Fair Season on West Colonial: The Central Florida Fairgrounds Next to Barnett Park
Eleven days of midway, livestock and fair food at a 114-year-old nonprofit fair — and a year-round expo calendar at Pine Hills’ front door.
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Vietnamese on West Colonial: Phở, Hot Pot and Snails at the Edge of Chinatown
Regional range at Huong Viet, a vegetarian house at Phở TD and snail-house cooking at Mama Lau & Oc — the west side’s Vietnamese table, cooking for its own community.
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Under the Paifang: A Field Guide to Orlando Chinatown in Pine Hills
More than 60 Asian businesses behind one red-tiled arch — Enson Market, Sun Pearl Bakery, hand-pulled noodles, skewer hot pot and Korean tofu, storefront by storefront.
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Golden Krust on West Colonial: Patties, Coco Bread and the Case for Oxtail
Flaky patties, patty-in-coco-bread, jerk chicken and curried goat — the Jamaican bakery and grill that holds its own in Orlando’s densest Caribbean corridor.
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Caribbean Supercenter: The Market, the Kitchen and the Patty Run on West Colonial
A West Indian supermarket with a serious kitchen attached — shop the pantry of the Caribbean diaspora, then eat the oxtail, jerk chicken and patties it exists for.
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Pine Hills, Properly: Many Cultures, One Very Good Table
One of Orlando’s first suburbs grew into one of its most diverse communities — a local’s guide to its food corridors, its landmark high school and its 159-acre park.
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