Triumph: fresh seafood, everywhere.
Five flights of fresh seafood?
Tasty Noodle House specializes in the clean, subtle seafood preparations of the northern port city Dalian, which sometimes means that you will find sea cucumber where you don't expect to find sea cucumber, and both the vinegar-marinated pork and the braised jellyfish head are really fine.
The area has its share of high-rise concrete along the coastline, but has not been over-developed: the sea is generally clean, and the seafood superb.
It's a long way from the gulf shore, and since the explosion in April optimistic local eaters have believed that the lake, and its plentiful seafood, would stay clean.
Wiping the slate clean, he created a Mexican seafood menu, fresh and contemporary, that brings spice, color and excitement to a formerly listless dining room that has been redecorated in a startling white-on-white beach style.
The EU issued Thailand with a 'yellow card' in April, a warning that it needed to clean up its poorly regulated seafood industry, that has been found to have used slave labour, or face 'red card' bans on exports to the EU market.
At Clark's Oyster Bar, an East Coast-influenced seafood restaurant, a clean-lined nautical theme plays out through details like original shiplap walls, waiters in Sperry Top-Siders and a striped yellow awning printed with the restaurant's geographical coordinates.
"Note the pure, clean taste of the simply stewed seafood," I instructed as they tasted it.
