Geechee Girl Rice Café
Chef Valerie Erwin of Geechee Girl Rice Café, a bring-your-own-bottle (BYOB) restaurant on Germantown Avenue, honors her ancestors by building upon traditional southern rice delicacies with Chinese, Thai and other world influences.
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