Chinese food in Florence & Nice, France?

Hello,

Are there Cheap Chinese eateries near the train stations? Before you
flame me for not trying the local fare blah blah..please hear me out.
I have a medical problem, I'm allergic to baker's yeast, malt, oyster
and chocolate. It's rather sad because I actually like bread and
pasta, and I won't be able to eat them for a while. Rice dishes will
be the way to go when I travel this Jan. :-/

I plan to stay near the train station. Any suggestions?

Despite my condition I'm determine to make this trip happen and have a
blast.

Thanks, everybody.

Don't know about Nice, but I was told by friends who live in
Italy that there is a general lack of non-Italian restaurants
throughout Italy, and I can remember only seeing one Chinese
restaurant in Florence. Their explanation was that when most
Italians go to a restaurant for a meal, they prefer the kind
of food they could make at home, if they had time and talent.

Nevertheless, you shouldn't have trouble with local fare,
despite not being able to eat pasta or bread. There are
fabulous soups, great risottos (although not typically
Florentine, some restuarants will offer this rice dish),
grilled meats and vegetables, etc.

On Sun, 30 Nov 2003, Gal wrote:

Hello,

Are there Cheap Chinese eateries near the train stations? Before you
flame me for not trying the local fare blah blah..please hear me out.
I have a medical problem, I'm allergic to baker's yeast, malt, oyster
and chocolate. It's rather sad because I actually like bread and
pasta, and I won't be able to eat them for a while. Rice dishes will
be the way to go when I travel this Jan. :-/

I plan to stay near the train station. Any suggestions?

Despite my condition I'm determine to make this trip happen and have a
blast.

Thanks, everybody.



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Gal wrote:

Are there Cheap Chinese eateries near the train stations? Before you
flame me for not trying the local fare blah blah..please hear me out.
I have a medical problem, I'm allergic to baker's yeast, malt, oyster
and chocolate. It's rather sad because I actually like bread and
pasta, and I won't be able to eat them for a while. Rice dishes will
be the way to go when I travel this Jan. :-/

There should be a Chinese restaurant in front of the church of S.Maria
Novella in Florence. I cannot comment on quality as I never entered a
Chinese restaurant in Florence :-)

Another big one is in front of the Porta a Prato gate, at the beginning
of via del Ponte alle Mosse. Again, I don't know but I see a lot of
Chinese partying there.

I was recommended, a couple of years ago (an eternity in restaurant
management), the Chinese restaurants in via della Condotta (near Palazzo
Vecchio) and - best - viale Lavagnini, a but out of way from the center.

BTW, Italian cooking has wonderful rice dishes. They are called
"risotto".


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Luca Logi - Firenze - Italy e-mail:

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Don't know about Nice, but I was told by friends who live in
Italy that there is a general lack of non-Italian restaurants
throughout Italy, and I can remember only seeing one Chinese
restaurant in Florence.

Florence as the majority of the italian cities are full of non italian
restaurants. Florence has the biggest chinese community of Italy so is wrong
to say that; maybe in Florence there are hundreds of chinese restaurants and
italians (and florentines too) enjoys the chinese food as the italian one.
A good chinese restaurant is Citta' Imperiale piazza Santa Maria Novella 32r
tel. 055218368 close to the Santa Maria Novella Railway Station which is the
main railway station of Florence.
Enjoy Italy and Tuscany
Ricky

wrote:

Don't know about Nice, but I was told by friends who live in
Italy that there is a general lack of non-Italian restaurants
throughout Italy, and I can remember only seeing one Chinese
restaurant in Florence. Their explanation was that when most
Italians go to a restaurant for a meal, they prefer the kind
of food they could make at home, if they had time and talent.

Nevertheless, you shouldn't have trouble with local fare,
despite not being able to eat pasta or bread. There are
fabulous soups, great risottos (although not typically
Florentine, some restuarants will offer this rice dish),
grilled meats and vegetables, etc.


I don't know about Nice in particular (I've never been there) but
certainly food in France should not be a problem, so long as you avoid
bread - IIRC, there are a great many French dishes that use rice - and
pasta is rather a non-issue. In fact, I honestly don't recall any meals
in France that contained anything on your "allergic" list - unless
easily identifiable, therefore avoidable. Oysters are certainly clearly
identified, and obviously you'll have to avoid "mousse au chocolate",
but even without bread (wonderful bread, too bad you can't indulge) I
doubt whether you'd go hungry, eating "native" food.

