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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Fu Run in Flushing
Cumin-crusted lamb makes me weak in the knees. I developed an obsession for it years ago when living in Beijing. From lunchtime through late night hours, it was easy to find street vendors selling cumin-crusted lamb kebabs, which they would cook up right in front of you on a charcoal grill. I also made a [...]
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 [...]
Nyonya – Malaysian Food in Chinatown
Living far away from family this year, I didn’t celebrate the first week of Chinese New Year by going out for dim sum or another festive meal. I talked to my parents in China via cell phone, made some Sichuan wontons, and called it good. I took solace in the fact that 1) I’ve eaten [...]
Soupy Dumplings and Pan-fried Bao at Nan Xiang
Since coming back to the US, I have had a hard time finding pan-fried pork buns, called shenjian bao in Chinese. In Shanghai, they were available on practically every street corner. Like the more widely known xiaolong bao (called “soup dumplings” in English), sheng jian bao is also filled with ground pork and piping hot [...]
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 [...]
Mantao Chinese Sandwiches
These days, you can get almost anything off a food truck. Progressive-sounding ice cream, Asian hot dogs, cow feet, you name it. However, as I’ve lamented before, what New York really needs is a banh mi truck. Say you are really craving a banh mi, but happen to be lunching outside Chinatown or the East [...]
Kunjip in Koreatown
I don’t really know why I don’t go to Koreatown more often, other than the fact that many of the restaurants there can get pretty pricey. But for months I had been craving bibimbap, which has been an obsession since my trip to Korea two years ago. I especially love the crackling sound of the [...]
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