Dallas Restaurant Reviews:
Teppo Yakitori and Sushi Bar
Bread Winners Bakery and Cafe - Uptown
Chocolate Secrets
Fearing's
ChoSun KalBi Restaurant
Other Recommendations:
Stephan Pyles
La Duni
Craft
Friday, December 3, 2010
Monday, January 11, 2010
List: Cancun, Mexico
Cancun Restaurant Reviews:
La Destileria
Gran Melia
Restaurant Playa Dos Playa (inside Xcaret Park)
Crab House
La Destileria
Gran Melia
Restaurant Playa Dos Playa (inside Xcaret Park)
Crab House
Monday, November 24, 2008
Merging My Blogs
So I've been thinking of merging my LA and travel blogs to just Gourmet Pigs at http://gourmetpigs.blogspot.com
Hopefully you guys think this is a good idea?
Anyways, on the travel side, I have tons of reviews coming up ... soon:
Santa Barbara: Hungry Cat
New York:
Jean Georges
Aureole
Angelo's Pizza
Momofuku Noodle Bar
Fleur de Sel
Gramercy Tavern
BLT Market
Center Cut
So anyways, will be posting those, and I'll update the lists and post a feed here, but you should be checking Gourmet Pigs instead!
Hopefully you guys think this is a good idea?
Anyways, on the travel side, I have tons of reviews coming up ... soon:
Santa Barbara: Hungry Cat
New York:
Jean Georges
Aureole
Angelo's Pizza
Momofuku Noodle Bar
Fleur de Sel
Gramercy Tavern
BLT Market
Center Cut
So anyways, will be posting those, and I'll update the lists and post a feed here, but you should be checking Gourmet Pigs instead!
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Fresh Seafood, Preserved Eggs
Our current seafood restaurant in our hometown (Surabaya): Layar Seafood.
They have tanks and ice trays filled with live seafood right as you are walking in. Lobsters, crabs, fishes, clams, frogs. You name it. When you order, you just tell them how big a fish/crab/lobster you want. We've been going there every time I've been home (which is only once a year).
This time, we started with some frog legs :)
The frog legs here are nothing like what I've had in North America. Much more tender and flavorful here! Not like chicken at all. This particular one is made with some nice sweet soy-based sauce.
Then we went to their signature dish, "Kepiting Telur Asin" - which means "Salted Egg Crab"
As the name suggests, the sauce on the crab is made from Salted Duck Eggs (aka. Telur Asin). The salting is a method of preserving the eggs by soaking them in either brine or salted charcoal.
I thought loading the fresh crab with preserved eggs was somewhat ironic - but it is soo delicious so who cares!
A yummy savoriness filled my mouth with each sauce-laden bite of crab.
We also got some boiled crab with garlic broth
Good, and the freshness of the crab definitely stands out here. But flavor wise is a lot more subtle than the salted egg one, so we definitely liked the other one better, especially since we ate it first. This one tasted rather bland after eating the other. Should've started with this first.
I also have trouble finding good watercrest (Kangkung) dish in the US, so I ordered some here:
Sauteed watercrest/kangkung and shrimp in slightly spicy sauce.
A great meal throughout! Their ingredients are fresh and we can't seem to go wrong with any of the offerings here. Hopefully it will stay open next year as I plan to come back again and again. The Crab with "Telur Asin" is their unique dish and it would be such a shame if I can never eat it again!!
Layar Seafood
Jl. Raya Bukit Mas 109 Surabaya
Phone: 031 5683716
They have tanks and ice trays filled with live seafood right as you are walking in. Lobsters, crabs, fishes, clams, frogs. You name it. When you order, you just tell them how big a fish/crab/lobster you want. We've been going there every time I've been home (which is only once a year).
This time, we started with some frog legs :)
The frog legs here are nothing like what I've had in North America. Much more tender and flavorful here! Not like chicken at all. This particular one is made with some nice sweet soy-based sauce.Then we went to their signature dish, "Kepiting Telur Asin" - which means "Salted Egg Crab"
As the name suggests, the sauce on the crab is made from Salted Duck Eggs (aka. Telur Asin). The salting is a method of preserving the eggs by soaking them in either brine or salted charcoal.I thought loading the fresh crab with preserved eggs was somewhat ironic - but it is soo delicious so who cares!
A yummy savoriness filled my mouth with each sauce-laden bite of crab.
We also got some boiled crab with garlic broth
Good, and the freshness of the crab definitely stands out here. But flavor wise is a lot more subtle than the salted egg one, so we definitely liked the other one better, especially since we ate it first. This one tasted rather bland after eating the other. Should've started with this first.I also have trouble finding good watercrest (Kangkung) dish in the US, so I ordered some here:
Sauteed watercrest/kangkung and shrimp in slightly spicy sauce.A great meal throughout! Their ingredients are fresh and we can't seem to go wrong with any of the offerings here. Hopefully it will stay open next year as I plan to come back again and again. The Crab with "Telur Asin" is their unique dish and it would be such a shame if I can never eat it again!!
Layar Seafood
Jl. Raya Bukit Mas 109 Surabaya
Phone: 031 5683716
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