, slurping a bowl of Cambodian noodle soup or shopping for a book on the history of Vietnam, a trip to Seattle's Chinatown International District is a little like hopscotching around Asia on foot.
Other cities have their Japantowns, Chinatowns and Koreatowns. In Seattle, however, Chinese, Japanese, Filipinos, African Americans, Vietnamese and other ethnic groups settled together and built one neighborhood.
By Carol Pucci | December 13, 2001
