Monday Happy Hour with good FOOD at NYC downtown restaurant? Cabrito/Fatty Crab.

I want to go to a happy hour to get a drink at a restaurant/bar. I don't want to go to a bar that serves bar food. I want to go to a restaurant that has a special smaller cheap bar menu with happy hour drinks. Some restaurants, (like Cabrito, Fatty Crab) have these specials, like $5 drinks and $5 food specials, but the food is good, not just french fries.

Do you know any other places in downtown NYC, below 20th street that have similar specials for Happy Hour, and specifically for Monday night, TONIGHT?

Any Monday night Happy hour restaurants with food-suggestions??

Please respond if you know.

tttt in Manhattan

Thai curry paste

Thai store on Mosco street in NYC's Chinatown, IS still there and open for business as of January 2009. Check the google map for directions, it can be very difficult to find if you don't know the area.

tttt in The Best

Pad Thai

INGREDIENTS COMMENTS:
1. Ingredients list:
As you can see above, this recipe has about 20 ingredients for Pad Thai. To me, I like the above recipe's list of ingredients, or something similar. About 3 ingredients are those you may have to go to a Thai/Asian grocery store to buy on purpose for this recipe specifically, like (dried shrimp, sweet preserved radish daikon, and tamarind paste). And, a few ingredients, are southasian ingredients that you may have, that can be used on multiple other dishes, rice wine vinegar, fish sauce, peanut oil. And, then, of course, the other ingredients can probably be bought at a nice grocery store/produce place.

2. Soy sauce or sweet versions are bad:
If you choose to just buy half the ingredients, or just substitute soy sauce, or a sweet sauce, you will have a pile of Chinese stir fried noodles, or a sweet mush of noodles. It would be similar to ordering Pad Thai from a place that does Chinese/Thai takeout and doesn't use all of the correct ingredients. I think it is very important to have at least some of the preserved radish, that probably is one of the stronger flavors, if you don't like too much of it, start out with just a bit in the beginning. It counters the sweet taste of the rest of the dish. As for the tamarind, there are probably multiple options, from making it on your own, to buying a little container in a jar, and I would probably go with something easy in the beginning.

3. Leaving ingredients out:
Ok, if you don't have scallions/shallots, that would be fine. Once you start removing peanuts and bean sprouts from your garnish, it gets a bit lonely. You could probably substitute lemon for lime. You maybe could skip the rice vinegar and peanut oil. You could kind of use some pre-made pad thai mix if you carefully check the ingredients to make sure it includes tamarind and dried radish somehow, but not an imitation soy sauce blend. Basically, I would buy the dry ingredients one day to stock up. ANd, then right before you want to make it, get your bean sprouts, lime, etc....

Good luck. Don't make your rice noodles mushy. :) ENjoy!!

tttt in Home Cooking

Downtown tamales or tacos?

Does anyone know of a place to get tamales in downtown Manhattan?

I just want some authentic cheese/pork/chicken tamales with corn/masa wrapped in leaves. I know some east village shops sell them for like $3, but I just want the cheap ones for like $1 up in washington heights, etc...

I know that there is a taco truck supposedly at 14th and 8th maybe in the evenings. But, I want someplace further downtown. I don't want a restaurant, just a lady on the street selling them or a taco truck. I just want like $1 or $2 tamales, but they are of course mostly in sunset park, spanish harlem, jackson heights, other small mexican neighborhoods, etc....

please email me suggestions!

tttt in Manhattan

Know office home cooked food delivery service?

Hi. I heard that there are Filipino home cooked meals brought to the hospial nurses on First Ave around 16th street. I also read about 4 years ago or so, in magazine or newspaper about a japanese small company that cooks food at home and delivers to japanese office workers.

Anyone know names or websites of any of these small home based companies that cook home style, non restuaurant meals, usually cost around maybe $10 for lunch, and deliver to midtown offices?

Thanks!!!

I'm not looking for those big companies, like zone, or anything. Not looking for japanese restaurant that delivers. I'm specifically looking for these little homey delivery places. thanks.

tttt in Manhattan

Bread urban legend?

I really liked the hoi an kao lao. thick yellowish noodles. made only from well water in hoi an. and not too much broth of a full soup, just like a quarter bown to wet the noodles, and some dried pork or something on top, something crunchy, can't remember, but all very good.

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Seeking dry turnipy (not sweet) pad thai?

I know that Sri Pra Phai in Jackson Heights is great Thai food. However, I am in Manhattan. I also know of a few Thai places that seem ok in West 40's.

Basically, I'm looking for pad thai. I do not want the pad thai that is served sweet and slimy like at chinese/thai type places. I do not want it to just taste like rice noodles with sweet sauce and a few bean sprouts. I want it to be a drier noodle with less sauce that has more of the taste of the salted dried turnip in it. I also want the tastes of a little egg, bean sprouts, peanuts, lime, dried shrimp, tamarind. I just don't want that slimy sweet simple pad thai that i always pay 10 bucks for. please give advice, restaurant name and pad thai description of why you are recommending it. thanks!!!!!!!!

tttt in Manhattan

Thai curry paste

also around elmhurst area, the part of queens where the thai people live, near the thai temple, there is a thai little cute grocery store that probably has fresh made thai curry paste, not from a can.

and i think some of the thai restaurants in queens sell it at their restauratn in a refrigerator case.

tttt in The Best

Kazakh food

there are at least two uzbek/uighur type places in brighton beach, and one tajik place called dushanbe near brighton beach. enjoy. good luck finding a kazakh place.

tttt in The Best

Any Uzbek restaurants in NYC?

there is an uighur place around 13th street on the main road of brighton beach. serves lagman but not a big portion, russian salads, some skewers, and those uighur dumpling meat things. byob only. no alcohol on menu.

tttt in The Best