A Dong’s is over 30,000 square feet of Chinatown in West Hartford, complete with hanging ducks, live fish, exotic produce and all the ingredients you need to cook Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai and Japanese. Prudence Sloane will guide you through this most extraordinary supermarket and give you expert advice on how to cook and use many of the products offered. All secrets will be revealed. Afterwards we feast on Vietnamese specialties at Pho Boston next door. Bring a sweater - the supermarket can get cold!
Food allergies and dietary restrictions (shrimp, pork, chicken, beef) must be noted upon registering.
Tour includes lunch, tax and gratuities. ~ Cash bar/beverages ~
Meet between 9:30 and 10:00am at Cha Papi at 150 Shield Street, West Hartford (next to Adongs Supermarket) It’s an Asian coffee shop with wonderful rice donuts and amazing coffee (not included on tour),
Prudence Sloane ~ Former cooking school owner, TV chef of “Let’s Eat with Prudence Sloane”and “Better Connecticut”, co-creator and personality on WNPR’s “Food Schmooze” and radio host of “Simply Food” on WDRC & WTIC, is back with her wildly successful food tour