hummus – ME SO HUNGRY

We went out to Bay Ridge with Ramen and Friends to Bab al Yemen. There was a Japanese TV crew filming us for a morning news segment. Only problem was that there was no beer or alcohol. It’s fine. I survived and it was still fun. Actually just as fun and enjoyable. Maybe I don’t need to be drunk all the time to have a good time. I learned something about myself.

The food was really good. But everyone got stuffed on the bread and dip appetizers –Hummus, Baba ghanoush with Lamb and Chicken. Too hard to enjoy the rest, although that stuff was good too. I liked the Roasted Lamb Haneeth especially. A lot of it I don’t know what we were eating. I thought they were all called Fahsah.

Yoshie and Rob’s boy is really into dinosaurs. I tried to do some magic tricks and tell a few jokes. I think the best one was “What do you call a video game playing dinosaur? …a SEGAsaurus!” He didn’t care.

Bab al Yemen – 413 Bay Ridge Ave (btwn 5th & 4th Ave) Brooklyn, NY 11209
Ramen and Friend’s review

Cheburechnaya’s Lamb Testicles, Heart and Fried Beef Brains

Yoshie’s Ramen and Friends adventure took us to Cheburechnaya (Kosher Russian) in Rego Park, Queens. This is where we ate Lamb Testicles, Heart and Fried Beef Brains…

It was pretty confusing ordering these. I couldn’t tell how many came in an order. We almost got five orders of Testicles, which would have been 25 balls. That would have been too way many balls. We just got one.

They had other stuff too …like this huge bowl shaped bread, called Noni Toki. It was almost like matzoh. Their Uzbeki style bread was good for the Hummus and Babaganoush.

They served many different types of Chebureki and Samcy patties. We had the ones with pumpkin and ribs. There were real ribs with bones. I liked those a lot.

I recommend the Whole Grilled Chicken. That was really good for sounding so tame (unlike the testicles). I would have been interested in the Lamb Fat and Veal Sweetbread Shish Kebabs if we were to order more.

Really cool restaurant. I enjoyed pretty much everything, even the balls. They even played Sade via Youtube on the TVs the whole night.

Cheburechnaya – 9209 63rd Dr. Rego Park, NY 11374
Ramen and Friends’s review