I’m not sure who had more fun at the first Si Fang Cai (Secret Supper) – me or the guests. The menu was based (mostly) on Asian hawker food – or “street” food.

The weather cooperated, allowing for drinks and cooking outdoors, before moving inside for an intimate dinner peppered with great conversation.

Korean Drummer

Vegitarian

Fruit Carving

Thai

Japanese

Bau Ga-Prow (Bangkok Cabin)

Dough Figures (Taiwan)

Steamed Banana Leaves

Shaolin sifu giving marching orders…

Restaurante Guatemala Coffee
Just a random selection of photos from the last couple of months. Detailed posts may follow on some…

Taqueria Los Rayos

Get Coffee

Get Coffee

Beef Shanks

Pesto-stuffed Pork Chops with Caramelized Onions and Kale

Pho Bac

Sop Buntut – Waroeng Corner

Waroeng Corner

Oxtails

Warm weather is coming – no more practicing track stands in the basement!

FINALLY – mangosteens in the US! As far as I knew, I was going to have to wait for a return trip to Thailand. But no more – I found mangosteens (also known as Thai Fruit Crack) on Buford Highway (beware – at $6.99/lb, a small bag cost me $15). Mangosteens don’t have a long [...]

There are as many places to get bahn mi (Vietnamese sandwiches) along Buford Highway as there are places to get pho, some better than others. Lee’s Bakery has long been considered among the best, with Saigon Deli following close behind. Nhu Y Deli is one to avoid. After trying Quốc Hương (in Asian Square – [...]

One thing that’s a given at almost every Malaysian restaurant is a huge menu.The challenge then becomes choosing without ordering too much food. There were five of us at the EBH dinner at Penang last week. It was hard to choose (Penang’s menu is enormous), but not very much food was left at the end.
To [...]

For some reason lot of people still seem to have hang ups about the ethnic markets along Buford Highway. Regardless, BFM is still one of my favorites. The sheer volume of produce, meats and fish that move through this place ensure that you can usually find almost any ingredient you can think of, fresh and [...]

Search term of the week: “pho fat make you”
Just checking something on the blog and noticed this as one of the search strings used to find eatbufordhighway.com. That’s gonna take a lot of pho…
Speaking of which, don’t forget to join us Wednesday, May 28 @ 7PM – Pho Dai Loi #2. See “Who Wants to [...]

So I had a coconut – don’t ask me why. Now what? First thing is to crack it open and drink the water. Remember, the liquid inside a coconut is coconut water – not coconut milk (Too Much Information: Coconut water is the endosperm (albumin) of the coconut – think of it as the white of an [...]