Burmese Food Fair - Agust 12

My wife and I went to the fair at about 1:30 and had a wonderful time. Was about as authentic as can be what with the lack of any signs in English. Nothing was out of this world but everything we tried we enjoyed thoroughly. Everyone was friendly and the food was more than affordable.

One lives in New York for many reasons. The chance to experience a slice of another culture, unadulterated and lovely on a Saturday afteroon is certaintly one of the reasons we still do!

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Dinner at Boi a Bummer

Dinner last night at Boi on 44th was a real disappointment. Besides desert, every dish was a boring, bland take on traditional Vietnamese.

We ordered the crispy packets stuffed with shrimp, Maine crab meat, pork, shiitake mushroom & jicama, carrot-lime sauce and the rice paper rolls with grilled prawn, vermicelli & mint, chili-peanut sauce as apps. The rolls were quite nice, very refreshing but the packets were thin, overly fried and tasteless. I could have gotten the exact same thing at my local chinese spot for 1/3 of the price.

Entrees were even more of a let-down. I ordered the "sizzling" crèpes with shrimp, meat balls, bean sprouts, turmeric, lettuce, fresh herbs and chili-lime sauce, my father ordered monkfish in baby winter melon rings with a coriander-ginger emulsion sauce. My crepes were thick and far from sizzling- very cool actually. There were two on a plate overly stuffed with handfulls of beanspouts, a couple over-cooked shrimp and the well-flavored meatballs. The chilli-lime sauce tasted one step sideways from duck sauce. The monkfish was soggy and sat in, once again, a tasteless sauce.

The basil tapiocca desert was delicious and surprising however.

Overall with the place just seemed way over-priced and unable to live up to the concepts presented on the menu.

I didn't go thinking I was going to get a traditional Vietnamese meal. I thought it would be a tasty attempt at sophisitcated Vietnamese flavors. It was both the flavors and the taste that were most missing.

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Joya downhill?

I agree as well. And the same goes for it's off-shoot Song in Park Slope. Never had the greatest food but was a reliable, cheap, LOUD but fun place to go with friends especially out back. But on my last two trips the food was pretty bad. We had to return the mussell app b/c more than half of them were stringy and dried out.

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V-Spot: the worst restaurant in Park Slope?

I've been there twice with my wife (who is a reformed vegan) and though I want to support the place for her sake, I hated both meals.

I've made a lot of vegan meals at home and the lamest of them have been at as good as what I had at V-Spot. Their chickenparm could come straight out of the frozen box into the microwave. Even my wife, who likes all things vegan, has agreed with me that most of their food seems microwaved.

The owners should spend some time at Kate's in the east village and put some love into their cooking.

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