My review for midtownlunch.com this week: link
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Specialties in Chinese & Latin
Passed by this old school lookin NY Chinese restaurant on 14th. They serve both chinese and latino food. The waiters were old school NY Chinese restaurant guys. The customers were Latino construction workers. I got the oxtail stew lunch special for $6.50 and an egg roll. If I had it to stay, they would have given me the wonton soup. This place is pretty cool. They have Tsingtao. The oxtail is cheaper and just as good as Sophie’s …minus the green sauce. I feel like going back to the 70’s and having lunch and a beer here. How is this place on 14th St? How is it not a Quizno’s by now?
La Nueva Rampa – 149 W 14th St (Btwn 6th & 7th Ave) New York 10011
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Lan Zhou Hand Pulled Noodle
One of the first food blog posts I was ever fascinated with was this pork bone hand pulled noodle soup on Cheap Ass Food. It inspired me to food blog. Headed out there with Jimmy and Brian. Finally a food blog date with someone who can read and speak Chinese …and who could tell me if they are calling me a gringo. Brian said the door had the word “glass” written on it in Chinese, so no one would walk into it. I got the ox tail soup in honor of Chinese New Year. I wasn’t sure if I was allowed to eat ox in the Year of the Ox. It almost seems wrong, like putting chicken in your eggs. But they served it to me and I ate it. Gung Hay Fat Choy!
Lan Zhou Handmade Noodle – 144 East Broadway (btw Allen & Essex) Chinatown, NY
…one time I helped an old monk who was stranded and lost. He gave me his mobile phone and I spoke to someone in English and told them where he was. I was able to use the address from the awning of this restaurant to to tell them. There’s probably some good monk luck coming my way and maybe a good moral in there somewhere.
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new cuban place opens up near work to battle old cuban place.
sophies has tasty fried pork & plaintain sandwich i try i see other blogs and webs. gave me tasty green sauce. i get oxtail and they forget green sauce. asshole
latin america has $2 cheaper. no green sauce too. i make my own.
verdict: latin american wins w/ my green sauce!
Sophie’s – 28 E 23rd St (at Madison Ave), New York 10010
Leocadia Milanes – 29 W 26th St (Btwn 6th Ave & Bway), New York 10010
