One more post before I head up to Boston for a few days of R&R and snowshoeing. I heard Boston got walloped with the white stuff — yeah!
(Incidentally, don’t you love how the local news hypes up inclement weather to an insane level? Coming up at 11, the big one’s on the way!! If you were an out-of-towner watching the news, you’d think this was the first time it had snowed in a century. I’m not sure I need roving reporters standing by the highway giving minute by minute updates. We live in the Northeast. It snows… every year. This shouldn’t come as a shock.)
Back to food talk; here’s a soup stand I’ve been unsuccessfully trying to visit for months — the elusive Soupz in Larchmont. I must have poor timing because every time I’ve shown up it’s been closed for one reason or another — I was starting to think it wasn’t a real place. But indeed, it is real, and it serves good soup!
The decor’s homey and charming in its simplicity — a few tables, a few non-soup items up front like bread and small sandwiches, one guy taking orders and one guy behind him ladling the soup. The young guy taking the orders was very friendly — he was like the anti-Soup Nazi. I liked this place.
I enjoyed my soup too, a medium bowl of lentil (careful not to order a large unless you’re really hungry; it’s huge).
And now, I’m off to celebrate Christmas. If Christmas traditions hold true to form, at some point my family and I will be eating mom’s egg rolls and nien gao (sticky rice sticks). The rice sticks are cool; they come hard and frozen in a package, so you soak them in water overnight until they soften up and are ready for stir-frying — in my mom’s version, with Napa cabbage, pickled mustard green and chicken. It’s a great Chinese dish. If she makes it, I’ll take a pic.
Are you breaking out any special recipes for the holiday? Are there dishes you look forward to eating every year, like I do with my mom’s nien gao?
Here’s wishing you happy holidays and a very Merry Christmas! See ya in a couple of days.
Soupz
141 Larchmont Ave.
Larchmont, NY
914-833-7687
One Comment
1 Guadalupe wrote:
I have never taste those soupz but i hear they are very good. now that i think of it i have aten a soup from there. oh, just to tell you the man that own’s the Soupz restaurant has a near by restarunt too! it is called Stanz Cafe. One of my family members works in the cafe!!!!!!!!!