Sunday, my first Boston roommate came into town. We asked her what she'd like for dinner and she said Chinese. There are a lot of Chinese places we like in china town, but somehow route one (the Las Vegas of Massachusetts) was on our mind. My roommate suggested Kowloon, which sounds like fun, but wasn't the draw I was looking for. I wanted something big, really big, enormous even. So we went to East Manor (formerly weylou), which is supposedly the largest restaurant in Massachusetts and sits high on a hill slightly away from the rest of the enormous restaurants begging for attention with their giant neon signs.
It was great. The place itself was just kitschy enough to satisfy everyone's desire (there is an escalator up to the second floor and lots of dragons and a network of bridges in one area) and the space was huge. They have a buffet with over 150 choices for dinner. There was a soup bar, a sushi bar (with a sushi chef making food right there, he even made suzib an eel nigiri as she stood there because she'd said she liked eel). There were some traditional dim sum buns and even frog legs. It reminded suzib and I of the place we'd been in flushing, we didn't like it quite as much, but we kept comparing the two. I found out today, that they're owned by the same people. So it makes sense!
Really, that's all for this post. I just wanted to tell you that East Manor lives up to everything you could desire from the largest restaurant in Boston.
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Here's a little provincial update. A restaurant in Anchorage is now serving bread pudding made from croissants.
I LOVE bread pudding made with croissants (especially if it's really pan au chocolate!!).
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