Bamiyan Afghan Restaurant
I ordered the lunch special Mantoo (steamed beef dumplings; topped with yogurt and meat sauce) $9.95 and a Doogh (salty yogurt drink) $2.50. It came with a small side salad. The dumplings were definitely comfor...
Sirtaj Indian
Sirtaj Indian restaurant is by no means fancy. You order at the cash register, you pick up at the cash register, the food is served on cheap styrofoam plates on orange cafeteria trays, the water in tiny plastic...
Ramen Setagaya St. Marks & Dennis Hopper Photo Exhibition
Jasper and his team painted some awesome photo-realistic billboard copies of some of Dennis Hopper's iconic photographs, now showing at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery. I was walking around exhibition trying to find ...
Pongsri Thai’s Pad Kee Mao (Drunken Noodles)
Thai at Pongsri was common with my lunch crew at work a few years back. We'd get some Thai Ice Teas and wonder about Thai Todd the waiter (I don't think that was his real name). My usual was the Massaman curry ...
Udon West’s Cold Udon Bukkake
Khary set up a nice little "Drink & Draw" at the Village Pourhouse in the East Village among many of his artist friends. I do know how to draw a mean Mickey Mouse, but that's about all. Was planning to show...
B&B African Revisited
I revisited the B&B African and Caribbean spot with steamed trays lunch buffet at $5.99 a pound. My small box came to $5 filled with a lot of different flavors and curries --perfect for the Fall season roll...
Biryani Cart’s Kati Rolls
Jeff suggested this book he just read, "The Fortune Cookie Chronicles" - about Chinese Food culture across the world. Sounds interesting to me, since I grew up in my family's Chinese restaurants from sit-down t...
Wo Hop’s Beef Chow Fun
Wo Hop, the iconic New York Chinatown restaurant running 24 hours a day. The important thing to know is that you want to go to the real Wo Hop in the small downstairs dining room of 17 Mott St (with the long li...