The Expansion of Eastern Cuisine Under the Arch

St. Louis has in the past ten years experienced a culinary boom of Eastern Cuisine, Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese and Korean have all come to grace our city. For those who are around my age  (21) we've grown up with this boom and most of us have embraced it, love it even that we have all of these new choices. Even so I here people talk about how even ten, fifteen years ago that when it came to food choices they weren't limited by places to go but in variety of types, how there was your Chinese restaurant but that looking back the proper term would be oriental. Now when you crave eastern cuisine there are options beyond the local take out (My personal haunt, Dingho on Watson Road, combination plate with an added  Egg roll is about $7 recommend the Crispy Cashew Chicken No vegetable with fried Rice One of my favorite meals, period warning doesn't take plastic) there's Korean (U-City Diner, cash only but so worth an added trip to an ATM) Vietnamese (Pho Grand is king but Mai Lee is better if you want a simple bowl of noodles) Japanese (try Corner 17 right down the road from U City Grill if you have a Ramen itch that needs scratching or craving a Bobba Tea). We aren't New York, Seattle, or San Francisco on the spectrum of Eastern diversity in the culinary world but here Under the Arch we are beginning to hold our heads high when it comes to our choices, sure you might need to travel to parts of the city you might not be familiar with but trust me sometimes a little adventure is a good thing.