You can’t pitch a chile-crusted pork rib in Chinatown these days without hitting a Sichuanese restaurant. I’m always yammering to whoever will listen about how Chinatown and soon-to-be-annexed Bridgeport are consistently the most interesting and dynamic food neighborhoods in the city. But lately things have been looking a bit one-dimensional.
Then in late June, it reappeared in Bridgeport on a strip of Halsted that’s become a showcase for regional variety: there’s the Sichuanese A Place by Damao; the venerable, pioneering northern-Chinese Ed’s Potsticker House; the Shenyang street food at Xiao Mei Ming; the Taiwanese hot pots at Taipei Café; the Dongbei-style Northern Taste, and even Big Boss Spicy Fried Chicken, for a weird and wonderful collision of Chinese-Belizean and southern-fried poultry.
3312 S. Halsted 773-565-4431 lamomkitchen.com
