tell me about the last great asian meal you had so that i can vicariously live thru you and forget that i live on crazy island that has two mediocre chinese take-out joints owned by the same guy and

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i will try not to hate you. what was it? korean bbq? sublime thai? melt-in-your-mouth viet-namese? yum yum dim sum? actually-fresh-and-not-flash-frozen sushi or some other exotic erotic japanese delicacy? go ahead, i can take it.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 10 October 2005 01:42 (twenty years ago)

jeezus, i need a grammarian not a new asian hotspot. but enough of my lack of schooling, i want all the juicy details...

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 10 October 2005 01:45 (twenty years ago)

I must resist mentioning the great ramen place right across the street from me, then. With the HUGE BOWLS of great broth and lots of veggies and tons of noodles and...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 October 2005 01:46 (twenty years ago)

sweet black sesame soup. snow frog. radish cakes!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 10 October 2005 01:47 (twenty years ago)

pad thai w/mock duck. drunk man fried rice w/tofu. thai ice tea.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 10 October 2005 01:50 (twenty years ago)

http://www.montrealmirror.com/2005/090805/resto.html

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 10 October 2005 01:51 (twenty years ago)

mmmmm, i love internet porn.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 10 October 2005 01:52 (twenty years ago)

Peking duck, and an all dumpling extravaganza, while in China, were both pretty outstanding. Actually, pretty much all the food there was..wish I had the recipe for this thick, spicy, corn soup I was served at one restaurant.

― Mingus Dew (Mingus Dew), Monday, 10 October 2005 01:52 (twenty years ago)

I went to Red Light the other night, one of our first nights out since the birth of the stinker almost a year ago. My wife had orange-cranberry Peking duck, and I had beef curry. Mango-lobster rolls as a shared appetizer.

http://www.redlight-chicago.com/

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Monday, 10 October 2005 01:52 (twenty years ago)

good dim sum, SF Financial district, about a month ago.

You would have loved it.

Shu Mai for lunch count?

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Monday, 10 October 2005 01:54 (twenty years ago)

speaking of ramen, ned, i've been meaning to look for a good place on-line to buy good store-bought varieties. especially the ones with the soft noodles that i love. when i lived in philly, i just took all this stuff for granted. i really have to start MAKING my own thai dishes. they got all the fixings at the supermarket at least.

slocki, you wrote that? pig bones, huh? hmmmm...

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 10 October 2005 01:59 (twenty years ago)

i'd like to say harvest buffet, the high-end pan-asian buffet on northern blvd in great neck, but i fear the quality has jumped the shark. the only memorable item was the honeydew bubble drink.

― glasgow coma score (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 10 October 2005 02:02 (twenty years ago)

Though the restaurant was out of dumplings when we visited, we did get to try Lao Beijing's "tourtière" with shallots, pork and garlic ($8.99), which was kind of a cross between a Vietnamese pancake and a Chinese dumpling. The pork actually took a backseat in this dish, while the garlic and shallot flavours really stood out.

I WANT THIS

― glasgow coma score (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 10 October 2005 02:04 (twenty years ago)

Hahaha! I thought the same thing, Jody.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 10 October 2005 02:11 (twenty years ago)

Three great ones in Seattle last month: Blue C, a conveyor-belt sushi place, with Jaq, Spouse of Jaq, and Gravel Puzzleworth; and then the next morning, an early dim sum lunch at House of Hong, with the same excellent company. And then a few days later, dinner with Donut and M. Matos at the Thai place across the street from Easy Street Records. That was a very good trip, eating-wise, but I don't think it could have been otherwise.

― William Paper Scissors (Rock Hardy), Monday, 10 October 2005 02:14 (twenty years ago)

durian milkshake; succulent pork dumplings, big bowl of xtra hot pho goodness.

or the lemongrass sausage vietamese sub

― anthony, Monday, 10 October 2005 02:24 (twenty years ago)

ooh banh mi ooh

― glasgow coma score (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 10 October 2005 02:30 (twenty years ago)

elmo.oxygen, laura ha and i had delcious americanized japanese cuisine today. I had some huge tofu patty on brown rice with some kind of sauce with an american salad with it (miso dressing). Also, beer, chicken soup and hot sake

― Jonothong Williamsmang (ex machina), Monday, 10 October 2005 02:31 (twenty years ago)

BAHN MI

― Jonothong Williamsmang (ex machina), Monday, 10 October 2005 02:31 (twenty years ago)

southern california can eat a bag of vietnamese dicks

― glasgow coma score (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 10 October 2005 02:33 (twenty years ago)

udon noodle soup with grilled chicken at XO on hester st. also, the vietnamese sandwiches from the deli down the street from me are godlike.

