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WORLD FARE: Tasty Noodle House is more than tasty noodles

May 29, 2019 mgardiner

Names and labels can reveal, obscure or even do both at the same time. Tasty Noodle House (4646 Convoy St.) is something of a case in point. It is both tasty and a relatively typical Chinese “noodle house.” In other words, it pretty much is exactly what its name implies. Because … [Read more...]

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WORLD FARE: The benefits of Facing East in the Convoy District (or, how I remembered “Asian Fusion” wasn’t a curse)

December 28, 2016 mgardiner

  There may be no words that strike fear into the hearts of food writers of a particular vintage quite like "Asian Fusion." Ming Tsai rocks and Jean-George Vongerichten is rightly a legend, but the crimes of a couple thousand copiers just cannot be forgotten. So when … [Read more...]

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WORLD FARE: The wow factor of Great Wow

October 12, 2016 mgardiner

Before I noticed the painted "wall" ringing the top of the dining room I thought it might just be a silly name. But was "Great Wow" really a politically incorrect pun on "Great Wall?" Had Trump already been elected and I just failed to notice? In fact, the Chinese characters … [Read more...]

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