LEO's Eats with Robin Garr
Bentuhua Teahouse's Ga-li Fan
We eat 2,000 grains of rice at charming Bentuhua Teahouse
"I like rice," the late, wacky stand-up comic Mitch Hedberg famously said. "Rice is great if you're hungry and want 2,000 of something."
This is funny because it's a presumably true statement about a reality that we've probably never considered before, and yanks a laugh out of our bellies before we suddenly come up short with the obvious follow-up: "So what?"
Still, I do love rice, even by the thousands, and I love pasta, bread and potatoes, too, which makes me a very poor candidate for the Atkins diet. I also love Asian food, which often comes with rice, even though – as Mitch Hedberg might have said, if he had only thought of it – "kids hate Asian food because everything touches on your plate."
Recently I've been in a mood to eat thousands of things – okay, a ration of rice – and to enjoy the colorful, flavorful array of tasty Asian things all touching on my plate.
So, eating Asian it is, as we report today on good ethnic eats from the East: Bentuhua Teahouse and Taiwanese Small Eats is an excellent recent arrival in Crescent Hill. It has been flying under the radar since its launch last November, word of its arrival on a residential-looking block of Frankfort Avenue spreading mostly via a colorful but smallish sign out front, plus a growing buzz of word-of-mouth advertising. ...
Read the full review on LouisvilleHotBytes,
http://www.louisvillehotbytes.com/?p=5202
And in LEO Weekly:
http://www.leoweekly.com/2015/02/eat-20 ... -teahouse/
Bentuhua Teahouse
2520 Frankfort Ave.
409-8174
http://smalleatscatering.com
https://facebook.com/Smalleatscatering
Robin Garr's rating: 90 points
