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anyone tried aarpan indian on 5th ave?
We felt the same with different dishes 2 weeks ago.
Inexpensive Restaurants in the Park Slope Area
Cafe Steinhof - Austrian on 7th Ave
Athena - Greek/Mediterranean on 6th Ave
Coco Roco - peruvian on 5th Ave
Geido - Japanese on Flatbush at 7th Ave
JPan on 5th
All in your price range.
Korzo on 5th has $5.00 goulash on Monday nights
Could your/ IS your significant other a picky eater?
They certainly would in my neighborhood!
Costco food finds - 1st quarter 2012 [old]
Actually these are frozen to start with and I was asking if they could just be thawed and eaten. It's probably safer to cook them somehow.
Lefthanders, how do you eat?
Me too. Really don't feel comfortable with a fork in my right hand.
Seeking Parsley Root
I'm pretty sure that Rossman Farms in 3rd Ave and 25th St in Brooklyn always has it.
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Rossman Fruit & Vegetable
770 3rd Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11232
Trader Joe's Yea/Nay Thread - 1st quarter 2012 [old]
I always mix vinegar and sambal olek into it.
Costco food finds - 1st quarter 2012 [old]
Only on weekends, I never seem to make it there then.
Costco food finds - 1st quarter 2012 [old]
My Costco in Brooklyn, NY has frozen oysters on the half shell, 2 dozen for 19.99
Has anybody tried these? Are they good? I'm tempted..can you freeze raw oysters and eat them raw?
Bamboo Pavilion suggestions?
Braised Beef Fillet with chili sauce, Bamboo roots with red oil, (cold appetizer), their kung po chicken is unique, lots of peppercorns.
Real (and fake) Authentic Sichuan Food in Park Slope!!
Ha! Both my husband and I thought the other one must have gotten the bean curd, turns out neither one did. That said, nice quantity of fish in the lunch special.
Funniest Thing a Server Said to You
At a Burmese restaurant in Maryland when the waitress, (not Burmese), asked how everything was, I commented that the ginger salad I had elsewhere had much more ginger in it. (it was shockingly gingery in a good way), she replied, "well they're probably better than we are".
Real Sichuan food in Bay Ridge
Does the Chengdu aromatic fish have any vegetables or just fish? The photo looks a lot like the fish in red soup which has napa cabbage, leeks, bean sprouts, tofu, cucumber and/or zucchini.
Real (and fake) Authentic Sichuan Food in Park Slope!!
We had the Dry Pot Style fish and it was just great. The Pork with pickled vegetable soup was ok except that it had no pickled vegetables, but had a ton of enoki mushrooms.
Real (and fake) Authentic Sichuan Food in Park Slope!!
Haven't been in a few months, we usually go for lunch which they serve until 4pm for 4.95, and usually get beef braised in roasted chili sauce and their peppercorn laden kung po chicken. We've never been there at night.We've been going to tofu lately 'cause we can walk there.
Real (and fake) Authentic Sichuan Food in Park Slope!!
We were there on a Thursday around 2:30, and a Sunday night. What was cool, was on the Thursday we ordered spicy chicken with chinese broccoli, and the waitress told us that we wouldn't like it because it wasn't really very spicy.
We went again on Saturday, and had the fish in red soup which was good - but I now realize that all of dishes we ordered before that were different, the beef braised in chili sauce, the pork in garlic paste, and others used to have a thick coating of hot oil on top, and now they don't. The fish did a little, but not as much as before. I wonder if non chinese people complained about it or something because a table near us got it and it looked normal.
Real (and fake) Authentic Sichuan Food in Park Slope!!
The last time we went to Grand Sichuan House in November it wasn't so great. I wonder if they have a new chef. Spicy Bampa is always great, cheaper than anywhere in Manhattan, but more time consuming to get to. Will be trying more dishes at Tofu soon...I hope more people review them here!
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Grand Sichuan House
8701 5th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11209
Spicy Bampa
6920 18th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11204
Real (and fake) Authentic Sichuan Food in Park Slope!!
We went for lunch today. We had the triple pepper chicken which was well spiced with 3 different peppers, and the bean curd fish fillet, which had a slightly sweet sauce with ginger, scallion, sichuan peppercorns and hot peppers. 3 broccoli florets on the side, we really liked it. The hot and sour soup was good, made better with a couple of drops of the hot oil on every table. Though not traditional, we got fried rice which had a lot of vegetables in it including zucchini. The only sort of odd negative thing was that the waitress asked if we wanted more tea, which we had finished, and refilled the pot with hot water, but not a new tea bag, so we had a pot of basically hot water.
We're still full 5 hours later. We'll be back.
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Tofu on 7th
226 7th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11215
Best Brooklyn Frozen Dumplings?
Unfortunately, they closed. Another opened in it's place, but they don't sell frozen.
Costco food finds - 4th quarter 2011 [old]
Maybe they've changed them, I haven't tasted it in a few years. They were a sweet gingery soy sauce.
The 99 Restaurant & The Practice of Hiding Nutritional Info in Restaurants
Not necessarily...I was shocked to find at Popeye's that the red beans and rice has almost twice the fat and calories as the cajun rice, 180 and 7g vs 340 and 19g!
how to keep baby greens fresh
Put paper towels into the clamshell among the lettuce. Wipe off the top of all moisture. Every time you open it repeat. They will stay fresh much longer.
The Best frozen dumplings in Brooklyn or Manhattan
I like to have Chinese dumplings at home any time I want, and my previous favorite, Family Dumpling is gone. I especially liked their boiled dumplings which were round and thin skinned. Fried is ok too, but I like a thin skin and haven't found another that compares.
Where are your favorites?
Thanks.
Good Chinese Food in Park Slope (finally)
One of the first days they were open, I got one order of pork and chive and one order of beef and kimchee dumplings. When I got home 2 blocks away, we couldn't smell the difference in the boxes.
They were both steamed. The skins were really thick, and the filling sparse and bland. I have been meaning to try the braised beef and the pork belly though.
