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Chinese Crisp Beef and Beijing Baked Breads

June 25, 2019 / / Comments Off on Chinese Crisp Beef and Beijing Baked Breads

On Saturday night I visited the Queens Night Market for the first time ever, and I was completely blown away. I heard about it for the first time last year and had been interested in going, but I wasn’t prepared for the staggering array of vendors and the general energy of the place. On Saturday nights, the parking lot of the Queens Science Museum gets filled with food stalls, each selling a handful of different options all for about $6, and people storm the place. Lines snake every which way, a live band plays, kids run underfoot and everyone is chowing down.

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Long Beans with Roasted Sesame Seeds

May 15, 2019 / / Comments Off on Long Beans with Roasted Sesame Seeds

Long beans, or snake beans, as they are sometimes called, are one of my favorite vegetables to pick up when I make a trip to Hong Kong Supermarket, the mecca of Asian ingredients on the corner of Hester and Elizabeth on the northern border of Chinatown. I like these beans because they taste good, of course, but if I’m being honest my affection for them has a lot to do with how comical they look. They’re green beans, but like 50 times longer. So long that you can’t just stick a bunch in your shopping bag, you need to curl the tops downward back into the bag. I just think they’re…funny.

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Butter-Roasted Chicken with Soy-Garlic Glaze

July 25, 2018 / / Comments Off on Butter-Roasted Chicken with Soy-Garlic Glaze

On Saturday night, just a little worse for wear after a day of travel and an extremely slow baggage claim process, I got back from an unforgettable trip to southern Italy. I’d picked a chunk of the country that spanned from Tyrrhenian to Adriatic coasts, to the Calabrian border in the south, to the cities of Naples and Bari in the north, and we covered a ton of ground in Campania, Basilicata and Puglia. We saw countless Roman ruins, walked on miles and miles of cobblestones in the beating sun and ate more pasta than I thought it would be possible to consume. The food- simple, delicious home cooking at its absolute finest- was some of the best I’ve ever eaten.

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Twice-Cooked Chinese Swiss Chard

April 17, 2018 / / Comments Off on Twice-Cooked Chinese Swiss Chard

I swear it’s not because of writer’s block, but I’m going to discuss the weather AGAIN, since it’s all any of us here in NYC are talking about. “Can you believe this weather?” has become way more than just a pleasantry at this point, it’s a question I really want to know the answer to. On Friday afternoon it was 75 degrees and I zipped into my favorite wine shop and loudly declared “It’s rosé season!” By Friday evening, every New Yorker was out on the sidewalk trying cram into whatever restaurant wasn’t already completely booked for the night. Not wanting to fight the crowds, some fellow Upper West Siders came by and inspired us to take the layers (and layers and layers) of tarps and plastic off of our outdoor furniture, aggressively chill the stockpiled rosé and order a veritable feast of Korean food. By Sunday, it was 45 degrees and raining.

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