In the year and a half I had been working on my cookbook, I ate out much less than usual. Recipe-testing during the day meant that I always had leftovers for dinner, which piled up in the fridge, and I didn’t like food going to waste. When I did eat out, it was usually for [...]
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Dim Sum in Sunset Park – East Harbor Seafood Palace
I’ve been to Sunset Park plenty of times before for grocery shopping and eating, but have somehow missed East Harbor Seafood Palace, supposedly one of the best dim sum restaurants in New York. Robyn from The Girl Who Ate Everything wrote about it over a year ago, as did The Village Voice. So on President’s [...]
Chinese-Jamaican Food in Brooklyn: De Bamboo Express
Every once in a while I get an craving for greasy Chinese food that’s different from what you can find at your everyday takeout stand. Some of you may remember my Caribbean-Chinese party from two years ago. The theme had been inspired by the wee bit of my childhood that was spent in Puerto Rico [...]
Yun Nan Flavour Snack – The only Yunnan Spot in New York?
The last time I ate Yunnan food was over two years ago, back in Beijing. It is not for lack of trying. In the US, Cantonese, Sichuan, and Hunan food are ubiquitous. Northern Chinese, Shanghainese Xinjiang, and Fujianese are making headways into cities. But as far as Yunnan restaurants are concerned, the LA area can [...]
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