Most Thai restaurants have a particular angle, a subset of the broader Thai cuisine that they specialize in. Usually that’s regional: northern, northeastern/Isan, southern, central. Boran doesn’t; they have characteristic dishes from all across Thailand. And it’s all great, at least all that I’ve tried. Obligatory when going to a Thai restaurant with my partner […]
We stopped at Beijing Dumpling House for lunch on our way to JFK recently. Beijing Dumpling House is, as the name suggests, a Northern Chinese restaurant, although the chef is from Guangzhou. They make excellent dumplings (not a surprise) but also noodles and other Northern specialties. The dumplings we got were fried chicken and basil […]
On Sundays, and only on Sundays, at the back of a market in Jackson Heights, you can get what I believe to be the best Mexican food in New York City. I’m from Chicago, which has amazing Mexican food. Ever since moving to New York, I have missed Chicago’s Mexican food, in particular carnitas, barbacoa, […]
Onam is the official state festival of Kerala, a state in far southwestern India. Though traditionally a Hindu festival, Onam is celebrated by Malayali people (i.e. people from Kerala), regardless of religion. Kerala is one of the most religiously diverse states in India. Hindus still make up a slight majority religion in the state, but […]
New York City, despite its wealth of immigrant cuisines, is almost completely devoid of Cambodian restaurants (the one exception being the sandwich minichain Num Pang). In fact, the nearest large Cambodian community is in Lowell, Massachusetts. Lowell has the second-largest Cambodian population in the US (behind Long Beach, California) and has a wealth of Cambodian […]
