"After the Asian American café and restaurant Cafe Mochiko landed on BA’s 50 Best New Restaurants list, I knew my husband and I needed to go on our next visit to his family in Cincinnati. We first went for dinner and there truly wasn’t a bad bite. The small, casual sit-down dinner is surprisingly shareable. The chili miso udon was a slippery warm-spicy pleasure to eat. And the shitake don (a bowl of rice topped with tamago and shiitake and oyster mushrooms) featured velvety-soft egg, chewy mushrooms, and perfectly cooked rice. I don’t eat beef, but my husband ordered the Cincinnati-style chili ramen, and, in his words, “It made me want to slurp from the bowl like it was cereal milk.” Of course we went back the next morning for pastries and milk tea. The pandan doughnut was the best of the bunch, but you won’t hear me complaining about the ube halaya croissant or the Thai tea snickerdoodle." - ByElazar Sontag
