KennethT

Shallow fried? A lot of Malay/Indo stuff is done like that.

Deep fried or stir fried?

Also good for green mango/papaya salad

Yes it's a long time, but it goes by fast

About 18 - 18.5 hours. I also had a really good double chocolate muffin (from Norway) and a nice oolong tea about an hour ago but no pics. This is the refresher just served about 2 hours before landing: Made in Italy While it's no NYC pizza, it's a very tasty flat bread with tomato sauce, cheese and dried basil.

Meal #2: Decent croissant and the mixed fruit was ok - really good pineapple but strawberries were pretty flavorless. The yogurt/mango/oat/coconut confection was good. Wife got pork congee (book the cook) Soy sauce chicken with wok fried noodles. Dark meat chicken was tender and moist and noodles had decent texture. 4 more hours until we land!

Singapore Airlines NYC-SIN... Meal #1 A very nice mixed leaf salad with 2 perfectly poached shrimp, plus candied walnuts, blackberries and croutons. The sticky toffee pudding was pretty good too. My wife got steamed chicken with lily buds (book the cook) Mine was braised e-fu noodles with chicken and yu choy (also btk). Great aroma to the braising liquid and chicken (dark meat) was tender and moist. I've had this before but this time was a bit better and the yu choy were not overcooked this time like they were last time.

@rotuts Maybe you already said this and I missed it, but does this smoker do cold smoking? Bacon is typically cold smoked, as is most charcuterie afaik. Another possibility if that's the case is smoked salmon - if you can get King salmon (sometimes called Ora King or Akaroa) from New Zealand, it's ++++.

We haven't been back to Paris in about 10-15 years but there was bad traffic (or equivalent to NYC traffic which is pretty bad) back then!

Thanks for this - I enjoyed. But who'd want to drive a Ferrari just to sit in traffic?

Sorry to hear about your husband getting sick. I know how that goes all too well! Just once, I'd like a vacation when I don't get sick! Hopefully he feels better soon and that you don't catch it!

I'll second not going to 2nd Ave Deli... Their pastrami was like supermarket pastrami. Very disappointing. Although you might want to check out the original location (actually on 2nd Ave) in what's now a Chase bank to see the Yiddish Actor walk of fame in the sidewalk. Be prepared to wait on a long line outside in teh cold at L'Industrie on Christopher. My typical tea shop (McNulty's) is across the street - I was there a week or two ago and the line was crazy and barely moved. I'll add that you can BYO wine to Peking Duck House, which is also popular with groups. I haven't been there in years though, so things may have changed.

Don't know if you're looking for a NYC steakhouse (not fine dining but certainly not inexpensive) but I'd throw Keens in the ring. I'm a big fan of the mutton chop (it's really a big lamb chop) and their bacon is really good.

I can't really talk about deli so much, but I can say that there has been a bakery explosion over the past few years. Quite a few are in the East Village. I don't usually frequent any.... Eater just came up with a list of new ones: https://ny.eater.com/maps/new-bakeries-nyc-heatmap but I haven't tried any. And there are quite a few more, just in the EV alone but aren't brand new so they've fallen off of Eater's radar. I guess they stopped paying their PR fees since many still have lines.

I've never seen cashew chicken or cashew anything in any Chinese or Chinese-American restaurants here in NYC or growing up outside the city in the suburbs. In Thai restaurants, though, that's a different story! Ubiquitous there....