In this installment of our favorite places to visit in Chicago, we bring you The Spice House. A couple Saturdays ago we had the great fortune of spending the afternoon milling around The Spice House, chatting with Patty Erd, who co-owns the mom and pop chain with her husband Tom. We visited the Old Town [...]

The idea came to me after watching an old episode of Sky Full of Bacon about Peking duck at Sun Wah. The use of the gwa pao buns to sandwich the crispy duck skin looked so delicious. So I thought to myself, I can make something like that but with a soft melt-in-your-mouth pork belly [...]