Luca Logi wrote:

Gal wrote:

Are there Cheap Chinese eateries near the train stations? Before you
flame me for not trying the local fare blah blah..please hear me out.
I have a medical problem, I'm allergic to baker's yeast, malt, oyster
and chocolate. It's rather sad because I actually like bread and
pasta, and I won't be able to eat them for a while. Rice dishes will
be the way to go when I travel this Jan. :-/

There should be a Chinese restaurant in front of the church of S.Maria
Novella in Florence. I cannot comment on quality as I never entered a
Chinese restaurant in Florence :-)

Another big one is in front of the Porta a Prato gate, at the beginning
of via del Ponte alle Mosse. Again, I don't know but I see a lot of
Chinese partying there.

I was recommended, a couple of years ago (an eternity in restaurant
management), the Chinese restaurants in via della Condotta (near Palazzo
Vecchio) and - best - viale Lavagnini, a but out of way from the center.

BTW, Italian cooking has wonderful rice dishes. They are called
"risotto".

I was under the impression that in Italy pasta is an "entree" (in the
European sense of the term, not the "main course"), so one can easily
order a meal that does not include it. (Unlike Italian restaurants in
America, where most of the main courses involve pasta in some form.)

Hi,
Nice is a little China/Thai/Vietnamese town for sometime now...next to the
train station there is 4 Asian fastfood...1 minute away from the train
station there is 5+ Asian restaurant....and all the way to the beach or old
town from the train station (10 to 15 minutes walk) more choice in Asian
food...take your pick.

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Jumbo

"Gal" wrote in message
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Hello,

Are there Cheap Chinese eateries near the train stations? Before you
flame me for not trying the local fare blah blah..please hear me out.
I have a medical problem, I'm allergic to baker's yeast, malt, oyster
and chocolate. It's rather sad because I actually like bread and
pasta, and I won't be able to eat them for a while. Rice dishes will
be the way to go when I travel this Jan. :-/

I plan to stay near the train station. Any suggestions?

Despite my condition I'm determine to make this trip happen and have a
blast.

Thanks, everybody.

EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) "evgmsop -no wrote:

I was under the impression that in Italy pasta is an "entree" (in the
European sense of the term, not the "main course"), so one can easily
order a meal that does not include it. (Unlike Italian restaurants in
America, where most of the main courses involve pasta in some form.)

Well, here we think as pasta or rice as a first course, and meat as a
second course. You may skip either (a meal with a pasta and a salad
would be fine, for example). But, thinking about it, having a meal at a
restaurant is somewhat more formal that eating at home, so skipping the
pasta completely sounds a little strange.

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Luca Logi - Firenze - Italy e-mail:

Gal staggered to the nearest keyboard and wrote:

Hello,

Are there Cheap Chinese eateries near the train stations? Before you
flame me for not trying the local fare blah blah..please hear me out.
I have a medical problem, I'm allergic to baker's yeast, malt, oyster
and chocolate. It's rather sad because I actually like bread and
pasta, and I won't be able to eat them for a while. Rice dishes will
be the way to go when I travel this Jan. :-/

I plan to stay near the train station. Any suggestions?

Are you staying at the Ibis in Nice? (It's right beside the train
station, which is why I ask.) I've stayed there and don't recall a
Chinese restaurant anywhere nearby. But you can have a good meal in
Nice while staying clear of the items you list above. Your
restrictions don't appear to prohibit steak frites, salade niçoise, or
a wide variety of other dishes.



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hambu n hambu hodo

Gal wrote in news:tmojsvonvpj7hj8hrfqoaq8j3tr90f9oba@
4ax.com:

Hello,

Are there Cheap Chinese eateries near the train stations? Before you
flame me for not trying the local fare blah blah..please hear me out.
I have a medical problem, I'm allergic to baker's yeast, malt, oyster
and chocolate. It's rather sad because I actually like bread and
pasta, and I won't be able to eat them for a while. Rice dishes will
be the way to go when I travel this Jan. :-/

I plan to stay near the train station. Any suggestions?

Despite my condition I'm determine to make this trip happen and have a
blast.

Thanks, everybody.


I wasn't going to "flame you for not trying the local fare blah blah"
until you mentioned your dietary restictions.

Do you think Italian eatries only serve pasta & pizza????

Restaurants in Italy do serve things like beef, chicken, pork (aka
protein) with vegetables and potatos. Also in italy there is a type of
food called "risotto". It is made of rice. And there are certainly salads
and fruits. Oh, and ice cream...

If you just fancied eating chinese food... well, you are allowed.