Are there any restaurants serving beef ribs near Owings Mills, MD (since Tony Roma's closed this past weekend)?

What are your favorite ethnic foods and what restaurants are the best places to get them?

• My favorite ethnic foods are Chinese, Mexican and Italian, in that order of preference. I have no one favorite Chinese food place. I prefer a la carte to buffets, but will choose a buffet if that's the best that's available. Generally I like the little hole-in-the-wall Chinese places where the cooks and servers are obviously Asian, where chopsticks are available and where the choices include chicken, beef, pork and other meat dishes, as well as good steamed veggies. For Mexican, there are a lot of good choices. I like Tex-Mex as well as Northern New Mexico and Monterrey style foods. New Mexico has the hotter food and I love the sopapillas that are almost always part of the meal. Warning: taste the food before adding the hot sauce, and the green is hotter than the red. My favorite New Mexico style place is La Posta, in Las Cruces. For Tex-Mex I like a little weekend-only place near my home called La Cabana. Nice people and excellent food. (I live south of San Antonio, and La Cabana is on US 281 between Loop 1604 and the Atascosa County line.) Lots of good places to eat Italian, but my all-time favorite is a little family restaurant in Chicopee, Massachusetts. I don't remember the name of the place, but when I was there with a group of friends on a night they were closed, Mama opened the place up just to serve us. In San Antonio Caparelli's has good Italian food and the best pizza around. Okay. What's yours? Soul food? Korean? Vietnamese? German? Polish? Greek? French? Middle Eastern? Name your poisson and what's your favorite place to get it? Another in my series of questions on dining out. My Mastercard remains poised and ready for action.

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  Hi WarrenD :-) Oh did you ever get a topic close to an American's Heart. :-) FOOD!! Do you know we were programmed to "WANT TO REALLY REALLY EAT??" Yeh!! I proved it by in my writing I mentioned something to do with FOOD so many times "It shocked me" when I was told I was doing this. NOW I DO not focus so much on this little prob.I had, I Now Eat More Healthy so this choice IS AN Easy one. My "German" I had to put aside a little bit also the Italian. :-) Out German food is heavy like I used to be. :-))))) OH those yager schnitzel--OH HOW I USED TO LOVE THEE<3<3<3<3--Oh Pasta Italiano-How I used to LOVE the. :-) Mexican-Taco of course the most Fab. :-) My absolute fave' is Chinese "RIBS" OMG ----->One mile from my home a young couple own a Chinese take-out "China Sun." --The owners are as 'DELICIOUS" <--See I still slip-up with food-words for my discriptive adjectives.:-)) Bad-Bad :) These two beautiful young people and their most delightful-cutest little being daughter is part of the Take-Out experience. The Ribs are to die for. I do Love their dishes with their Native Veggies Are to die for.:-)))) Ummmmm A subject that was very very close to my heart. Have a great Day dear WarrenD. Friend for a LONG time on this ? and A fun little place I spent so much time. :-)