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The Slanted Door Here’s another cookbook filled with all things delicious. So many recipes… Even the desserts are beautifully covered. First on our list of things to try from this book on the sweet front? Vietnamese style tres leches cake complete with the absolutely brilliant idea for a Vietnamese coffee soak. Also, the recipe within that recipe for made from scratch sweetened condensed milk. This demands our immediate attention.
G & M Crab Cakes Everyone at the table agreed, these were seriously good to great crab cakes.
Chock Full Of Tender Crab The crab was super fresh. And, huge chunks of tender and sweet crab were present throughout each very generously sized crab cake.
Plating? Let’s call it… interesting.
Green Beans Fresh with a nice bite and buttery, these were quite good.
And, the cauliflower? Eh, it’s hard to get excited about cauliflower. But, it was fine.
These are huge. So, you can order a single crab cake or a double order.
Menu
G & M Restaurant & Lounge —
Dogfish Head Alehouse
On Tap
60 Minute IPA Very good! …And very sorry it wasn’t followed up with 120 Minute IPA. (This definitely warrants a return visit when it’s available again.)
Crab Cake, Asparagus, & Broccoli
The asparagus was grilled beautifully.
The crab cake was quite nice and perfectly fine. But, the crab was very finely shredded.
Two Crab Cakes, Asparagus, & Spinach Dogfish Head Alehouse
Honestly, we weren’t expecting much. So, we were very happily surprised with these. They’re a bit like a Twinkie. But, these are so much better than a cloyingly sweet, greasy (paste-y) cream filled twinkie. They’re softer, fluffier, less greasy, and just all around tastier. We actually want to eat these. There’s a freshly floral, creamy sweetness to the custard that you would expect from a sweet treat containing pandan. As usual, the scent of pandan was nothing short of intoxicating for us. We immediately wanted another little cream filled cake.
Euro Pandan Cake
It’s hard to gauge the size of these cakes. They’re a bit smaller than we expected them to be. Each little cake is about 4-5 bites. One cake would make a nice substitute for a cookie.
70 Calories Each
Fried Tapioca Shrimp
Bun Bo Hue
Fried Fish Topped With Lemongrass
The topping of ginger, lemongrass, onion, and scallion lightened up this fried fish dish nicely. It was pleasantly fresh with a nice bite of thinly julienned ginger. The breading on the fish was a touch on the salty side. But, the fillet was fried crisp with a moist, tender interior. Chateau De Saigon
Grilled Idaho Trout
And Edamame With Sesame
An airport chocolate bar and…
Sean Brock — Heritage
So beautiful…
What’s the best way to kick off this holiday season? Reward yourself first. You deserve it. The Charleston Light Dragoon’s Punch Sean Brock’s Cracklin’ Cornbread
Mandarin Pie So crispy and piping hot, it took every ounce of our patience to wait.
Golden brown in places and soft, tender nooks hide in other spots. Then inside, buttery tender pork, green onion, chive and… is there finely chopped shrimp, too? So incredibly good, we’re ready for more. Now.
Not all chili oils are created equal. But, this one was a winner.
An Interesting Assortment of Breakfast Options We’ll have to try those lamb soups…
Hot Pot With Fish Fillets A spicy option for $1, hell yeah.
Napa cabbage maintained a nice bite. It wasn’t overcooked or overpowering.
Hand Cut Noodles With Seafood In Red Sauce
Tentative tastes of hot broth were rewarded.
Those gorgeous noodles hiding beneath the surface were our reward.
We’ll be working our way through this list.
Northern China Eatery
Makan’s Ramyun Bowl one…
And, here’s bowl two.
Sharing? That’s just crazy talk. We both wanted our own bowl. And, we weren’t disappointed. The powerfully rich broth was a complex union of deep, dark meaty stock and bean paste. The combination made each of the two better by association.
Both bowls were full of noodles with a lovely bite.
And, the eggs were softly boiled to rich custardy yolk perfection.
Korean Fried Chicken Bao Both dishes were fine, but, not favorites for us. We’ll be returning again and again for Makan’s Ramyun. (We ordered these first. And, we barely had time to blink before we were nibbling on kimchi and our warm and fluffy little bao. On a quiet weekday, this was very fast food. If we were in need of a quick bite, we’d definitely look here before we resorted to those sort of places that shall not be named.)
Boxer Rebellion A couple sips in someone remembered to snap a shot of their after lunch cocktail. This will definitely be one of our favorite holiday season cocktails. This was a bit sweet, but, not too sweet with gorgeous complexity. And, as it was meant to be, bourbon makes it all better. Love it!
On a quiet (work free) afternoon, we couldn’t resist grabbing a cocktail.
Makan Cocktails
Charred oak rye, POM, honey, and lemon… that will surely be next.
Open doors invite you into this patio space. It has us wishing for an early spring.
Last week’s gorgeous fall colors are fading fast. But, this day was a beautiful (and delicious) memory. Makan
Jjam Pong Noodle Soup
With Hand Cut Noodles
It’s official. We finally love soup. And, wow, this was an incredibly memorable one. It wasn’t listed on the menu…
It’s the first one posted on the far left.
Roughly translated, this is one of the best spicy seafood noodle soups with hand cut noodles that you will ever be fortunate enough to taste in your lifetime. Oh, those noodles… we left very happy.
Yookgejang
This was delicious in its own way, yet, completely different. Possibly a touch spicier than the other soup, the flavor reminds us of pot roast. But, that would be a pot roast done in spicy Korean style. But, then, at the last minute you decided you were in the mood for a giant bowl of steaming hot soup filled with tender shredded beef. (Or, maybe, it’s a bit like a spicy ropa vieja swimming in spicy Korean broth without the peas and peppers. Then, you add in all of the lovely Korean spices and vegetables. Scratch that, this was significantly tastier than both of those things.) Tender shreds of beef, mushroom and noodles fill this bowl.
A rich blend of spices, green onion, egg strands, beefy chili broth touched with oil and tender, slippery noodles support and elevate both beef and noodles to a higher plane.
Banchan…
…so many small dishes
This was a lovely use of konjac. Roasted sesame seeds and sesame oil beautifully take charge of this simple dish.
Another one of our favorites hid in the back.
We finished with a soothing cup of tea. This was a great way to keep warm and cozy.
Jang Su Jang
Taiwanese Beef Noodle Soup Hong Shao = Red Roasted Or Braised (In Soy) Niu Rou Mian = Beef Noodle Soup
Beef Shank & Tendon It’s all about that beef. If the beef shank and tendon were braised in soy, it was done with remarkable skill. The intensely dark concentrated beefy richness of the broth is what we remember most vividly. The silky, tender beef and tendon only magnifies the pure meaty beef flavor. And, the tendon was so incredibly tender. It doesn’t quite melt under the pressure of your bite. But, it does mingle with a soft chew and it adds even more silky smooth texture to an already densely flavored broth. One of the best soups we’ve ever been fortunate enough to taste? Oh, yeah! It’s something very special.
Pan Fried Dumplings, Too Even knowing that we’d both have noodles left over for midnight snacking, we couldn’t resist an order of dumplings pan fried to a crispy golden brown. Yup, they were delicious, again.
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