Omakase at Sushi Yasuda with Yasuda or a rather tremendous banquet in Shanghai.
My current drink of choice:
Ayran, pu'er, Laphroaig Quarter Cask
I really wish I could:
afford things.
My "Go-to" dinner party dish:
Pasta chi sardi
My favorite comfort food:
XLB, big plate chicken, escarole and beans... Korean fried chicken. So much more.
My top 5 favorite restaurants:
Thattukada, Silk Road, Chengdu Heaven, that glorious place in Shanghai and Di Fara Pizzeria. Honorable mentions go to the Uighur place in the madrassa in Istanbul, the nameless banh mi shop in Paris and various other nearly nameless hole in the wall spots.
My most tattered cookbooks:
La Cucine Ligure, Pomp and Sustenance, and Land of Plenty. Not a book, but I've cooked about a third of kadirecipes.com now.