cuisines: chinese
Feb 09 '10
Why Are Budapest's Best Chinese Restaurants Always Halfway to Hunan?
We've got a lot of tasty stuff coming up over the next few days, but before we get to that let me quickly follow up on my recent post bemoaning the distance you have to travel from central Budapest...
Oct 27 '08
Master Wang Masters the Top 33
As I wrote in my review last week of Kyoto, posting has been light as of late in part because of a general sense of "blahs" about the local dining scene I have recently been experiencing. Another reason is...
Jul 18 '08
Budapest Asian Invasion: Master Wang's Big Night
Wang Qiang (left) - the man who first opened Lanzhou in District VIII, and then the more upscale Új Lanzhou in District II - added a third restaurant to his growing empire earlier this year. This time, it's a...
Dec 21 '07
Hungarian Culinary Society Celebrates Birthday with Chinese Banquet Blowout
The last time we checked in with them, the members of the Lucullus Baráti Társaság were having a low-key Indian meal. But the most recent feast organized by Hungary's leading culinary group was anything but low-key. Last Friday the...
Nov 26 '07
Hungary's Unwanted Crab Invasion May Require Extreme Culinary Measures
Over on Caboodle.hu this morning they are reporting that some fishermen down near Mohács recently had an unexpected catch in the form of some Chinese Mitten Crabs. As the name suggests, the crab is very much not native to these...
Jul 16 '07
A Quick Peek at Taiwan's Quick Peking Duck
We've occasionally gotten grief from readers and friends about the ongoing "Top 33" status of the Taiwan Kínai Étterem [details/user feedback] [related Chew items], the sprawling banquet-style restaurant that sits in a nondescript building in Budapest's District IX, and...
Jan 09 '07
The Majesty and Mystery of Taiwan's Prawn Dumpling Soup
As we said back in September, some of our more favorite sentences contain the two words "shellfish" and "soup." It is therefore no surprise that one of our long-time local Asian standbys is the Ráktáska leves (prawn/shrimp dumpling soup)...
Dec 21 '06
Desk Test: Same Same Chinese Food, But Different
The Delivery: Pho Bo Vietnamese beef & noodle soup (Ft 840); Phad Thai fried prawn rice noodles (Ft 1,440); Brownie (Ft 380). From: Tuk-Tuk, via Netpincér.hu The Lowdown: While the delivery options available to Budapest couch potatoes and office...
Nov 02 '06
Exploring Budapest's Four Tigers Food Market (V): Rong Rong is Right Right
Living in Hungary one can easily forgets that there are things known as "green vegetables." While most of our expatriated food needs have been either satiated or squelched over the course of time, our craving for good and diverse...
Oct 30 '06
Exploring Budapest's Four Tigers Food Market (IV): The Büfé of the Gods
While Budapest doesn't really have a distinct Chinatown with a great selection of fresh Asian ingredients, a bit of poking about reveals the secret places where Chinese "home style" and prepared food is available. First on our list is...
Oct 27 '06
Exploring Budapest's Four Tigers Food Market (III): Saying "Yes" to Pho
Even though Budapest's Four Tigers Chinese Market is best known as a place to get your kínai fix, there are other great tastes of the East to be had, including pho, the delicate soup found wherever Vietnamese are serving....
Oct 26 '06
Exploring Budapest's Four Tigers Food Market (II): The Dumpling Lady
As the weather gets cold, nothing warms the folks at the Four Tigers Chinese Market like shiu-jiao, or boiled dumplings. Boiled dumplings are the comfort food of North China, and a specialty of Beijing in particular. Most of the...
Oct 25 '06
Exploring Budapest's Four Tigers Food Market (I): Introduction
The old adage goes that if you want good Chinese food, look for the places where Chinese people eat. While kínai büfék seem to crowd every Budapest district, you never see Chinese folks eating in them. That's because they...
Oct 18 '06
Momo Adds Shanghai Twang with Special New Menu
Because of the hybrid Chinese-Japanese nature of its name and primary offering, Momotaro Ramen often seems to lack Kínai "cred." Maybe because of this - though probably not - our District V Asian regular recently added a new special...
Sep 22 '06
Cheap 'n Cheerful Korean-Chinese Returns to Downtown
A few years back there used to be a great little Asian joint down on the little disjointed stretch of Zichy Jenő utca where it terminates at the körút. What made it great was that it served both the...
