was either from a roadside stall in Laos or a roadside som tum vendor in Bangkok
My current drink of choice:
Loose-leaf jasmine green tea (bought at Kam Man in Manhattan Chinatown NYC)
I really wish I could:
go back in time and prevent myself from wasting $40 on a horrible meal at Parima Thai in Burlington VT
My "Go-to" dinner party dish:
pumpernickel bread
My favorite comfort food:
cashews
My top 5 favorite restaurants:
Hunan House (Flushing, NY); Little Saigon (Montclair, NJ); Seoul (Salisbury, MD); Minerva [Indian] (Fairfax, VA); riverside restaurant in Nong Khai, Thailand (this list would be filled with places in southeast Asia if I knew the names or proper locations)
My most tattered cookbooks:
The Bread Machine Cookbook by Donna R. German; also, the recipe for granola that I printed out from a CH posting long ago