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  Openings and Closings: Kolache Shoppe Expands, Jack and Ginger's Opens, The Harp Closes

  November 16 at 4 a.m.

  The Kolache Shoppe, 1301 Heights Boulevard, is expected to open in early December. This will be the second location for the kolache bakery. The original is located at 3945 Richmond in the Greenway Plaza area. It opened in 1970 and was owned by Erwin Arhens, until Randy Hines, who started...

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  Perfect Pairings: Tinys Cookie Dough To Go and The Best Milk In All The Land

  October 31 at 4 a.m.

  With cookie season upon us, Tinys Milk & Cookies and Kalona SuperNatural Organic Whole Milk make it easy to be a hero in your home. Crispy on the bottom, warm chocolate chunks in the center; Tinys' box of ready-to-bake cookies is a breeze from start to finish.  Kalona SuperNatural, the...

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  A Tour Through Chinatown's Dun Huang Plaza

  October 30 at 4 a.m.

  There are a handful of special places in this city that make you stop and ask yourself: "Am I still in Texas?" Dun Huang Plaza is one of those places. The booming shopping center at the intersection of Sam Houston Tollway and Bellaire has become the hottest place in town...

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  Perfect Pairings: The Baguette from La Table and Grayson Cheese from Houston Dairymaids

  September 26 at 5 a.m.

  The Houston climate is well-suited for two things: keeping your skin fresh and young-looking and properly temping cheese in your car. Thirty minutes around high noon should do the trick; any longer and the glorious stink of cheeses like Grayson evaporate entirely, haunting the family sedan for hours, sometimes days...

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  Perfect Pairings: Croissant Kolache and Yellow Mustard from Christy's Donuts

  September 12 at 6 a.m.

  Kolaches are great and all, but when an institution like Christy's Donuts, wraps their weenies with kinda-sorta croissant dough? Well, I choose you, Pikachu. There's nothing better than scooping up a box of croissant kolaches and a fistful of mustard packets from Christy's to take back to whoever may or...

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  Simit & Poacha Brings a Taste of Turkey to Houston

  June 20 at 5 a.m.

  When I visited Istanbul in 2016 with some friends, we essentially ate our way through the city. Our Turkish classmate introduced us to Turkish breakfast, featuring strong black tea, mild cheese, olives and tomato-y menemen; we ate warm, elastic gözleme, spinach-stuffed hunks of borek, and thin pizza-esque lahmacun. After we...