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• A taste of the black label beef

  

  I've always had this problem with the notion of deliciousness. Take for example, Dr. Pepper. There's nothing like the first sip out of the can of a Dr. Pepper. It's really amazing and delicious. Not everyone love it though. Yesterday I tasted an aged beef cheeseburger. It was delicious, but does everyone love the taste of aged meat? Aged beef is part of the new La Frieda Black Label blend that's being used at City Burger. When City Burger first opened in Midtown, I didn't like them at all but now they may deserve more consideration and praise.

  A taste of the black label beef is continued here...

  3 comments. Posted on December 5 2008 at 10:56 am

• I invite David Kamp for some McDonalds

  

  David Kamp might as well work for the National Inquirer. Really. You know that tabloid mag that calls themselves journalists? Yup. Kamp is just like the National Inquirer. Here's the latest blurb covered by Fork in The Road:
  
  "Afterwards, a discussion ensued inspired by questions from the audience. A general disapproval of blogs was espoused, and one panel member predicted that blogs would soon be edited. Maybe just trying to be controversial, Kamp reviled chowhound.com and egullet.com, calling them "insular," but then praised Josh Ozersky and his new blog."
  
  I mean, if David Kamp doesn't know the difference between a posting forum and a blog, then I'm not going to distinguish him as a writer from those who write for the National Inquirer. In fact, why distinguish him from motherfucking douchebags who eat shit? Why should I? He doesn't take the time to acknowledge or understand where the 21st century is going, and I'm not going to acknowledge that there are different kind of writers. In fact the other day I read something written by a 5th grader. Musta been David Kamp's colleague. But since I'm reasonable. Anytime you want Mister Kamp, I'll treat you to a delicious McDonald's meal, face to face, so you can tell me how insular I am. mmmk? Thanks. Motherfucker.

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  9 comments. Posted on November 21 2008 at 1:40 pm

• El Rey del Sabor and food shizzle

  

  You ever get that feeling that you just need to dial your life up a notch? Just a little? Because it's almost Christmas? Anytime you want to dial it up, you probably want some Latin food. I just made that up, but you're ok to dispute with me. Zach posted about El Rey Del Sabor food cart earlier this week and I rushed out to eat some. Why rush? Well, when the U.S. economy falls into a recession, I'll be eating to cheer myself up. So it's imperative to eat before the recession really hits. You gotta eat while the world is still a happy place. What could make you happier than a crunchy empanada or a huarache?

  El Rey del Sabor and food shizzle is continued here...

  4 comments. Posted on November 13 2008 at 5:39 pm

• I ate Baba Booey

  

  I just ate Baba Booey. Might have to go run off to see my doctor and get checked for venereal diseases or something. Obviously I didn't actually eat him because I'm trying to eat healthy now. Gotta save my calories for Thanksgiving. What I did eat was the Baba Booey cupcake from Crumbs. Cupcake Takes the Cake reports that "all proceeds... will go to LIFEbeat (The Music Industry Fights AIDS)." Sounds like a good cause for a good cupcake.

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  7 comments. Posted on November 7 2008 at 2:30 pm

• Pam's Real Thai

  

  Sometimes I fail at being a food blogger. There were some free samples at Kyotofu last week. I failed to score any free samples because I fell ill to the quiet Asian stereotype. In the store, this nice woman was like, "Can I help you?" and I was thinking, "You could if it's free!" But it just felt so Asian to ask for free food and then leave. So instead I settled with being the meek Asian and left. Life is just not fair sometimes. To cheer myself up, thai food was in order. Around the corner from Kyotofu is Pam's Real Thai.

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  5 comments. Posted on November 3 2008 at 12:01 am

• BA Supper Club and my Southern roots

  

  Apparently Bon Appetit magazine does this "Supper Club and Cafe" thing for two weeks in late October. They get famous chefs to put their name behind some menu items, price them moderately towards the higher end of the lunch pricing spectrum, and just let it fly. Midtown Lunch reported of its opening and I had to go check it out today because the daily special today was shrimp and grits. Since I used to live in the South, it seemed like a good excuse to go take lunch and eat grits. (But honestly it wouldn't take much to convince me to go eat grits. It's quite good).