― joseph (joseph), Monday, 10 October 2005 02:37 (twenty years ago)

southern california can eat a bag of vietnamese dicks

Ah, now did I mention the great sammich I had from them today after work? MMM MMM GOOD.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 October 2005 02:48 (twenty years ago)

The Din Tai Fung Dumpling House about 3 weeks ago. Many dim sum items, two soups, all for $12 or so.

― nickn (nickn), Monday, 10 October 2005 03:05 (twenty years ago)

I had Chinese vegetarian food delivered tonight, fake shrimp. I tried one of the "shrimps" alone and it was not very good. But when I put the magic sauce on the fake shrimp, and let the sauce soak in, it turned out to be really good. Not quite great, but definitely good.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Monday, 10 October 2005 03:06 (twenty years ago)

i had a great soup at my favorite mpls vietnamese place (quang). huge fkn bowl of pork balls, shrimp, crab, bean sprouts, lettuce, rice noodles, cabbage. dumped a bunch of sriracha in it. MMMMMM so so good. i could have a bucket a day.

― geoff (gcannon), Monday, 10 October 2005 03:07 (twenty years ago)

Last night, Umi. Octopus salad, startlingly great.

― retort pouch (retort pouch), Monday, 10 October 2005 03:15 (twenty years ago)

I too am currently living on a crazy island, in Taipei. So basically every meal I've had lately has been a great asian meal. (even the Western style ones, even McDonalds!)

Last night I went to a nearby night market, I went to a small crowded place and got a Golden pork curry with a couple of side dishes like seaweed soup, some kimchi and some tofu thingy. My friend got potato croquetts (sp?) on a rice bowl with a fresh egg just broken into it in the way that it was still cooking as it was brought to the table. After dinner we walked to another small and crowded place and got shaved ice with mango, kiwi, and strawberry covered with sweet condensed milk sauce, and then to yet another place to get milk tea. We were limited to either random choice or one from the few characters we could identify. So we noticed banana milk tea and got that, and I picked a random one and got honey bubble tea with sweet sweet chunks of some fruit amongst the bubbles.

And all of this for two people cost us the equivavlent of $9US

― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 10 October 2005 03:18 (twenty years ago)

Roast pork, in some sort of glaze, with rice and a little broccoli. So simple. So delicious.

― j.lu (j.lu), Monday, 10 October 2005 03:46 (twenty years ago)

I had dim sum today at A&J in Annandale, one of the best restaurants in the area. Consumed: jasmine tea, beef potsickers, vegetable dumplings, pork bun, cabbage and rice stick soup, scallion pastry, and red-bean buns.

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 10 October 2005 04:00 (twenty years ago)

here is the review i wrote of the late lamented place i mention in the review i posted upthread:

http://www.montrealmirror.com/ARCHIVES/2003/111303/resto.html

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 10 October 2005 04:07 (twenty years ago)

this place was really the jam though:

http://www.montrealmirror.com/ARCHIVES/2004/012204/resto.html

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 10 October 2005 04:10 (twenty years ago)

i went here last night, my favourite indian place in town:

http://www.montrealmirror.com/ARCHIVES/2003/062603/resto.html

god it was so fucking good--i'd been away more than year. since i've been there they've added pictures of leelee sobieski and catherine deneuve, both posing with the owner, to the menu!! apparently they both celebrated birthdays there!! which is totally weird!! i mean the place has a great rep among foodies but it's really out of the way, relatively-speaking, and definitely not LEGENDARY yet. on its way i guess!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 10 October 2005 04:13 (twenty years ago)

Sharing a really good white wine and some Panang Red Curry w/ Tofu is about the sexiest thing one can do without actually having sex. Actually, one usually leads to the other anyway.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Monday, 10 October 2005 04:13 (twenty years ago)

sex leads to panang curry?

― glasgow coma score (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 10 October 2005 04:20 (twenty years ago)

i was wondering about that, but it does kinda make sense

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 10 October 2005 04:23 (twenty years ago)

and not in a gross way, just cuz you get hungry

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 10 October 2005 04:23 (twenty years ago)

that's the sort of food you save for really extraordinary sex though.

― glasgow coma score (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 10 October 2005 04:35 (twenty years ago)

no good asian food in a little while -- since i moved actually. i used to go to boston chinatown all the time, but the ny one is somewhat out of my way. had some cheap generic stuff recently, but have been eating at lots of v. tasty halal cabstands in manhattan (if you count indian as "asian").

