Friday
Chinataste in Central Park
*包著鹹蛋黃、綠豆豆沙的鹹粽 $ 1
Chinatown is usually quite crowded. During the Taste of Chinatown food festival, is was super crowded there. So when we were full, we grabbed a 粽子 and a special bun with meat, and went to Central Park to eat. Very relaxing.
*烤鴨割包 $ 1 for each
Labels: Chinese
Taste of Chinatown
Some pictures from last weekend's food festival in China Town. Many delicious things were served, at a price of one or two dollars.
Labels: Chinese
Aki筷子樓 - 湖南牛飯
這是一家日本餐廳，不過我買到的食物卻是中國菜（這景象在紐約很常見，服務生甚至廚師都說中文，總讓人覺得是假的）。商業午餐組合為主菜+飯（白飯或糙米飯）+湯（酸辣湯或蛋花湯）或春捲，老實說很划算，加上份量大，吃完只能躺在地上等他消化完畢才走得動（當天我外帶到中央公園的綿羊草場Sheep Meadow野餐，隨後倒在地上曬太陽）。
湖南牛我真的不知道為何叫做湖南牛，沒去過湖南，無法明說。裡面混合著綠花椰菜、草菇、甜椒、紅羅蔔、荸薺與口感滑嫩的牛肉，很下飯。
$ 5.xx~6
Add: 128 W 36th St. NY
Labels: Chinese
Pax - 綠花椰菜塔
極不推薦！尤其是拿來當早餐，油膩膩地只會讓你作嘔。中間是花椰菜混蛋的合成物，還可以接受，但是外面一圈派皮就........。油炸物放久之後再吃，除了有油變老的臭味之外，雖然吃起來還算酥脆，但是，渣渣會黏在我的口腔裡，極不舒服，我發誓我以後再餓也不會飢不擇食到買這來吃。$ 4.x(超貴)
Labels: american
Tuesday
雙喜飯店 - 星洲炒米、酸辣湯
我對星洲炒米這個名詞好奇許久，這次終於下定決心試試看啦！星洲炒米原來是新加坡式炒米粉，至於何為新加坡式呢，而且菜單還說這道菜會辣，唉呀，不過就是用了咖哩粉！話說回來，雖然只有咖哩粉、蝦仁、豆芽、蔥......不過味道好極了（一點都不辣）。我在家試過炒麵炒飯炒米粉炒冬粉，為什麼都不會像餐廳一樣＂根根分明＂啊？都會糾結在一起，是沒有分叉斷裂，但是就是口感與視覺不太好，這非常困擾我，可能的原因是我的油放不夠多，但是油放太多又不好.....另外一個是酸辣湯，總算是有正常的口感了，雖然跟＂四海遊龍＂比起來還是差些。
$ 星洲炒米 6.95 / 酸辣湯 1.95(?)
Add: 81 Mott St.
Labels: Chinese, Singaporian
Wednesday
蘭州拉麵、水餃 - 羊肉拉麵
我這個麵條愛好者，總算是找到一個不錯的店啦！麵條是師傅現做的（不時傳來麵團被摔在木板上的聲音），口感實在、料與湯頭都不錯，價錢也只要四元，可以來吃吃看！他們另外還有包的很精緻的水餃，十顆只要兩元！這麼便宜你還等什麼。$ 4
Add: 144 E. Broadway (close to the subway station)
Labels: Chinese
Phiily cheese steak - A diner in Stamford
光看菜單我還以為是菲力牛排哩！結果是三明治，害我有點小失望。加上油膩膩的薯條與炸過的法國麵包，怪不得我身旁有這麼多體型碩大的美國人！不過，牛肉與洋蔥的味道相當搭，不會太鹹，口味甚至有點像吉野家的牛井喔！$ 9.95
Labels: american
Monday
Whole Food in park
April 15, 2007: Sitting in a sunny park in San Francisco, eating a mix of food that I bought at Whole Food. They charge per weight, $8 per lb, but their food is really fresh and nice. I mixed tofu, salad, rice, cheese and some nachos.Price: $14
Score: 8/10
Priceworthness: 7
Sunday
Chicken with asparagus
April 14, 2007: The lunch today was chicken with asparagus at the second of Palo Alto's four Chinese restaurants. The chicken was good, and the asparagus as well. But the sauce mixed with the rest was not very delicious. It made the food taste...American!Score: 6/10
Price: $14
Priceworthness: 4/10
Labels: Chinese
Thursday
Dinner in Koreatown
April 2, 2007: Korean food... Delicious but spicy. Very spicy. HOT! (But 阿珮 felt fine :-)) Three main dishes were ordered, but many small dishes were served before that, that's a nice Korean tradition.