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  5 comments. Posted on October 23 2008 at 2:00 pm

• Chocolate bread pudding from The Dessert Truck

  

  Holiday season is upon us. Halloween is just a few weeks away, but if you are anxious, there's something before super-duper candy day. Tomorrow is Sweetest Day. Apparently this is big in the Mid-West and Jonathan, who lives in Chicago, told me about this. I'm not sure how I'll celebrate it tomorrow, but I have a good idea... Yesterday, the celebration got started earlier when I made another trip to the Dessert Truck.

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  5 comments. Posted on October 17 2008 at 2:42 pm

• Bella Napoli and my quest for chicken parm

  

  Lunching out has become a regular activity now. It's odd that now the economy is in a hole, I eat out for lunch more. This is mostly the result of not sleeping enough and that is the result of too much xbox 360. No time to sleep = no time to pack lunch. Scientists have shown it's possible to spend an unreasonable amount of time discussing how to create a NBA 2k9 dynasty. Seriously, last night we got the Knicks to trim like 70 million in payroll in the game, in one year. How awesome would that be if it could be possible in real life?! Anyway, so I've been taking a liking to eating my sandwiches with gravy. Wait, that's not gravy, those are tears shed over my dwindling retirement savings. Epic, epic fail. Obviously if I'm going to stuff myself, might as well do it right. And when I walked by the Bella Napoli last week, it was a good time to stuff my face.

  Bella Napoli and my quest for chicken parm is continued here...

  12 comments. Posted on October 16 2008 at 12:15 am

• Szechuan Gourmet gets me wet

  

  I'm a chauvinistic, misogynistic pig. And I like steak, it's in my DNA as a man (I think...). After reading Frunk Bruni's article on gender differences, all I can say is, man, I'm glad wine ain't a big thing for me. The other thing is, whenenver dining with females, I live up to the stereotypical meek, quiet, geeky Asian boy. So succumbing the wine list is hardly ever an issue. But back to the issue at hand, which is food for men... if restaurants are separated into men and women leaning restaurants, than Szechuan Gourmet has to be a restaurant for the boys. It's one of my favorite places, and usually I hit it up with Eric the Teacher. This most recent trip was no different, and maybe we can figure out if it's a restaurant for men, women, or both.

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  10 comments. Posted on October 9 2008 at 4:58 pm

• Biryani cart and ticker watching

  

  My friends... let me tell you how an AARP member and social security recipient would eat lunch in midtown Manhattan. Wait no, I'm not sure you're all my friends and the chicken tikka masala is certainly too hot for the geriatric candidate currently in the U.S. Presidential race. Can't be too sure though, maybe if CindyMac can turn it into her very own recipe, then it would all be okay. If you are like me, and have been caught up in the crazy economic news, then you know it's time to scale back. Packing lunch would be the best option but the next best thing is to eat from a street cart. A biryani street cart.

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  7 comments. Posted on October 8 2008 at 12:03 pm

• Lazzara and commodity prices

  

  The economy is just crazy these days. You have prices going up all over the world. Lately it appears that all those fancy pants people who thought they were all hot shots and went to a business school? Apparently they can't run a business by themselves without letting greed over take them, and then ask for a bailout. All this news is distressing. The failing economy and soaring food prices is out of control. For my fellow eaters in midtown Manhattan, we now even have a price hike list for Midtown Lunch. It's time to add another casualty to the list of price hikes because apparently a chicken parm sandwich can cost $10 dollars now.

  Lazzara and commodity prices is continued here...

  2 comments. Posted on September 22 2008 at 10:48 am

• Piece of Chicken

  

  My mom used to tell me never to eat too much of one thing. She cautioned against my quarter of a whole cheesecake for breakfast and bagful of Cheetos for snacks. Mothers, what do they know?! When you go to Piece of Chicken, it's difficult to restrain yourself. Portion control flies out the window when food is this cheap and delicious. Really, I only spent $7 dollars on chicken and somehow I ended up with lunch for two days instead of one. Zach actually went to six fried chicken places in one day. Really, how do you do it man?

