Places to be Curious About

[relbbaddoof]

2 hours ago, SethG said:

The raw shrimp and bitter melon salad I’m also very fond of but it’s admittedly not for everyone.

Thanks @MitchW and @SethG. I'd had my eye on that very salad as possible sustenance on a train trip yesterday. There's an entrance to the High Line just outside Moynihan Hall, and Chelsea Market is just a 20m minute walk each way. But they don't take online orders (that I can see), and the late afternoon clouds suddenly turned dark and ominous. So I walked the other way to the newish Chi on 9th and got their okra salad instead (and dumplings in chili oil).

Edited October 12, 2023 by relbbaddoof

[SethG]

8 hours ago, MitchW said:

This is good to know; we certainly don't get out to Elmhurst that often (one time was when I got my first Covid vax at Elmhurst General, and we brought home from Ayada), but I do remember enjoying Zaab Zaab. What else should be on our list. @SethG?

These days? Never had a bad meal at Saranrom. Not reinventing the wheel but everything is just bright & punchy. 

Zaab Zaab I like some things about. His use of bitter herbs took me off guard in a good way. That homemade fish sauce should come with a side of Altoids.

Khao Kang / Khao Nom are typically solid choices, the latter especially if one likes sweets  

Pata Paplean for a fun vibe and terrible sweet cocktails, noodles and some more adventurous fare.

Lamoon was the undisputed champ until the pandemic started, but sadly they’re gone now. Looking forward to the new concept they’re opening in the same space, though. I’m embarrassed to say I haven’t been to her Bushwick place (Mao Mao) yet, but one of these nights…

[Sneakeater]

Yeah one of these nights.  Mao Mao looks SO fucking cool.

[MitchW]

17 hours ago, SethG said:

Khao Kang / Khao Nom

Thanks! And I think I had one of the hottest dishes I've ever had at Khao Kang.

Yeah, MaoMao looks great.

[SethG]

29 minutes ago, MitchW said:

I think I had one of the hottest dishes I've ever had at Khao Kang.

Was it the yellow fish curry? That one is not fucking around.

[MitchW]

If memory serves me correctly, yes!

 

[splinky]

On 10/12/2023 at 5:30 PM, backyardchef said:

I see Raising Caine's is opening up near the office. Hearing good things. 

looks like they are opening in penn station, as well

[AaronS]

On 10/13/2023 at 3:17 PM, MitchW said:

If memory serves me correctly, yes!

 

the woman who served me that told me I probably couldn’t eat it and was polite about it when I bought a second plate of food.

[Orik]

I remember the cooks at Pam Real Time popping their head out of the kitchen to check if my own head's exploded already from their yellow fish kidney curry.

[Sneakeater]

I don't eat enough fish kidneys.

[MitchW]

On 10/13/2023 at 3:17 PM, MitchW said:

If memory serves me correctly, yes!

15 hours ago, AaronS said:

the woman who served me that told me I probably couldn’t eat it and was polite about it when I bought a second plate of food.

I'm pretty sure the same woman said the same thing to me.

7 hours ago, Orik said:

I remember the cooks at Pam Real Time popping their head out of the kitchen to check if my own head's exploded already from their yellow fish kidney curry.

That's something I have not tried (not the exploding head, but fish kidneys), at least not to my knowledge.

[small h]

7 hours ago, Orik said:

I remember the cooks at Pam Real Time popping their head out of the kitchen to check if my own head's exploded already from their yellow fish kidney curry.

I loved that dish. But it took me three beers and close to an hour to finish it.

[Evelyn]

On 10/13/2023 at 6:58 PM, splinky said:

looks like they are opening in penn station, as well

They are very popular in the South. And I will say for fast food, it's pretty tasty.

[backyardchef]

On 10/15/2023 at 4:41 PM, Evelyn said:

They are very popular in the South. And I will say for fast food, it's pretty tasty.

People praise their texas toast and their sauces......

[SethG]

Odd timing to stumble across this for the first time - apparently Khao Kang has a cart in midtown? (45th St. between 5th & 6th)

Were we not fairly sated from lunch already (Cafe China) I might have grabbed a bite  

Edited October 19, 2023 by SethG

[Simon]

On 9/20/2023 at 3:08 PM, small h said:

I need actual numbers in order to fly into a rage.

Fly, fly!  (MP for the sturgeon / caviar dish was $225 for 30g, $295 for 50g.)

Edited October 22, 2023 by Simon

[small h]

4 hours ago, Simon said:

Fly, fly!  (MP for the sturgeon / caviar dish was $225 for 30g, $295 for 50g.)

Chips and dip, $28. JFC.

[Simon]

8 minutes ago, small h said:

Chips and dip, $28. JFC.

The real crime was $42 for garlic soup with a gummy puff pastry.

[Wilfrid]

I can’t imagine how that “proffer” is viable. No matter how good, she has lost me at that price point. So her market is people who have silly money but who are actually interested in spending it on that kind of food? At a place that isn’t legendary?

Maybe I am missing something.

[mongo]

the proprietors of le bernardin have not objected to the le b name?

[Wilfrid]

Perhaps they don't want to give it extra publicity, as it's hard to see what legal claim they would have. 

[SethG]

On 10/22/2023 at 9:19 AM, Simon said:

Fly, fly!  (MP for the sturgeon / caviar dish was $225 for 30g, $295 for 50g.)

 

12 hours ago, Wilfrid said:

I can’t imagine how that “proffer” is viable. No matter how good, she has lost me at that price point. So her market is people who have silly money but who are actually interested in spending it on that kind of food? At a place that isn’t legendary?

Maybe I am missing something.

To be fair, those prices aren’t really any different than, say, Le Coucou. Or The Grill, or Il Gattopardo, or Nello… and they all still remain viable. I imagine it’s better food than at any of the latter three, too.

[Wilfrid]

Happily I have just been invited to Le CouCou.

[mongo]

3 hours ago, Wilfrid said:

Perhaps they don't want to give it extra publicity, as it's hard to see what legal claim they would have. 

 

well, there's the possibility of people thinking--as i did at first and second glance--that this is a le bernardin property.

[Wilfrid]

If it was called Le Bernardinn, go for it. But the word Le and a single standalone letter - trademark infringement?