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Dishin' disappeared for a week because we were on a feeding frenzy down south. In just a few days, we hit Ping, Bluehour, Biwa, Ken's Artisan Bakery, Ten 01, Departure, Andina, Broder, Nostrana, Sahagun, Pix, Pok Pok, the amazing Saturday Farmers Market (Pine Street Biscuits, Two Tarts, Tastebud, and more), Tanuki, Beast, Voodoo Doughnut, and Kenny & Zuke's. Oh - and a few other snacky places. All this to say that we're ready for some Seattle comfort food, which might mean a bowl of wontons and/or sui kau at Canton Noodle House.

• First we thought it was just Capitol Hill's little old men that were accident-prone. Now we hear about another elderly 81-year-old man who is suffering life-threatening injuries after being hit by a delivery truck this morning in the International District.
• Yesterday, U.S. Soccer announced Seattle's Qwest Field and Husky Stadium as the venues under consideration as part of their bid to host the World Cup in 2018 or 2022.

There's a reason a restaurant sticks around for 105 years.

PARTY DOWN FOR CHINATOWN: The ID Spring Roll is big food-filled fun times at the SoDo that raises money for SCIDpda, the International District's community development group. Featuring all kinds of Pan-Asian food (hello, spring-roll eating contest!), live music, martial arts, raffles/door prizes, and breakdancing care of the Massive Monkees, this ain't no boring charity event. Sign us up for at least 30 spring rolls.

• Awwwwwww, yeeeeah! Seattle was named 2009 City of the Year by Fast Company Magazine. Go us.
• Think again if you're up to no good in West Seattle, they have "Deadly Aim" on their side. Word to the wise, don't want to mess with a roller derby girls, especially this weekend.
• Never thought you'd see this: Former GOP Nominee Dino Rossi challenge former Seahawk, Brock Huard to a spring roll-eating contest. Anything for charity, right? It's the last day to get your tickets to the ID Spring Roll 2009, a party/fundraiser for the International District's Downtown Chinatown. Oh, the Massive Monkees will be there too.

Kim is off to the Fremont Abbey tonight to catch one of PDX's finest singer-songwriters, Laura Gibson, in action. She will spend the rest of the weekend napping, baking, and watching movies. Sunday night, she'll emerge from her lair for Jenny Owen Youngs at the High Dive.

Yesterday, we looked up at the clock tower and noticed we had just enough time to duck in for coffee before heading off to...Wait a minute! We what!?!

Since our teams remain winless this season, Seattlest has decided to do the only logical thing to get us out of this funk...Eat! During Sunday home games, over 67,000 people flood into Qwest Field, and many of those fans stop for lunch along the way. Seattlest gets tired of bar food and $8 stadium dogs, so we asked the guys at MSG150, the International District lunch blog, to help us out with some new suggestions. We sat down with MSG150 last week while they reviewed a new restaurant in the ID.

A sakana ichiba (fish market) at Shibuya station is our favorite Tokyo battleground. Close to closing time, customers hover around the refrigerator cases, scouting out the sushi and sashimi assortments--especially the packages of maguro, mutsu, and more. Then, at about 7:45, the man with the marker does the "makete" (discounting) action, slashing prices on fish that must fly off the shelves. We jostle for position, reaching for the best boxes of uni and chunks of chu-toro that sometimes drop from a few thousand yen to a few hundred yen. It’s a fight for a feast!

We're in the International District, walking down the street, past the whole roasted ducks displayed in windows, sniffing fried Chinese food and fragrant pho broth, searching for the one thing that seems not to exist in the ID--coffee.

Chicken broth-based soups are some of the ultimate comfort foods, and are especially good when sick. We love them all, from matzo ball soup (a.k.a. “Jewish penicillin”) to tortilla soup to good ol’ Campbell’s Chicken Noodle Soup (or, better yet, Chicken & Stars – our childhood favorite, though we shudder to think about the sodium content).

