Tag: fish
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Where to Eat and Drink in Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Friday fish fries, First Wednesday wine dinners, pop-up restaurants, a pho-making class taught by a Hmong home cook—things stay lively here, with many of the events (particularly the pop-ups) run as c… Read Full Article
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Grand Avenue’s New Italian Eatery Is Almost Ready to Open
A working version of what they’ll be opening with is on the restaurant’s website. Pasta, entrees, salads and ingredients from local farms like the Hmong farmers collective, Bodine fish farms, and the … Read Full Article
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Grand Avenue’s New Trattoria Is Almost Ready to Open
A working version of what they’ll be opening with is on the restaurant’s website. Pasta, entrees, salads and ingredients from local farms like the Hmong farmers collective, Bodine fish farms, and the … Read Full Article
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Making a Difference
The episode of “Community Connection” that we submitted for this WBA award featured an African-American woman, a gay man, and Hmong woman. That’s likely not the group of folks you share drinks with before your Friday Fish Fry dinner–but they are the … Read Full Article
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Wiltz: Ice fishing and when a sure thing isn’t
Retirement has its benefits. While at Devils Lake, Tom heard about the Hmong people hammering the lake’s giant white bass from shore in the spring. I’ve watched the Hmong people fish beneath the dam at Wisconsin’s Prairie du Sac in the spring, and it’s an … Read Full Article
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Markets offer a glimpse of life in a place
In Tokyo, I watched in awe as fish were sent airborne, tossed about with purpose and skill. Even in Minnesota, markets tell a story — the Hmong Village in St. Paul and the various farmers markets are fine examples. Like elsewhere, they showcase a region … Read Full Article
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Recipe : Thai Chile Roasted Cherry Tomato Sauce
Fish sauce and oyster sauce are available in the Asian section of supermarkets. Yia Yang uses Hmong cilantro and its stems; if only traditional cilantro is available, use its leaves. From Yia Yang. Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Place cherry tomatoes on a … Read Full Article
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Joy’s Pattaya Thai (Richfield, MN)
While the somtum was nice and funky (redolent of fish sauce in a way reminiscent of Hmong preparations), the otherwise tasty tom yum was just a bit too sweet, as were both curries we ordered. The first of the curries—off the regular menu—was a panang … Read Full Article
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Three guilty of illegally selling striped bass get their worst nightmare as punishment
People of all backgrounds break fish and wildlife laws, he said. Locally, fish and wildlife officials have provided information about rules and regulations to Hmong publications and radio and believe the outreach has been effective, he said. Fresno County … Read Full Article
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Hmong International New Year offers foodies a chance to sample a wide menu
Head to Hmong International New Year and you’ll find foods like spicy papaya salad, raw sugar cane and pompano fish with purple sticky rice. Despite a Hmong population topping 30,000, Fresno doesn’t have many Hmong restaurants. That means Hmong … Read Full Article
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Treetop honeymoon
A great cause aside, the wood-fired pizzas, organic Hmong food and barbecued Mekong fish won’t disappoint. Riverside Restaurant, houayxairiverside.com/RESTAURANT.html Attached to the eponymous Riverside Hotel, this alfresco restaurant offers sweeping … Read Full Article
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Dennis Anderson: The best place to fish? Wherever you can
Both boys speak Hmong as well as English, and both incessantly bug Jake, who is married to their sister, to take them fishing. “My biggest fish,” Steffen said proudly, “was a largemouth bass I caught in Long Lake in Mound.” Their other shoreline hotspots … Read Full Article
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Whittier Farmers Market opens Saturday
There will be Caribbean street food by Tropical Fish, and produce from the Minnesota Hmong Agricultural Co-op and the Hmong American Farmers Association. Entertainers will appear every weekend, and roundtable discussions at noon will cover topics related … Read Full Article