{"id":680,"date":"2008-03-22T06:02:49","date_gmt":"2008-03-22T11:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/22\/zoes-in-somerville-where-the-chinese-go-to-eat\/"},"modified":"2008-03-28T03:13:33","modified_gmt":"2008-03-28T08:13:33","slug":"zoes-in-somerville-where-the-chinese-go-to-eat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/22\/zoes-in-somerville-where-the-chinese-go-to-eat\/","title":{"rendered":"Zoe&#8217;s in Somerville, where the Chinese go to eat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/zoes-takeout-chinese.jpg\" title=\"Zoe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Kitchen in Somerville Massachusetts\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/zoes-takeout-chinese.jpg\" title=\"Zoe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Kitchen in Somerville Massachusetts\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/zoes-takeout-chinese.jpg\" alt=\"Zoe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Kitchen in Somerville Massachusetts\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I did my WBUR interview with Here and Now at Zoe&#8217;s in Somerville, which is ote cited asone of the most authentic Chinese restaurant in the Cambridge\/Somerville area. (See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yelp.com\/biz\/zoes-chinese-somerville\">Yelp reviews,<\/a> which have mixed opinion on the authenticity).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a place where the dominant language spoken over tables is Chinese &#8212; especially last night since it was Good Friday, which seemed to knock out the Catholic foodies that I sometimes observe there. I think our table was the only one where we were speaking English.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nThey offer a lot of dishes that you can&#8217;t get in normal American Chinese restaurants &#8212; selections of Sichuan, Hunan, Northeast (Dongbei!) Here is a Hunanese dish, fengsha eggplant in a stonebowl.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/fengsha-eggplat-in-pot.jpg\" title=\"Fengsha Eggplant in Stonepot\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/fengsha-eggplat-in-pot.jpg\" title=\"Fengsha Eggplant in Stonepot\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/fengsha-eggplat-in-pot.jpg\" alt=\"Fengsha Eggplant in Stonepot\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They also have Mao-family styled red braised pork, which is really fatty, but a big hit in China when he was head of the government.<\/p>\n<p>They do however serve fortune cookies, and we even got an old-school one where Confucius spoke up  a perplexing enigmatic way: &#8220;Confucius says, lovers on triangle not on square.&#8221; Anyone care to interpret?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/confucius-say.jpg\" title=\"Confucius say,lovers in triangle, not on square\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/confucius-say.jpg\" title=\"Confucius say,lovers in triangle, not on square\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/confucius-say.jpg\" alt=\"Confucius say, lovers in triangle, not on square.\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did my WBUR interview with Here and Now at Zoe&#8217;s in Somerville, which is ote cited asone of the most authentic Chinese restaurant in the Cambridge\/Somerville area. (See Yelp reviews, which have mixed opinion on the authenticity). It&#8217;s a place where the dominant language spoken over tables is Chinese &#8212; especially last night since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best","category-chinese-restaurants"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pydS-aY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}