Two Foodie Brothers

By both Aaron and Sam… Sam: Looking back, we didn’t really know what we were getting into? On what turned out to be a crisp, autumn-come-early evening, Aaron, myself, and family friend and honorary Stollar, Katie Buoni, embarked on what should have been a fantastic, but otherwise normal evening out in DC. That’s before the first [...]

Sorry for the long delay. Sam and I have some stuff coming down the pipeline, don’t worry. Reviews coming: Sea Pearl in Merrifield Sherwood’s Landing in St, Michael’s, Md. What makes a good pho place? Here are some places I am going to try to get to and write about in the next month or [...]

6767 Wilson Boulevard (Eden Center) Falls Church, VA 22044 Slightly less well-known than some of its Eden Center neighbors like Four Sisters, my brother and I never the less had an outstanding lunch at Viet Royale and recommend it wholeheartedly for folks looking for good Vietnamese food beyond the staples of pho and banh mi.

The Place: A&J Restaurant 4316 Markham St, Annandale, VA 22003 The Meal:  Pickled Cabbage Dried Bean curd with Peanuts Spicy Cucumber Sesame Wide Noodles with Powdered Peanuts Fried Dough Cruller Shanghai Style Wonton with Spicy sauce Sesame Biscuit with Beef 2 diet cokes (because caffeine cures all)

Sam’s list below is good, but he has exposed my preference for Cantonese food over Szechuan. Frankly, I have to be in the right frame of mind to do a full-blown spicy Szechuan meal. I love spicy stuff, but in my opinion Szechuan spicyness doesn’t match the flavor and heat that comes from good Thai, [...]

While my older, more conservative, perhaps more feeble brother did indeed name some of our area’s finer Chinese restaurants, he did miss a few that have, over the years, satisfied both my palate and my wallet. 1.  A&J Restaurant – A little pickled cabbage, a little spicy cucumber, some cold sesame noodles, the best fried [...]

In honor of the Olympic Opening Ceremonies, going on live in Beijing as I write this (despite what NBC might have you believe), let’s ask this question: What are your top 5 Chinese restaurants in the DC area? Here are mine: Mark’s Duck House, Falls Church – I am lucky enough to live 5 minutes [...]