Entries from The Amateur Gourmet tagged with 'Chinatown'
Reader Query: Chinatown Lunch
Since my readers have been so helpful in the past, I'm seeking advice for an upcoming lunch date I have in Chinatown this week. What's a great Chinatown spot, open weekdays for lunch, and what should we eat there? Your advice is much appreciated....
Chinatown & Alton Brown
Check out this week's episode of The FN Dish (click here) in which we bring two of Alton Brown's biggest fans to meet him at a book signing and then go to Chinatown with Jennifer 8. Lee, author of The Fortune Cookie Chronicles. In the comments you can enter to win a copy of either Alton's or Jennifer's books, so check out the rules beneath the video. And, eventually, you can read about my attempt at wok cooking here, once they put my post up. Also: we shot the video at Bonnie Slotnick's Cookbook Store in the West Village. If you're coming to New York and you love cookbooks, you have to make a trip there. Bonnie is the best....
My First Pho
Leah, who designed my website, couldn't believe it when I told her, back when I met her, that I'd never had pho (pronounced: F-uh). "Oh my God," she said. "When it's cold, I totally have to take you out for pho." News flash: it's cold. And Leah, ever the persistent pho-pusher, reminded me over e-mail not long ago about my pho promise. "The time has come for pho," she wrote (or didn't really write, but I like the way it sounds) and the pho gods smiled upon me as I wrote her back: "Yes. Yes it is."...
Eating While Standing Up (Banh Mi Saigon Bakery & The Bagel Hole)
In the current food issue of The New Yorker, Calvin Trillin wonders--in another one of his hilarious food essays--if "through some rare genetic oddity, my sense of taste is at full strength only when I'm standing up." He wonders this because of his deep love for street food. As a participant of the Calvin Trillin walking tour last year, I was lucky enough to eat street food standing up with the man himself. And the best bite of the tour was, by far, the bite you see above....
Feeling Grand on Grand Street at Pho Grand
I finally did it. I've lived in Park Slope for 10 months now and every time I take the D train into the city I promise myself that one day, when it stops on Grand Street, I will get out and eat lunch. You'd thing that a food obsessed person like me would've done that all the time: Grand Street runs right through Chinatown and most of my favorite food personages--especially Calvin Trillin--feel about Chinatown the way that Joan Rivers feels about plastic surgery. It's what makes life livable....