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  6 comments. Posted on September 8 2008 at 12:16 pm

• 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

• Dessert trucks of revolution

  

  "I said, how bout a revolution? And he said right." A food truck revolution is exactly what we need in New York City. If we could have trucks in convenient areas similar to how it is in downtown Portland, then I would be a happy man. Dessert Truck is helping to start that revolution. The Dessert Truck goodies can make anyone feel good about a possible revolution of delicious food served from a truck. If you are not feeling excited, let me do that for you (and by that I mean yes, let me feel you... uh...)

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  8 comments. Posted on August 22 2008 at 12:29 pm

• Peanut butter chocolate time

  

  Don't you just hate it when your sister tells you to stop doing something? Like when you're 9-years-old, stuffing your face full of cocoa puffs, and belting out the theme song to The Bodyguard. Yea I just dated myself as an old dinosaur but man Whitney Houston had a voice before all that crack. But I've always signed like someone on crack. "OMG, shut the hell up, you are so off key!" And like that, she crushed dreams of singing like a beautiful black woman. Luckily, my sister also influenced me in other ways, like teaching me about taking breaks from cocoa puffs to eat peanut butter and Reeses pb cups. And that's what drove me to the Treats Truck, a love of peanut butter goodness.

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  11 comments. Posted on August 15 2008 at 11:44 am

• Chaat in midtown

  

  A plate of vegetarian food for five dollars? Do you know everything else that I could get for five dollars?! Psssh, Taj Delhi Chat will not win me over! Those were my original reaction to the idea of having chaat for some Midtown Lunch. The pictures of the healthy and delicious looking food on Zach's blog helped to sway me. I am quite thankful because chaat is probably now my favorite summertime lunch. It is refreshing, healthy, and filling. What else could you ask for when it is so hot outside?

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  2 comments. Posted on August 1 2008 at 1:47 pm

• Red Lobster is phooey

  

  Lines. You draw them to demarcate borders. For many foodies (yes, I know many food lovers hate that term, but I can write a diatribe about why if you love food, you are wrong to hate the term. And in fact later I will get into this), there is a line to be drawn against big corporate chains. Fortunately for you, my world is full of gradients and I think lines can be boring and stupid. So I will cross the line that many in the food blogosphere would not, and venture to infinity and beyond! Well, actually it was not infinity, it was just Red Lobster. And it was not beyond, it was just take-out lunch, but who is counting?!

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  7 comments. Posted on July 25 2008 at 11:00 am

• Summer restaurant week at Bar Room of The Modern

  

  Restaurant week used to excite me when I was an undergrad at NYU because the RW lunch specials of $24.00 was super affordable. Most of my meals back then consisted of ramen or cheap chinese take out food from Chinatown. RW was always a refreshing break from the normal stuff. Then as I got older and read more about the food scene in New York, the general consensus was that restaurants held back for RW. The cooks hated it because of the mad rush, and the menus were second rate compared to the normal menu. But after college I realized that food is only half of the experience, and the other half is about your dining companions. And that is why you should always bring an escort with you, and a Labrador retriever. This way, you can have the hot and the cuddly all at once. Note - you obviously do not want to cuddle with a escort for obviously reasons, and you bring the dog in case people become disgusted that you brought an escort. See, best of both worlds. Oh and I went to The Bar Room at The Modern earlier this week!

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  4 comments. Posted on July 24 2008 at 11:29 am

• Shanghai Mong

  

  There are many instances when you would want a "two for one" deal. When you buy cookies, cupcakes, and rain boots because what are you going to do with just one boot? Maybe you could use it as a flower pot. Very rarely do yo encounter a lunch special that lets you sample two dishes at once (think: General Tso and Beef and Broccoli, how awesome would that be?!) Lucky for me, Shanghai Mong offers their best noodle dishes into one item on the menu: Za Jiang Mein and seafood noodle soup.

