Around the world in Chicago

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Here, for your vicarious pleasure, is a list of some of my recent food adventures. I realise that it reads like a list of culinary Clue. ("I suspect it was elthar in Hinsdale with the steak frites!") In order to make this more interactive, translations for italicised items are provided below. Those of you with a competitive streak, see how many you can match up!

• homemade nayngmyen at my place with Monshu


• master sauce duck with plum sauce and sesame paste at Monshu's


• jalea de pescado, arroz con pollo, and leche asada at a Peruvian eatery in Rogers Park with spookyfruit and welcomerain.


• Taiwanese goat milk candy and songphyen at spookyfruit's game


• nasu dengaku at Sakura in Mount Prospect with bunj and his wife


• fufu with spicy peanut soup and goat meat at Bolat in Lakeview


• grilled sea bass with a crème de cassis reduction at a bistro in Lincoln Park with Monshu


• swuntay with kelp salad and makkelli after a trip to Arirang Korean Market in Albany Park with welcomerain


• sucuklu pide at the Turkish Bakery in Andersonville


• sancocho de gallina and granida de lulo at La Fonda in Edgewater


• mixed nut, lotus paste, and winter melon mooncakes from Chiu Quon bakery in New Chinatown


• smoked rattlesnake hot dog from Hot Doug's in Roscoe Village. (Thank you Movie Man!)
  
• beef tongue and Belgian beer at Brasserie Jo in River North with spookyfruit, welcomerain, and some hanger-on


• beignets at Dixie Kitchen in Evanston. (Don't order them unless your beignet standards are very modest.)


Translations:

• rice sausage [Korean]
  
• cold noodles [Korean]
  
• crude rice liquor [Korean]
  
• pine-flavoured rice cakes [Korean]
  
• grilled eggplant with sweet sauce [Japanese]
  
• mashed yam [West African]
  
• sausage pie [Turkish]
  
• blackcurrant liqueur [French]
  
• naranjillo shake [Spanish]
  
• rice with chicken [Spanish]
  
• stewed hen [Spanish]
  
• fried fish with onions [Spanish]
  
• baked custard [Spanish]