Lunch 2025

[KennethT]

35 minutes ago, weinoo said:

 

It just got "reviewed" on Eater - for whatever that's worth! (Basically, nothing, as eater, in my opinion, is gasping for air).

 

https://ny.eater.com/restaurant-openings/404894/time-out-new-york-market-union-square-kebabwala-lori-jayne-kam-rai-thai-taqueria-el-chato-fornino-patty-palace

We were planning on Thai - specifically the fried chicken and a khao soi.  They were out  of the khao soi, so we got the Northern Thai sausage.  The fried chicken was ok, but not even close to the best Hat Yai fried chicken we've had and the puck of sticky rice it came with should have had them cowering in shame.  It was so overcooked that the individual grains fused into a single gummy mass.  I can't blame it on the fact that it may have been sitting around as I remember getting a mango with sticky rice in Chiang Mai where the vendor dug teh sticky rice out of a cooler that was probably sitting there for hours and it was perfect.  I had mistakenly thought that the sausage was sai oua - a type of Northern Thai sausage and asked for it.  The manager who took our order knew what I was talking about, but didn't correct me in the fact that what they were serving was definitely NOT sai oua as I knew it both from Chiang Mai and at my much missed Pok Pok whose version was just like we had in Chiang Mai.  Saturday's version was a uniform fine grind, very one note, and they happened to burn the crap out of the sausage casing....