Hibatchi Buffet

Hibachi Grill & Supreme Buffet 52 Kane St West Hartford, CT 06119‎ (860) 232-9998 This place is great if you are posted at P and K. Food is by the pound. Very inexpensive. they have 10 buffett islands with food.

Kien Asian Market

Kien Asian Market

1801 Park Street

Hartford, CT  06106
(860) 236-7952

Until recently I had never had the Vietnamese sandwich known as a Banh Mi.  The Banh Mi has cold cuts, pickled carrots, crispy cucumber, bean sprouts and cilantro, along with some unknown spices on a bagguette type sandwich. The first one I had was at the A. Dong Market.  It was delicious.  I had never had something with so many different flavors that all seemed to work together.  Recently I heard from a person from Vietnam say that the best sandwiches were from another Asian Market -- this one on Park Street.  I went there today.  A Vietnamese lady made it for me in just two minutes.  I got the Pork Banh Mi.  $3.75.  Here is a picture of it:

It was great!  Fresher and even better tasting than the ones I had been getting at A Dong, which are made in mass quantity at the beginning of the day.  They have a small food counter at the back of the store.  The woman told me to come back again and try her soup.  I am planning on it.  There is a little counter in the back that seats four.

Pick & Mix Korean Restaurant

Korean Pick & Mix Restaurant
1234 Farmington Avenue
West Hartford, CT 06107
(860) 521-1521
11:00 AM - 9:30 PM
Closed on Sunday

This is a great little place that just opened. It is very convinent if you are returning from John Dempsey Hospital. It located in the CVS Plaza across from Stop and Shop. They feature a traditional Korean dish called the Bi Bim Bab bowl. You get your choice of Base: Brown rice, white rice or sweet potato noodles, then you pile on your choice of vegetables (carrot, bean sprouts, spinach, cucumber, radish, mushroom, lettuce, zucchini, egg, broccoli, red pepper, red cabbage.) Then you pick your protein ( beef, chicken, spicy chicken, tofu). Finally, you choose your sauce (hot paste, teriyaki, soy lemon, olive oil, sesame oil). They then heat it all up and mix it together. The whole process takes only three minutes. If you order this between 11 and 3, it is only $7.99 and comes with soup and a soda. It is $8.99 at other hours. My favotite is the spicy chicken on sweet potato noodles with all the vegetables except mushroom with teryiaki and soy lemon sauce.



The people are very friendly and bow to you when you enter and leave.

A. Dong Supermarket

A Dong Supermarket
160 Shield Street
West Hartford, CT
(860)953-8903

Open until 8:00 P.M.

The A. Dong Grocery on Shield Street is a grocery from a different world. As soon you walk in the door, you can see roasted ducks hanging from their heads, next to roast pork and sometimes even a roasted boar's head. There is a Chinese bakery, which excellent pastries, a produce section that has vegtables and fruits you may have never seen before. The seafood section has unusual fish, too. They had live eels there one day, another time some kind of live buffalo fish the size of small pigs, and another time a bin of live blue crabs. There is a cold drink section that offers drinks like fungus and Lychee. There is an entire supermarket row just of different kinds of tea -- tea for the colon, tea for the liver, tea for the back, tea for the sex life. You name it, they have a tea for it. This place is an adventure just to walk through.

I go there sometimes for the roast duck. $7.95 for half a duck, chopped up with or without the head and packed into an aluminim foil pan. If they don't have one already sliced up, you can watch the woman behind the counter take down the duck and then make quick work of it with her meat cleaver. The barbequed pork here is so much better than what you get from a Chinese restaurant. It is fresh cooked her on premesis.

Note: I have yet to try the boar's head.