Jason Perlow

That looks awesome. Gotta have plenty of white rice for a dish like that.

768 Stuyvesant Ave, Lyndhurst, NJ So, for lack of a better description, I didn’t get enough umbrella drinks and expertly prepared bad American Chinese food this week, so Sunday night we went to North Jersey’s other Polynesian throwback, Lee’s Hawaiian Islander in Lyndhurst. Lee’s is a huge orange painted building with no windows that dates back 30 years. The Tiki Bar. The cavernous main dining area. The ceilings at Lee’s are at least 18 feet tall, probably closer to 20. A Polynesian outrigger boat filled with fake Hawaiian orchids and stuffed exotic birds is suspended from the ceiling. The drink menu. Unlike other Polynesian restaurants I have visited previously, these drinks defy description. I guess they are so classic that everyone should know what they are and what’s mixed in them, but you could always ask. A Mai Tai (left) and a Zombie (right). The Zombie appears to differ from the Mai Tai in that it has probably 4x the amount of alcohol in it. Zombie closeup. Pu-Pu Platter, the classic. Sweet and Sour Pork. Yeah, I know, so sue me. Young Chow Fried Rice Along with Shrimp with Lobster Sauce, Egg Foo Young is also a benchmark Chinese-Am dish for me, so I order it at pretty much every place I visit that specializes in that type of food. Lee’s is excellent — the gravy doesn’t taste like uncooked flour or overly grease laden and the egg patties are perfectly cooked. Zombie after-effects.

That they are! Miami Ink too.

Well, the guy is in his 80's. Its not like he can move very fast!

If its using almond flour or other nut flour you need the eggs otherwise it will be as hard as a rock.

I'm thinking you should throw caution to the wind and prepare the recipe as it was written down.

I leave behind a rather large pile of empty White Castle hamburger cartons. That and a certain food website which I had a little bit to do with.

I'm thinking that the big M needs a commerical with notable hip-hop or rap personality to attract the urban demographic. Like P Diddy or Snoop perhaps. Even Flava Flav. Dressed appropriately with a giant gold "M" hung around their neck. With a slogan like... "Yo! The 'Shewitz is the Shizznit, Muthafuc.........ah! Where fine Muthafuc...in Kosher Products are Sold, Beeeeyyyyyyyatch!"

I'd totally go with the Hearth rec.

It's yet another Korean restaurant. Like the area needs more!

Actually as I understand the Clam Chowder at the ORIGINAL Legal location is supposed to be -the- shizznit. I also liked the Clam Chowder at Daily Catch, and that would be a cool location (either the original location or the one by the water) to do a shoot too. The squiddy angle of the place is cool as well. The butter style lobster roll at Neptune is hot. The one with mayo is cold. You have a choice.

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The chopped parsley in the 'Shewitz balls are great. Actually, try it with spinach sometime, with some chopped spinach leaves cooked in soup.

And its loads of fun to eat at when it's well over 90 degrees outside!

I don't reccomend eating at Cafe Angelique in hot weather. Its a very old building (the original Tenafly rail station) and has terrible ventilation.

I like their Matzo Ball soup mix, but we only use the "Soup" packet for boiling the Matzo Balls in themselves and giving them flavor. We throw the MSG-laden liquid out after putting the Matzo Balls in home made soup stock.

Saigon R. Vietnamese. Probably the best one in the entire area. If you want really good middle eastern, try Bennies. For sushi I reccomend either Wild Ginger or Daruma.

To some extent we are experiencing the "gentrification" of our ethnic neighborhoods as well in the NYC area. Arthur Avenue / Belmont in the Bronx, which I would compare to the North End most favorably, has been undergoing a dynamics change for years because for the most part, Italians don't live there anymore -- they've all moved out to Jersey and Queens. The shopowners themselves no longer live in the area, they commute from elsewhere. So although they are doing a very good job of maintaining their stores, their clientele isn't local anymore. I imagine the same thing is happening with the North End. As a casual observer though, I think the North End is doing quite well. I don't have the sense of nostaligia or historical reference that a native Bostonian would have, but I think you should still be very proud of it and its a great destination for attracting business and tourism to the city.

I'd totally reccomend the chowder from Neptune Oyster Bar above. Exceptional in every regard. Each bowl is cooked to order.

Traditionally, custard as served at these types of places -is- only vanilla or chocolate. But with the wet and dry mix-in's, there's a lot you can do with just vanilla and chocolate. I like the wet fruit mix-ins combined with stuff like coconut and peanut butter or Heath bars, with perhaps some hot fudge.

It replaced a place called Margie's several years ago. It's on the opposite side of the street as La Batalla, maybe 50 yards away.

Wow. The power of blog!

Actually depending on what store I go to, the OSEM stuff and some of the other Israeli brands are comparable in price to Manischewitz. Manischewitz's main matzo bakery, btw, is located in Canada. And they make several other brands there including Horowitz Mangareten and an few others from that place.

I'm quite sure the canned tomatoes I got at Tietel Brothers in the Bronx have no basil in it. Also the DOP San Marzanos usually don't have basil.