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Vidia

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  1. Wow - the notion of chipmakers using the crisp as a platform for distilling flavors of real foods is mind-blowing (not to mention drool-enhancing!)! Are potato chips the ramen of the west?
  2. LA SUPER RICA!!!!! Their guacamole is amazing, and the #4 (green chiles and cheese taco) ambrosial. For wine tasting Los Olivos is very cute. I love the wine at Foxen too.
  3. As a frequent flier at DTF I can attest to the juiciness of their juicy dumplings! In fact, I like 'em so much I always get an order to go since they keep pretty well till the next day! I've seen raves about Meilong Village's dumplings on chowhound and Jonathan Gold's column - wondered what people on this board think? V.
  4. Along Food Alley in Chinatown is a good northern Indian place, I think it is called Moti Mahal. An interesting experience is the vegetarian restaurant Annalakshmi which I believe is southern - all the waiters are volunteers affiliated with the religious charity that runs the restaurant, so it's almost like being in the home of a gracious host. Food is buffet style. For banana leaf I prefer the Civil Servant's Club along Holland/Napier - if you ask they'll give you extra marsala sauce. The Islamic Restaurant has great breads. V.
  5. Being SE Asian I naturally prefer sauces from those parts to tabasco-type sauces which I find merely hot but not flavorful. I like Lingam's chilli sauce which is also sweet (great as a dipping sauce for fried foods), and Sriracha is great for making won ton noodles with (the dry version, mix sriracha, dark soy sauce and a little sesame oil, boil noodles, drain, dunk in cold water to stop cooking, then toss in the sauce, add won tons and char siu and you're ready to roll!), but my favorites are, alas, not bottled commercially: the perfect sambal belacan and the perfect Hainanese chicken rice chilli sauce. Wish I was a better cook. V.
  6. I love durian! But then I am asian. If you do ever try it again, you get rid of the aftertaste (and your bad breath) by gargling in water poured into one of the skins (drinking from the hollow inside, not the spiky side, of course...). Mangosteens do not cure the aftertaste, as someone suggested - what is believed, however, is that mangosteens are the "cooling" alternative to "heaty" durians so you eat them to "counterbalance" your body - that apparently is why they share the same growing seasons - allegedly too much heaty foods will make you feverish, too much cooling stuff will make you more susceptible to things like rheumatism - but it's not easy to spot - eg icecream is supposedly "heaty".
  7. Vidia

    Sona

    SO NOT! I have to be a dissenting voice about Sona - went there on Friday and had the 6-course tasting menu - an amouse bouche, foie gras in some kind of sweetish sauce, poached salmon, steak, a piece of cheese (I had asked for a cheese course and I got one slice, with one date!) and some fruit tart for dessert. My main complaint was that everything (other than dessert) was too salty - my dinner companions had a reduction soup instead of foie gras and that was incredibly salty. We got sat at an awkward table (we were three) in a triangular room off the main room, even though I made a reservation two weeks ago, when next to us was a table for four at which they sat a couple! Service was good, but other than the saltiness there is nothing to distinguish this restaurant from any other 4-star wannabe. I wish we had gone to Bastide instead! And even if you can't get a reservation at Bastide, I would suggest Melisse or even Alex before Sona.
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