Monday, June 7, 2010

Western Chinese cuisine coming to St. Mark's Place

East Village Feed and I had been talking about what's going into the former Seoul Station location on St. Mark's Place near First Avenue.... (photo via EVF)....



...and now we know...some western Chinese cuisine...

3 comments:

  1. Thanks EVG. I went back this weekend and it looks like they're hiring now, too:

    http://eastvillagefeed.com/post/673160351/xian-famous-foods-coming-to-former-seoul

    Just me, or is "Xian Famous Foods" a terrible name?

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  2. It's better than "Super Taste Restaurant." Xian FF has branches in Flushing (Anthony Bourdain visited that one) and on Forsyth, and the food is great and cheap!

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  3. What's so bad about the name? They basically are a restaurant which serves the best-known/most famous foods of the Xi'an area. Seems pretty straightforward to me.

    Of course... I doubt most non-Chinese known what those "famous" foods are, but that points to the origin of the place. This is basically a pretty authentic, delicious homegrown chain that got its start in Flushing and has now picked up enough foodie love to open up shop in a non-ethnic neighborhood. They opened their first Manhattan location in Chinatown last year, and have enough name recognition that it wouldn't make sense to change it.

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