June 30, 2010
Last week, Sophia, my fellow Chew on That blogger, wrote about Maker’s Mark Bourbon. Little did she know that last summer, I actually visited the Distillery in Kentucky! Follow me to take a little tour of this fun tourist spot. Read the rest of this entry »
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February 16, 2009
Please welcome Kang from London Eater and his wonderful guest post! If you live in London or ever plan on visiting London, this food lover’s guide to the underground railway is for you! Thank you Kang for this great resource and delicious foodie insight!
Like most Londoners, I rely on the tube to get to work every morning, to get back to my warm crib and to get to my favourite restaurants. But like most public transportation networks in sprawling cities, the system can be a bit daunting to follow what with all the names, colours and lines upon lines…
So I had a brain bolt and thought it’d be helpful to create a make shift foodie tube map for anyone wanting to eat with the underground map as a guide.
London is an organic city with the inner ‘heart’ of the city being where all the magic happens. Think of it like a two dimensional onion. London has layers designed in concentric ‘zones’: There are 6 major zones with zone 1 being central London. The further out you go, the less touristy it gets.
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January 28, 2009
Aside from Texas BBQ, one of the more notable attractions in San Antonio is the Riverwalk. Many tourists like to stay on the Riverwalk (like us) so they’re close to all the restaurants and action. If the weather is right, it’s a pretty place to walk around, take a boat cruise and enjoy a relaxing delicious meal by the water.
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January 26, 2009
This weekend I had the pleasure of visiting San Antonio, Texas. A very last minute trip (like most of my travels), I didn’t have much time to plan out every detail in advance. But, since it would be my first ever trip to Texas, I knew I would have to make time for some Texas-style barbecue (especially after just having Kansas City-style barbecue last month!)
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December 31, 2008
In a recent trip to Kansas City, I had the opportunity to try the very cuisine the Midwestern city is famous for: their barbecue! If you like dousing your food with lots of sauce like me, you’ll love Kansas City BBQ - a city and a cuisine that is more than liberal when it comes to sauce. Here in Chicago, we have various barbecue joints like Carson’s Ribs or Smoke Daddy BBQ but nothing near as fun or as tasty as Gates BBQ, a famous Kansas City barbecue chain.
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August 13, 2008
One of the most famous national food markets that I’ve come across is Pike Place Market located in Seattle. Having just visited Seattle for my second time ever (thanks to my brother and his family for moving there), I had the pleasure of discovering the wonder that is Pike Place Market. Just off the coast of Elliot Bay, and located in a city with access to all sorts of bodies of water, this market’s specialty is undoubtedly: fish, and lots of it.
Particularly, the largest tourist attraction at Pike Place Market is the Pike Place Fish Co.’s flying fish. With every order of fish, the name of that fish is called out to be wrapped and then flung through a distance with just seconds warning. The fish is then wrapped and thrown back out to the fish monger. Think “3 mussels and 1 rockfish” being yelled out and flung in the air. Two seconds later, “2 Alderwood Salmon” and the crowd ducks. Something about fish flying through the air is entertaining, to say the least.
See a short clip after the jump!
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