Mien ga long with bok choy, red onion, cilantro. Large $9.50
Joy Hing BBQ Noodle House, San Francisco CA
This was good, but it didn’t even begin to fill me up! They were pretty skimpy with the chicken so I even had to add bok choy to make it more substantial. I do like their garlic onion sauce though! I just pour the entire thing it into the soup and it makes it extra tasty.
Garlic onion sauce.
With pork, bean curd, mushroom, bamboo shoots, and eggflower.
Hunan Home’s Restaurant, San Francisco CA
This soup had a particularly dark and soy sauce-y broth, but it wasn’t any more salty than other hot and sour soups. I liked the amount of ingredients in it, they weren’t skimpy.
Northwest style white clam chowder with red potatoes and pancetta, served with oyster crackers. Cup $5
Mill 109, Pacific Beach WA
This chowder was very hearty, and I loved the smokiness from the pancetta. I will say that it was on the thick side though.
American Blonde Ale.
Jubel Ale by Deschutes.
¥30
Fami-Li-Hood Kitchen, Mutianyu Village CHINA
I liked this soup. It was warm and hearty and tasted great especially with snow falling outside. It was more vinegar-y than those I’ve had in the U.S., but I liked it that way. Overall, it wasn’t too different from the U.S. versions I’m used to.
Individual bowl.
Coffee.
With honey mustard and sliced tomatoes. Served with Italian wedding soup. Combo $8.55
Il Canto Cafe, San Francisco CA
This lunch combination was pretty good! And nicely priced. The panini was served hot and melty, just how I like it. The wedding soup was good, but it was served WAY too hot. I still could eat it very quickly towards the end of lunch because it somehow stayed hot the entire time. This place is definitely worth a re-visit.
A pork stew with purple corn, garlic, guajillo chiles and onions topped with cabbage salad, cilantro, onions and radishes. $9.45
The Little Chihuahua, San Francisco
This pozole was pretty good! I think I’ve had better and more authentic versions in the Mission, but this had great depth of flavor with great ingredients.
Haidilao Hot Pot, Beijing CHINA
This was a really fun experience, especially as our first dinner in Beijing. We had a little difficulty ordering and trying to figure out how the process worked, but we managed. We had two different broths, one mild and the other spicy. Little did we know that the spicy broth would eventually reach lava spiciness, lol! I love spicy food, but even I couldn’t handle the spicy broth after all the oil for the chilies seeped into the broth. We ordered so many different kinds of meats and items to cook in the broth and I wish I could have taken pics of everything but I was really just trying to enjoy the dinner. We ordered a side of fresh noodles, and the guy came to our table and pulled the noodles tableside as he danced around. That was fun! Cheers to our successful maiden dinner in Beijing!
Marinated beef.
Assorted seafood and meatballs.
Greens.
Enoki mushrooms.
Noodles pulled tableside.
With beef and tendons. ¥43
Yolota, Shanghai CHINA
I didn’t like this very much. The broth was SUPER salty and the beef was tough and dry. I did like all the enoki mushrooms though!
Sauteed green beans, bacon, sausage, and hash browns. Complimentary in Executive Lounge
Millennium Seoul Hilton, Seoul SOUTH KOREA
I liked that they had miso soup available for breakfast. I can eat anything in the morning and don’t confine myself to traditional American breakfast fare. I love miso soup so it was a nice treat in the morning.
Miso soup.
¥48.00
Tai Cook, Shanghai CHINA
This soup was just ok. Actually, kind of bland if you ask me. There wasn’t enough of that delicious galangal flavor that I was expecting.
¥22
Louwailou, Hangzhou CHINA
I thought this was more of what I think of as egg drop soup than a hot and sour soup. It was very tasty though, and definitely on the vinegar-y side which I liked. They filled it with plenty of crab meat and pieces of fish so it was a nice reminder of the beautiful West lake outside.
₩12,000
Son Soo Heon, Incheon International Airport (ICN)
This wasn’t very good. The broth was almost flavorless and the short rib was tough and difficult to eat. I was in a bit of a rush, but I don’t think I would have spent much time eating this anyway. It was lame, even for airport food.
Banchan: kimchi, ocotpus, steamed rice, and (?). Complimentary
Vittle Monster 