It’s poached eggs in spicy yogurt. Super delish veggie option! 
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As a meat-lover, the veggie options can slap harder than the meat options sometimes! The maitake bao I posted earlier was also eaten alongside a pork taco, zucchini taco, and a steak bao, but I ended up liking the vegetarian ones more! Soft tofu stew is also my favorite of the Korean stews 
That does remind me, this is a bowl of ramen from Rakkan Ramen in Chicago (I think they have other locations in the US too). The broth is 100% plant-based and beats most of the other restaurants that use bone broth, and they offer vegan options that swap out the meat and egg toppings! One of the best bowls I’ve had in the US and my friends all liked it when I took them there
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That’s amazing! There weren’t many vegan asian options when I was vegan lol. Now there seems to be a lot more choice, and pretty good too.
For sure 
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Grabbed a bowl of Sichuanese beef noodle soup after dropping by the post office, so good 
The broth was bright and flavorful, the beef chunks were super tender, and the hand-pulled noodles had a delightful chew to them! And best of all? They’re very generous with their servings. There was a decent amount of delicious beef chunks in that huge bowl, and all for less than $18 after tax and tip.
(It may sound like a lot, but remember I’m in Chicago 
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YooYee may just be my favorite Chinese restaurant in the US 
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Some more Chinese food!
This one was taken at Chef Xiong – Taste of Szechuan, the same restaurant visited by Anthony Bourdain and Stephanie Izard. Chongqing popcorn chicken served with some rice 
Pretty good! Had to order a second bowl of rice, and then got the leftovers to go
I haven’t tried their other dishes yet, but so far I think I’ll give YooYee the edge for my favorite Szechuan restaurant in the city. I will be back at some point to try their twice-cooked pork and braised pork 
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This is the best food I’ve ever had!
I visited Riverford for a tour around the farm and had lunch at Riverford Field Kitchen a couple springs ago. Riverford farm, if you didn’t know, is an employee-owned organic farm that does veg boxes in the UK. They make me proud to be a Devonian really, they’re doing so much good for the community & environment.
The food was divine, quite literally farm-to-table. You really do taste the difference. It was £29.50 per guest for a two-course meal, which is more than reasonable considering the amount of food we had!
I forgot to take pics of the starters but they were: freshly baked sourdough; ricotta, cucumber & radish; courgette, white beans, wild garlic & lemon; asparagus, egg & hazelnuts.
For mains: pork belly & pepperonata; carrots, lentils & almonds; fennel, orange, green olive & celery; grilled flat beans, tomatoes & oregano.
My mouth is watering just thinking about the pork belly. And I didn’t think I’d like fennel but it was so good ughh
For dessert we had a choice of either cheesecake, chocolate tart, orange & almond cake, rhubarb pavlova or sticky toffee pudding. I chose sticky toffee pudding…
It is the most delicious thing I’ve ever had. And let me tell you I’ve eaten hundreds of sticky toffee puds in my time. Nothing comes close to this! I mean I’d watched the cow get milked earlier in the morning for my pudding, bless her.
Highly recommend Riverford Field Kitchen if you’re visiting Devon. Hell, order a veg box!
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Ugh, y’all make me wanna go out and find good food but it costs an arm and a leg to leave the house these days 
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Taking notes! I do have plans to visit the UK in the future since my brother’s there for university, if I ever drop by Devon this’ll be my first stop
Fun fact: Devon is also the name of a street in Chicago known for being lined with South Asian and Middle Eastern businesses
You can totally share something you made at home! Much cheaper than eating out 
Like this smoked salmon poke bowl I made from scratch 
the miso soup was store-bought, though 
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the point was good food
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No food pictures, but I’m here to talk about a new problem I’m currently tackling 
So my friends and I are planning to attend a concert at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra this weekend. Most of them are carpooling into the city from a college town. A few are coming early for lunch while the others will be arriving in the afternoon for dinner and a little pre-concert exploring. Since one of my friends and I are already living in Chicago, we’ll be acting as co-tour guides for the party.
And since we’re gonna eat dinner together, I compiled a list of eight restaurant recommendations—three of them suggested by friends—for people to choose from for our pre-concert dinner.
The poll’s already up and we have a clear winner.
So what’s the problem?
Well, our initial party has grown to at least 21 people 
And one of the people going follows a strict vegetarian diet. No meat, no seafood, no eggs, no meat broth, no fish sauce… but honey and dairy are fine.
Now my task is to not only survey our top choice restaurant to see if it can accommodate 20+ people, but also accommodate that person’s dietary restrictions.
“Why not split between two restaurants?”
Second place is split between two restaurants, both of which aren’t very accommodating of that person’s diet think oyster sauce and beef broth
The other top choices are in different parts of the city too 
Tomorrow I’m heading to the current poll leader to scout it out and ask about their menu. And I’ll have to coordinate with my other Chicago friend on how to split the groups in case we need to.