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  6 comments. Posted on July 15 2008 at 4:55 pm

• Caribbean Spice off to a shaky start

  

  Sometimes my mind tricks my taste buds. It is kind of like when I trick my friends with the weather report. You see, every time my friend Jeremy asks me about the weather, my response is always like, "It is sunny, but breezy," or "It kind of cold, but I guess you can do without a jacket." I do this so much that there is a joke about "Danny's Weather Report." Basically you never listen to it because it is tricky. See, sometimes when I see a food cart, my mind tells me, "Food cart! You love it! They might suck but they might be good." This time around? It was bad.

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  6 comments. Posted on May 21 2008 at 11:22 am

• kim bap that feels homemade

  

  Sometimes I feel such a let down when transitioning from one blog post to the next. Alas, I did not drop this lunch item on the ground, it all went hygienically into my stomach. Nothing to see here! The first time I encountered this myserious thing called kim bap was a few months ago when I had to kill time around k-town. Actually I was waiting for my friends to belt out Sweet Caroline and hunger got the best of me (as it always does.) And I knew Zach of Midtown Lunch was a fan of Woorjip, but somehow I ended up two doors down from Woorjip, at this place called E-Mo Kim Bap.

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  7 comments. Posted on May 13 2008 at 5:44 pm

• Big Bowl Noodles

  

  You know, I think if you just plop a Chinese restaurant in Midtown Manhattan, people will be there eating during lunch. Quality of the food does not seem to matter. The thing is, I do not think you need to be a Chinese food fiend (like myself) to be able to understand if it is good or not. You will know if you like it. Big Bowl Noodles is a decent place for lunch, but it does not come close to unseating Szechuan Gourmet as my favorite spot. As a quick and filling substitute, Big Bowl Noodles is a decent choice.

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  3 comments. Posted on May 7 2008 at 10:54 am

• Cafe Cello

  

  The guy behind the counter asked me, "Do you want skin?" Am I alive? Do I like oxygen? Do I like comic cons? Or cherry blossoms? Uh, duh! Of course instead of saying that, I just nodded like an idiot and drooled on the counter, but who is counting? When I saw the post on Cafe Cello on Midtown Lunch, I knew it would be love at first bite.

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  10 comments. Posted on April 30 2008 at 10:47 am

• City Burger

  

  After reading about City Burger a few weeks ago, I got kind of excited at the prospect of a new potential lunch spot. This past weekend, I found myself around midtown and just wanted something quick and tasty for dinner. The review from A Hamburger Today made it seem like it would be good once they work out some kinks associated with being a new restaurant. And everyone who skims through the entries here at Food in Mouth know that I like just about everything. Well, apparently not everything because the hamburger at City Burger was beyond disappointing.

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  5 comments. Posted on April 21 2008 at 1:09 pm

• Kim and his aunt need to tweak it

  

  Working in midtown, your lunch options seem limited unless you read up and do your homework. Zach of midtown lunch mentioned Kim's Aunt Kitchen Cart late last summer. All I know is that aunts are cool, even if I do not personally know Kim's aunt. I was a big fan of the cart last summer before this blog started, but last week I went back to check out if the quality held up.

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  4 comments. Posted on April 16 2008 at 9:43 am

• Chef yu is solid

  

  The other day my roommate told me about a Chinese restaurant near her office. I was skeptical because she works around 34th street area - the tundra of the midtown tundra that is the New York food landscape.
  
  "Yea my Chinese coworkers took me to Chef Yu's and it was really good."
  
  She told me. I had to see about that! I went twice last week, and came away a believer.

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  2 comments. Posted on April 4 2008 at 8:37 am

• 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

• Pump it up

  

  One of my former supervisor was this extremely jacked dude. He was a very smart guy and always watched his diet, and he was one of those guys that probably started working out when he was eight. One day I asked him where to go for lunch and he mentioned The Pump Energy Food. I waited forever to try it out because dude, it costs ten dollars for a big plate of healthy goodness. They use no butter at da Pump and no fried foods either. How good could it possibly be?

