Pittsburgh Foodie Field Trip

A few months ago a friend of mine took me around Pittsburgh’s Strip District, and a bit of Oakland. The result: I have new staples to my diet and I’ve got new places to shop.

In the Strip District, we visited Lotus Food Co., a Chinese grocery store. It was awesome, and cheap. And they had loads of gluten-free stuff that my sister would adore. The sauces there were much cheaper than in regular grocery stores. I got a basket full of what I thought would come to about fifty dollars. It came to twenty-two big ones :D. While there I bought udon noodles, a special soy-based sauce to cook the udon in, ube powder(a purple sweet potato powder), seaweed, and dorayaki (basically a small pancake filled with red bean paste= really, really good.)

My family totally loved the udon noodles and tempura (just dip fresh veggies in a flour/water batter and fry). New staple. Tryyy it.

Also visited the PA Macaroni Co. for pasta and bread, and Wholey’s for fish.

After we had bubble tea at LuLu’s Noodles in Oakland (bubble tea was also new to me, and is awesome), and then had a feast 🙂

Pictures!

The Strip District

Lotus Food Co.

Ube Powder

Dorayaki

Dorayaki- pancake filled with red bean paste. yummy 🙂

Dorayaki- nom nom nom

The PA Macaroni Warehouse. Impressive doors.

fresh pasta from the macaroni warehouse. tomato basil was our favorite.

Bread from the macaroni warehouse. “If you can knock someone out with it, then you know its real Italian style.” –me lol

“thxxx”

Wholey’s

Wholey’s sign 🙂

Fish bounty from Wholey’s

Bubble Tea in Oakland

FEAST

Ube powder, half way through rehydrating process.

I made Ube Cupcakes with the ube powder. not a success.