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So, KMJ went to Philly for a conference and the following was her post about the food she had there. Sounds delicious!
Sunday night:
non-descript Viet-Thai restaurant in Chinatown. It was good, but nothing extraordinary.
Monday lunch:
Reading Terminal Market, aka Pike Place with twice as many counter eateries, is conveniently right across the street. This is also the home to Delilah’s, featured on Oprah as having the best Mac & Cheese in the country. She has clearly taken this endorsement to heart and planned to profit from it as the small side of Mac & Cheese, about 1 cup, is $4.50! I ordered a combo plate with a piece of chicken, cornbread and Mac & Cheese for $7.75. I don’t know if it’s the best in the country but it was yummy. What I appreciated was that it was cheesy without being super saucy – I’ll have to check out the recipe. The cornbread was also yummy – sweet and not dry.
Reading Terminal Market: http://www.readingterminalmarket.org/
Delilah’s: http://www.readingterminalmarket.org/merchants/view/54
Monday dinner:
Morimoto, restaurant of the same named Iron Chef. Very cool decor, with plasticy booths lit from within that changed color periodically. As a group we each hit our per diem limit for the day. We ordered a lot of food and drink: fancy drinks, assorted apps, entrees and sushi. Favorite app was the rock shrimp. The tempura veggies were very Morimoto as they were served with a gorgonzola sauce – this however, while tasty separately, were an odd combination together. Oh, and the King Crab legs – those were Tachi’s recommendation. They were good. For dinner I had Barramundi, fried whole, served with an asian pear salad and brown butter – miso sauce. mmmm….
Morimoto: http://www.morimotorestaurant.com/
Tuesday lunch:
Back to Reading terminal – I had a ham, spinach & feta crepe. The for dessert, a chocolate mint brownie from the Flying Monkey Patisserie, which was almost as good as the ones my mom makes – very similar in style to hers.
Flying Monkey Patisserie: http://www.flyingmonkeyphilly.com/
Tonight’s dinner is at Tangerine. I’ll keep you posted! I’m off to the gym so I can keep eating!
KJ
Tuesday dinner:
Tangerine, a fusion of modern mediterranean/moroccan. This actually turned out to be my favorite dinner. It started out with a grown-up creamsicle drink, appropriately named the Tangerine. The decor of the restaurant provided a really good atmosphere and all the food was amazing: crab & feta phyllo, crispy calamari, grilled octopus salad, shrimp & scallops with ravioli, pomegranate pork with chorizo-corn fritter, lamb (perfectly cooked according to Anastasia). Dessert was baklava, with pistachios and a side of vanilla ice cream and balsamic strawberries. Mmmmm.
Tangerine: http://www.tangerinerestaurant.com/
Wednesday lunch:
El Vez – mexican, very cool decor with a big circular bar in the middle of the room, where I sat reading my entertainment weekly and enjoying the lunch special (where you chose two items plus a drink for $12.99). I got tortilla soup which came in a nice earthen-ware clay bowl and chipotle chicken tacos: three small tacos presented three in a row, flat & piled high on a rectangle plate. Really nice.
El Vez: http://www.elvezrestaurant.com/
Wednesday afternoon snack:
Something called a Nudo, from the Naked Chocolate cafe. Chocolate chip flavor, a pyramid shaped cupcake I guess. Weird, but really good. I also bought a mini belgian waffle that I haven’t eaten yet – it is apparently filled with caramel and covered in chocolate and toffee chips. Naked Chocolate Cafe: http://www.nakedchocolatecafe.com/
Wednesday dinner:
Buddakan – modern asian. We had a 7:45 reservation but didn’t get seated until after 8:00pm, so they brought us a free plate of edemame ravioli which were surprisingly yummy. Then we ordered a lot of food: king crab tempura, lobster egg roll, shrimp & scallop spring rolls, chicken & ginger dumplings, crispy jumbo shrimp, ponzu chicken, sesame tuna, lamb. The lobster egg roll had surprisingly large chunks inside and a tasty mustard sauce on the side. The crispy jump shrimp were a grown-up version of those honey-walnut prawns I love at all the Chinatown restaurants. The ponzu sauce on the chicken was really good, and that dish came with asparagus and two stuffed buns as well. Despite the gorging, we still had room for dessert: Dip Sum doughnuts, like the ones Tom Douglas does, only with a tinge of five-spice powder and served with blackberry jam, a sweet cream cheese and a chocolate sauce. And also a madagascar vanilla creme brulee with ginger infused fortune cookies. Ohh my drink! the Geisha: smirnoff orange vodka, pomegranate juice, passion fruit juice. I had two 
Buddakan: http://www.buddakan.com/
I think lunch today will be at someplace appropriately named Jones. Then I’m home tonight – see ya!
Sounds like it was a tasty trip!
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