Score: 5 (too spicy...)
Price: $48
Priceworthness: 4
Add: 49 West 32nd St. New York
Labels: korean
Cheese cake rice pudding
April 9, 2007: This is a really awesome place, called Rice to Riches. They serve many different kinds of rice puddings (Ris à la Malta). We shared a small one with cheese cake taste. Yummy!Price: $5
Score: 9
Priceworthness: 6
Add: 37 Spring St. NY
Labels: dessert
BIG EVENT - 2007 TASTE of CHINATOWN
Let's go for food!
Spring 2007, Taste of Chinatown will be held on April 21, noon - 6 p.m, rain or shine!
WOW!!! I can't wait!!
More info is here.
Spring 2007, Taste of Chinatown will be held on April 21, noon - 6 p.m, rain or shine!
WOW!!! I can't wait!!
More info is here.
Rice at Rice
April 9, 2007: There is a Asian/European/American mixed restaurant called Rice. They especially serve many different kind of rices. I took black rice with satay chicken, and 阿珮 took ratatouille with white Japanese rice. The white rice was too dry, but the rest was not bad.Score: 7
Price: $20
Priceworthness: 6
Add: 292 Elizabeth St. (Houston & Bleeker St.)
Labels: mixed, Sex and the city
Chai tea time at Tavalon
April 7, 2007: There are not many cafés with a real DJ playing your favorite music. Tavalon, next to Union Square, is one who does. Their chai tea was also very nice, and perfect for a chilly April evening in New York.Add: 22 East 14th St. NY
Labels: drink
Dunked LES donut
Grabbed a donut with cheese and egg, at Dunkin' Donuts on Manhattan's lower east side. Suitable when starving...Price: $1
Score: 2/10
Priceworthness: 4/10
Labels: american
Wednesday
Wendy burger
April 7, 2007: Wendy's in Brooklyn serves burgers and giant cokes. Greasy and salty; just what the body wants... We didn't choose the burger, but instead a chicken salad with bread, and a spicy chicken burger.Score: 5
Labels: american
Chinese chicken wrap
April 11, 2007: Grabbed a wrap on my way back to downtown Palo Alto from Stanford University. And the wrap was not bad. Or was I simply too hungry and jet lagged? I turned it into a combo with rice, beans, drink and some chips for an extra dollar and a half.Score: 6
Price: $9
Priceworthness: 4
Monday
Chicken broccoli
Cut some pieces of chicken, add boil it together with broccoli. Make a sauce of black beans and starch. Boil some cabbage. Cut a mango. Voilà - you've got a very nice dinner!Labels: homemade
Home made mix
April 8, 2007: Home made is often delicious. This home made dinner consisted of semimanufactured stuff but was still nice, indeed. Dumplings, shrimps with pea pod, and a salad with Parmesan cheese and olive oil made a nice lunch.Labels: homemade
Friday
More Italian than the original
April 6, 2007: Today we shared a big pizza for lunch. My boss, Glenn, says that this pizzeria makes better pizzas than the Italians themselves. I agree. It was better than the original. That extra mozzarella and dried tomatoes really made a difference.Score: 8
Organic blackberry breakfast
Organic is the only word to use here. It seems to be very important that food is organic here.
Take a special look at the sour milk package... Does it mean that all things, that are not explicit expressed as organic, are artificial?Swedish muesli
Last time in USA, I found it tricky to find breakfast that were not too fat or sweet. But this time, I even found some healthy and nice müsli (granola)! But after looking more close to the package, I realized that it was actually produced i Sweden... Anyway, it was as delicious as havregrynsgröt (oatmeal) :-)Price: $7
Score: 8
Priceworthness: 3
Labels: breakfast
Wednesday
Chinese lunch bargain
April 3, 2007: There is a restaurant named China Palace, close to my work on Park Avenue. There are three good things with that place:1) They serve food really fast.
