Travel Reference
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Chinatown
Nan Zhou Hand Drawn Noodle House
CHINESE$
( 215-923-1550; 1022 Race St; mains $6-10; 11am-10pm)
Now in a relatively sleek and
larger space a block away from the old hole-in-the-wall but still serving delicious and in-
expensive meat noodle soups.
Rangoon
BURMESE$
( 215-829-8939; 112 N 9th St; mains $6-15; 11:30am-9pm Sun-Thu, to 10pm Fri & Sat)
This
Burmese spot offers a huge array of tantalizing specialties from spicy red-bean shrimp
and curried chicken with egg noodles to coconut tofu.
Dim Sum Garden
CHINESE$
(59 N 11th St; mains $6; 10:30am-10:30pm)
Overall, not the most salubrious looking hole-
in-the-wall near the bus station but some of the tastiest steamed buns in the city.
Han Dynasty
CHINESE$$$
(108 Chestnut St; mains $15; 11:30am-11:30pm)
Innovative and burn-your-tongue spicy
soups and noodle dishes in a more upscale dining room.
South Philadelphia
The area around the corner of Washington and 11th Sts is chockablock with tasty family-
owned Vietnamese restaurants, not to mention the Italian Market (
Click here
)
.
Pat's King of Steaks
FAST FOOD$
( 215-468-1546;
www.patskingofsteaks.com
; cnr S 9th St & Passyunk Ave; sandwiches $7;
24hr)
An iconic Philly institution, Pat's is frequented by tourists and diehard locals, often
inebriated patrons, possibly unaware of the level of grease they're ingesting. It's compet-
itor Geno's is diagonally across the street.
Tony Luke's
SANDWICHES$
