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Lunar New Year Celebration with XI’AN FAMOUS FOODS!
The Lunar New Year was already over, and there were many festivities held during the early this month! LULU celebrated the season with an unforgettable concert held by Xi’an Famous Foods, one of the most popular food in New York, that artfully blended the Asian and Asian American experience – with delicious food, drinks, and great music at one of the city’s most iconic music venues, that night was a one of a kind experience.
Held at Manhattan’s mega concert venue Terminal 5 on last Saturday, February 20th, enjoy performances from:
Far East Movement – the first Asian American group to top Billboard’s Top 100, they requireno introduction
Kina Grannis – the Japanese American YouTube star whose crooning voice took her from YouTube to mainstream fame
Kimberley 陳芳語 – the Taiwanese Australian singer whose song “Love You” rocketed her to success in Taiwan and beyond
Softlipa 蛋堡 – the Taiwanese rapper whose Mandarin beats have garnered critical acclaim
Of course I love Xi’an Famous Foods!
Xi’an Famous Foods began as a 200 square foot basement stall in the Golden Shopping Mall in Flushing, N.Y. The original location, established in late 2005, was the first restaurant to bring the little-known cuisine of Xi’an to the United States, with signature hand-ripped noodles, secret spice mixes, and Xi’an “burgers” with housemade flatbread. Since then, they’ve expanded to six locations in Manhattan, two in Brooklyn and two in Queens in total. As a family-owned business, they hope to reintroduce the world to the unique cuisine of their hometown: liangpi “cold skin” noodles, lamb pao mo soup, and wide hand-pulled “biang biang” noodles, all in its most authentic form.
This is one of LULU’s favorite! You should definitely check it out.They have several chains in the city.
Check the locations here, http://xianfoods.com/locations/.
And the menus, http://xianfoods.com/menu/.
My god, I can’t wait to eat it now!
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Phoenix Food Boutique
My cousin Ricky is visiting me in LA! He said, wow – you are such a pig, you get sooo excited talking about food. And… He is right 🙂 I am so passionate about food, nevermind the calories – what about how it makes you feel! Actually, I am like that about a lot of the things in my life now that I think about it.
When I first came to LA in June, my cousin Nancy who went to USC took me and my mom to this delicious restaurant called Phoenix in San Gabriel Valley – about 20 mins east of downtown LA. Oooo we had the full dinner for 4 and loved every bit of it. It was so nice to be in the familiar environment of a Chinese restaurant so many miles away from home – with waiters to spoke to us in Cantonese and a menu full of food I ate all my life, as a child and have so many memories attached to them. And… then there was new things I never tried but now I love!
Last night, I actually found the restaurant again by chance! It’s so yummy. We had duck egg congee, soy sauce chow mein and fried shrimp with candied walnuts. OMG can I please tell you about the shrimp! Delish… Chinese ppl love to eat late, like 10, 11pm it’s called 宵夜 (xiao ye) which means ‘Late Night Snack’. And we strolled in about quarter past ten ^_^
I don’t usually photograph my food but…
I BBMed these to my sweetie and he was up late in Toronto fiending for Chinese food and me 🙂
and then for dessert! I got these to take home. What are they called… ummm Bouut Tsai Go in Chinese.. what in English i don’t know, sugar pudding? Dunno.. it’s divine.
PS there mochi selection is unreal! There desserts are heavenly!You might wanna check it out: PhoenixFoodBoutique.com