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  5 comments. Posted on March 7 2008 at 12:30 pm

• Daisy May is amazing but service needs help

  

  Daisy May's BBQ. I am not sure how to proceed with this post because as you can see from the pictures, half a pig is a big deal. No joke, three times last week I just sat in my seat and said silently, "There will be pig!" And then last Saturday came, and when they brought out Rosa, my entire body shook with excitement. Half of a pig. Just think about that for a second. They went out, found a little piglet and then roasted it, then HACKED IT IN HALF! How fierce. I have had good bbq before, but this was on another level. However, while the meal was splendid, things took a turn for the awkward at the very end when Daisy May decided to be mathematically retarded.

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  10 comments. Posted on March 6 2008 at 8:13 am

• Petrossian and buttery goodness

  

  More croissants! This time from Petrossian! Sometimes I get a little OCD with food choices and totally go overboard in trying them out. Speaking of OCD, that has become a really cool word. Kids my age like to say they have OCD and thus can or cannot do certain things. "I am a dork" is totally another phrase that is now cool. What is up with that? All these trends are not useful to me right now, but ten years ago? Hell yea! You see, inside of me is this little ball of energy called the STFU ball, and when it grows too big, I explode. If one more person tells me he/she is a dork because he/she likes scrabble or knitting, I WILL EXPLODE! I CANN HAZ COMBUSTION! or something. Now let me tell you how I was dorking it out while eating croissant + cookie.

  Petrossian and buttery goodness is continued here...

  1 comments. Posted on March 2 2008 at 12:58 pm

• Bouchon has a yum cookie

  

  At the end of my vegetarian week, the only thing that kept me from going absolutely cuckoo was dessert. What ended up happening around Saturday and Sunday was that I had this, "almost at the finish line!" thought in my head and it just completely wrecked havoc on my sense of desire. Instead of broccoli, my mind wandered towards BACON. And since I could not have bacon, the next best thing was a chocolate cookie. To minimize the guilt associated with a cookie breakfast, I thought croissants would be a good idea. And Bouchon Bakery came to my rescue.

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  5 comments. Posted on February 26 2008 at 8:11 am

• Kunjip and love is like doing crack

  

  Happy Valentines Day! I am quite ambivalent about this holiday, for all the obvious reasons... But in the spirit of the cupids day, I present you with a youtube video (of course), and this one is by Helen Fisher of Rutgers University. She studies romantic love and apparently love is like cocaine (and the video is long, but if you only have four minutes, skip to the 20:00 mark and watch the last four minutes). Fisher says one main characterisitic of romantic love is "intense craving", and when it gets cold I have intense cravings for stews, like soon du bu. Today I present the one from Kunjip from K-town.

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  6 comments. Posted on February 14 2008 at 12:23 pm

• Dawat and really random things

  

  Yes this post has pictures of Indian food but hold on a second. Any of you out there drink Ovaltine or Milo or Horlicks? Up until a few days ago I had never tried any one of these things, which are all listed under 'malted milk' at Wikipedia. I bring this up because I can barely taste a difference between Milo and Ovaltine. And in general, those three drinks do not move me in any shape way or form. Basically to me, malted milk is like Ron Paul, slightly interesting, but not robust enough to make me change my drink. Oh right, and a few weeks ago I had some Indian food at Dawat.

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  4 comments. Posted on February 12 2008 at 1:17 pm

• Porter House New York hamburger

  

  After the masa debacle I walked over to Porter House New York and looked for something to eat. I really was not in the mood to eat a whole steak, and the guy next to me at the bar had a really good looking hamburger and I went with that. There is nothing like eating a burger and talking elections with a stranger at a bar. My friend Jon tells me that this blog is comprised mostly of posts about burgers and desserts, and he is right. Burgers and desserts probably rank really high on my list of really awesome foods to eat. I think this week I will try to cook a bit more at home and the post about it next week. On to the beef we go..

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  4 comments. Posted on February 11 2008 at 9:53 am

• 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

• Sun yip or ho yip or fun hos

  

  Welcome to another installment of the most irrelevant food blog ever. I say that not because it is true, but because half of this blog has nothing to do with food at all. Sure, in the upcoming paragraphs there will be some details about Ho Yip or is it Sun Yip? I just love a good naming crisis, sometimes I have them too, but that is another story for another time. Just as a warning to those who get bored easily, the next paragraph will be non-food related, skip it if you want.

