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Tabata Ramen by Port Authority

03 Monday Sep 2012

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If you get a chance, try Tabata Ramen, which is right behind Port Authority. The staff was sooo friendly and the ramen was fantastic! Here’s a picture of the house Tabata ramen (which seems to have a Burmese influence). The thick, fragrant coconut broth is similar to ohn no khao swè and is topped with chicken, cilantro, and red onion. It was $10. A 16 oz. Sapporo is only $4.50.

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The garlic noodle dish was amazing — totally loaded with crispy fried garlic pieces and scallions. It gives you what my dad calls “breath of the iguana”.

I know what you’re thinking… Port Authority bus terminal is the armpit of New York. Don’t let that stop you from trying this place though! It’s like the diamond in the rough of that neighborhood! (Well, along with Piccolo Cafè and their awesome croissants!)

Tabata Ramen
540 9th Avenue
New York NY 10018

Tortillería Nixtamal

21 Saturday Jul 2012

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Shrimp tacos with mango and cucumber at Nixtamal in Corona, Queens ($3/taco)

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Chongos zamoranos is a sweet curd dessert from Zamora in Michoacán, Mexico.

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Nixtamal provides tortillas to many restaurants in New York such as La Esquina, Choza Taquería, and even Nobu. The owners, Shauna Page and Fernando Ruiz, make their own corn masa using a method called nixtamalization. The corn is soaked in mineral lime, which increases its nutritional value, allows it to be more easily ground, kills fungus, and improves flavor. In front of Nixtamal there are a few stalks of corn growing in a planter.

My Molcajete

17 Tuesday Jul 2012

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A few months ago MexGrocer.com had a huge blow out sale and so I bought a real lava rock molcajete. It was kind of hard to find a real one even in New York. Many of the ones I found in Jackson Heights and Corona were decorative serving dishes made out of cement, not lava rock. It took me at least three months to season the one I bought online! I read on The Mija Chronicles that you should do a few turns of dry beans, then dry corn, dry rice, wet rice, and finally the spices. The many rounds help get rid of gritty pieces that might get mixed into your food. Today I finally got to the spices round!

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I ground some garlic, dried epazote, ancho chiles, and salt. The resulting paste was very fragrant and tasty!

Má Pêche

17 Tuesday Jul 2012

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Má Pêche (Momofuku in midtown) surprised us with a delicious vegan entrée for lunch today. The rice cakes ($18) were served with green garlic purée and hon shimeji mushrooms. What could have ended up like a plate of mushy gnocchi turned out to be something totally mouth watering. Each rice cake was very gently toasted (or maybe fried) to give it an unexpected crispiness. The green garlic sauce was spicy and so good!

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I want a Christina Tosi cake for my wedding… or at least my next birthday! I think the frosting-less cakes are so beautiful.

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Of course I also bought some of her truffles. The new flavor is strawberry lemon cake. SO GOOD. Is it the powdered milk that makes them so irressistible?

M. Wells Dinette

14 Saturday Jul 2012

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Scoboco just posted this image on his flickr account. Could it really be a first glimpse of M. Wells Dinette at MoMA PS1? First they said on the website that it would be ready in May, then June, now July! I called a MoMA PS1 a few days ago and the receptionist told me that they were hoping to open in July. By the looks of this photo, I’m starting to think she meant July 2013!

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New Ladurée Macaron Flavors in New York

11 Wednesday Jul 2012

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I went to Ladurée yesterday for the first time in weeks. I had been so upset about the discontinuation of the muguet (lily of the valley) flavor that I couldn’t bare even to pass by the storefront.

Overwhelmed with curiosity about the new summer flavors, I found myself in line once again trying to decide which of the new boxes I was going to buy for my collection. I chose this one in honor of the “Queen’s Diamond Jubilee”.

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New flavors include basil & lime, strawberry & poppy (not poppyseed, but poppy petals), and the latest “incroyable” strawberry, with a guimauve (marshmallow) filling and a bit of sugar sprinkled on top.