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Hellz yeah, this place rocks.

@devaleena, Yes, unfortunately, it is pretty pricey. The box photographed above cost $18.95... and that's not including the miniscule sides. Yikes.

I find Dirty Bird a little pricey, no? The sides are also miniscule and I avoid the cornbread like the plague. Nonetheless, tasty fried chicken. My husband swears by a fried chicken joint in Queens called Palace Fried Chicken. It is probably the best fried chicken I have ever had.

ROBYN! You ate LECHON! :D

Had some a couple of months ago. Huge roast pig laid out on a table, with people slicing bits straight off it. Here's a picture:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v78/luisk/lechon.jpg

(The guy with glasses is my former teacher, genius poet Jimmy Abad.)

For someone who grew up with it, I never really acquired a taste for lechon though. But I do like "the loud potato chip-like crunch of the skin on the first bite." :)

BobbLeBot: HAHA, meat chips, that's such a good way to put it. ;)

Goldilocks: You can get! Next time I plan on filipino fooding, I'll give you a heads up.

sushijerk: Floating...by way of a (out of focus) fork. ;)

@minoric: It looks like too much, but I swear...it's not!

...Okay, I really love mayo.

Haven't had a potato salad sandwich before! If only I were in Japan. :(

Balthazar is indeed a happy place with good food. The chicken dish that Ed mentions is proof of the latter. It closely resembles one of Soltner's "special" dishes in the good gone days of Lutece. It was "Coq Saute au Riesling" and was enriched by what-must-have-been a scary amount of egg yolks. Soltner, as you probably know, was Alsatian also. He too had a way of making the diner feel special, even those of us who were existing on hotdogs and tuna sandwiches and could only afford Lutece on special occasions. Balthazar is more egalitarian and casual, but there always seems to me to be some genetic connection between it and Lutece.