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  7 comments. Posted on January 28 2008 at 11:15 am

• 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...

  Menchanko Tei is continued here...

  3 comments. Posted on January 17 2008 at 10:51 am

• Ying Du

  

  Let us play, things that I was supposed to do, versus things I actually did instead. Supposed to: read the library book that will be due in four days. Actually did: listened to songs on youtube that my friends sang in karaoke last weekend. Let me ask you, have you ever seen three guys sing the song, Put your record on by Corinne Bailey Rae? Neither have I, because I was singing it and there were no mirrors. Yea and that was after You're still the one by Shania Twain. Sight to see, lemme tell ya. Oh and Don't stop believin' by Journey is a great one for groups. You know, just FYI. And pointless trivia of the day is that in some parts of the world the word for karaoke is: ka-la-O-kay. I am for real. Oh right, fooooood blog. Well aside from karaoke, Asians also like cheap food. Some of you are thinking that is not true of all Asians. Well, I took a scientific survey of one, and that was the result. Sorry. Without further ado, to infinity and beyond! (And by infinity I mean 'lunch').

  Ying Du is continued here...

  10 comments. Posted on December 28 2007 at 10:50 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.

  Sapporo ramen is continued here...

  7 comments. Posted on December 27 2007 at 12:25 pm

• Cinnabon goodness at the Rockefeller Center

  

  Tourists in New York always puzzle me. I know there is heavy resentment from some residents that tourists just clog up the sidewalk and they walk too slow. Since I am prone to stop in the middle of the sidewalk at times, to snap up a picture, I do not have much beef with that. That and tourists pump in an inordinate amount of cash into the local economy. I was walking along fifth avenue on Sunday and saw this line to go into a store. This was maybe three in the afternoon. "They must be selling Wii's or something," I thought to myself. Upon closer inspection, it was an Abercrombie & Fitch store. Really, why come to New York to go to the A&F store? It is always interesting to see what tourists are into. After fifth ave, I was down in the Rockefeller Center and there were people in Starbucks, Dunkin' Donuts, and Subarros. The Cinnabon store? No love. Zero. And since I am all about giving out love, I went and gave Cinnabon some and bought one.

  Cinnabon goodness at the Rockefeller Center is continued here...

  3 comments. Posted on December 18 2007 at 2:10 pm

• Something filling

  

  I am just attracted to grimy places to eat lunch. When midtownlunch posted about the latin Food inside of a Blimpie, and how the Blimpie looked dirty, I knew that I had to give it a shot. It is a pretty straight forward place really, you get rice, beans, and one entree item. At a shade under six dollars, the perfect lunch item. And for those of you who just come to look at the pretty pictures, right now I am looking to upbeat songs to load onto my mp3 player. Tell me what gets your blood flowing while driving or pounding the pavements of your hometown. There you go, skip the rest of the words, skim the pictures, and offer a song suggestion. Thank you in advance my three loyal readers.

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  7 comments. Posted on December 11 2007 at 10:23 am

• kum gang san soon du bu

  

  Winter is definitely upon New York now. There is snow flurries in the forecast every few days and tourist season is in full swing. Since it is so cold, I like eating stuff that warms the soul. Soon du bu does just the trick. Not sure where one goes to find the best soon du bu in Manhattan, but my feeling on it is that most of the time it tastes good. Are they supposed to be super spicy? What is the tofu to seafood ratio supposed to be? And do you eat it with rice or just the stew? Do you put the rice into the stew or take alternate bites of each? How does the United States remove itself from the grips of the OPEC cartel? And how many licks does it take to get to the center of the tootsy pop?

  kum gang san soon du bu is continued here...

