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That's very useful. And the answer is to go to the 4th Av. stop on the F train.

It looks good anyway. On antipasti, I think antipasti napolitani are excellent, but I suppose they're similar to antipasti pugliesi. Is calabrese cuisine much different from pugliese?

Laura, since you mentioned low-end places, there's Ariana Afghan Kebab House -- for when you turn over the alphabet again. Another low-end place for "C" is Chickpea, for future reference. Congee Village is my favorite Cantonese restaurant in Manhattan, and Congee is also worth visiting. Cho Dang Gol is a very worthwhile Korean restaurant on 35 St., specializing in artisanal tofu. And would you put I Coppi under "C" or "I"? I'll try to think of some "D" and "E" restaurants I can recommend. Do you put El Malecon under "E" or "M"? It's a really inexpensive, informal restaurant with excellent pollo a la brasa and daily specials that are worth considering.

Lonely Planet.comSo, what is the most exotic food that you have eaten when you were traveling?[...] ← Perhaps bull's testicles at Shaul, a Yemenite restaurant in Tel Aviv (in 1977) or pig's intenstine soup at a Hakka restaurant in Seremban, Malaysia (in 1976). The pig's intestines are really no big deal for Chinese people or Chinese restaurants, though. And neither of those meals fostered unwanted relationships with the toilet bowl.

Boeuf a la flamande is a classic Belgian stew made with flat beer, and it's great!

Commonwealth 497 5 Av, Brooklyn, NY 11215 (718) 768-2040 I'm trying to figure out if there's a nearby subway stop. No, Dana, I haven't gone out for a mint julep yet, too busy with other stuff. This thread is topical to Derby day, but for me, it's for future reference.

Looks like Kun Jip may be worth a visit. For the record, here's their superpages.com listing: KUN JIP Restaurant 9 West 32nd Street, New York, NY 10001 (212) 216-9487

I called for delivery tonight, but it was from my local branch of Grand Sichuan, and the wait was if anything a little less than average.

I did indeed start some inquiries.

Yeah, that's the one.

I had a very pleasant meal at August last July 4.

I think using the plural is unwarranted.[...] ← I take your point. I apologize for casting any aspersions on any personnel from the establishment who weren't made aware of the alleged incident. But it's still a terrible incident.

We may want to have further discussions on this in some other thread, but I just thought I'd let you know that that urban legend is definitely false.

Thanks, Emma. The thread has been retitled accordingly.

For the record, "Mikey" hated everything, and that's why the slogan "Mikey likes it!" was presumably effective (or at least memorable) in that ad. Yet I don't remember what precisely was being advertised... (Don't remind me here; it's no doubt mentioned in the favorite food slogans and ads thread.)

Felonius, I'd love to know where you've found the best mojitos in New York, too. Here's a thread about mojitos in New York.

Chicken soup with whole chicken or at least chicken parts in it, not consomme or stock (like Teresa's, my local Polish diner makes). Flanken soup with dill, parsnips, beans, pepper, etc. Split pea soup. Pasta with tomato sauce and meatballs. Lion's head soup. Roast beef. Roast chicken. Pot roast. Apple pie. Homemade chocolate pudding. Matzo ball or chicken noodle soup. Livers and onions pan-fried with sherry or marsala. Chicken or veal marsala. My father's special omelettes (frittate, really). Osso buco. Swedish lamb with coffee, milk (cream), pepper, and pureed carrots and onions (from the Swedish Princess cookbook). My grandma's stuffed cabbage that uses dried fruits and ginger snaps along with chopped meat (beef) and rice. These are home food by my mother, father, and grandmother, and only a partial list. Then, there are the homey things my fictive grandmother, Mrs. Carr made, which come from the great black cooking of the South: Cornbread, peach cobbler, sweet potato pie, etc. And then there's Malaysian cooking that feels like the place that was my second home for two years of my childhood: Kangkung belacan, petai belacan, kacang panjang belacan, kacang belendir belacan (etc.), gulai ayam, gulai kambing (etc.; gulai=curry), asam dishes (=with tamarind), chili udang galah, roti canai, laksa, ulam, kueh bakar, dodol. Some of these things I remember from my childhood, like kueh bakar (roasted cakes) roasted over a real wooden stove, essentially no longer exist, but many of them do still exist. I think this thread will overlap considerably with How we ate growing up.

Thanks for the report. Where's John Harvard's? Sounds like a good diner.

Understood, Sam, but there's a difference between, say, $12 and $18.

Right near my folks. I'll look forward to your report.

I, too, am disgusted by your story. There is no excuse for gratuitous cruelty to animals.

I just thought I'd mention in passing that I strongly disagree with the suggestion that Schoenberg's works lack warmth. So there! And back to discussion of fancy shmancy food...

Where did you end up eating and how was it?

Chun Cha Foo. A place of many happy childhood memories for me. ← Thanks Michael, Was it as good as I remember? ← Sometimes. For a few years, the good chef was gone, and it became mediocre during that period.

Chun Cha Foo. A place of many happy childhood memories for me.