The old cliché is that if you eat Chinese food, you’ll be hungry again one hour later. We’re not sure of that, but in reviewing restaurants, we surely want to know what’s enduring one hour, one day, even one week later. Delicious when dining, perhaps, but ultimately fantastic… or forgettable? We’ve been bemoaning the lack of quality Chinese food in Seattle. Aside from a few Szechuan spots, very little is enduring. Dim sum is dull,......

If you have not had the pleasure of trying this wonderful concoction from Big Time Brewing, you should get down to their brewpub on the Ave. as soon as possible. The Old Sol is a wheatwine, similar to a barleywine, but brewed with about 50% wheat malt. This year's batch weighs in at about 11% alcohol, which makes this beer a very nice sipper. The malt is rich and sweet to start out, but......

While the city and the country were celebrating the secular holiday surrounding the Super Bowl this weekend, Seattle's Vietnamese population observed the Lunar New Year, Tet, and welcomed the Year of the Rooster. Some interesting facts about Tet: The New Year does not fall on the same date each year, although it is always in January or February. Prior to the celebrations homes are cleaned and painted. However cleaning during Tet is avoided. The Tet......