23 January 2010
how’s this for a pizza idea: mac & cheese. also shown here: black bean & avocado slice, vegan meat & cheese slice, and garlic knots.
the portions are large so one slice is probably enough, but we wanted to try the different kinds! to be honest they look better than they taste, but it’s not bad… definitely worth going if you’re in the neighbourhood. slices $4, garlic knots $1 (for 5).
Vinnie’s Pizzeria
148 Bedford Ave
(between 8th St & 9th St, Williamsburg North)
Brooklyn, NY 11211
subway: Bedford ave (L)
[yelp entry]
22 January 2010
fresh fruit, candied fruit (and a cute kid), shoe market, chopstick vendor & tea shop…
16 January 2010
I was in Taipei for the holidays, and each day before driving to my grandparents’ apartment we would eat or pick up breakfast at a soy milk place.
Typical dishes served at a place like this include: bowl of hot sweet soy milk (熱豆漿) or “salty” soy milk (鹹豆漿), bowl of rice milk (米漿), scallion pancakes (蔥油餅, with or without a fried egg), taiwanese sesame bread (“sao bing,” 燒餅: typical to add a fried breadstick “you tiao”, 油條, in the middle), sweet buns, and sticky rice rolls with either salty or sweet fillings.
Prices are low: conversion for New Taiwanese dollars is about 30 NT = 1 USD.
I like to have the salty soy milk soup (25 NT), since it’s not as easy to come by in North America as the sweet version is. Some (black?) vinegar is used to curdle the soy milk, then some sesame oil, chili oil and scallions are added. Finally, as shown here you can throw in some you-tiao…
Here’s a shot of the lady preparing a sticky-rice roll for my aunt: the sticky rice is in that big wooden bucket, with the various fillings & sauces next to it. Sweet ones are often filled with a sugar & peanut blend, while the salty ones have pork floss & peanuts & possibly you-tiao. All depends on the place you get it from (I had one from another vendor that included firm tofu curd and pickled vegetables). yum!
8 January 2010
I missed the big dump from a couple of weeks back since I jetted off to Taiwan–so today I had my first snow steps of the year…
12 December 2009
I was supposed to take my parents somewhere to eat during their layover at JFK yesterday, but they didn’t make it out of the airport due to ticketing problems. Not to waste an opportunity to eat away from Manhattan, G and I headed to Flushing anyway.
I wanted to try this new Qingdao restaurant called M&T, but it was closed–and being too cold a day to go exploring, we went back to our old standby: the jumble of basement food stalls known collectively as Golden Shopping Mall.
liangpi, tiger salad, and beef noodle soup
G went straight to “Xi An Famous Foods” (西安名吃)–which by the way now has swanky new signs, a video camera (?!), and wall photos of Anthony Bourdain enjoying their liangpi–and ordered a dish of cold skin noodles (“liang pi,” 凉皮) and tiger salad (“lao hu cai,” 老虎菜). I went to a sichuanese stall by the entrance to the mall and ordered a spicy beef noodle stew (“niu nan mian,” 牛腩面). All three dishes were delicious, humble, and beat the pants off anything in Manhattan’s Chinatown.
I must admit that the tiger salad defeated me: consisting of raw jalapeno peppers, scallions and cilantro in a vinegar sauce, one of the peppers was just too much… so I ran to the counter and asked for a plum drink (“suan mei tang,” 酸梅湯), which is a typical drink to have with spicy hotpot.
Total damage: liangpi $4, tiger salad $4.50, beef noodle $4.50, plum drink $1.50. And full + happy stomachs.
Golden Shopping Mall
41-28 Main St
New York, NY 11355
(map)
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