I already know what you're going to say. There's a fantastic little mom-and-pop noodle shop of great quality in (insert your neighborhood here), owned by an (insert subcategory of Asian ethnicity here) couple, where gigantic servings of flawless noodles top out at $6 a bowl. So why would anyone go to Boom Noodle, a sprawling restaurant on the gentrifying Pike/Pine corridor owned by a couple of white guys, and pay $10 a bowl?
By Cody Ellerd | February 12, 2008
Little Kids, Big City
Boom Noodle, the new Japanese-style spot on Capitol Hill, has a menu and atmosphere that should please kids and adults alike.
By Lilium Pierson | January 28, 2008
There was no table for us at Maneki on Friday. And no table for us at Maneki on Tuesday. And if you show up at 7 tonight, or this weekend...
By Nancy Leson | November 7, 2007
Life Behind Bars
I'd rather be enjoying a Jamjuree Roll right now. This glorious piece of sushi -- made with shrimp, spinach, cilantro, mint, red pepper, cucumber, cabbage and spicy peanut sauce -- is a specialty of Liberty, an easygoing Capitol Hill bar that, by a not-so-extraordinary coincidence, is also serving my favorite cocktail of the moment: The Dragon's Toe.
By Geoff Carter | February 1, 2007
For an easy day trip with a ferry ride and a festive lesson in Japanese culture, head across Puget Sound on December 28 for the Bainbridge Island Japanese American Community's annual mochitsuki party.
The making of mochi chewy cakes of rice traditionally pounded with wooden mallets on a big granite mortar is part of New Year's celebrations in Japanese culture. Eating mochi is said to bring luck for the coming year.
December 13, 2002
Whether it means sipping a latte made from Japanese green tea, slurping a bowl of Cambodian noodle soup or shopping for a book on the history of Vietnam, a trip to Seattle's Chinatown International District is a little like hopscotching around Asia on foot.
Other cities have their Japantowns, Chinatowns and Koreatowns. In Seattle, however, Chinese, Japanese, Filipinos, African Americans, Vietnamese and other ethnic groups settled together and built one neighborhood.
By Carol Pucci | December 13, 2001
