“. . . the desire her whole person expressed was that of communicating to me what she was tasting: communicating with me through flavors, or communicating with flavors through a double set of taste buds, hers and mine. . . .”
Italo Calvino, "Under the Jaguar Sun."

Locations

Food From Throughout Thailand at Boran

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 […]

Beijing Dumpling House

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 […]

Taste of Kerala: Onam Sadhya in Outer Queens

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 […]

Le Petit Cafe: Cambodian food in Lowell, MA

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 […]

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