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Where can I get a really Good Large Lobster?
I know you said price is not an issue but I'd wait a few weeks for the summer special that they usually run if you're planning on 4lb +. For the price you'd pay now for a 4lber you might get a 5 or 6lber + 2 salads and 2 sides when the special is on. A 4lber doesn't quite fill me up for lunch but I can't finish a 5lber plus the sides/salads.
Yao’s Dragon Beard Candy – A Hard to Find Chinese Candy in Chinatown
I tried it a couple of times when it was a guy making them and a couple of times when there was a lady making em. it doesn't seem like either of them give you fresh ones. There's been a huge stack of premade ones each time I was there.
Yao’s Dragon Beard Candy – A Hard to Find Chinese Candy in Chinatown
I've only had it a few times at that spot in Ctown. I think it's good but not great. The centers are a bit too dense. The strands that make up the outside could also be a bit fluffier/lighter.
Sing Kee Seafood Restaurant copied Amazing 66 menu
I thought that he had some percentage of ownership at some point in all of them.
15 East - sushi bar or table?
I like the idea. Please let me know if you really do set something up.
15 East - sushi bar or table?
I'm limited by time. EMP takes forever with multiple courses, even if you ask them to rush it. I think I had 3 courses that day and it took close to 90 minutes. I generally can get away with taking 60-90 minutes for lunch but I can't sit there for 3 hours.
15 East - sushi bar or table?
I'm just a glutton. A couple of weeks ago I did the seven course tasting menu at Tocqueville then went next door and had 30 pieces at the bar.
15 East - sushi bar or table?
I guess normal people sit at the bar and just eat sushi. But I was on my 25th piece and starting to repeat pieces so I decided to have something I really enjoyed the week before. Ended up with 35 pieces total plus the pasta and 3 brioche rolls.
15 East - sushi bar or table?
If you want the complete experience, my vote is for the bar. You can have cooked food at the bar. I was even able to order a pasta dish from the Tocqueville menu.
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Tocqueville
1 East 15th Street, New York, NY 10003
Szechuan Gourmet - Downhill alert?
My experience is based on takeout. I've ordered 100 + times from them in the last 5 years. The one thing I've come to expect is inconsistency. The food ranges from good to spectacular. You hope that it will taste great but most of the time it's just good. I can also count on them to leave something out once every three orders or so. Missing entrees, missing rice, missing soda. It's just awesome when you have to waste 20 minutes to go back and pick up a couple of boxes of white rice. Extra spicy sometimes turns into extra sweet. Today my order came as a meager half portion. Actually it barely fills up a third of the already small container. It's good but nowhere near as tasty as I know they can make it. I will order again though, despite the frustration and disappointment because once in a while you get something that is amazing.
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Szechuan Gourmet
21 W 39th St, New York, NY 10018
Sing Kee Seafood Restaurant copied Amazing 66 menu
Incidentally, the dungeness crab over sticky rice dish is a huge ripoff here. It's 18 a lb for the crab and the time I had it, almost all of the crabs in the tank were 2.5 lbs +. They give a miniscule amount of rice and it was good overall but not great. It certainly didn't justify the large price tag.
Their rendition of stir fried lobster with cheese was excellent. It had good wok air and was very "dry" in the way that you want it to be, with the cheese sauce adhering to and flavoring every piece.
Sing Kee Seafood Restaurant copied Amazing 66 menu
How is it a copy? The chef (Danny Ng) that brought those dishes to amazing 66 and to Danny Ng, in the old Silver Palace downstairs space, from his old place on Pell Street is now at Sing Kee. It's his menu and I think it's his to bring to each new spot that he's a part of.
Do Any Good Chinese Restaurants Downtown Deliver Uptown?
You can also check if the Szechuan Gourmet on W 56th will deliver.
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Szechuan Gourmet
244 W 56th St, New York, NY 10019
15 East @ the bar; advice?
I wouldn't eat at a table. You're getting end pieces and you might also be getting fish that was pre-sliced.
15 East @ the bar; advice?
I ate alot as usual. I don't think I ate significantly more (somewhere in the range of 30 pieces) than the other two times I was there but I did try a couple of the appetizers. I didn't order them specifically, they were being prepared in front of me so I asked about them and were given a couple of the items to try. I also tried the uni/ikura soba. I don't mind the price at all as I think its a great value. I just wanted to let janethepain know that the price might change.
