Entries tagged with 'Vietnamese'
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[Photos: Joe DiStefano] Queens offers every kind of Asian food: Indian, Indonesian, Korean, Thai, and a plethora of regional Chinese. The void in this wonderland of ethnic eats has always been the bánh mì, or Vietnamese sandwich. This is...
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"If the iced version was blended and topped with whipped cream, it could knock a Frappuccino out of the park." [Photographs: Allison Hemler] The thought of putting an inch of half-and-half and three sugar packets into eight ounces of coffee...
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[Photographs: Brian Yarvin] There's a certain pleasure in visiting Salem County. It's as rural as New Jersey gets and when you're driving down straight roads through flat farm country, it's a bit more like Alabama than Newark. Even though...
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Featuring assorted banh mi tastings. Photograph by LUNCH Coming up Saturday: HAY QUA's festival of creatives. Hobnob with Vietnamese American artists, designers, performers, and filmmakers while plowing through a tasting of some of the city's best banh mi. Discuss...
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Bowl of pho with close ups of noodles and tripe. I'm a noob when it comes to pho. Although I like it, I've probably eaten it less than five times in the past three years. There's no good reason...
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Here's Tam's take and my take on the sandwiches from Ba Xuyen in Borough Park, Brooklyn. It's a "He Said, She Said" kind of a thing in which the "he" is a food-pleasure-seeking white guy and the "she" is a smart, passionate, Vietnamese-American lawyer who moonlights as a food obsessive.
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"In a city of bad Vietnamese food, the ambitious Bep has carved itself a niche." Cha gio. All photographs by Tam Ngo The failings of New York's Viet restaurants usually occur in a combination of three ways: poor quality of...
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John Hodgman on the newly opened Hanco's location in Park Slope: Would that word be meh? Earlier @hodgman: "Meanwhile, I hope no one saw me eat that banh mi sandwich. It was a bad, spicy scene." Hanco's Park Slope 370...
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Photographs by Robyn Lee. From left: Nha Trang, Shopsins, Minangasli. After Sunday's guacamole binging, it's probably best to cure the hangover with more avocado. As they say, "a hair of the dog that bit you," and if it works...
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banh mi (the word itself means
baguette in Vietnamese) is essentially an Asian hero sandwich. The classic is filled with pâté, slices of what can only be described as pork loaf, pickled vegetables, fresh coriander, jalapeño slices. It's dressed with fish sauce, mayo, and hot sauce (usually Sriracha) and served on a warmed baguette. Could the chef-driven banh mi shop be a rising trend?
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