Article 1110 of pgh.food: Newsgroups: pgh.food Path: fs7.ece.cmu.edu!reed From: reed@ece.cmu.edu (Michael Reed) Subject: Good Korean Food - Sushi Kim Message-ID: Originator: reed@plunger.ECE.CMU.EDU Keywords: hot spicy raw fish Lines: 19 Sender: news@fs7.ece.cmu.edu (USENET News System) Reply-To: reed@ece.cmu.edu (Michael Reed) Organization: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon Distribution: cmu Date: Thu, 24 Jun 93 10:34:23 GMT+5:00 I highly recommend Sushi Kim, at 1241 Penn Avenue, between the 16th Street Bridge and downtown. Phone 281-9956. It looks like a dive, but the food is divine. I can personally recommend the Kim Chi Jae Yook Bok Gum ("sliced pork loin marinated in Korean style and broiled with KIM CHI) and the Hwoi Dup Bap ("broiled rice mixed with sliced raw fish"). Friends have told me the barbecue dishes cooked at your table are also good. They have a sushi bar too, but I can't vouch for the quality except to say the raw fish in the dish mentioned above was fresh. They are not particularly cheap, but the portions are large. They do not suffer from the peculiar Pittsburgh tradition which holds that salt is an exotic spice - their hot and spicy dishes live up to their billing. Check it out - let's keep them in business! Article 1176 of pgh.food: Path: fs7.ece.cmu.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!magnesium.club.cc.cmu.edu!pitt.edu!traven From: traven@pitt.edu (Neal Traven) Newsgroups: pgh.food Subject: Re: Where's the best Chinese food in PGH? Message-ID: <18961@blue.cis.pitt.edu> Date: Mon, 16 Aug 93 10:07:09 GMT+5:00 References: <24n55t$3qk@telerama.pgh.pa.us> Sender: news+@pitt.edu Lines: 46 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] On 16 Aug 93 05:15:41 GMT, Lori Kasenter (lek@telerama.pgh.pa.us) wrote: > Todd Andrew Williamson (williamson+@CMU.EDU) wrote: > : Another place to try is Kim's Coffeehouse on Penn Avenue in (hmmm. > I second that vote. My husband thirds it. We had dinner there Saturday > night...at 9 pm we were the -only- customers. They're open until 10:30 on > Saturdays, 9 or 9:30 other nights. This used to be a trendy dive but > apparently the trend moved on. Be sure to try the springrolls: the > crispiest I ever tasted. Greasy but wonderful.The mu shu vegetables were > very tasty. You can get things pretty darn hot by request. The range is 1 > to 10 in spiciness and I, who love hot, can't get past 4 here. > Do try it. They were just about the original Vietnamese restaurant in > town. Come to think of it, Kim's also predates most of the > -Chinese- restaurants around here. They haven't lasted this long without > reason. Kim's has been around since about 1982. They most certainly *were* the first Vietnamese restaurant in town. Gone downhill a good bit from their heyday, most likely because it isn't just the family running the place. I recall watching Joe's kids growing up, and being there as they celebrated the arrival of still another child being 'ransomed' out of Vietnam to rejoin the family. The new menu is way too Chinese. Worst of all, they removed what I'd consider their 'signature' dish -- pork with tomato, tofu, and onions. I can't really describe it, other than to say that the tofu is unlike any other I've ever had ... airy, puffed, beautifully coated with the sweetish tomato sauce. I *still* order it, though the waiters don't quite know what I'm talking about. When they relay the order to the kitchen, Joe or one of the remaining family members will pop out to say hello and explain that they know what I've ordered. My advice -- ignore anything that isn't labelled as Vietnamese. These folks aren't Chinese. Do get the springrolls (but not the 'eggrolls'). If you're in a group, get some 'pho' to share -- the lemongrass, cilantro, and other flavors are great, but watch out for the hot sauce they'll offer (be gentle with it). For dessert, have some ginger sherbet. Oh, and the heat content is unpredictable, unfortunately. Depends on the chef. Sometimes, a 4 is real hot, other times a 7 is barely warm. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- neal traven+@pitt.edu You're only young once, but you can be traven@vms.cis.pitt.edu immature forever. -- Larry Andersen