2) You get much food, it is cheap, and a soup is included
3) They like to speak Chinese with me
Today I choosed their tofu with vegetables and fried chicken. Delicious, quite healthy and cheap :)
Price: $4
Score: 7
Priceworthness: 8
Labels: Chinese
家鄉味 - 自製料理
老娘心血來潮，興沖沖地煮了1.白菜、波菜、蝦皮、金針菇大混炒，2.蝦仁豆腐羹，3.乾拌麵線。還蠻有個樣子的吧！回到台灣，生活太過方便根本不會想要自己下廚；紐約因為華人多，中菜館到處都是，要不是外食還是偏貴，我想我也不太可能繼續下廚，當初在瑞典練出來手藝，就會這麼荒廢掉喔！Labels: homemade
Street food - Arabic beef kebab
今天下雨，想說灰塵髒東西會少點，所以我就在轉角買了牛肉烤肉三明治回來吃看看。好吃喔！牛肉非常多汁(juicy)，值得一試！肉是有點鹹啦，但是混著美乃滋與麵包皮吃，就很有烤肉時肉片加吐司的家鄉味。裡面還有生菜及番茄，算是有考慮到營養均衡的原則。$ 3. 可以選擇三明治模式或是只有肉串(stick)，醬有白醬美乃滋與紅醬辣椒可選。
Add: corner of E 54th St. and 3rd Ave.
Labels: Arabic
Tuesday
Chinese food, too salty?
CNN
Until now, I guess I know why they have this kind of impression. One Turkish friend told me that he thinks Chinese food is too PLAIN, so when he gets food, the first action he will do is to add more salt on it! Oh my!... And I recalled when I was in Istanbul, I found their food sometimes too salty, like stewed meat, oh, it's so impressive. So to conclude, in order to adapt "foreigners'" taste, Chinese chefs changed their way to cook!?
A-pei mama said, the less salt you add, the healthier you will be.
Until now, I guess I know why they have this kind of impression. One Turkish friend told me that he thinks Chinese food is too PLAIN, so when he gets food, the first action he will do is to add more salt on it! Oh my!... And I recalled when I was in Istanbul, I found their food sometimes too salty, like stewed meat, oh, it's so impressive. So to conclude, in order to adapt "foreigners'" taste, Chinese chefs changed their way to cook!?
A-pei mama said, the less salt you add, the healthier you will be.
Labels: Chinese
Gray's papaya - Hot dogs' special
Unhealthy food again, don't blame on me, Mr. An~~~~~Well, I should say, if I can choose, I prefer danish hot dog. :-)
Because I don't know what toppings I should put on my hot dog, I said "everything" which I learned from Wei Xu's English book. And it works! Haha!!
I found it so so. Bread is very common, and so is hot dog. However, onions, sauerkraut, ketchup, and mustard...go well with hot dog and bread. As for PAPAYA drink, it is worth taking a try. Unlike Taiwanese papaya milk, it tastes lighter.
$ 3.5, tax included. 2 x hot dogs and 1 drink
Add: corner of W 37th St. and 8th Ave.
Labels: american, Sex and the city
四菜一湯 - 台灣自助餐
關於菜色部份，安先生已提及，這裡不再贅述。這裡我只想提，能聽到台語歌或是台灣來的中文歌真是太棒啦！老闆，不介意的話請給我麥克風吧，我真想唱卡拉ok～～～目前我們已在華埠發現三家這種四菜一湯四元的台灣自助餐店，說真的，要不是我們有＂絕對不要去同一家餐廳兩次＂的目標，基於營養以及經濟的考量，我絕對會天天來的！:-Ｄ
Labels: taiwanese
Sunday
Pig's ear with rice
April 1, 2007: Did you think that eating Chinese food only once a day is enough? I don't think so... It was worth to spend some time to eat pig's ear, tofu, eggstuff and vegetables with rice. Cheap and nutritious.Score: 6/10
Price: $4
Priceworthness: 7/10
Labels: taiwanese
本樓撈麵House's special LO MEIN
This one is unlike what we ate before (tasted like all the oyster sause was poured on the dish, terribly salty). It's quite ok. And because of "House's special", you can eat at least four kinds of meat and five kinds of vegetable, very nutritious. But, it is still too oily...$ 4.5.
Add: E 106th St. & Lexiton Ave.
Labels: Chinese
Chinese pecan chicken in Harlem
I was really hungry after visiting a church in Harlem, New York. So, while looking for an African restaurant, a Chinese suddenly popped up instead. Well, why not grab a pecan chicken with some wonton soup? It was not bad, and not too salty. But the vegetables could maybe have been more fresh.Score: 5/10
Price: $5
Priceworthness: 6/10
Labels: Chinese
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