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    Blanchard Cafe

    2.5 (2 reviews)
    Closed • 11:30 am - 4:00 pm, 5:00 PM - 12:00 AM (Next day)

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    Soup Noodle Bowl - Combo platter included a can of soda or bottle of water!!

    Soup Noodle Bowl

    4.8(16 reviews)
    5.7 mi

    We were driving through this part of Massachusetts and found this place by chance. A Cambodian…read morerestaurant in this part of MA? It's a small eatery; you order at the counter, and they bring the food to you. We had the kuyteav beef soup, shared the stir-fried kuyteav with seafood (aka meekatang), and the beef sticks. The soup was flavorful; you can taste the depth of simmering bones and aromatics. It's liquid gold! But it could've come with more beef. The stir-fried noodles were good too; a little dry for me; it could've used more gravy. But the beef sticks were the bomb! You can taste the lemongrass paste (kroeung); it's savory and full of umami.

    Small casual restaurant with terrific food. It is also gluten-free safe! I nervously ordered fried…read morechicken and had no issues. The very kind cook, Massey, said she could make anything on the menu gluten-free. (I think there might have been an exception of Korean dishes that were marinated.) We shared an excellent chicken noodle soup; it had thin rice noodles and a very clean, clear broth, not oily. I'm accustomed to Vietnamese broths that have a lot more aromatics, but the simplicity of this was wonderful. The fried chicken was cut in small, bone-in pieces, with a mild flavor and served with papaya salad. Massey is a character and she knows how to cook.

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    Soup Noodle Bowl - Simple. There is no need for fusion expensive food or gentrification .

    Simple. There is no need for fusion expensive food or gentrification .

    Soup Noodle Bowl - Crab Rangoon!!

    Crab Rangoon!!

    Soup Noodle Bowl - Combo platter included a can of soda or a bottle of water!!

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    Combo platter included a can of soda or a bottle of water!!

    IYA Sushi and Noodle Kitchen - Pork Belly App

    IYA Sushi and Noodle Kitchen

    3.9(285 reviews)
    0.3 mi
    •$$

    I loved the selection of specialty sushi here as they have a nice variety that you don't usually…read morefind at a sushi place. I got the Cannon ball roll which had shrimp tempura, a garlic aioli, and topped with a nice chunk of beautifully seared steak. I loved that roll - super delish! For $20 it was kinda steep so it definitely helps that the roll was tasty. I also got a salmon skin roll which had crushed up salmon skin in the roll... unique as I'm used to a rolled up fried salmon skin. My fiancé got the Mt Holyoke roll and enjoyed it as well. The specialty rolls were definitely massive. My only disappointment was the duck bao, which had shredded duck in five spice. I was hoping for the more traditional peking duck style bao. My bao also had some furry bits stuck to the end, not sure if it was lint from somewhere but it looked like dog hair. It was pretty baked into there. I didn't mind too much I just ripped that piece off. Too hungry to care, but that knocked a star off the review. Would potentially try the ramen if we come back.

    Wow. Just wow. I've been to Iya many times, and every time it's beyond exceptional. We get lots of…read moreappetizers, including the pork belly Bao, spicy sweet chicken Bao, garlic noodles, and chicken tempura nuggets. I would 100% recommend them all. I also had perfectly seasoned shrimp fried rice and a beautiful melted popsicle mocktail. The atmosphere is cute and cozy, and our server Charlene was extremely kind and welcoming, not to mention very attentive. I love Iya. No questions asked.

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    IYA Sushi and Noodle Kitchen - Spicy Tuna Tacos

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    IYA Sushi and Noodle Kitchen - Bar area, very cute atmosphere.

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    Bar area, very cute atmosphere.

    Ginger Garden - Cashew chicken with (no?) vegetables

    Ginger Garden

    3.4(245 reviews)
    8.0 mi
    •$$

    Great food, haven't had such a great Chinese food for a while everything we tried was amazing,…read moreservice was great, hot and sour soup, orange chicken, Mongolian beef, lo mein, fried rice the best,

    I went here prior to a UMass hockey game, and was told ahead of time that it was functional Chinese…read morefood, but wasn't going to blow my socks off. Turns out, that was a very apt description. We arrived and got seated at a table with a very nice curved window view. I can imagine being here on a rainy or snowy day and getting to be surrounded by the weather while not having to get wet. The service was friendly, if mostly absent, and fast. This place mostly loses stars on the food. We had: wonton soup, miso soup, scallion pancakes, crab rangoons, happy family, tangerine chicken, and asparagus and snap peas with shrimp. The wonton soup seemed to be a beef broth soup, interesting change up from any wonton soup I've had before, a little salty and good wontons. The miso soup was also a good miso. The crab rangoons were too sweet and the wrapper too thick, thus making it chewy, but at least you could tell there was something in there beyond just cream cheese. The hunt for good crab rangoons continues. The scallion pancakes were very thick, but at least not greasy. The sauce was punchy and pleasant. The asparagus and snap peas with shrimp was positioned as having a light flavor, and that was very accurate. Almost like they were steamed and then served, but you could see a sauce coating them. The happy family was coated in a brown sauce that didn't carry much flavor either, but nothing was wrong either. The tangerine chicken was listed as one spicy out of three, and I'm happy to report they understand spicy rating. While the broccoli was chopped a tad large, the chicken was cooked very well, and you got just some spice on the back end with sweet on the front. Overall, nothing here was bad, but it also came across and middling. If you asked me to write this review a couple days from now I feel I'd have trouble remembering anything about this place except the window seat. I am willing to try some of the other aspects of the menu some time in the future, but I'm not sending anyone running here either.

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