IndustrySlut's Profile
Pakistani (?) at Orleans and Locust
Aargh! you missed the best dish! If you go to Pakeeza or Zaiqa YOU MUST HAVE NIHARI. End of story. Nihari at Pakeeza is not the best Nihari in the world, no, far from it, but if you've never had the dish before and you are eating it at five in the morning when all the cabbies have gone downstairs to the in house mosque for salaat, it is life altering. Nihari. The best thing to happen to braised beef shank ever. Go now, it's open 24 hours. Make haste.
Colombia
Headed to Cartagena tomorrow. Any recommendations? Will also be in Baranquilla, Santa Marta and Medillin on this trip so any recommendations for those destinations would be welcome as well. Cheers, A.
Thoughts on the Pioneer Valley
I grew up in the valley, and have worked in the restaurant industry in New York, Chicago and Southeast Asia for the past number of years. Although there have been few stand-outs in the food scene in the valley, I always found Panda East in Amherst to do some Chinese dishes that were very good. The szechuan won-tons with red oil come to mind. Amherst Chinese has always done very fresh and normal cantonese sino-american dishes, but there are some traditional dishes that have always been on the menu and are spot-on and phenomenal. One example is the pork and pickle noodle soup. It makes me homesick for the chinese grandma I never had, and is nearly identical to similar versions I've had in Shanghai, Hong Kong and amongst the Chinese community in Phnom Penh. Speaking of Phnom Penh, I remember that when I was in college, there was a Khmer restaurant on rte 9. It was there that I had my first experience with Lot Char, a PP streetside favourite and an extremely hard to find noodle dish outside of the Cambodian capital. Best with a fried duck egg on top. It's not still there, is it? The restaurant. Anyway, happy eats..