15 East @ the bar; advice?
Had another lunch there and the "chef's omakase" was 170 not 140 as it had been the prior two weeks. I enjoyed it immensely but if you are looking to pay 140 pretax it probably would be best to make it clear prior to dining.
Double Crispy Bakery – Solid Portuguese Style Egg Tarts and Wife Cakes in Chinatown
The non standard egg tarts look a lot better than they taste.
Good Sushi Bar with 4 people
Sushi Zen
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Sushi Zen
108 W 44th St, New York, NY 10036
15 East @ the bar; advice?
Fooder answered the question here http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/829717
15 East @ the bar; advice?
My experience is based on lunch but I think you can just ask them to customize it for you. I did the $140 omakase twice for lunch recently. The first time it was about 30 pieces of sushi and a negitoro roll. There was also a half portion of the tako appetizer and a radish soup with bean curd sheets in it. The second time it was just the sushi and the roll. There would have been more sushi but he ran out of fish to let me try.
15 East: A truly impressive all-out meal from start to finish
I agree. I've only been a couple of times for lunch but that $140 omakase offers incredible value. 30 pieces of sushi + a negitoro roll generally runs me 200+ elsewhere.
bo zai fan at neighborhood bakery inc
It's close to and on the same side of the street as New Green Bo, (66 Bayard?) between Mott and Elizabeth.
bo zai fan at neighborhood bakery inc
Has anyone else tried this? i did a search for a thread but didn't find anything. Then again I usually have no luck with the search function.
I like the bo zai fan here because the rice is slightly undercooked and the meat to rice ratio is high. There was a nice crust on the bottom and it was sufficiently greasy, enough that the oil coated the individual grains of rice (in a good way). My salted fish and pork patty over rice came with a large, fluffy and tasty pork patty with just enough salted fish mixed in. I skipped the extra soy since I'm supposed to watch my ingestion of sodium, carbs and fat :)
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Neighborliness Bakery
70 Bayard St, New York, NY 10013
Keens dilemma - Mutton Chop or Steak?
I'd also go with the prime rib or the mutton chop. i like em both so i usually alternate. prime rib/prime rib hash/cobb salad or mutton chop/prime rib/cobb salad for lunch. Just remember to get the regular versions, the smaller versions give you much much less. Seemed like it was about half the price but only a third of the size. In the case of the english cut prime rib, the smallish slices also aren't the same thickness as the big slab and you dont get the edges, so the experience is sort of different too. For the mutton chop, the smaller one doesn't give you the bone. I like my meat really rare. the way they do rare, the meat closest to the bone comes out almost raw, which I love.
South China Garden's lobster dish is alctually lobster mixed with crab
hehe i actually don't like the lobster there. plus we're heading into spring banquet season. so i'll most likely be eating lobster wi ginger and scallions 1-2x a week for several weeks. no sense in paying for something i'll be sick of eating soon. small h is right though. this mystery needs to be solved!
South China Garden's lobster dish is alctually lobster mixed with crab
That still looks like lobster to me actually. I've had lobster there a few times. That specific piece was in every plate of stir fried lobster i've ever had at any chinese restaurant.
South China Garden's lobster dish is alctually lobster mixed with crab
Now you've made me really curious :P Take the piece that you've labeled crab that's in the center of the picture. That looks like a standard segment of lobster to me but you say it tastes like crab. How would they make that shell out of crab?
South China Garden's lobster dish is alctually lobster mixed with crab
I'm confused. It looks like lobster to me in those pics.
L.A. Hound- 4 days in Midtown Manhattan- please help- casual recs
Here's someone asking a pretty similar question, a few posts below:
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/810349
Cafe China?
It's not a lunch special. If I remember correctly, its $16. I think it's actually better to not order the lunch specials. I ordered the kung pao chicken/mapo tofu as a lunch special the first time but they gave me and charged me for the regular sized order. The regular sized order costs about 2 bucks more, comes with rice also and about 30 % more food. It comes in a much larger plastic container. All you're missing out on is the small mediocre spring roll.
