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Yakitori Totto

The only thing that I've eaten that was truly truly a party in my mouth was pop rocks. Those candies that give you little bursts of pop when you chugged those little cystals directly from the packet. Parties are loud and boisterous and lively. The older I get, the less of an appeal that as. And Sifton and Kanye might think much of mood rings, I simple have mood swings at parties. Such is the peril of social inadequacy. What I do crave however, is a vacation in my mouth, and not just any type of vacation. Not your Cancun bullshit where you're surrounded by the likes of Snooki and Situation, but one more suited for AARP members. Relaxing, warming, and satisfying. A couple of weeks ago I slowly trotted my geriatic ass over to the west side of Midtown, and found lunch sactuary at Yakitori Totto.
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4 comments. Posted on December 28 2009 at 2:32 pm
May chan ramen in the East Village

The old saying goes, "You can never have too much of a good thing." Before you think about whether you generally agree with that statement, let's apply that phrase to ramen restaurants in the East Village. Ippudo remains my favorite, although I like the straight up simplicity of Rai Rai Ken. And if Minca wasn't all the way by Avenue A, I would visit much more often. With that said, I still believe that you cannot have too much of a good thing, although economic conditions would probably be the main factor determining just how many ramen shops are sustainable in New York. Since I'm open to any new ramen place, when May Chan opened up, I had to go give it a try.
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5 comments. Posted on August 19 2009 at 2:08 am
Bento Nouveau

Sometimes you eat food so good, it makes you wanna have its babies. Other times, you eat food and it makes you want to have daddy issues like Katie Lee Joel and Padma Lakshmi. Or it just makes you want to be the hostess for Top Chef. One of those, I just get it confused sometimes. I went to Sushi! by Bento Nouveau last week and it fell into the category of... shit, I don't know. It certainly didn't make me want to have its babies though. I'm still going to tell you about the beef sukiyaki over rice for $7 bucks, and other stuff, just because I can.
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3 comments. Posted on July 7 2009 at 1:06 am
Zuzu Ramen opens in Park Slope

MacLaren's, banh mi's, and ramen. Park Slope now has it all. Two weeks ago it was banh mi in Park Slope. This week it's ramen from Zuzu Ramen. While I was disappointed with my experiences at Hanco's, I was very pleased when after a late dinner at Zuzu Ramen last night. It's about damn time we got some ramen in Park Slope. What, you expect yuppies to go all the way to Manhattan for Japanese noodles?
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13 comments. Posted on March 11 2009 at 3:50 am
Tebaya and Brandon Roy

At the frontier of food allusions are those that relates to sports. Sure, you could peruse the web and come up with blog posts exclaiming, "The top ten best [insert something here] in New York." I could also tell you that you could nom nom nom these cluckers until the rooster comes home. But I'm not going to do that because it takes too much time to compile top ten lists and I just don't love you guys that much. And my web 2.0 speak is completely FTL. What you will find out about in this post is why Tebaya has awesome wings, and how this relates to Brandon Roy, the starting shooting guard of your Portland Trailblazers. No really, you will.
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4 comments. Posted on January 24 2009 at 12:28 pm
Ippudo ramen warms you with the best broth

A simple dinner can often be great when you have great company and good food. Ippudo has some of the best ramen in New York City. The porky broth they serve is deeply intense, and it grabs a hold of your taste buds without letting go. They define pork broth in a way that makes you believe no one has ever made it better before. Maybe someone has, but when you sip a ladle full of that sweet porky crack, you just fall in love. That's what happened last time I went to Ippudo with Stephanie.
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9 comments. Posted on December 14 2008 at 11:10 am
Winter is for ramen and hibernation

When it gets cold I like loading up on carbs and store a lot of fat for the winter. While this may sound scary for my doctor or my mom, it sounds kinda nice to me. The other day Jonathan was telling me about how Grace carb-loaded before a marathon. You know, I like carb loading and then watching football. One is eating and exercising, the other is eating and being fat. Of the two, I seem to settle for the latter way too much. Cold weather and carb loading combines two of my favorite things. Ramen makes its way to my regular diet during the cold months of the year. Whether it's Ippudo or Rai Rai Ken, I pretty much love them all. I never know what to say when someone asks which one is my favorite. It's like you have the stable full of unicorns and someone asks you, "Which one is not an unicorn but instead is actually a pony with a fake horn on it's head?" See what I mean? Just shut up and eat the noodles.
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7 comments. Posted on October 22 2008 at 1:17 am
Chiyoda and cold udon

