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Goodness, you should not watch Top Chef and then catch up all at once more often! it does wonderful things for your snark potency....

Call me predictable...I was just about to warn you not to say anything else...

I love this with catfish, it's an amazing complement...

Wow, marcelm...great work. Thanks!

We make a harissa mayonnaise that is fantastic with merguez on a sammich....

I'd like to bump this back up into visibility... I'm making tonkotsu ramen today/tomorrow and right now (after 6 hours of boiling) I have about 6 liters of pork bone stock that is...good, but not especially complex. I think that adding some dashi stock to the pork stock will probably solve my problem, but i have no idea what ratio might be reasonably authentic. I'm thinking about something like 4 parts pork stock to one part dashi stock. Maybe 3:1. Any suggestions?

Do be aware that endive leaves only look appetizing for about an hour after you separate them from the head set them out: I made the mistake of opening one too early last night and by the time they should've been served they were seriously thinking about wilting completely.

I'd like to say she looks pretty good for her age, but... i guess all that desert sun really can be bad for your complexion.

That is a brutal brownie.

Not sure if this is known in China or not, but there is a sweet Taiwanese peanut soup that I'm looking for a recipe for...it uses unroasted peanuts...

A profiterole.

I forgot to emphasize to Chufi and Dennis that they should get some posole...it looks like I will have to bring some supplies back from Phoenix this Christmas and make them a batch...

That's all i wanted to hear...

Nothing! Usually. But if you're visiting the Southwest, actually physically close to Mexico, and you haven't previously tasted much authentic regional Mexican food...it would be nice to get something that's at least a specifically southwestern version of this Amerimexican concept. Anyway, no negativity intended....blog on!

First, thanks for doing this...even though I got a sneak preview of these pics, it's really not the same without the gently teasing pace of the eG travelblog...and of course Chufi's writing. Secondly: I was going to ask about the Mexican plates above. They look (disappointingly) a little like standard-issue AmeriMexican...could you taste the chiles? Was the beef ground or not, etc.

hey sarah, For modern Dutch, Greetje, mentioned several times upthread, is open on Sunday. I think Chufi ate there quite recently if memory serves, and said that the food was still good and that service had improved a bit. Also, De Zotte, mentioned many times upthread is open on Sunday as well. In the hood where you're staying (at least I think so), Takara gets good reviews for informal Japanese/Korean food. I think I've actually eaten there and the food was good. I'll keep thinking...

Chipotles and tomatillos.

I second or third this emotion, go to Buford Hwy. Taco Veloz is good, I actually had better tacos at El Rey del Taco earlier this year, awesome salsas, fresh tortillas. Tasted suadero for the first time, great stuff. And I don't Habla! Just be humble and do a lot of pointing, you'll be fine.

However, French people do not say "ciao" followed by "grazie" all the time. That is ridiculous. But we digress. +++

I don't know the answer to that, but I do like the fact that even non-native English speakers make the mistake of adding an apostrophe to make a plural... or maybe that's deliberate, to add extra authenticity? Also, the "British Touch" sounds a little creepy. But maybe that's just me. ← Don't know about French, but this is actually not a mistake in some languages, Dutch for example...because they pluralize words differently (without using an "s"), they use the apostrophe + S to pluralize foreign words.

Hi Sven, welcome to the thread...thanks for reminding me that, although Chufi and I went to Marius last year, I don't think our review ever made it to this thread, it ended up in my eG foodblog instead. In short, I haven't had a better or more comfortable sit-down meal in Amsterdam than Marius, and I'll happily go back in a second. And Chufi is a Gartine fan too, her review is somewhere upthread....so, nice picks! +++

Thanks for starting this, Dividend...my father-in-law just had a stroke last week, and while he's doing well physically, everyone is wondering what the hell he's going to eat when he returns home. He's one of these people who has always eaten whatever he wants (usually pretty typical, unhealthy stuff), but is somehow built like a (63-year-old) high-school wrestler. So he's never had to think about eating healthily before, and he's a huge snacker. I'll pass on whatever ideas I come up with, but the major immediate issue is a pepperoni/antipasti substitute: his favorite late afternoon thing is some kind of hard salami, asiago or provolone, and ideally olives or marinated artichokes....all of which are off-limits due to sodium content. One easy answer is to make your own lower-sodium marinated vegetables, but I don't see this happening for him. So any delicious off-the-shelf lower-sodium options would be awesome. For me, my snacking philosophy revolves around always having something available just in case...there's nowhere that I trust myself not to be hungry. For superportable needs I rely on fruit and nuts, like you. I don't know if they have this in the US (seems like they must), but here you can buy 100gr (3.5 oz?) plastic containers of, say, walnuts, prunes, apricots, almonds, pistachios, etc. And so I buy one of a fruit, one of a nut, combine them so i have two equal mixed portions and just keep one in my bag. But I love prunes and walnuts together, and I love almonds and dates together, pistachio and apricot, etc....I'm way less excited about any of these guys by themselves. Except toasted hazelnuts. But I imagine those are harder to find over there...

I myself didn't make it out during Restaurant Week, so thanks for the reviews guys! Glad someone's on the ball here...

That sucks. I will share some general Amsterdam dining advice that I just posted somewhere else a few weeks ago: "In general, do your best to avoid eating within 100 yards of a museum, a concert venue, or Leidseplein, Rembrandtplein, Centraal Station, the Red Light district, Dam Square, the Damrak, or Kalverstraat. Maybe even 200 yards is safer. There is good food to be had here at reasonable prices, but you MUST make an effort to avoid tourists, Argentinian steakhouses, anything that says it's "mexican", the 400 non-Italian pizza places in town, and fancy-looking noodle shops." There are exceptions to this of course, but search for them at your own risk....

Was it the obtrusiveness of food photographers that prompted it? It seems not. Was it a general dismay over the fact that people in restaurants aren't always properly appreciating the food? As mentioned upthread, this is not new. Is it an anti-technology-enablement thing? I'm just asking... +++ ← Robyn who started the thread can I'm sure answer for herself. For me its the snapping of food pictures in restaurants that annoys me. Think I've made that very clear. Its intrusive, gauche and rude so far as I'm concerned. Other food photography is fine with me; click and post to your hearts content on your blog or on the Dinner thread or elsewhere when you can take the pictures in private.. I enjoy seeing those pictures. Clear enough? ← As a bell, Dave...as a bell. But I was really talking about the original post.