When Marie’s mother came to spend a few days with us, we knew that we wanted to take her shopping at the Buford Highway Farmer’s Market, where she was certain to enjoy looking at the aisle of Dutch foods, and also have a nice snack of poffertjes from their food court. While she isn’t especially fond of either spicy foods or, bafflingly, barbecue, she does enjoy Chinese cooking, and there are several Chinese restaurants along Buford Highway that we had not yet visited. Since Northern China Eatery has so many fans, we decided to give it a try. Continue reading “Northern China Eatery, Doraville GA”
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Ming’s B.B.Q., Doraville GA
This is Marie, contributing a second-glance take on Ming’s. We were with the kids and with our fellow bloggers from Spatialdrift, Emily and Adam. They are getting progressively closer to 285 in their quest to eat their way up Buford Highway, and we intended to come with them to their next restaurant. After a brief detour in a place that keeps food unrefrigerated on a counter and therefore got ruled out, we wound up at Ming’s. Grant had visited the Duluth store before to eat lunch with Sandy from Bella Vivere and had taken the kids with him, so that left only 50% of the party going for the first time. Continue reading “Ming’s B.B.Q., Doraville GA”
Gu’s Bistro, Doraville GA (CLOSED)
In some of the chapters here over the last couple of weeks, we have spotlighted a few of the restaurants that have, happily and wonderfully, kicked down our biases and our preconceived notions about Chinese cooking. That’s not to say “out with the old,” permanently. Marie will, unaccountably, get occasional cravings for Golden-This-Happy-That stuff for the rest of her life, just as I will, equally unaccountably, get occasional cravings for El-This-Los-That Tex-Mex food for the rest of mine despite since learning to appreciate authentic cooking, because when you find a “favorite food” around the time that you’re in high school, it’s nigh impossible to get rid of it for good. Continue reading “Gu’s Bistro, Doraville GA (CLOSED)”
Chow Bing Chinese Grill, Atlanta GA (CLOSED)
This is Marie, contributing a description of a visit to Chow Bing, a Chinese restaurant in a tough location that I hope it can overcome. With any luck the Grady Hospital staff will discover the place and prop it up as more people discover it. It’s just around the curve from the hospital in the new Pencil Factory Lofts building. Continue reading “Chow Bing Chinese Grill, Atlanta GA (CLOSED)”
Bei Jing Kabobs, Doraville GA
One of the many benefits to come from expanding our knowledge of authentic foods from other countries has been learning that I actually do like some food from China a whole lot. Of course, I have suspected forever that the stuff that I’ve shrugged about and tolerated all these years because it makes other people happy while I find it inoffensive is all made from ingredients in giant cans from Sysco of Szechuan. I’m not intentionally being judgmental, but it’s the same reason I ask whether fries are hand-cut or frozen before I order them. I know what Sysco fries taste like already, and I equally know what the Moo Goo Gai Pan tastes like in every city in America. I’d like to sample the tastes and flavors of food that hasn’t been made for mass appeal. That said, here is the first of three stories sprinkled over the next two weeks in which we sample some Chinese food quite unlike the Golden-This-Happy-That mall standard and come away really enjoying the new experiences. Continue reading “Bei Jing Kabobs, Doraville GA”
Jeanne’s House, Doraville GA (CLOSED)
This is Marie, contributing a visit to a Chinese place with a singularly unusual name.
Sometime a while ago, Grant started calling generic Mexican places “El-this-Los-that” and generic Chinese places “Happy-this-Golden-that” because honestly, how many Mexican or Chinese places in the suburbs have you gone to that DON”T use that pattern for their names? And if you go to the Golden China in the mall, isn’t that pretty much a guarantee of a choice between incandescent red glop versus opalescent whitish glop, over chicken or beef? Plus broccoli and carrots, of course. Continue reading “Jeanne’s House, Doraville GA (CLOSED)”
Tai Pei Restaurant, Duluth GA (CLOSED)
The southern portions of Buford Highway have been covered very well lately by lots of bloggers, and so since we were coming south down I-85 from Gainesville, I thought we would try our luck and stop by a place in the northern suburbs. Marie, who had only sampled a couple of tastes at Rick’s Smokin’ Pig, said that she was in the mood for Chinese, and so we got off the interstate at exit 108, GA-120, and took that over to Duluth. We then drove south on Buford Highway until Marie saw a place that looked interesting to her. Continue reading “Tai Pei Restaurant, Duluth GA (CLOSED)”
Marie, Let's Eat! 