Once upon a time, we had a nice boyfriend with whom we discovered Szechuan Noodle Bowl, a veritable gem in the International District. We ate noodles, we held hands, we gazed into each others’ eyes. But somewhere along the line, it seemed that not all of the times were as good as those we spent at the Noodle Bowl and sadly, we were...let go. Now, getting dumped was painful, but giving up Szechuan Noodle Bowl would have been insupportable. We resolved to go at once with our friends and family and rid the Noodle Bowl of its aura of failed romance.

Last year we lamented a less-than-stellar meal at a forgettable Japanese restaurant, wishing we’d instead gone to ol’ reliable: Takohachi. Especially after an active day, we crave the salty goodness of the grilled mackerel dish known as saba shioyaki, or saba-shio for short.

We usually run from restaurants that have pictures on the menu. They remind us of steakhouse chains from our childhoods or Chinese takeout places where the food tastes like the box in which it’s packaged. But we find endless delight in staring at Malay Satay Hut’s full-color menu. If we could resist distraction, we’d laminate our takeout copy and hang it on the wall.

It’s not the easiest place to find – or to eat. Quirky hours (11-4 Tuesday through Friday), an inevitable line out the door, decision-making on your feet, a communal table… but this is what makes Salumi so special and so memorable.

We don't like dining in Queen Anne. We love the neighborhood, but for eating, it's just not gritty enough.

With the first feel of fall and temperatures struggling to get out of the 60's, Seattlest had a hankering for a hearty soup. Something healthy to stop the sniffles ahead of a cross-country flight the next day.

Over the last six weeks, we scored a temp gig working for a certain, local e-retailer that possesses the planet's largest selection. On our daily jaunts to the International District, we had the chance to observe progress on the Sound Transit tunnel. With its above-ground plaza, the I.D. station is the only place in which one can leisurely peek down into the tunnel during construction.

Bank of America, McDonalds and Starbucks? Seattlest is reeling a little from the notion of an overtly corporate party to celebrate the start of the year of the dog at Union station on Saturday, February 4th.

Sudoku is a kind of logic puzzle that became popular in Japan in the ‘80s and in the UK early this year, and this summer it suddenly began appearing in several American newspapers. The Seattle Times started running daily Sudoku puzzles in July, right below the bridge column in the Northwest Life section. (They can also be found at the Times web site, with the option of listening to mystical Japanese music as you play.) Just last week Seattlest saw piles of various Sudoku puzzle books prominently displayed at the Kinokuniya bookstore in the International District. We’ve always been a crossword fiend -- We’ve been known to dig old newspapers out of recycle bins just for the puzzles -- but challenged by this new phenomenon, we had to give Sudoku a try.

Seattlest was in the mood for something new and Japanese this week. We also wanted something inexpensive and nearby. Seattlest heard that Tsukushinbo in the International District was inexpensive and low-key, so we went to check it out. Based on what we had read, Seattlest found Tsukushinbo to be larger and less busy than expected. Tsukushinbo only has seven tables and eight seats at the bar, but it didn't feel cramped or crowded. Our good friend, Safety Sam, quickly pointed out that the lights were precariously supported solely by their wiring. We also discovered that the lattice in the window wasn't anchored, as at one point it nearly toppled onto us. Our general impression was that the restaurant was well-used and well-loved, but not necessarily well-maintained. We found it comfortable, unassuming and not very clean--but oddly, not in an unsanitary way. The food preparation areas were clean enough, but everything else was in need of a thorough dusting.

Ah, the summer season is now in full swing, and Seattlest couldn't be happier. Not because of the warm weather, which we can take or leave, but because of all the festivals occuring throughout the area. And when you say festivals, what jumps to our minds is food! Specifically "fair food".

West Seattle is just days away from the springtime resurrection of it's lifeline to the downtown waterfront: the water taxi. Beginning May, 1, Three dollars will get you across Elliot Bay aboard the Argosy Sightseer. Strangely, it will only cost you $1 if you can also come up with a valid Metro transfer, so you penny-pinchers can save yourselves $0.50 by going that route. The Sightseer will leave from pier 55 every hour on the half hour from 8-10pm on Saturdays and make the return trip from Seacrest Park on the hour. The full schedule, in all its irregular glory, is here.