Rachel Leah Blumenthal » central square http://www.rachelblumenthal.net Writer, Photographer, Musician Thu, 11 Jul 2013 03:25:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.39 CBS Boston: Restaurant Review: Floating Rock http://www.rachelblumenthal.net/2011/09/21/cbs-boston-restaurant-review-floating-rock/ http://www.rachelblumenthal.net/2011/09/21/cbs-boston-restaurant-review-floating-rock/#comments Wed, 21 Sep 2011 09:00:01 +0000 http://www.rachelblumenthal.net/?p=329 When I was in grad school, there was a nearby cheap pan-Asian noodle place where we’d often grab lunch between classes. It was fast, inexpensive, and… mediocre. One dish, though, became an addiction for me: something called Cambodian-style sweet lime soup. A sweet and sour broth with pineapple, tomato, shrimp, and fried bits of garlic on top, it was a perfect pick-me-up between long lectures, and I’d never seen it elsewhere. I don’t get out to that neighborhood much anymore, but I still think of that soup. Now, two years later, I’ve finally found it, and it’s closer to home and tastier than the one I remember. It’s at Floating Rock in Central Square, the new Cambridge location of an old Revere gem.

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