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Asian themed restaurants

HOH WOK CLUB, Shokudo

July 25, 2013 By Eleanor Hoh 12 Comments

I’m delighted to announce the first HOH WOK CLUB gathering of 2013 will be held at Shokudo, a beautiful Japanese restaurant in the up and coming Buena Vista area. So, I look forward to seeing you, bring your family and friends and join me for a 6 course tasting lunch, Sunday, August 25 from 12-3pm at an incredible price of $35 including tax and tips.  

Thanks New Times for a fantastic writeup about this event and Brenda Benoit for her amazing recap.

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Everything in this restaurant is created with such thoughtful elegance from the reclaimed wood counters and saki bar, to the zen bamboo garden.  It’s totally charming!  I’ve always said it’s not just about the food, the ambience, space, and decor are just as important and I think we’ve found it at Shokudo. There’s a nice mix of foods from all over Asia, so you’ll get a mini taster.

Yoko Takarada is the owner and general manager of Shokudo and formerly owned World Resource Cafe on Lincoln Road and Toni’s Sushi Bar, both in South Beach. I love that she’s continuing her family’s legacy with Shokudo. This is the reason why I like to support smaller, independent family owned restaurants and want them to succeed.

From food critic, Victoria Pesce Elliott, Miami Herald: Executive chef Armando Litiatco cooked at Boulevard in his native San Francisco and at Daniel Boulud’s Restaurant Daniel in New York before being lured here by the Takarada clan. The culinary team is on view in the vibrant kitchen.
Chef Armando is Philippino/Chinese and so jovial and easy to work with!  He and I have put together a menu I know you’ll enjoy.  I took some photos during my tasting to give you a flavor of what to expect…

PorkbellyKalbi Soba Manila Ceviche Banana

DETAILS:
Sunday, August 25
12-3pm
$35 pp incl. tax and tips
Separate tab for drinks and can be added to your final bill.

Shokudo
4740 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami (Buena Vista), FL 33137
305-758-7782

Ta da, here’s the menu:
Special Cocktails during meet and greet, 12-12:30
Sakitini $5 or bottomless Mimosa $18

Tasting Menu
$35 incl. tips and tax

Vegetarian Roll served during cocktails

Grilled Pork Belly
Heart of palm salad, orange, edamame & yuzu

Soba Noodle Salad
Green tea infused soba noodles tossed with arugula, edamame, Bermuda onions,
shiitake mushrooms in house sesame dressing

Manila Ceviche
Cobia, mango, tomato, red onion, jalapeno,
calamansi, coconut milk & taro chips

Kalbi
72 Hour Marinated Korean ribs, Asian vegetable and rice

Banana Turon
Sweet spring roll of caramelized banana, chocolate,
jack fruit, cream cheese and caramel

RSVP & PREPAYMENT DETAILS:
Mandatory:
1)  email me (wokstar at eleanorhoh dot com) so I can send out confirmations and any last minute details or if we have to cancel due to storm.

2) reservations and prepayment is on a first come, first served basis as seating is limited to the first 50 lucky guests.
3) Call SHOKUDO directly, 305-758-7782 and mention HOH WOK CLUB, Sunday lunch, August 25.
You know the drill…Shokudo will take your credit card number (you will NOT be charged till after your lunch.)
You will be charged if there’s a no show on the day of.  If you want to send someone in your place,  your replacement needs to call ASAP with their credit card number.
If no answer, leave your name, telephone number plus the number of guests in your group so they can call you back to confirm.
PARKING:
FREE street parking all around or valet for $4 especially if raining or too hot!
Make sure you do NOT park in front of gates, fire hydrants, the usual.
Look forward to seeing you there for some yummy Asian nosh…

Filed Under: "Hoh Wok Club", Asian themed restaurants, blog, Miami Events Tagged With: "Asian Restaurants", "HOH WOK CLUB", "Shokudo Miamia", Eleanor Hoh, Miami events

Wok Town, South Beach

July 12, 2013 By Eleanor Hoh Leave a Comment

I am not a fan of Chinese food in Miami, it’s full of MSG, way too salty and every dish arrives swimming in brown goopy sauce.  And tonight proved to be the same old repertoire at Wok Town in South Beach!  Too bad, because they actually do a nice job with their concept which is pick your protein and choose your sauce. I prefer the downtown location with very zen white and orange decor and wonderful large scale photos.  The South Beach location has dark wood and black chairs which are not very cheerful and it’s dark in there!

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They’ve expanded the menu and added a few more salads. I saw Chicken Satay Appetizer $5.95 with crispy noodles. Sounds good but not sure about the portion or flavor. All the satays I’ve had outside of Asia usually uses chicken breast! It’s dry, rubbery and tasteless because they don’t marinade it properly and leave in one slab stabbed on a skewer.

With the Groupon deal, we had to purchase two entrees, so we opted for Mongolian Pork $10.95 and Bulgogi Steak Salad $12.95. My hubby loves Crispy Brussel Sprouts, so we ordered that as well. Major disappointment, small plate for $5.95 again swimming in way too much sickly sweet sauce. There was nothing Mongolian about the Mongolian Pork, no hint of spiciness or Szechuan flavors, just more brown goopy sauce. I guess it was accentuated because we didn’t have rice to sop it up. The pork tasted like it was Chinese Char Siu (roast/BBQ pork), we just had a nibble because we decided to take this home.
The Bulgogi Steak Salad ended up being the best dish! It was a good portion enough to share.  The skirt steak was nicely grilled and very tasty, not chewy.  Good presentation in a large orange rectagular bowl, salad was simple field greens with chopped scallion, shredded carrots and sliced cucumbers with side of kimchi and bulgogi dressing.  Definitely would recommend this dish.
Other dishes I’ve had downtown was Singapore noodles and pan fried pork Gyozas, both were pleasantly yummy. This was quite a few years’ ago though, so don’t hold your breath. The minute they change chefs, you just never know what to expect.  I think the South Beach chefs need to back off on their salt, sauce and sweet, the three ‘s’!
My hubby always says, when you go to a Chinese restaurant, you have to have the Fortune Cookie.  I liked that fortune: “You are an exciting and inspiring person”!
Wok Town on Urbanspoon

Wok Town
south beach
1570 Alton Road,
Miami Beach, FL 33139
and
downtown
119 SE 1st Ave,
Miami, FL 33131

 
 
 

Filed Under: Asian themed restaurants, blog, Chinese food, restaurant review Tagged With: 'restaurant review', "Chinese food", restaurant

Norwegian Cruise Line Freestyle: honeymoon revisited

March 19, 2011 By Eleanor Hoh 1 Comment

Our Tweetup on NCL Epic brought back fabulous memories of our honeymoon! It was a lot of fun to meet local Tweeters and tear through the cruise ship. Supposedly equivalent to 3 football fields!!! So glad I had comfy sneakers.

Well, I took hundreds of photos, hence it’s taken me a while to figure how to post these. It’ll be a series, starting with guess what? FOOD! And they have 19 options! Bit more than when we did our cruise and it’s FREESTYLE, meaning you don’t have to dress or sit with the same folks every night, woohoo! Visit their site for deals, competitions and specials. If you’re a tweeter and social media addict, you may get invited to one of these.

I was so excited to see they had 3 Asian themed restaurants. Too bad we didn’t get to have lunch there. The decor looked very glamorous. Why can’t we have some like that on land in Miami? Even had a noodle restaurant, I want.

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Filed Under: Asian themed restaurants, honeymoon, NCL Epic, Norwegian Cruise Line Freestyle, restaurant, tweetup

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