Cochon nom nom

Brunch at Cochon

Eggs Cochon- pulled pork, bacon-gruyère biscuit, poached eggs, Mornay sauce, home fries
The poached egg looks pretty spiffy and swirly there.

Berkshire pork belly special- on top of hash browns and brussel sprouts, with a mystery possibly homemade mayo based sauce, or maybe it was a crème fraîche
Ratio of meat to fat 1:4. It's actually fat marbled with meat. The pork belly comes with a fried egg that I asked them to leave out. Although visually it doesn't look like much food, the amount of calories in the pork and the sauce made me full. The potatoes were fantastic and I wish there had been more of them. Also, I generally don't like brussel sprouts, but brussel sprouts doused in pork fat? Delicious.

Zento

Attractive but unremarkable sushi at Zento in Old City.

soup dumplings at Sakura Mandarin

Sakura Mandarin
1038 Race St
Philadelphia, PA 19107-2306
(215) 873-8338

Scallion pancakes on the left and mango shrimp 

(deliciously deep fried, in  terrible goopy sweet sauce)

Soup dumplings nomnomnom

 shu mai dumplings that are filled with glutinous rice

pulled pork sandwich at Devil's Alley.

Not my kind of atmosphere (too dim, too loud) but the pulled pork is good and the fries are ok.

breakfast tacos from Honest Tom's foodtruck (Clark Park)

Scrambled eggs, potatoes, tomatoes, onion, guac on a taco. Basic and good.

They are on facebook and Twitter updating their location. 

Argan: current favourite sandwich place

Argan is a Moroccan restaurant located in one of those cursed restaurant locations where nothing has historically survived because it is down a set of stairs off street level. It is also my current favourite go to place for a not too gigantic sandwich with puffy warm fresh notexactlybread notexactlypita filled with lamb and potatoes. NOM NOM NOM. The only downside is that they don't have any fried potato products.

Don Memo's tacos al pastor

Tacos from the Don Memo's food truck on 38th Street between Walnut and Sansom Streets. This food truck is perhaps one of the slowest trucks ever-- you can get there at any time and it will still take at least twenty minutes. I don't like the carnitas (too fatty, not crispy), but the al pastor is nice. Also the "spicy" is a tangy tingly but not super hot spicy. 

Twenty minutes +$2/taco.

Snackbar

Late night at http://snackbarltd.com/ (their website doesn't work in Chrome). I mostly avoid this place bc it seems like a scene, but the food was actually quite good and I would go back at another off peak hour. Also the bartender/waiter was really lovely. Macaroni and cheese was ok but not compelling, same for a dish of pasta with spring vegetables.

highly recommended: Calamari (really really good deep frying)

Also very good: Scallops on a bed of corn and some kind of grain

New Deck Tavern: awesome cheese fries

Sometimes I just eat the cheese fries for dinner, preferably with some honey mustard sauce.

I think this is the New Deck Burger before assembly.

Distrito prix fixe lunch

$15 Distrito prix fixe lunch

Camarones shrimp ceviche with avocado, plantain chips

Flatbread with the corn fungus, mushrooms, queso mixto, black truffle, corn shoots (the light yellow bits)

Hamachi tacos

carrot cake

Fancypants carrot cake from the steakhouse Butcher and Singer, one of the Stephen Starr group restaurants.

celebrating a Cornell wedding to be

Dinner at Mixto was loud but it had a fun, lively atmosphere, helped along by some pitchers of mango and hawaiian mojitos. Also a test run of the Canon S90 camera-- thumbs up.

guacamole

mango avocado salad with tuna

salmon

apple spinach salad with chicken

cupcake truck

Some cupcakes from Buttercream, a cupcake food truck in Philly. The cupcakes were reasonably good and not dry/crumbly, but I don't think I need to seek them out.