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Upi Jaya Indonesian Cuisine

15 Friday Jun 2012

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CNN asked their readers to vote for the most delicious food in the world and the Indonesian dish rendang won. Upi Jaya in Elmhurst serves chunks of this caramelized beef curry for $7.00 per piece. For $7.50 you can get the meal deal.

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This shrimp curry had petai nuts (sator nuts) in it. The amino acids make your urine smell really odd after you eat them. They kind of tasted like lima beans that were soaked in methane.

I can’t wait to go back and try the djenkol beans!

Upi Jaya
76-04 Woodside Ave
Elmhurst NY 11373
(718) 458-1807

Valentine’s Day Flashback

09 Saturday Jun 2012

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This year I got to spend Valentine’s Day with two people that I love very much. I am sitting on a train to Tarrytown kind of daydreaming and I found myself thinking about the meal we had that night. I boiled some lobsters, grilled some skirt steaks that were marinated in a red curry sauce, grated a fresh som tam, and mashed potatoes with coconut milk. I want to make another special meal for these two. Do you have any ideas?

Soft Shell Crab Season

05 Tuesday Jun 2012

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It’s soft shell crab season and I just stocked up at Kim’s Fish Market on Queens Boulevard in Sunnyside. They are super fresh and only $4.99 for live crabs.

All you have to do it snip off their faces with kitchen scissors, pull out their lungs (AKA devil’s fingers), and yank off their aprons. I dredged them in chick pea flour (besan) from that amazing spice shop on 1st Ave in the East Village. After about three minutes on each side in a frying pan with some high smoke point oil, they were on my plate ready to be inhaled with a little bit of ponzu shōyu.

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Dana’s Bakery: “Not Your Ordinary Macaron”

04 Monday Jun 2012

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Dana’s Bakery, based in New Jersey, is having a 20% off sale for new customers and I am picking up my first order tomorrow. It was so hard to choose from the twelve flavors currently available! I’m really looking forward to this Fruity Pebbles one! I’ll let you know what they’re like tomorrow after I pick them up.

I was in Long Island City yesterday and stopped at Little Oven Bakery. They were kind of wiped out from a weekend’s worth of weddings but I was told that they’d have a clementine & pink pepper macaron available this week. I love pink peppercorns. I just hope that they don’t use chocolate filling like the do with the passion fruit one.