Some great eats in #WashingtonDC - will see how many of my bookmarked places we get to.
Will thread all those #Food related posts here 👇🏽 and tag with #DasEatsDC so it's easy to mute.
Edited to add - I'll not CW or hide pics - there'll be all sorts of non vegetarian fare
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I'll start my #DasEatsDC 🧵 1/n
with dinner after we got to DC and our hotel.
Was a rather long and full day already with drive from pgh with stop at @CatoctinCreek and then Pentagon/Arlington Costco (on Friday after noon 😵💫) but we persevered and headed over to #UnionMarket that I'd heard a fair bit about.
Bustling on a sat evening, but many vendors were closed or shutting down by the time we got there
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#UnionMarket was... a touch touristy perhaps but I suppose markets are like that. Anyways turns out we passed a bunch of restaurants on the drive and drive back to the hotel. So partner and I ended up walking over from the hotel and getting a bit of takeout
Crispy roast chicken was decent, lo mein was meh. Place looked much better than the food. The all-day everyday dim sum menu looked good but we won't go back
Da Hong Pao
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Made it for some of the vaunted #Ethiopian fare in DC.
Been years since we had Ethiopian - and after all day conferencing (me) and various museum/art visits (family) and low key or picnic packed lunches - Family Ethiopian, a little walk away was a welcome feast!
Order = Vegetarian special: diffen missir, kayser, gomen, missir wot
+ Meats: Special kitfo, dulet and (served on plate) geba weta
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Will fill in with deets of a couple of days of terrific eats (and drink) such as this*
but for now a quick stop for lunch after a 40 min charge up of the EV in Rockville MD, as we drive out. Filipino lechon! Tiny place in a strip mall - doing brisk takeout mostly.
Got the ½ slow roasted Cebu style belly, bowl of the Lechon kawali (crispy belly), bowl of fried rice and side of the sweet longanisa to share.
Kuya Ja's Lechon Belly
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8/n Catching back up on #WashingtonDC eatscapades. Walking from the convention center & conference towards hotel and/or Chinatown, Mall area, we passed Jaleo. Count me a fan of Chef Andrés's food + humanitarian work - it seemed empty at lunch so we stopped in. Restaurant Week Lunch menu didn't seem too exciting and paella was too long a wait so just got a couple of apps to share & taste. Squid was excellent - garlicky (touch hard) rice, rabbit rich like a curry.
@SRDas
awesome! looks delicious
i have started making more ethiopian at home, bc i love it so much.
injera is not my fave,. i have learned you can get the special flour but it requires an overnight fermentation so i pretty much never make that.
but there a a few veggie wots that i adore
i got berbere from burlap & barrel recently too - highly recommend
i agree, re: misir wot has some similarity to indian. there are a lot of delicious red lentil stews from different parts of the world that IMO are not very different-tasting
Das
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