When it is a nice summer day in late August, I enjoy nothing more than some refreshing bukkake in the park. Oh no he didn't! Oh yes I did! And you should stop being so perverted! Goodness gracious. I have some common decency! If you are not well versed in Japanese cuisine, here is a quick lesson that I learned last week. There is the widely known definition and usage of the b-word. We won't go there. (Edit: Do not look this up at work.) In addition, the b-word is also used to describe dishes served with various toppings liberally sprinkled on top. Perhaps you were disgusted by the opening sentence, and your inner voice screamed, "WTF DANNY!? I WILL STOP READING FOODINMOUTH!" Then you focused purely on the dirty definition and I can't help you there. Stop thinking like that!
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7 comments. Posted on September 2 2008 at 12:59 pm
Otafuku

Do you ever eat something and then realize it is pretty good, but wish you would like it more? That is kind of how I felt with the food from Otafuku. It was like, this tasted pretty good, but it did not blow my mind... and I walk by this all the time, it is cheap, if it blew my mind, I would be able to eat this all the time! In case you are not familiar with this little hole-in-the-wall, they serve two main things: takoyaki and okonomiyaki. Yea, those Japaneese translations do not mean anything to me either. Basically the former is a fried batter with octopus and the latter is something like a savory pancake.
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6 comments. Posted on May 22 2008 at 5:57 pm
Ippudo makes your taste buds happy

Ippudo NY just opened up and New York went ramen crazy. Eater, Ed Levine, and Grub St all chimed in with positivity. Early word from Kathy was also positive, as she told us, "The broth was gorgeous, full and fatty just so, rich to the tongue." Of course I had to brave the wait and taste this for myself. No wait is too long for the good for the blog!
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6 comments. Posted on April 14 2008 at 12:44 pm
Soba Totto

Even though I really liked the vegetarian food from the last post, everyone probably suspected that it was just an anomaly. Meat would quickly find its way back on this blog. Soba Totto to the rescue! This place is owned by the same people who run Yakitori Totto therefore you know they know how to do yakitori right.
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6 comments. Posted on March 27 2008 at 7:11 am
Yagura rocks your shrimp socks off

If you follow midtown lunch then you know 41st street in midtown is like Japanese food heaven because there are three Japanese joints all lined up in a row. I really like the mom-pop feeling of Yagura, and also because it is the only one cool enough to have a mini-grocery store in the same space. I think you cannot go wrong anytime you walk into a restaurant and there is also a grocery store. How great would it be to have Piggly Wiggly attached to a McDonald's. You are not familiar with Piggly Wiggly? Try Win a Date with Tad Hamilton. Yes, for some reason I have seen that.
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5 comments. Posted on March 13 2008 at 12:14 pm
Bar Masa

You are thinking, "Did Danny drop coin to go get there?" Actually I went during lunch when they have lunch specials for $25-$35 dollars. Woo. What a steal! It would be really great to show you awesome pictures of the lunch I had at Bar Masa. Maybe I would inject some bad writing about how enjoyable the experience was or how wonderful the food tasted. Well, I cannot do any of that because five minutes after I sat down, I got up and left.
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6 comments. Posted on February 6 2008 at 11:59 am
Rai Rai Ken and human behavior

The other day my friend Jonathan said, "Your diet consists of burgers and desserts." Not true. I also eat ramen. Just think about, what other food groups are there? And just because my breakfast consists of hersey's kisses, hot chocolate, and an orange, it does not mean that I have a limited diet. Someone once said, "Live as though you will die tomorrow, learn as if you will live forever." My diet simply reflects the first part of the quote. See, I am smrt. S-M-R-T. Now gimme a gold star. Oh yea so I went to Rai Rai Ken last week.
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6 comments. Posted on January 25 2008 at 12:37 pm
Menchanko Tei

I was supposed to be writing about ramen from Menchanko Tei, except the Knicks were in the middle of pursuing a three-game winning streak, and in the middle of a commercial break, I got sucked into watching Gossip Girl for fifteen minutes. Yea, fifteen whole minutes where the pretty protagonist was getting sloshed at a bar and then a Smarmy McCreepster tries to pull an unsmooth move as he lured her into the kitchen for a grilled cheese with truffle oil. (See, there was food involved). I want my fifteen minutes back. Oh if they could just invent something that lets you reclaim wasted time...
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3 comments. Posted on January 17 2008 at 10:51 am
Sapporo ramen

As someone who has never really celebrated Christmas, I really should have been posting on this instead of be lazy. Haha. No way that was going to happen... For Christmas Eve and Day, all I did was eat, watch movies, and play video games. Did you know that Chinatown is PACKED on Christmas Day? I walked into Grand Sichuan and the guy told me the wait for four was, "very long time." Guess eating at home would have been easier. On Christmas Eve eve, I went to watch I Am Legend and Juno. And then we sat in Sapporo eating ramen and talking what each of us would do if we got a girl knocked up. And while this has nothing at all to do with a food,you can read about my thoughts later on in this post.
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7 comments. Posted on December 27 2007 at 12:25 pm