Boston Mag, Best of Boston 2019 - Discuss

[fooddabbler]

Oh, and we have a fledgling Five Spice thread too:

5 Spices House: Chinatown (Boston), and Cambridge

5 Spices needs its own thread. Having said that, I was slightly underwhelmed by my first experience there – at the newish Cambridge location. The cumin lamb was wonderfully cuminy, but the odd piece here and there was chewy. Plus, there was – to my taste – a slightly too-high proportion of large chunks of green and red peppers (bell), and onion. We had a noodle dish with pork – it was terrific, but lacked the black beans the menu claimed it had. We didn’t complain because we found communicat…