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do you regularly read and use the advisement of midtown lunch?
I've never gotten dysentery. However, the excess grease can cause you to have an unpleasant bowel movement the first few times.
Halal street meat isn't exactly the healthiest food kind of food -- especially when people drown it in white sauce (AKA ranch/mayo) which is already about 65-75% oil. Coupled with the famously fatty 'gyro meat,' whose oil content alone is generally enough to lube up your chutes for days, you've basically got a hot and spicy $6 laxative.
Have you seen how oily the rice gets after a while? That stuff runs right through you like Chinese takeout and Indian cuisine. But, having had all of these foods before, I'd say any potential discomfort can be avoided by exercising moderation. I say moderation because abstinence is ridiculous. These kinds of foods are extremely delicious. Can't you tell by the smell alone?
To deny this is to deny your humanity. :)
Down a hidden staircase in Chinatown, Eisenhower-era American food
I had a feeling this was the same place I went to back in high school, about 6 years ago. My friend brought me here thinking I would appreciate the food. I remember getting some 'special soup' they had which they called 'russian soup' and it had potatoes, carrots... chicken? Didn't taste like anything I couldn't make at home, i guess potatoes = russian? And I think I got a sandwich. Or spaghetti porkchop. Can't recall.
Been to XO a few times but never had the casserole. I guess I was too into authentic chinese food at the time to appreciate the concept. The grilled squid was delicious.
I never got the point of these restaurants until I went to HK Tea and Sushi for the first time, about a year ago. Decent food, generous portions, good prices, generally quick and mildly rude service. Only ordered the mix grill cheese baked rice upon a recommendation. It was great! Though I was expecting a chinese/italian sausage and not a hot dog....
chiles & chocolate oaxacan kitchen
Went for brunch a couple of times. The breakfast burritos were delicious. The corn-fungus quesadilla, so so -- the fungus was overpowered by the cheese. The complimentary sweet breads were festive and delicious. decent coffee and hot chocolate.
Wouldn't go for dinner as it's quite out of the way.
Popping Sorghum?
Yes, I know about Genmaicha and the spongy rice. I remember initially thinking about how it looked like popcorn until I tasted it and then I realized it was toasted rice. Of course there's no way I can mistaken the taste of toasted rice because we use it pretty often in my vietnamese home. I kinda like it. :)
RE: sorghum, Yeah. According to that episode, Ethiopia just has poor utilization of its grounds. They have a lot of fertile land but not a lot of farms.
It's probably only a matter of time before some giant company figures out that they can build a cheap rubber plantation there.
I do agree we should use our resources according to our needs. But sometimes I feel guilty. It says a lot about a country if they take perfectly good food and turn it into something inedible, despite the worldwide hunger, just so the *gas* prices won't be so high. I know it's not really our problem that other people are starving, but it feels like we're just giving them a reason to hate us more.
Popping Sorghum?
I'm actually going to hunt it down this weekend and check Whole Foods and Trader Joes. And maybe ethnic groceries as well.
It sucks that they're turning to it for biofuel, as if corn wasn't a dumb enough "solution;" now they want to take away more of earths food to run their SUVs while millions of people in the world are starving. tsktsk
But enough of politics. If shopping, keep a look out for other labels like kafir corn, milo, sorgos, durra and guinea millet (taken from .. one of those sorghum-producer-association's website).
also, for alternatives you can look into puffed wheat, soybeans, rice (the spongy kind). I've made the spongy -kind-pop-rice just in a pan by toasting them and then sprinkling water on them. It's like a 10% success rate but for the ones you do get, it's pretty cool.
Chocolate Covered Bacon?
I went to Roni Sue's the other day. The milk chocolate one was too salty. The dark was a more tolerable. It cost 2.88 for 2 pieces (priced per pound).
It was also hard to manage because the bacon was curly. I would've preferred them flat. I think we're better off making our own... which is what I ended up doing at a fraction of the cost.
Just bake them between two sheet pans at 350 for 30 minutes so they stay nice and flat. Dip into melted chocolate and lay out on wax paper.
Mini Char Siu Bao
there's a "New May May Bakery" in Brooklyn on 11th Ave and 63rd Street but I wouldn't vouch for their connection with the late MMB of Chinatown.
