Do you ever, when eating tofu, stop and really focus hard on it, asking yourself: "Am I just eating this because it's cheap, inoffensive protein, or does it in fact have flavor?" Well, we discovered a brand of tofu that is undeniably, immediately, and gloriously flavorful. It's called Otokomae and Sunrise Mart is very excited to be bringing the stuff to New York every week from Kyoto.
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Cute food doesn't usually do it for me. The sole exception: images of cute animals engaging in cannibalism, like this gigantic crab on this bag of kanikko who is gleefully devouring his thumb-sized brothers and sisters. I like to...
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Last week we read a great post on the site New York Daily Photo about Sunrise Mart, a relatively hidden Japanese grocery store above St. Mark's Bookshop in the East Village. NYDP called it "the real deal" and it got...
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