  5 comments. Posted on December 6 2007 at 7:54 pm

• Tamales Lady

  

  After a week of eating mashed potatoes every other day, and almost a week of eating at home, what better way to start off the Christmas shopping season than to eat tamales. Yea, you read that right. I have not had too many tamales in my lifetime, probably only tasted a couple. A couple of weeks ago I saw Midtownlunch post about the tamale lady in front of the Mexican Embassy and it looked too good to pass up.

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  7 comments. Posted on November 28 2007 at 12:59 pm

• Roasted Bone Marrow at Landmarc

  

  A couple of weeks ago, Mark Bittman did a story on Fergus Henderson's bone marrow dish. As luck would have it, I found myself in the Time Warner Center the other day, and the restaurant Landmarc had roasted bone marrow on their menu too. I have never had bone marrow before, at least not roasted ones from the bones of a cow. One of my cousins actually stopped eating beef a few years back because the mad cow thing. Hey, that just means more cow for me and more bones too for that matter.

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  6 comments. Posted on November 9 2007 at 12:04 pm

• Wu Liang Ye

  

  I had been to Wu Liang Ye a few times for dinner and even tried their variation on pork belly with chili leeks, except they call it bacon and that kind of made it more delicious. The reason that I avoided their lunch special menu was because most of the things on there sounded like variations of most Chinese take-out places: General Tso, chicken with huana sauce, beef and broccoli, and so on. The had one thing on the menu that had the word "szechuan" in it, and that was the "Baby Shrimp with Szecuan Chili Sauce."

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  4 comments. Posted on October 31 2007 at 12:43 am

• Soon Du Bu

  

  The other day I went to Korea Town and just randomly picked a restaurant. Man, that was a bad idea. Apparently not all Korean food taste the same. One of my rules for ethnic cuisine has always been, if the restaurant do not serve their own people, then how authentic could it be? I have walked into a Chinese restaurant before, sat down, looked around, poured tea, and decided that it was just too white because there was not a single Chinese or Asian patron in the entire restaurant. Seriously. No good. When I looked into New York Kom Tang Soot Bul House, there were Korean patrons and I thought, "Hey, pretty authentic."

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  6 comments. Posted on October 28 2007 at 2:11 pm

• Pinkberry is hollow too

  

  Remember when I went to Oko for yogurt and found that in the huge cup, all they did was give you a bunch of air? Well as it turns out, Pinkberry does the exact same thing. Somehow I feel ripped off because the center holds so much of that yummy stuff called air. How lovely. Maybe I should just stop eating ice cream and frozen yogurt though. Tonight at home when I changed out of work clothes, the button on my pants popped off. It just could not take the pressure anymore and poof!

  Pinkberry is hollow too is continued here...

  10 comments. Posted on October 26 2007 at 1:44 am

• Szechuan Gourmet

  

  I got up late this morning and did not have time to pack lunch, as a result, I paid a visit to one of the better Szechuan restaurants in Midtown. I had been to Szechuan Gourmet for dinner, but this was the first time for lunch. The menu boasted of over thirty different lunch specials, but L1 caught my eye - Double Cooked Sliced Pork Belly with chili leeks. It turned out to be a great decision.

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  6 comments. Posted on October 24 2007 at 12:25 am

• Ruby Tuesday is pricy

  

  Ruby Tuesday started a new slogan called, "simple fresh American dining." Apparently it has not caught on with the burbs people since their profit dropped 49% in the first quarter. Ouch. Perhaps they spent too much money to make their Times Square restaurant look nice. Their CEO has promised to lower the price and have lunch options below $10 dollars in the future. If my hamburger cost $8 dollars as opposed to the $11, it would be just as enjoyable as a Goodburger.

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  10 comments. Posted on October 22 2007 at 12:03 pm

• Yum Thai

  

  Thai food is one of those things like cocoa puffs, where it's almost always good. At least for me, that is always the case. My friend Ming tells me that I should be more discerning with my reviews and you know, train my palate, but usually my free time is spent flaming Michael Pollen lovers on various websites. Anyway, I like Thai food generally, and the only place in the heart of Midtown Manhattan is Yum Thai, and actually they are pretty good for Midtown prices.

  Yum Thai is continued here...

  5 comments. Posted on October 10 2007 at 12:12 pm

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