I mean, imagine fitting 21 people into a bus that’s half-full
I will find a way. Oh, and I’ll definitely post pictures from tomorrow’s excursion!
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Omg good luck with all that. But yay, concert! ʕ•́ᴥ•̀ʔっ
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Thank you!
I’m currently at the public library after going on my little field trip :3 so first up, a free hot dog from The Wiener’s Circle in Lincoln Park!
For those who don’t know, The Wiener’s Circle is known for “rude” staff I think Conan O’Brien did a whole segment on this a few days ago, they posted on their social media that they were going to give away free hot dogs on Tuesday (today!) if a certain American football athlete on the Chicago Bears team did 4 TDs on Sunday, whatever that meant.
Well it happened on Sunday.
So free hot dogs!
I hadn’t been to this place before today so I was a bit scared. There was a long line snaking out of the hot dog stand, a camera crew recording the queue, and a dude hanging near the front intermittently screaming “GO BEARS!”
Thankfully, I wasn’t roasted. I just asked for a hot dog and placed a $1 cash tip as custom (though they do Venmo now too). The other customers, though, weren’t as lucky.
A snippet of what I’ve heard while eating my hot dog:
What do you want, asshole?
Now take your hot dog and get the f—k out of here!
F—k the Bears! I didn’t think they’d do it, now I gotta make all these hot dogs.
I might actually take some of my friends here
Oh, and have some ka prow moo krob from Tuk Tuk Thai Isan!
This is the Thai restaurant that the majority of the people coming this weekend want to eat at. In between ordering things I also asked the waitress a few questions about their menu to see if they could accommodate my acquaintance’s dietary restrictions. Thankfully, everything except the appetizers can be modified to be vegetarian-friendly!
The whole reservation thing was tricky though, since our party has more than 20 people and we’ll be coming during one of their busiest hours: Saturday evening I’ve given my name and phone number so that the owner could call me to arrange the reservation.
The most likely case would be for me to book reservations at two separate restaurants, but on the bright side, at least one of them can accommodate strict vegetarians!
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Those employees must love coming to work imagine having customers queuing up just to have you cuss them out?? Customer service heaven 
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Oh it’s a whole other show at night this hot dog stand stays open really late and is located in a very frat boy part of town—think sports bars, regular bars, and a baseball stadium not too far away. You’ll hear insults not just from the staff, but also the drunkards
According to Wikipedia, it all started when one of the owners called a drunk customer an a-hole to get his attention. It’s never been the same since.
Found a video you might enjoy 
They’re also known for their funny signs, like these ones 
The last one is reportedly Latin for “He has eaten our dogs”—posted right after everyone found out the new pope was from Chicago
Funnily enough, I’ve passed by this place before—en route to this taiyaki ice cream shop whose sign you can see in the first pic—without knowing what it was. I should take my friends to both if we have time!
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I love that
I’m not touching America with a ten-foot pole rn, but if you’re still around Chicago once I do feel like travelling over there, I’d love to have you show me around Chicago is one of the places I would really like to see 
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Oh, absolutely! I hope I’ll still be here for that too, I love living here there’s so much cool stuff you can do here for free!
Like the parks! A while back the city actually designated the lakefront for public use, so most of it is just a huge stretch of greenery. This is a picture I took within a bird sanctuary, facing the skyline 
And even though I’ve gone out a good bit, I feel like I’ve only scratched the surface of the city’s food scene. It’s not only more diverse than most people expect, but nearly every neighborhood has its own gems! You don’t need to drive to eat well, just walk!
That last part doesn’t sound like a high bar, but I spent the last four years in a small college town where I couldn’t even walk too far because the sidewalk would just vanish into a vast highway 
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As a European, this is what I live for I have a dog, but no driver’s license, we walk or take the bus/train/subway everywhere. My dog actually loves trains just as much as me! Buses and trams, she’s not too sure about 
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A little update!
So if you’ve read my earlier post about booking a reservation for a large group, well, turns out our party size ballooned to nearly 30 people 
so we’re splitting it across two restaurants!
And luckily we’re going to two different restaurants, because one of the latest additions to our group has a peanut allergy
I called the Thai place asking if I could reserve a table, except they don’t do reservations on Saturdays however, they did say that it wouldn’t be too bad if our group showed up by around 5:00 p.m. or a little later.
As for the other restaurant, they didn’t pick up at all so I went there earlier today to make a reservation in-person. I managed to snag a table for 16 of us!
After I made the reservation, I decided to walk across the street for a quick dinner. Behold, Hainanese chicken rice (and some boba)!
It may look plain but its flavor was anything but. The chicken was super juicy and the rice was just as flavorful! Oh, and the free soup that comes with it was also really nice and warming
The boba was good, although rather expensive for its size. I could get a larger cup at Joy Yee for that price
Can’t wait for Saturday. And yes, I will send food pics from that day too!
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How I long to live somewhere with better transport links and drivers who don’t drive like idiots 
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