Shanghai

James Bond's License to Feel

Skyfall is basically Downton Abby with cyber crime and shower sex.

''Inheritance: Stories of Memory and Discovery''

Kim Son Cafe in The Woodlands Disappoints

"Have you ever eaten at Kim Son Cafe ?" I recently asked a food-loving friend. "Are you kidding me?" he said. "I eat there at least once a week - they have some of the best food in the area." This was a meaningful statement coming from this particular friend, as he eats at some of the finest estab ... More >>

Not Your Food Court Chinese: Lunch at E Tao

Char Sui.​After a long day of fighting the crowds at the Galleria, my dining companion and I were left tired and hungry. Katharine Shilcutt's first look at E Tao and the sheer convenience of not having to leave the mall to get what I was craving sealed the deal. I wanted Chinese food, but not ... More >>

Top 5: Peking Duck in Houston

I'm one of those people who gets super-strong cravings for food. It can be a whiff, a smell, a dish that someone mentions, a feeling that I associate with the weather, or something I see through a restaurant window that causes the craving. In this instance, ever since I saw a Peking Duck carved tabl ... More >>

A New Place for Soup Dumplings and Shanghai Noodles

Photos by Mai PhamShanghai Steamed Dumplings, or Xiao Long Bao, at the new Shanghai Restaurant​Just when I think I've found my favorite dumpling house, a new one pops up and I have to give it a try. New entrant Shanghai Restaurant (9888 Bellaire Blvd # 106), in the same shopping complex as Arc ... More >>

Yao Ming and the Fight Against Shark Fin Soup

Will Yao Ming's star power be enough to save an endangered species?​As beloved as Yao Ming is to Houstonians, it's no match for the affection held for him in China. And the former Rockets basketball player is hoping that his high profile in his native country will encourage his fellow countrym ... More >>

Lisa See

Prom Night: Adventures in Dining (Or Not)

​One of the questions I've been fielding a lot lately is, "Where should my [son, daughter, sister, brother, etc.] go for dinner before prom?" And the answer I've been giving is always the same: Haven. Haven has a beautiful dining room and patio; a great central location to where most proms se ... More >>

Food Fight: Spicy Peanuts

​The peanut occupies a strange and remarkable place in our national consciousness. It's not a true nut (it's a legume, like lentils and peas), but might as well be for purposes of food allergies and supermarket inventory. It's not American, but might as well be for purposes of popular culture, ... More >>

Annise Parker Praises Shanghai For Its Acceptance Of Gays

Annise Parker praises Shanghai for GLBT acceptance​Mayor Annise Parker is in the midst of the first big international trip of her term, a visit to China.She's attending the World Expo in Shanghai (Motto: "Yes, they still have World Fairs"), and in a speech cited the city's openness to gays as a so ... More >>

5 Places Seniors Like to Eat

Erika RayBarbecue Inn's famous fried chicken. ​When you find yourself in one of these establishments to partake of some tasty vittles (because don't seniors call food "vittles"?), look around and we'll bet the median age is older than 60. If you enjoy the geriatric crowd as we do, check out so ... More >>

Pop Rocks: Anyone Not Rooting For The Cowboys In The Amazing Race Is A Rotten Bastard

​The 16th season of The Amazing Race wraps up next Sunday, when one of the three remaining teams will claim the million dollar prize and ride off into relative obscurity (go ahead. name a past Race winner...now name five ex-Survivors, my case rests). This season has ranged from Chile to the People ... More >>

Whatever's Good

Shanghai Chinese Restaurant's enormous menu has something for everyone.

