Two Annandale Restaurants On Best DC Area Dishes List

ANNANDALE, VA -- Two Annandale restaurants made The Washington Post's "40 Most Essential DC Restaurant Dishes of 2017."

These were To Sok Jip for its seafood pancake and SnoCream Company for its SnoCream.

The Post determined the top dishes by polling readers, industry insiders and its own staff. It received over 400 submissions and narrowed it down through a taste test. Staff explain, "We curated a selection that could cater to meat-eaters and vegetarians, sweets lovers and fried-food fans, suburban dwellers and urbanites without cars."

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To Sok Jip's seafood pancake, or haemul pajeon, is stuffed with squid, green chiles and scallions. The Post writes, "You might be tempted by the build-it-yourself bo ssam or the fire-red bubbling stews, but this meal — a giant golden orb cut into hefty wedges like a pie — achieves a fantastic balance of flavors and textures: sweet and savory, crisp and tender."

SnoCream can be found at the Block food hall. The Asian dessert is lighter than ice cream, so it can be a guilt-free treat during the summer. The Post writes, "A mixture of milk and water is frozen into a cylinder, then shaved into ribbons that pile up like the folds of a wedding gown. Add in a slew of customizable toppings — mochi, boba, Fruity Pebbles among them — to such colorful flavors as Thai tea and mango, and you’ve got a highly photogenic and multi-texture treat that also happens to be delicious."

See the full list of the DC area's best dishes here.

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