Tag: fried chicken
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Jerk-It-Baby Food Inc, Food Truck, Germantown MD
Jerk-It-Baby is a solid, Jamaican food truck located right by the Sunoco off of Middlebrook road exit 13 off of 270N. Overall solid takeout with nice, hard-working staff serving delicious, classic Jamaican fare. Can’t go wrong with anything on the menu here, especially the jerk pork!
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Notos Southern Bites (Kabob), Laurel MD
Naseer and his brother, the Ahmad brothers, did one of my overall favorite things – combined American Southern fried chicken with the Mediterranean kabobs, shawarmas, curries, and sauces in their humble, no-frills Notos Southen Bites (or Notos Kabob Halal) in Laurel, MD. I’ve seen this done a couple of times, one such example, and I’m…
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A&J Restaurant, Rockville MD
A&J Restaurant was a pleasure to shoot today, not only because the owner Debbie was ready-and-waiting (as all of these shoots ought to be), but because it’s another gem offering Taiwanese style dishes around and quite a bit different from Jumbo Jumbo Cafe mini-chain offering more appetizers and dim sum that is really, really good!…
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How a Gas Station Ought To Be – G T’s Handimart, Highfield-Cascade MD
Whenever I write about shoots that took place a while back, I check up on the oogle with a G to see their current state of affairs, possible closures, and so on, so seeing that G T’s Handimart has changed hands to a slew of not-so-stellar recent reviews saddens me since this place was absolutely…
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Miss Toya’s Southen Kitchen, Rio, Gaithersburg MD
Miss Toya’s Southen Kitchen is part of Miss Toya’s local chain of southern and Cajun restaurants in the DMV area, and one of them I got to shoot located in Rio. The first time around I arrived to but one prep cook having zero clue about anything even remotely close to a photo shoot an…
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Unique Take on Fried Chicken – Chicking, Frederick MD
Now this I did not expect to see, but apparently it has been out and about all over the rest of the world – an Indian and Middle Eastern take on fried chicken using their exotic blend of spices that easily rivals most of the recent Korean takes on our Southern concept of a deep…
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Irish-Latin Fusion – Sully’s Pour House, Herndon VA
Sully’s Pour House was definitely a memorable shoot because this was the first time I’ve seen Irish and Latin cuisine intertwine properly without taking too many American detours typical for a bar menu. And one of the very few times I was presented some Xangos as a dessert over typical churros or tres leches.
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Magnolia on King, Alexandria VA – closed
Magnolia was one of the fancier places I’ve shot even in downtown Alexandria, so it was a big surprise to learn that they’ve shut down recently. This was a classy, 2-level upscale American joint with good food so something seemed off to them shutting down after surviving the ‘rona and everything. A quick web dig…
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Artistic Chicken Sandwich – Chi MC Korean Fried Chicken, Vienna VA
Located at 126-B Branch Rd SE, Vienna, VA 22180, Chi MC Korean Fried Chicken could be easily confused with Choong-Man Chicken, but this is a smaller spot with their own unique and plentiful of a menu to bite into. Plenty of appetizers, Absolutely proper Korean mains as well, One of the BEST fried chicken sandwiches…
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Variety and Spices of Life – Spice Village, Herndon VA (Kallisto Steakhouse, Peri-Peri Original, Khyber Shinwari, Mandarin Halal Chinese)
Quite the mouthful of a post title, but Spice Village almost rivals the relatively new Asian food halls in the sheer variety of the food they offer here! Kallisto Steakhouse has grills and fries of shmeat; Peri-Peri Original adds some competition to Nando’s and Galito’s African grilled chicken; Khyber Shinwari is your good old Indian…
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Bowls To Go Go – Yum Yum Hibachi, Ashburn VA
Yum Yum Hibachi is a brand new spot in a semi-odd-and-end area of the already odd-and-end Ashburn, but that is definitely to their advantage of having businesses to feed without the usual packed competition of all the strip malls around. Owners are very upbeat and enthusiastic, listening to their customers and serving them very well.…
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Fryers Roadside, Silver Spring MD – Not Some Roadkill Chicken
Fryers was a nice and quick shoot at a great looking, local fried chicken spot with a pretty roomy outdoor seating albeit not much inside but the order counter. All the chicken looked fantastic and smelled great, but that’s as far as I got to tell. As always – I never ask for samples, so…
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BengBeng Chicken & Grill, Tysons Corner VA – Mall Food Court
This was a smooth shoot of your standard mall food court Asian spot that has a decent variety of food.
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Release the Craycken, Annandale VA – story
Now Craycken was one helluva gig because it wrapped up a long ongoing story of corpo slop I’ve dealt with all summer that year. I get to the place and the owner immediately says “Hey, you’re actually here!” “Well, of course I’m here, I never miss a shoot,” I replied and that kicked off the…
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Pelicana, Annandale VA
This shoot coincided with my spontaneous trip to Boston, literally right afterwards, but what I would never-ever imagine in my life is that a place with a pretty oceanic name of a fishing avian would serve anything but the implied fish! This was one of my earlier encounters with Korean fried chicken and let me…
