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Restaurants
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Chinatown, Restaurants
Lobster at Lucky Plaza – NYC
Happy almost Thanksgiving! We’re eating turkey this year (hurrah!), but for those eating out, specifically Chinese food, here’s a post for you! Think of it as my Thanksgiving or Thanksgivukkah present to you. MORE »
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Palisades Park, Restaurants
Dumplings & Noodles at Hand Made Noodle House – NJ
Hand Made Noodle House, better known in Korean as 손 칼국수 (Son Kalguksu), recently expanded from a tiny five table joint to a full-blown restaurant with enough room to host your extended family back in Korea. Hand Made Noodle is currently my family’s go-to kalguksu (Korean knife-cut noodle soup) spot. While not my mom’s or my favorite, my brother’s family — who are recent pescatarians — like it because they have noodles with anchovy broth on the menu (most restaurants in the neighborhood are beef broth-only), and my dad used to like it because it was always cheaper and the portions humongous. I say “used to” because since the expansion, the prices have gone up a dollar or two for each dish. After this happened, my dad made a big to-do about it as if the restaurant had personally betrayed him and vowed never to go back, but since then, he’s been back a few times so I assume he’s made peace with the restaurant in his heart or at least his wallet. MORE »
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East Village, Restaurants
The Good and The Bad at Lanza’s – NYC
11.07.13 | Permalink | 3 Comments
Lanza’s Restaurant, an old-school red sauce joint in the East Village, has been serving customers veal scaloppine and spaghetti and meatballs since 1904. If you have doubts, swing by and you may run into the younger siblings of the very same customers. “Younger,” of course, in the relative sense here. It’s for this reason, after passing by the restaurant for many years, I never stepped inside. Last week, I decided it was time to change that. And the result? MORE »
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Palisades Park, Restaurants
Chinese-Islamic-Korean Skewers at DFCD – NJ
Dong Fang Chuan Dian (or DFCD for short) is a small Chinese-Islamic kebab/skewer restaurant in Palisades Park run by Korean-Chinese owners. Located en route to the 46, the location isn’t charming by any means, but the restaurant is a gem, and one not to be missed. MORE »
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Morningside Heights, Restaurants
Roast Chicken at Tom’s Restaurant – NYC
10.06.13 | Permalink | 2 Comments
You may know Tom’s Restaurant as the diner frequented by Jerry, Elaine, George, and Kramer on Seinfeld, or you may know the name from the Suzanne Vega song, but for me it will be always be the roast chicken place near school. MORE »
