Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Delhi Club - Arlington, VA




Monday, I decided to eat some vegetarian Indian food.  My favorite Indian dish is Baigan Bhartha.  So, I went to Delhi Club at Clarendon.  I arrived pretty early, so the restaurant was empty.  They also had a lunch buffet.  The food came out pretty quickly.  I ordered extra naan.  The rice was a little plain, I think they could have added some spices.  The Baigan Bhartha was very good and so was the dal.  They were both a little bit spicy.  There was a good amount of food.  Enough for two lunches, so it was quite a good deal.  Overall, I enjoyed this meal and will be coming back.

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Bulgogi Cart - Washington, DC

I've been on a Korean food kick for awhile, so I ventured down to McPherson Sq. to the Bulgogi Cart.  I was hoping for a vegetarian version, but they only had chicken or beef.  So I got the spicy chicken Bimbimbap with egg on top.  The chicken was ridiculously spicy but had nice flavor.  The kimchi tasted good also.  It was hard to mix in the styrofoam container.  But it was very good.  The lettuce on the bottom was wilted by the time I got back.  Overall, I like this one better than at the Oak Street Cafe, because you got more meat and the kimchi was better.  They also had kimchi and bulgogi kimbap which I will try next time.

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Pho 98 - Chantilly, Va

I have found my favorite Vietnamese restaurant in Western Fairfax County.  Pho98.  The owner of this restaurant is the brother of owner of Viet House in Fairfax.  As expected the food tastes very similiar.  I actually haven't eaten the pho here.  I've been getting the Bun Thit Nuong, which is Rice noodle with Pork.  This is a great dish.  The pork as a lot of flavor, and they give me much more pork than I would usually eat.  The vegetables are fresh and the noodles cooked perfectly.  Overall, I really like this restaurant and will be back.

Tian Chinese - Centreville, Va

I'm glad the Koreans have moved to Centreville, because now I don't have to drive to Annadale for good Korean food.  This is really a Korean restaurant that serves Korean-Chinese food.  I ordered the Champong, which is a spicy seafood noodle soup.  It was the biggest bowl of noodle soup I have ever seen.  There was a good amount of seafood.  Although only one huge clam, and two large mussels.  There was squid and shrimp also.  There was a lot of nappa cabbage in the soup.  They didn't ask me how spicy I would like it, and it was very spicy.  The noodles were good, they had a nice chewy texture.  The broth was also very flavorful.  Overall, I really enjoyed this meal and will definitely be back.

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Giuseppi's Pizza - Bluffton, SC

We went here because we want to eat something cheaper.  Overall, it is good pizza and decent sized.  Although I would have to say I can get better pizza in Virginia.  Not a bad place to eat,  it really wasn't anything special, but I would probably come back.

Fiddler's Crab House - Savannah, Ga

This was our only meal in Savannah, and it really wasn't that good.  On top of that, it was quite expensive.  This little restaurant is located on River St.  So it is kind of touristy place.  I ordered the steamed Seafood Platter, which came with snow crab legs, shrimp, oysters, mussels, clams, and crawfish.  It actually came with a decent amount of food.  The thing I didn't like about it, was the the food was not hot when it came out.  So was it cooked ahead of time?  Actually the seafood was decent and I did enjoy eating it.  Even the crawfish which I don't eat too much of.  But I probably wouldn't come back.

Peppers's Porch - Bluffton, SC

If you've ever been to Hilton Head, you quickly realize that it is quite expensive to eat out.  Especially if you are a group of 6 people.  But we found some great restaurants to eat at.  I wanted to eat some authentic low country cuisine.  I found this little restaurant outside of Hilton Head.  This is a little restaurant, in a tiny town called Bluffton. 

We ordered the fried green tomatos and calamari as appetizers.  The fried green tomatoes were very good.  They came with a creamy spicy sauce.  The calamari was also good.  For my meal, I ordered the seafood lovers paster in a scampi sauce.  Although the the seafood was good, I didn't really enjoy the scampi sauce.  It really just tasted like an oily buttery sauce.  H got a fried grouper which came with a sweet pepper sauce which he really enjoyed.

Overall, I still enjoyed this restaurant.  It seemed like a place the locals would hang out.  The ambiance was very down to earth.  And most of the food was pretty good.