was either from a roadside stall in Laos or a roadside som tam vendor in Bangkok
My current drink of choice:
Loose-leaf jasmine green tea (on the rare occasion I can find tea leaves that I like), or iced green tea from Quickly, no bubbles, no milk
I really wish I could:
get out to more new restaurants with more people more often
My "Go-to" dinner party dish:
pumpernickel bread
My favorite comfort food:
cashews
My top 5 favorite restaurants:
Hunan House (Flushing, NY); Ming Chan Dong (Flushing, NY); Chao Thai (Elmhurst, Queens, NY); Lalibela (South Orange, NJ); riverside restaurant in busy covered shopping area in Nong Khai, Thailand (this list would be filled with places in SE Asia if I knew 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