On a visit to Ottawa back in February, 2011, I had a list of three steakhouses I wanted to visit and I mentally extended a challenge to them to see who could produce the best steak. I love steak in generally but my favourite cut is the rib-steak with the bone still present (as opposed […]
Kung Pao Chicken (宮保雞丁) is one of my favourite dishes and it is one that I often use as a yardstick in gauging the quality of a Chinese restaurant. I chose Kung Pao for this purpose as it is almost ubiquitous on Chinese restaurant menus, even in restaurants that do not specialize in the cuisine […]
While perusing the Chowtimes food blog, I came across a recipe created by co-author Suanne for something she called Naan Pizza. Basically, this was a standard cheese pizza that used a piece of cooked Naan bread instead of the more standard rolled dough. In another post, her husband, Ben, visited a Vancouver restaurant featuring Uighur […]
Roasting red peppers gives them a lovely sweetness and, when stripped of skin, sliced, and marinated in olive oil, they make a delicious Italian Antipasto. Pureed, either alone or with other ingredients, roasted peppers can also make a wonderful and versatile sauce whose uses are limited only by the imagination… The Ingredients You can make […]
While perusing the Chowtimes food blog, I came across a recipe created by co-author Suanne for something she called Naan Pizza. Basically, this was a standard cheese pizza that used a piece of cooked Naan bread instead of the more standard rolled dough. In another post, her husband, Ben, visited a Vancouver restaurant featuring Uighur […]
While perusing the Chowtimes food blog, I came across a recipe created by co-author Suanne for something she called Naan Pizza. Basically, this was a standard cheese pizza that used a piece of cooked Naan bread instead of the more standard rolled dough. In another post, her husband, Ben, visited a Vancouver restaurant featuring Uighur […]
While perusing the Chowtimes food blog, I came across a recipe created by co-author Suanne for something she called Naan Pizza. Basically, this was a standard cheese pizza that used a piece of cooked Naan bread instead of the more standard rolled dough. In another post, her husband, Ben, visited a Vancouver restaurant featuring Uighur […]
… 1998: DK Publishing Inc. ISBN-13: 978-0789433008 … I didn’t realize until I was looking up the particulars of this book that the first edition was written over a quarter of a century ago. I have the second edition that was published in 1998 and I think it was shortly after then that I purchased […]
… … I collect take-out menus from restaurants and I have, in my collection, one from the ‘Jo Moon Ting’ restaurant that I picked up on a previous visit to Ottawa with the intention of checking the place out sometime. In August, I finally got a chance but when I arrived at the location I […]
… … Ambience and Service The restaurant is quite large and spacious and is much more nicely appointed than dim sum palaces often are. It was very full when I arrived during the middle of the dinner hour and was quite noisy as a result. Actually, though, the bustle and hectic noise were not at […]
272 Dalhousie Street, Ottawa, Ontario, (613) 789-6888 – Webpage Date of Visit: August 16, 2011 … … Ambience and Service… The service on arrival was so rude and abrupt that I almost left. The elderly man who greeted me was waved me to a table in a surly manner, threw down a menu and then […]
272 Dalhousie Street, Ottawa, Ontario, (613) 789-6888 – Webpage Date of Visit: August 16, 2011 … … Ambience and Service… The service on arrival was so rude and abrupt that I almost left. The elderly man who greeted me was waved me to a table in a surly manner, threw down a menu and then […]
691 Somerset Street West, Ottawa, ON, (613) 233-8818 Date of Visit: February 4, 2011 … … Ambience and Service Chu Shing is a very spacious and high-ceilinged room on the second floor of the building it occupies. The décor is fairly plain and unremarkable. I arrived alone at 11am or so and the there were about 10 […]