Tasty Chomps' Orlando

• Best Tacos in Orlando for Cinco De Mayo? plus $100 Giveaway for Qdoba Catering
• Foodie’s Guide to Orlando’s Mills 50 District – Spring 2017
• Taste of Winter Park 2017
• First Look: Quickly Boba Tea Cafe by UCF

Best Tacos in Orlando for Cinco De Mayo? plus $100 Giveaway for Qdoba Catering

Cinco de Mayo is coming so we were wondering what are your favorite places for tacos in Orlando? Send us your answer, and you could win $100 gift card for with Qdoba  who are promoting their catering service for Cinco de Mayo!

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Qdoba Mexican Eats® makes hosting the perfect Cinco de Mayo fiesta a breeze with their catering menu!

· The food is delivered right to your party, and guests will love the hot, delicious and completely customizable meals, and the hosts will love how easy Qdoba makes it!

· Perfect for parties big and small, Qdoba’s catering bars are fully stocked with warmed chips and salsa, savory meats and fresh toppings, including delicious guacamole made with Avocados from Mexico, and more.

· You can order Qdoba catering for your Cinco party by visiting www.qdoba.com/catering or calling: 888-736-2224.

QDOBA $100 GIFT CARD GIVEAWAY CONTEST

One entry per person, winner will be chosen randomly on Friday April 28,2017 at 5pm!

TO ENTER:
1. Subscribe to our E-mail Newsletter -TastyChomps Newsletter here
2. E-mail us the answers to the questions below to tastychomps@gmail.com:
a. Did you subscribe to the e-mail newsletter? Yes/No
b. What’s your favorite place for tacos in Orlando? 

THANKS!

Foodie’s Guide to Orlando’s Mills 50 District – Spring 2017

Orlando’s Mills 50 District is known for its eclectic and diverse restaurants and businesses – from the Vietnamese markets and restaurants to fusion restaurants like Tako Cheena and Pig Floyd’s serving up creative and delightfully delicious dishes with a modern twist. Lately there have been new restaurants popping up so here is our latest guide to the Mills 50 District – visit soon!

Black Rooster Taqueria

Dishes to try: Achiote Pork taco made with slow roasted pork in banana leaf, achiote, pickled onion, cilantro, habanero salsa and the divine Chocolate Chipotle Flan for dessert.

Banh Mi Nha Trang

Dishes to try: Any of the 22 Vietnamese banh mi sandwiches! I like the traditional banh mi dac biet nha trang with their spicy nuoc cham sauce.

Banh Mi Nha Trang

1216 E Colonial Dr #9, Orlando, FL 32803

Lazy Moon Pizza

Dishes to try: Their ginormous pizza – top it any way you like. Eat with a knife and fork.

Lazy Moon Pizza

1011 E Colonial Dr, Ste 101
Orlando, FL 32803
Phone number (407) 412-6222
lazymoonpizza.com

Tasty Wok

Dishes to try: Cantonese bbq plate with crispy skin roast pork, honey bbq roast pork, and roast duck, and the fried salt and pepper squid.

King Bao

Dishes to try: Hogzilla bao, braised pork belly with pickled carrots and daikon, and the truffle tater tots.

King Bao
https://www.facebook.com/kingbaoorlando/
Address: 710 N Mills Ave, Orlando, FL 32803, United States
Phone: +1 407-237-0013

King Cajun Crawfish – Vietnamese influenced Louisiana cajun cuisine

Dishes to try: Boiled crawfish, crab, and shrimp in “sha-bang” sauce, a unique blend of buttery garlic, spices, and sweet orange peel. Also try the beignets and fried shrimp po boy sandwiches.  The owners are from Louisiana and imbued their Vietnamese heritage into some of the dishes like the gumbo. They recently moved into this larger place next door.

King Cajun Crawfish
924 N Mills Ave, Orlando, FL 32803
Phone: (407) 704-8863
www.kingcajuncrawfish.com

Mamak – Malaysian street food

Dishes to try: Wontons in hot peanut sauce, Indian mee goreng, char kwa teo, and the roti canai.

Mamak
1231 E Colonial Dr, Orlando, FL 32803
Phone: (407) 270-4688
www.mamakasianorlando.com

Pig Floyd’s Urban Barbakoa

Dishes to try:  The Oak-smoked St. Louis ribs (half-rack $14.99, full $22.99) are truly among the best, if not the best, ribs in all of Orlando – slow-cooked with a crispy surface yet tender, fall of the bone meat within and a nice sweet flavor. Try it with the crispy sweet fennel apple salad. Also,  great chicken tikka tacos and shrimp and chorizo tacos.

Pig Floyds
1326 N Mills Ave, Orlando, FL 32803
Phone: (407) 203-0866
www.pigfloyds.com

Chuan Lu Garden – Sichuan Chinese cuisine

Dishes to try: La Zi Fish, fried with spicy numb Sichuan peppercorns, cumin lamb, beef and chicken clay pot, dan dan noodles, sliced tofu and fish in hot sauce, and the pan fried house made dumplings.

Chuan Lu Garden
Phone (407) 896-8966
??1101 E Colonial Dr, Orlando, FL 32803
http://www.chuanluorlando.com/

The Strand

Dishes to try: STRAND BURGER – bacon, blue cheese dressing,
lettuce, tomato, onion, pickle, & roasted jalapeño on brioche bun served with fries

The Strand
807 N Mills Ave
Orlando, FL 32803
Phone number (407) 920-7744
strandorlando.com

Vietnam Cuisine:

Dishes to try: Banh cuon, a rice noodle crepe dish filled with mushrooms and pickled daikon radish, and the oxtail beef pho noodle soup.

Vietnam Cuisine

For more on where to eat when visiting Orlando, Florida, visit: http://www.visitflorida.com/en-us/things-to-do.html

Taste of Winter Park 2017

It was an honor to judge the 2017 Taste of Winter Park this year – the restaurants and chefs of Winter Park pulled out all the punches this week in presenting their best eats to benefit the Winter Park Chamber of Commerce.

Here are some of my favorite eats:

Prato – Dessert , Luke’s – Crabcake, Luma – Meatball

Swine and Sons – Pulled Pork burgers with like 30 house made accompaniments 

• Chefs Rhys and Alexia Gawlak brought not one but TWO whole smoked pigs for Winter Park Taste, and they were moist and tender and altogether delicious!

Hunger Street Tacos – Beef brisket quesadilla and watermelon margarita 

Bulla Gastrobar – Chicken and Mushroom Paella and Seafood Salad

Four Rivers – Cochon lait tacos

First Look: Quickly Boba Tea Cafe by UCF

Quickly Boba is “quickly” expanding across the Central Florida region with five shops open already with more to come. The original Quickly is located at Maguire and Colonial next to Del-Dio’s pizza and is popular for their boba tea, poke bowls, and many appetizers like Taiwanese popcorn chicken.

While four of the Quickly’s are owned by the same family, the newest Quicky Cafe by UCF is owned by a UCF alumni and friend named Daniel Dang and his family.

There are a few differences here: they serve a variety of rice bowls including Korean bulgogi beef bowl and spam musubi, in addition to the many boba teas. They do also have the Taiwanese popcorn chicken made famous in Taiwan by the original Quickly and even have giant fried Chicken breast chops that are a popular street food item in Taiwan.

Quickly Boba Café
Address: 11772 E Colonial Dr, Orlando, FL 32817
Phone: (407) 930-2233
http://quicklybobacafe.com/

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