"If three people contact me out of the blue to try the chicken, I listen." [Photo: Kathy Chan] The chicken here has a cult following. No more than a day after Lovely Day's re-opening last week after a fire in...
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I am thrilled to report that I recently ate dumplings in Sag Harbor, and I'm craving more. The generously sized meat and veggie morsels came courtesy of Phao Thai Kitchen, which opens today next door to sister restaurant and...
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Remember Thu Tran? The 27-year old Brooklynite with an out-there online cooking show called Food Party, where fuzzy ice cream sock puppets rule? She's putting the finishing touches on a fourth webisode (sneak preview here), which will be more dramatic—have...
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Can I just say I'm really digging the "Sidewalk" plate at Song Kran? I just got back from my fourth Sidewalk lunch this week. And I'm planning on eating it tomorrow, just to make it a straight flush. Sidewalk...
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Miang or mieng. Kham, khum, kum, or kam. With mieng meaning “many” and kham meaning “one bite,” this salad is a symphony of its confederate parts. Mieng Ka Na is often served as a snack on the streets of...
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We send our resident spicy food expert Emily Koh to brave the jungle curry at this legendary Woodside Thai restaurant.
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There's a new restaurant row in town, and it's in a most unlikely location: Twelfth Avenue in the 130s. Tucked among Riverside Park, Talay is a pretty serious Asian-Latin restaurant from the Chef of Kuma Inn.
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When I saw this package of dehydrated sandorica amidst more conventional tropical fruit items like dehydrated baby bananas at Thai grocery Sugar Club I had no idea what it was, but such ignorance has never stopped me before. The...
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Serious Eats contributor Matthew Amster-Burton just tipped me to this review of Wondee Siam in the Bangkok Post: "I read the Bangkok Post review every Friday, and I've never seen them venturing outside Thailand before." After brushing off popular Sri...
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"Like so much else about Thai cuisine, making the perfect miang kum is all about balance." When I picked up the above package of miang kum at Sugar Club, a wonderful Thai grocery store in Elmhurst, Queens, I asked the...
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