Comments on: Pan-Asian Tranquility https://www.saltshaker.net/20050930/pan-asian-tranquility Casting a little flavor (and a few aspersions) on the world of food, drink, and life Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:11:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 By: New Openings, A World Apart https://www.saltshaker.net/20050930/pan-asian-tranquility#comment-249587 Wed, 27 Jan 2016 13:01:21 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/20050930/pan-asian-tranquility#comment-249587 […] as a regular restaurant, Sunae Asian Cantina, to be checked out soon), Captain Cook, Sudestada, and BuddhaBA all currently offer up Vietnamese dishes as part of their pan-Asian […]

]]> By: dan https://www.saltshaker.net/20050930/pan-asian-tranquility#comment-210145 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 02:10:25 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/20050930/pan-asian-tranquility#comment-210145 Dropped in tonight for the first time in about two years. Prices have gone way up – the springroll appetizer itself is more than the entire meal was the first time around – two apps, two main courses and two beers ran us 260 pesos. Quality has definitely dropped too – the springrolls came pretty much alone on a plate with two leaves of butter lettuce, only a single sprig of mint, soy sauce on the side, and no vegetable or anything else. Six potstickers cost even more and again served with nothing but soy sauce and some dried out slices of cucumber. For main courses, a 75 peso satai consisted of four small skewers of extraordinarily salty beef served with a trio of sauces – one of pureed cilantro, one of a decent hot sauce, and one of plain peanut butter thinned out with some water; and a 65 peso plate of rice topped with some sauteed chicken and cashews – decent flavor, but for the price, not a good value.

Overall, disappointing.

]]> By: SaltShaker » Blog Archive » In Comparison to… https://www.saltshaker.net/20050930/pan-asian-tranquility#comment-190009 Sat, 05 Sep 2009 16:16:57 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/20050930/pan-asian-tranquility#comment-190009 […] leave trying other dishes for another night. And I would go back, because other than, perhaps, Buddha BA, and maybe Sudestada, nobody else is really doing interesting pan-Asian cooking here, and this […]

]]> By: SaltShaker » Blog Archive » Lotus Blossom https://www.saltshaker.net/20050930/pan-asian-tranquility#comment-168719 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:02:44 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/20050930/pan-asian-tranquility#comment-168719 […] Buddha BA – Mixed Chinese and southeast Asian cuisine, and not on the same plate, just a good number of options. Great service, delicious food, beautiful, tranquil atmosphere. This spot is still my favorite. You won’t be able to have a complete Thai, or Vietnamese, or other meal with a couple of dozen different choices from one cuisine, but you will be able to pick and choose and suit a variety of palates. The one thing lacking, there’s not a single truly spicy dish on the menu – not as if a dish that should be is lacking in spice, they simply don’t offer anything that would typically be a very spicy plate. […]

]]> By: SaltShaker » Blog Archive » Three Torches of Fire https://www.saltshaker.net/20050930/pan-asian-tranquility#comment-9158 Fri, 22 Dec 2006 12:42:30 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/20050930/pan-asian-tranquility#comment-9158 […] Buenos Aires – I received several e-mails from people asking me about fresh litchis (also lychees or laichis). I forget sometimes that having spent twenty plus years in New York City, most of it in restaurants, that much of what I take as commonplace is unusual or exotic for many people. A lot of folks had tried them in Chinese restaurants, sometimes in a sweet and sour dish, sometimes as part of some sort of fruit dessert. But that’s different than both seeing and eating them fresh. […]

]]> By: SaltShaker » Blog Archive » Chinatown on Mondays https://www.saltshaker.net/20050930/pan-asian-tranquility#comment-400 Tue, 09 May 2006 16:05:24 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/20050930/pan-asian-tranquility#comment-400 […] Buenos Aires – Apparently, Monday is the Sunday of Chinatown here. Who knew that virtually every single restaurant in Barrio China is closed on the day of the moon? Met up with my friend Heather, planning on a lovely lunch at BuddhaBA it was closed, so was Siempre Verde, in fact, there were only 2 restaurants open on the entire strip that we saw. Even nearby Contigo Peru, for a casual Peruvian lunch, was shuttered for the day. Neither of the two open options looked overly exciting, but one of them at least had Chinese people eating in it, 3 or 4 of them anyway. Thankfully, Dragon Porteño Arribeños at Arribeños 2137, turned out to be a decent option. […]

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