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 10 October 2005 05:00 (twenty years ago)

Went for a really good curry in Tooting on Saturday night. It's like Brick Lane without the tourists.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Monday, 10 October 2005 06:37 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, there is no Indian food here either. I try to approximate at home with curry paste and sauces and such.

Wow, Taipei, A Nairn, please report back with any more street treats that you sample. I can only imagine.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 10 October 2005 10:16 (twenty years ago)

I went to the noodle bar at Gloucester Green in Oxford for lunch on Saturday. It was nice.

― C J (C J), Monday, 10 October 2005 10:20 (twenty years ago)

Steamed crisp vegetables with a spicy peanut sauce. Delish.
Also the Indian dish Aloo Mutter is superb: potato, pea and tomato curry with spices obv.

― salexander / sophie (salexander), Monday, 10 October 2005 10:26 (twenty years ago)

There was once a sushi place here that was okay. The guy who opened it didn't speak English very well and named it "Something Fishy". It lasted one season.

Scott, we'll have to try the sushi at the Lookout - I hear it's not bad. Then again, people here have lowered expectations. (I'm sorry I made you move here.)

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Monday, 10 October 2005 10:47 (twenty years ago)

I had some huge tofu patty on brown rice with some kind of sauce with an american salad with it (miso dressing)

was this at dojo?

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 10 October 2005 11:18 (twenty years ago)

Hunan Number One!!

There's a service here called Dr. Delivery that allows you to actually order your Hunan Number Ones with your Intel Centrino or whatever, and then they bring it to you. So hot.

― TOMBOT, Monday, 10 October 2005 11:32 (twenty years ago)

"(I'm sorry I made you move here.)"

oh gosh you know i'm not sorry we moved here. sometimes i just miss stuff is all. like real food.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 10 October 2005 11:46 (twenty years ago)

I had the most bizarre interpretation of gyuudon last night. Instead of sticky rice, it had a bed of some sort of hard, pearled variety soaked in sauce, and it was covered in carrots and wide slices of other vegetables that you would be likely to see in Chinese take-out dishes, with big thick chunks of beef on top. It was good, it was just a completely different meal.

― Laura H. (laurah), Monday, 10 October 2005 12:12 (twenty years ago)

Slocki, are you some kind of mad scientist trying to see if you can get us deprived islanders to plunge crazed and naked into the surf and attempt to swim to the mainland? Even then, we'd still be SO FAR from Montreal. And we'd be all wet! Who would give us a ride?
Scott&Maria, Donald and I were hanging with Stanley at the Menemsha Fish Market. He said "Hey! you guys like sushi? This stuff's past its stale-date so I can't sell it, but it's perfectly good."
Then he ripped the plastic off a styrofoam tray of nori rolls and POPPED THEM INTO THE MICROWAVE. "I like 'em better hot."
Donald ate it. I claimed allergies.
THAT'S ASIAN FOOD ON CRAZY ISLAND, FOLKS!!!!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 10 October 2005 13:17 (twenty years ago)

We finally have one okay sushi place here. There is another one, which was featured in the newspaper - its claim to fame is that the "chef" learned how to make sushi by watching videos for a weekend. I'm not foolhardy enough to try it.

We do have excellent Thai, Chinese, and Vietnamese places though - our favorite Thai place had its anniversary party on the weekend with an amazing buffet: special roasted duck, massamun curry, panang beef, green chicken curry, pahd thai.

― Jaq (Jaq), Monday, 10 October 2005 13:29 (twenty years ago)

For some reason, when I saw this thread title, I imagined it coming from a character in season 36 of Lost.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 10 October 2005 13:45 (twenty years ago)

How's about aome sushi, called Fire Crystal, with a crunchy little fried shrimp buried in the middle, with a little flame of red tuna (raw) and wasabi on the top, and the rice sprinkled just right with sesame seeds...

― pepektheassassin (pepektheassassin), Monday, 10 October 2005 15:12 (twenty years ago)

mmm, do go on.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 10 October 2005 15:22 (twenty years ago)

i went to musha on wilshire and 4th in santa monica last night. they take a filet of mackerel, lay it down skin side up, put twenty little slices on it, and then use a torch to broil (?) the skin. wasabi and mustard on the side. it's a great dish because you get lots of oily mackerel that holds it's own against wasabi and mustard, and you're spared paying sushi prices for supposed-to-be-cheap mackerel. we also had this raw ahi thing with korean bbq sauce and pinenuts which wasn't all that. and super-soft braised pork, and brown rice risotto with parmesan which isn't very japanese but is very good.

