An afternoon visit to Chinatown where I ate Kueh Tutu, muah chee, chendol, bought souvenirs, and ran out of the buddha's tooth relic temple without seeing anything.
Tag: chinatown
Ahjoomah’s Apron
Ahjoomah's Apron is located in Chinatown at 218 W. Cermak Rd. Ahjoomah's Apron is a traditional Korean restaurant. The restaurant has along the wall information and history on a lot of the food served at the restaurant. A friend and I went to Ahjoomah's Apron for lunch. We ordered Mul-mandu as an appetizer while we [...]
The Noodle
The Noodle is a Vietnamese restaurant in the old part of Chinatown. They have wonderful soups and good pad thai. This is probably not the best place to go on a busy day, when they are packed such as after or during the chinatown parade. It was hard to order some of the drinks because [...]
Chinese New Year Parade
Chicago's Chinese New Year Parade occurs in the old part of Chinatown and happens every year after Chinese New Year. It starts by setting off some fire crackers and then the veterans start the parade after a fire truck goes past. Then comes that years zodiac. This year is the water snake. The parade includes [...]
Aji Ichiban
The Aji Ichiban can be found in Chinatown in the new part of chinatown. You walk through the courtyard of the zodiac and to the right. It's a candy shop. The shop has many asian candies, walls lined with pocky and chocolate covered snacks. There are also many different kinds of dried snacks, whether their [...]
Joy Yee Noodles and Smoothies
One of the places I take people to eat is a popular restaurant called Joy Yee Noodles (located in Chinatown). It's usually a popular place because of the smoothie station. During some parts of the summer the smoothie station will be set up like a small town ice cream shop where you order at the [...]