THE BEST OF EVERYTHING
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Mon Jin Lau impresses world travelers with its tasty cuisine and family tradition.
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for that matter, anywhere I have
With both their jobs neces-
traveled. I also like the fact that
sitating world traveling, son Scott
it is family-owned, showing
Raskin and his friend Michael Pricer feel
that a family-owned and oper-
themselves qualified to extol the virtues of ated restaurant can compete
a restaurant they visited while Scott was
with large chains and produce
recently here.
a much better experience and
Both are in total agreement that Mon
product!'
Jin Lau, corner of Maple and Stephenson,
REPUTABLE WORD has
Troy, surpasses many of the Asian restau-
it that one of the former own-
rants they have stopped at in their travels.
ers of the onetime Big Daddy's
As C.E.O. of Mindjet Computer
Parthenon restaurant in West
Corporation, Scott's journeys include the
Bloomfield may open again
company's home base of San Francisco,
under the same name at a different loca-
so he says with authority, "We have many
tion ... The Greek dining spot one time so
very fine restaurants in the Bay Area, but
popular until its partnership split, is slated
none stands out like Mon Jin Lau because
to be opened by Tom Peristeris on Seven
it not only combines a total package of
Mile Road in Livonia.
true goodness, but it also
NOT BEING
keeps alive an Asian fam-
REGIMENTED with
ily's wonderful fine din-
the same menu items
ing tradition. It certainly
as the Honey Tree
exceeded my expecta-
chain owned by Tom
tions in food, energy and
Goulas has its advan-
atmosphere. I had heard
tages for George Lukaj
that it was good, but Mon
... His independent
Jin Lau is excellent!"
George's Honey Tree on
Michael, account rela-
Northwestern in West
tionship director with
Bloomfield, can con-
KPMG global network
tinue looking for new
for audit and tax servic-
things like George's
es, whose mother, Jane
new
dining sensation
Scott Raskin and Michael Pricer
Zetting, sang as Jane
of steak on a stone
Pricer here years back
... It's gaining a lot
with Mel Ball & Colours, says, "One word
of raves with cooking done directly at the
describes the food — GREAT! And the
customer's table on a stone used as the
atmosphere had an outstanding energy
grill ... Hardly any oil is needed, usually
that made the dining experience a lively
just a little vegetable oil, after which cus-
one. I can't say enough about the dishes,
tomers cook the steak to their liking in a
so very good, including some of the best
short time while getting entertainment as
sushi I have had in the Detroit area; and
well ... Just lay the steak on the hot stone
for a few minutes and flip it
local orchestra leader Sammy Woolf, is
frequently to keep the outside paired up with Roy's grandson, Sammy
from burning.
Jr., singing "You're Nobody `Til Somebody
MAIL DEPT. ... "Whatever Loves You" with his great-grandpa ...
happened to ordering soup
The recording is like that of Natalie Cole
that was hot to the point
and her late father Nat "King" Cole doing
where you had to blow on it,
a similar duet on "Unforgettable" ... Roy
just like our moms had to
blended the voices together from a disc his
do when they fed us as little
father had made with pianist Hal Gordon
children? Today it seems like
30 years ago and recorded by the late Jack
three or four times I have sent Brokensha ... Like Sammy Sr., young
soup back to the kitchens in
14-year-old Sammy Jr. also sings and plays
some fine restaurants because the piano.
the soup is what I refer to as like hot'. To
JUDGES HAVE BEEN selected for
add insult to injury, often times the soup
the first annual Kugel Cook Off Brunch
comes back having been in the microwave
by Adat Shalom Sisterhood and Shaarey
and then gets a disgusting film on it. The
Zedek Sisterhood ... 10:30 a.m. Sunday,
soup is not even pleasant to look at, let
Feb. 6, at Adat Shalom Synagogue,
alone eat. Servers make excuses like, 'It's
Middlebelt, Farmington Hills ...
not the chef's fault, but the fault of cooks
be Annabelle Cohen of the luscious recipes
in the kitchen. I have heard all the excuses and myself.
and none of them fly.
QUESTION & ANSWER DEPT. ... "I'm
"Oddly enough, this seems to happen
trying to find a certain motion picture
more at upscale restaurants as opposed to
that I once saw about Variety Club. Do you
the little mom-and-pop diners. Speaking
happen to know what it was called?" ...
of which, if you want a real treat, check
Sarah Linden Gordon.
out Elie's in Berkley on Coolidge open for
[I don't know if it is the one you are
breakfast, lunch and dinner, which has
looking for, but the movie that I remember
great Hungarian and Macedonian soups
best was a musical called Variety Girl in
that are always so hot you have to blow
the late 1940s with almost everybody who
on them! My favorites by far are Elie's
worked at Paramount Pictures having a
Cabbage Soup and String Bean Soup!' ...
role or cameo bit in it.]
Mort Meisner.
CONGRATS ... To Boris Shain on his
MAKING ROUNDS ... To Ocean
62nd birthday ... To Abram Shain on his
Prime, Troy, for Jumbo Lump Crab Cake
88th birthday ... To Sally Levine on her
... To La Dolce Vita, Detroit, for sauteed
80th birthday ... To Maya Brodsky on her
lake perch.
birthday ... To Alex "Sasha" Brodsky on
RECORDING SENT via the Internet
his birthday ... To Melodee Lewin on her
from Boston, where former localite Dental
birthday.
Doc Roy Woolf now resides in retirement,
is beautiful ... His late, wonderful dad,
Danny's e-mail is dannyraskin@sbcglobal.net .
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