― dan (dan), Monday, 10 October 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)

this thread has inspired nabeyaki udon for lunch. i loves you bean curd.

so scott, which island is it?

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Monday, 10 October 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

Thanks, Dan, now I'm hungry.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 October 2005 15:36 (twenty years ago)

Madam Mam's Thai Noodle House, corner of 26th and the Drag in Austin TX makes the finest soup I've ever eaten. I can't pronounce it properly, so I'll just mention it's the NS-14.

Spicy broth with sliced/ground pork, artificial crabmeat and fishballs. The most wonderfully treyf thing n the planet.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Monday, 10 October 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

I'm eating the nabeyaki udon right now. Its yummy - got shrimp tempura, egg, shitake, bean curd, enochi, seaweed, chicken, noodles, black sesame seeds, chili powder, broth...

also ordered couple pieces mackerel sashimi, they gave me sushi.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Monday, 10 October 2005 16:07 (twenty years ago)

See what you've done? You've made us cry, on Martha's fucking Thai-food-less Vineyard.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 10 October 2005 16:08 (twenty years ago)

Beth, we will have to get it together to have a thai food nite. we can do it! this place has gotten me so meatandpotatoized that i forget what actual food tastes like sometimes.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 10 October 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

Get you this book and cook some excellent Thai food yourself! R4v4di Qu1nn is the owner of our fav local Thai place.

― Jaq (Jaq), Monday, 10 October 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

I have lemongrass powder, I think, unless the weevils got into it.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 10 October 2005 17:05 (twenty years ago)

Went to Joe's Shanghai. Was craving the soup dumplings since 2 AM this morning.

― Jimmy Mod wants you to tighten the strings on your corset (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Monday, 10 October 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)

I'm going to Ruen Pair tonight, which is the best Thai place in the east bay. I am excited.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Monday, 10 October 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)

Scott, as if the rain wasn't bad enough. You're gonna slit your wrists if you keep reading this. Be Here Now. Island cuisine DOES have its moments of brilliance. For example, Donald's kale soup. Tonight. Come on over! And after-dinner Anime—Ghost in the Shell.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 10 October 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)

Thanks Beth, but I have already started making my famous Teriyaki Chicken With Broccoli! I am a Ghost in the Shell fan though. You kinda need reefer for that though, don't ya?

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 10 October 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)

You people should just start the restaurant or something.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 October 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

you need a million dollars just to start a hot dog cart here.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 10 October 2005 20:42 (twenty years ago)

not that they allow hot dog carts here, but you know...

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 10 October 2005 20:42 (twenty years ago)

You kinda need reefer for that though, don't ya? I'll make do with the delirious state that I've gotten myself into by posting in couplets on the domination thread. Phew.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 10 October 2005 21:01 (twenty years ago)

Mitch's Fish Market in an industrial park next to the Honolulu International Airport [excerpt from my blog/book?]:

10/09/05
Layover in Honolulu, walked to Mitch’s, the "in-the-know magnet for sushi cognescenti" mentioned here

Greeted by itamai Masa Murakame, then formal introduction to "Mitch", who took me on a quick tour of the premises (a fish and seafood importer, with live local and international fish in tanks all over the sprawling 2 story warehouse).

Ordered omakase consisting of:
Live tako w/ ginger and ponzu sauce
Mozuku Su w/ nameko
Live lobster sashimi (NZ)
Abalone sashimi (Tasmania)
Wild sake sashimi (NZ)
Hamachi sashimi (Japan)
Chu Toro sashimi (Japan)
Abalone lip sashimi (Tasmania)
Uni gunkan (Alaska)
Hirame engawa nigiri (local)
Shiro Toro nigiri (Spain)
Amaebi nigiri (local)
Iwashi nigiri w/ minced ginger/scallion & ponzu (Japan)
Sanma (Japan)
Van Van: shrimp, salmon, avocado & kewpie mayo baked with tobiko
Lobster Tail/Head Miso soup
$78

Mitch was kind enough to drive me back to the airport so I could extend my stay at the restaurant.

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 10 October 2005 21:03 (twenty years ago)

Shit I just remembered:

Fresh ikura gunkan (NZ)

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 10 October 2005 21:05 (twenty years ago)

Kiss me baby
With your abalone lips

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 10 October 2005 21:07 (twenty years ago)

$78?!?!?!? THATS IT?!?!?!?! WTF

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 10 October 2005 21:22 (twenty years ago)

As I'll be in Hawaii in two years for a family get-together, I'm keeping this place in mind.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 October 2005 21:31 (twenty years ago)

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