New Year's Dumplings at Dim Sum King

Photos by Katharine ShilcuttOur long-awaited dumplings. To prosperity in the new year!​Fresh off celebrating the Lunar New Year at the Chinese Community Center down the road, we headed into Chinatown on Saturday afternoon in search of lunch. True, we could have eaten from the bounty of food st ... More >>

The New Kim Son Café Delivers

​"We have taken the 50 most popular items from all our other restaurants and put them on the menu here," the manager of Kim Son Café on Eldridge Parkway near Briar Forest told me. When I asked him how he thought this curious new concept was going to do so close to Bellaire Chinatown, he admit ... More >>

Hot Lunch Tip: Spicy Fish at Shanghai Cuisine

Photo by Robb Walsh"Spicy Fish" is an awesome lunch if you like hellishy hot seafood. Tilapia medallions are stir-fried with dried red peppers and slices of fresh jalapeño chile and served with steamed rice. The bottom of the plate is covered with bright orange oil, just in case the other peppers a ... More >>

Shanghainese, If You Please

You can get THE hot stuff if you want, but don't miss the bold flavors at one of the city's only Shanghainese restaurants.

The Many Faces of Mien Chin

Photos by Robb WalshIn this week's Cafe review, we explore the many faces of mien chin, or wheat gluten. First served as a meat substitute for the vegetarian Buddhists of ancient China, wheat gluten is also powdered and sold in health food stores as seitan. In Shanghainese cuisine, gluten is appreci ... More >>

The Dames Will Be Dancing At Domy Books

Any fan of Mystery Science Theater 3000 knows that some of the best bits came from watching the B&W short films. Whether it was the social-etiquette epic A Date With Your Family or an industrial film showing life on the farm or the latest in Space-Age Technology, the films were a hoot even witho ... More >>

The Busiest New Airline Route Is In Houston

Splendid China III: New Discoveries

Shanghai Dance Company makes its Houston debut with an artistic journey to the East

Am I the Only One Craving Chinese Food While Watching the Olympics?

The Secret's Out at Del Frisco's Double Eagle Steakhouse

Reverberations: Clarences, Flamin’ Groovies, Scott Deluxe Drake and Liverpool Five

Capsule Art Reviews: "Design Life Now: National Design Triennial 2006," "Ethnography, Photojournalism and Propaganda: 1934-1975.," "FotoFest2008: Current Perspectives, 1998–2008 CHINA," "Vivid Vernacular"

Capsule Art Reviews: "Design Life Now: National Design Triennial 2006," "Ethnography, Photojournalism and Propaganda: 1934-1975.," "FotoFest2008: Current Perspectives, 1998–2008 CHINA," "Vivid Vernacular"

Capsule Art Reviews: "Design Life Now: National Design Triennial 2006," "Ethnography, Photojournalism and Propaganda: 1934-1975.," "FotoFest2008: Current Perspectives, 1998–2008 CHINA," "Vivid Vernacular"

Lust, Caution

Ang Lee's sexed-up thriller is neither sexy nor thrilling

“Treasures from Shanghai: 5,000 Years of Chinese Art and Culture”

HMNS brings the Orient to Houston

DVDs

Cannibal Corpse

What's Up, Dog?

Tarnished Ivory

The White Countess writes an inglorious final chapter for a dynamic filmmaking duo

That's Rich

We're not making up these beauty and fitness treatments

The Passion of the Cruise

Me-sci-ah offers truth, celebrity and the Scientology way

Future Shock

Michael Winterbottom paints a plausibly problematic tomorrow in Code 46

Feels Like 80 Days

Jackie Chan takes a long trip without going anyplace new

Chinese Takeout Is Chinese Takeout

Shanghai River

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Dancing with Dinosaurs

The natural science museum sheds its stuffy image

The Love of Giants

Yao Ming and Ye Li won't be seeing each other May 6 after all

Taiwan's Tapioca Attack

Bubble tea goes mainstream

Feeling Lucky?

Score big at the Lucky Pot noodle shop

Deep-Fried Greenhorn

Only a dupe believes in such a thing as the "best chicken-fried steak in Texas"

The Best Dim Sum in Guangzhouston

A new champion is crowned

Ethnic Explorer

Does the thought of combing through the Chinese restaurants on Bellaire intimidate you? Let Jay Francis help.

Using Her Noodle

Liberty's Annie Wong can negotiate a tasty truce among even the most warring ingredients

Brunch of Champions

Dish

Shanghai Surprise

The flavors of China's Lower Yangtze flow into Houston