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MAMMY'S CUPBOARD - Natchez, MS You can't miss this place. It's on the east side of Highway 61 just south of Natchez. They have daily specials, along with sandwiches and salads. But the main draw is their homemade desserts. I went with the daily special, which on Fridays is chicken pot pie, with a 'layered salad' and cornbread. I have never come across a layered salad before. Apparently it's a regional dish, consisting of iceberg lettuce, hard-boiled eggs, peas, bacon, and cheddar cheese in a mayonnaise-based dressing. The chicken pot pie was good. You can tell they used plenty of butter in the crust. Along with the well dressed salad I probably got six months worth of my daily recommended saturated fat intake in one meal! But I couldn't stop there...may as well go whole hog. I got a slice of the lemon icebox pie. Again, you'll never complain about portion sizes here. The slice was big enough for two. I ended up taking half to go to eat later. It w...
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KEN'S HOUSE OF PANCAKES - Hilo, HI Ken's is located at 1730 Kamehameha Ave. and is open 24 hours a day. It gets pretty busy and we first tried to go here the evening after the Merrie Monarch Festival exhibition...couldn't even get into the parking lot. So we made it a point to get there at 8 the next morning and were seated right away. They have an extensive menu and I wanted to try just about everything. The portions are big, not quite as large as the Hawaiian Style Cafe. My brother-in-law had the #33, Rough Night Chili Cheese Omelette. There was nothing left on the plate. My sister had the #5 Strawberry Pancakes. She liked it and thought the food quality was better than the Hawaiian Style Cafe. I, of course had my usual, Portuguese Sausage, Eggs (over easy) and Rice. Yeah, the breakfast of champions! I could eat this everyday for breakfast, and I think I did the whole time I was in Hawaii. Thank goodness for Lipitor. The service was good and quick. When we left a...
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FAR EAST CAFE (now Chop Suey Cafe) - Los Angeles The Far East Cafe is an institution for any Japanese-American who lived in LA from the 30's and after WWII, up until the place closed due to damage after the 1994 Northridge earthquake. Birthdays, weddings, funerals, any occasion to eat the uniquely Chinese food tailored for the Japanese palate. Almond Duck, Sweet and Sour Pork, and Hom Yu were always part of our order. I remember many occasions as a kid eating there with the extended family (grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins), sometimes getting to eat upstairs in the balcony which I thought was particularly cool. And when I worked at Hayashi Automotive on 8th and Central, we would often make a food run on Friday nights to pickup our favorites to take home. Part of this was necessity, as even way back in 1983, it was impossible to get parking in front of the restaurant. After the '94 quake, the building was red-tagged. Many stories developed about how the restaurant was...
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