TweetShare As a white boy who loves to travel, I absolutely live for the moment when a friendly foreign host gets that evil glint in their eye at a street stall. It’s a mischievous glimmer that says, “heh heh heh, it’s going to be hilarious to watch the white American boy eat this.” Previous evil-glimmer [...]
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#0 Kuala Lumpur night market: duck tongue, century eggs, and a random bottle of snakes and scorpions |
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TweetShare At a glance, one might assume that Salute Kosher Restaurant (sometimes listed online as “Salut 2000” or “Restaurant Salute”) is just another Uzbek-Bukharian place, much like Cherburechnaya or Tandoori or Aladdin. The word “Uzbek” appears twice on the menu, and the restaurant was featured in a 2006 New York Times article, which specifically mentioned [...] Read More >> |
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TweetShare OK, fine. I admit it: sometimes, I totally stalk people. But only if I think they might be able to feed me something interesting. Once upon a time, I was hungry, and tried really hard to stalk real Mongolians in New York City. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find any. (In case you’re wondering: corner-store “Mongolian [...] Read More >> |
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TweetShare In case you haven’t noticed, I’m not really a huge fan of fancy restaurants with fancy table settings. Once, I happily ate tasty Honduran beef out of a large, black trash bag in a park in the Bronx. One of my all-time favorite New York meals is served in a parking lot in Astoria. [...] Read More >> |
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TweetShare I went to Sheepshead Bay, looking for Armenian food. Instead, I found tasty dried horse meat. And fake pet birds. Life is good. Aladdin, a six-week-old Uzbek restaurant in the spot formerly occupied by Armenian-owned Garden Bay Café, serves all sorts of classic Uzbek awesomeness: a colorful version of lagman (noodle) soup, solid renditions [...] Read More >> |
