It's been a while.
I was caught with a nasty virus (ironically might've been food related) for about a week.
My stomach was playing double dutch with my tongue on every corner of every street and I don't think I ever repeated a meal or dish. (Although I ate a lot of stomach and smoked fish)
Here's a list of dishes had during my plump and lush visit to the Big Apple. (however, I never bit off more than I could chew)
CHINATOWN
Cold Sichuan Ox Tongue & Heart
Asam Laksa
Briased Goose Web & Sea Cucumber
Crispy Squid Tentacle
Fruit Salad with Squid & Shrimp Paste
Malaysian Curried Pancake
Duck Web Salad
Lychee Martini
Salt & Pepper Sardine (?)(whole tiny fish) [Dim Sum]
Shrimp Dumpling [Dim Sum]
Crispy Taro Dumpling [Dim Sum]
Scallop Dumpling [Dim Sum]
Braised Chicken Feet [Dim Sum]
Mees Rames (sp?)
Gado Gado salad
QUEENS
Flushing & Jackson Heights
Curry Fishball on a stick
Peking Duck Pancake
Sichuan rare beef soup
Yaks Butter & Salt Tea
Tibetan Spicy Tripe
Mango Lassi
Lotus & Preserved Egg Dumpling
Winter Melon Pastry
BRIGHTON BEACH
Cold Smoked Butterfish
Cold Smoked Turbot
Cold Smoked Salmon
Beet Salad
Beet Casserole
Carrot Salad
Lardo
Pickled Tomato
Caviar (Sturgeon)
Pickled Apple
Raw Clams (Coney Island)
Plum Cordials
Pickled Garlic
Corn Dog (Coney Island: delicious!)
Half Sour & Sour Pickles
Russian Raisin Malta
Black Currant Soda
BROOKLYN
Scrapple
Smoked Beer
Currywurst
Spicy Bloody Mary
Goat in Okra Sauce
Bramble
Goat in Eggplant Sauce
Ivory Coast BBQ whole fish w/ various condiments
Cecina Tacos
Chicken Mole Tamale
Duck Hash
Zucchini Flower Pupusas (Loroco y Queso)
Horchata
Habichuelas
MANHATTAN
Fig-infused Vodka
Dirty Martini
GREENPOINT
Veal Tongue in Horseradish Sauce
Cold Red Borscht
Various Cabbage slaws (Cole Slaw/Sauerkraut/Red Cabbage)
Don't forget that
ReplyDeletesham of a goat sammy
touted by that
Bourdained minister
of sinister innard textures
and the brooklynese lecture
actually the weakest treat
of any flushing mall stall --
rivaling those
wimpy kimchee dumplings
we fumbled with --
Sichuan did you prefer?
Keep chronicling like a king
and Ali-mentandonos
between ponies of invented
punch.
Ali say:
"Eat like a butterfly eating a bee"
and bring me
who is okay with bouquets
of squid for lunch
Your peer gourmond and steward
of the Connoisewer's manhole --
my new handle --
Herr Humbert
our vice, present tense
ReplyDeletedecisions in an offal office
"other" menu offered only as
a secret service serving:
Braised Memories
Emotional Dumplings
and Fruit Salad,
dressed with question
halfway digested
suggests a semi-colon
a brightened beach
beside a briny sea
we left our Queen
and Him, a lame man,
our King
for an Odessan counter culture
with affable sampling.
Red Dad's Don micsz
gastronaut landed
buried in the Boroughs
i'm flying off my handle--