{"id":1116,"date":"2010-01-13T15:40:34","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T22:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/?p=1116"},"modified":"2010-01-13T15:40:34","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T22:40:34","slug":"review-facing-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/?p=1116","title":{"rendered":"Review: Facing East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bh and I got to know this Taiwanese resturant when we met Sam &amp; Denny.. heh&#8230;.. apparently, Julius also knew abt this place and &#8216;bo jio&#8217; us to eat here for the past yr :O Anyhow, it was a spontaneous decision to dine here last saturday after our failed attempt to go snowboarding<\/p>\n<p>This place feels like a &#8220;zi char&#8221; store .. the place is crowded and it&#8217;s affordable.. order many dishes and eat with rice.. I love it!!! Just don&#8217;t like the Q part<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, these were what we ordered:<\/p>\n<p>(Fried noodle, Bitter melon with salty egg, Braised meat rice, &#8220;Kong Bah Bao&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Picture-005-tile.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1117\" title=\"Picture 005-tile\" src=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Picture-005-tile.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"478\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am not a meat person&#8230;I don&#8217;t like pork.. so I didn&#8217;t eat the pork rice and &#8220;Kong Bah Bao&#8221; .. my fave of these all was of course the bitter melon with salty egg&#8230; man&#8230; i love it!! The guys can&#8217;t tk the bitter taste, so i finished the whole plate myself!!! <strong>I LOVE BITTERGOURD!!!! \ud83d\ude00 <\/strong>well, i don&#8217;t cook bittergourd at home coz BH don&#8217;t like it and if i were to cook for myself, i wld need to cook something else for him.. sigh&#8230; so FACING EAST is the place to satisfy my taste buds for bittergourd.. wahaha&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And we also ordered soya beancurd as desserts!! it&#8217;s diff from what we can get from SG as it has ginger, nuts, nvtheless it&#8217; nice!! ( not pictured)<\/p>\n<p>So i totally love this place&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Total damage for 3 with tips: US$60<\/p>\n<p>Be sure to reach early &#8211; the Q is long and it&#8217;s not fun to Q\u00a0in the cold&#8230; brrr<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facing East Taiwanese Restaurant<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>1075 Bellevue Way NE<br \/>\nB-2<br \/>\nBellevue, WA 98009<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some pictures to sum up this post &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Heh.. probably gonna be slaughtered if they see this pic on my blog.. but&#8230; I&#8217;ll still post it.. keke&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Picture-004.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1119\" title=\"Picture 004\" src=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Picture-004.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"416\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Picture-004.jpg 416w, https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Picture-004-300x228.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 416px) 100vw, 416px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Picture-001.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Picture-001.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Picture-0011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1120\" title=\"Picture 001\" src=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Picture-0011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"413\" height=\"385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Picture-0011.jpg 413w, https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Picture-0011-300x279.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 413px) 100vw, 413px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>YES!\u00a0You noticed my pics with nice borders &#8211; wahaha&#8230; just found a super good software &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.photoscape.org\/ps\/main\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">PhotoScape<\/a>! It&#8217;s so fun and easy to use!! Lovin&#8217; it &#8211; makes editing and beautifying pics so much easier. Has more designs than Picasa u know!! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bh and I got to know this Taiwanese resturant when we met Sam &amp; Denny.. heh&#8230;.. apparently, Julius also knew abt this place and &#8216;bo jio&#8217; us to eat here for the past yr :O Anyhow, it was a spontaneous decision to dine here last saturday after our failed attempt to go snowboarding This place &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/?p=1116\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Review: Facing East&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattletimes.6eptember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}