When Cath and I first moved to Atlanta we had a mighty hard time finding good Chinese food. We grew up going to the Cantonese restaurants in Chinatown D.C. (which is sadly nonexistent now except for a few authentic places nestled between a Legal Seafoods and Urban Outfitters). Our mom (the Cajun part) cooks delicious Chinese food, as does our dad (the Asian part) – though his is a little too authentic for us (“too many pickled cucumbers, dad!”). So we’ve been spoiled little AsianCajuns.
Atlanta doesn’t really have a Chinatown or a Japantown per se, but it does have a magnificent road called Buford Highway that is home to some of the best Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Mexican places in city. You can get amazing “ethnic” foods elsewhere too, but this particular road has it all.
The other day, our foodie sister took us to one of the best Cantonese places in town, Bobo Garden. You can’t resist a cartoon, mustachioed Cantonese chef, can you?
A Bobo feast: sea bass, tofu, squid, crispy noodles, Chinese fried chicken, chow fun (my personal fav), pork, lots of ginger and lots of green:
We let Chowdown Atlanta navigate the menu for us, but we were all stumped at what “At the End Powder, Face The End of The End of Noodles” was. And “Risotto” on a Cantonese menu?:
This delicious, light and gingery soup, gave me my first taste of “1,000-year-old egg.” It looks off-putting but I swear it’s delicious:
My favorite dish was this deep-friend sea bass. It was light and delicate, but full of flavor:
We had to have the wait staff help us stack all the dishes to fit on the table. The dude in the glasses did a little dance every time he put a plate down (best service ever!):
After Bobo, we hit up Quickly for some bubble tea – just across the street. So yummeh! Read Chowdown’s review of Quickly’s Duluth location (they have really good fried chicken and ramen too):
On Moi/Lar: Target sunnies • Bobi tank • Citizens of Humanity skirt • silk corset by I Heart Norwegian Wood • shoes are Jeffrey Campbell
On Cath: H&M top • skirt from Boogaloos Boutique • Dolce Vita sandals
We hope you guys are having a terrific weekend! We are up in D.C./Maryland for our cousin’s wedding and more Chinese food – woohoo! to both!
ahhh bubble tea. i’m spoiled and live minutes away from chinatown in houston. i try not to drink bubble tea all time since its so accessible for me. but its soooo good! anyways, you two always looks so cute!!! ugh! so when are you guys visiting houston??? so i can take you ladies around!
Ohhh I so wish I could go to Houston to visit you, Anh! Cath and I would LOVE for you to take us around! Once I get back from Scotland, that will be first on my list!
xoxo,
Lar
such a cute post. you guys look lovely
what i like the most about asian restaurants are the fortune cookies. i could go to a restaurant just because of that 😉 haha
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Your food pictures do me in everytime! So Hungry! But I completely agree that DC totally lacks good Chinese food! Boooo!
Glad you guys were able to find a place in your area! 🙂
You gals look fantastic! I love Cath’s skirt and Lar’s Chun-li buns! So cute. I most totally LURVES Chinese food. My mom is half Chinese, and I grew up in a city in the Philippines that was (at the time) populated by a lot of Filipino Chinese peoples. So, I definitely was spoiled with good Chinese food. I am so happy that even in this dinky city of mine there are at least 2 authentic places I can think of! Seeing your pics now warrants enough reason for me to go get some Chinese food. Stat.
♥ laura
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ummm, are you telling that you have never been to the greatness that is ming’s bbq????
No! OMG that sounds amazing, Alicia! I’ll have Cath get on that! You guys will have to meet up there some time– wish I could but this whole moving-to-Scotland thing is getting in the way. Harumphs!
glad you girls had yourself a good chinese feast! if you ever come to Vancouver, Canada, I promise I”ll take you to all our best Asian food digs. Being from Hong Kong originally, I can say that outside of HK, Vancouver is pretty top notch for Chinese and Asian food in general.
Lar – love your corset
Cath – love the stripes and floral mix n match.
It’s funny because SF has this huge Chinatown here, but it’s become more of a tourist joke and the real great Chinese and other Asian restaurants have moved over to the westside of the city and other scattered bits around the city.
Have you tried thousand-year old egg and lean salted pork congee? It sounds strange but it’s very popular and definitely one of my favourite types of congee. I’ve never taken to the taste of the egg, but it gives congee such a fantastic flavour.
omg what a feasttttttttttttttttttt
looks delish
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I know what you mean about DC Chinatown. I grew up near there. I can’t handle how it is not a real Chinatown anymore!
By the way, every time I go to this one sushi place, they have a roll called the Cajun Asian roll and it makes me think of you ladies! I need to try it!
i’ll take you guys to some of my secret places and of course, they’re all on buford 😉