Best Asian Restaurants: No. 17 Marumen
What started as a ramen-focused restaurant with very little else, Marumen now extends with influences of China and Korea.
Best Asian Restaurants: No. 18 Izakaya Blue Ocean
Maybe seaweed won’t be the new kale, but it’s time to get to know the world of sea vegetables, and the platter of seven different seaweeds at Izakaya Blue Ocean is the way to start.
Best Asian Restaurants: No. 20 Jang Won
Dumplings at Jang Won, a Korean-Chinese restaurant in Annandale, are huge, fried, bubbly and crackly.
Tips for pairing local produce with Asian flavors
Pat Tanumihardja offers tips adapted from her new cookbook, ‘Farm to Table Asian Secrets,’ for pairing local produce with Asian flavors
How I learned to love Virginia’s four seasons
Just as I was about to succumb to mealy supermarket tomatoes in winter, I started a cookbook project: seasonal vegetable-focused Asian recipes.