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Book Giveaway: Mike Colameco's Food Lover's Guide to NYC
I second the Malaysian place on Doyers St.
New York City Wine and Food Festival: Ticket Giveaway, The Grand Tasting
Thomas Keller and Daniel Boulud
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Food places actually shown on Google Maps.
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Restaurant.com 80% off, any recommendations?
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Book Giveaway: Mike Colameco's Food Lover's Guide to NYC
I second the Malaysian place on Doyers St.
New York City Wine and Food Festival: Ticket Giveaway, The Grand Tasting
Thomas Keller and Daniel Boulud
Win Tickets To Edible Manhattan's Seaport Birthday Party
van leeuwen ice cream
New York City Wine and Food Festival: Ticket Giveaway, 'Breakfast of Champions'
Hong Kong style milk tea and HK style french toast
New York City Wine and Food Festival: Ticket Giveaway, 'Breakfast of Champions'
HK Style Milk Tea with Pineapple Bun
The Crab Pot: Observations from the Dock
There was a decent article in Newsday this week, link. Listed more places to go crabbing in on Long Island.
New Jersey Dispatch: The Great Wall Supermarket
Here's the page with all the store locations. This page has all the weekly specials for the NYC stores.
As for the stuff, while the new Flushing store on Northern Blvd is a lot prettier than usual the pricing and quality is still slightly below Hong Kong Supermarket on Main St.
Threadless T-Shirt Giveaway: A Piece of Cake
I'm a pie person, but red velvet is pretty sweet.
Win a $1,200 Street Food Dinner for Two to the Citymeals-on-Wheels Fundraiser
Northern Chinese lamb kebab.
Win Tickets to the Hot Dog Hootenanny
Grilled with red onion sauce.
How David Chang's 'Locals Only' Free Lunch Contest Works
The questions on Sat and Sun were id-ing the correct bridges in a set of 4 images.
Win Tickets to This Year's 'Village Voice' Choice Eats
One of those places in the Golden Mall in Flushing.
Buy Girl Scout Cookies at the 'Cookie Cupboard' Today
I had some Dulce de Leche cookies and they were pretty good, didn't taste like Dulce de Luche to me. The Samoas are too sweet for me.
Sugar Rush: Ovaltine from Chinatown
I think most Chinese bakeries sell Ovaltine and Horlicks.
Valentine's Day Giveaway: Macarons from Itzy Bitzy Patisserie
red bean and dried tangerine peels.
Cook the Book: The Essence of Chocolate
Chocolate truffle cake.
The City's Best Soup Dumplings at Nan Xiang Xiao Long Bao in Flushing
I don't know about dumpling skin to meat ratio but I think the xiao long baos here are excellent. I think the picture is making the skin look thicker than it is in real life. I also enjoy their breakfast dishes of hot soy milk and fried crullers. They have other shanghainese dishes also.
Sugar Rush: Normal Milk Tea Vs. 'Hong Kong' Milk Tea at Hon Cafe
HK Style Tea & Coffee is called yuan yang(yin yang). I don't think there's a place in NYC that makes it as good as real HK diners.
Meet Kelly Choi, Host of 'Top Chef Masters'
I've seen this girl irl filming a segment, she is so skinny and tall. But her makeup was unnecessarily set on hooker.
Win Tickets To 'Cook. Eat. Drink. Live.' This Weekend
Betty Crocker Cookie Book circa 1975
Win Tickets To 'Cook. Eat. Drink. Live.' This Weekend
the momofuku cookbook to add to my growing collection of cookbooks (i just recently received julia child's "mastering the art of french cooking" as a gift).
Win Tickets To 'Cook. Eat. Drink. Live.' This Weekend
Haven't really thought about it yet... Maybe The Pioneer Woman Cooks?
Win Tickets To 'Cook. Eat. Drink. Live.' This Weekend
The Ad Hoc at Home cookbook, a santoku knife.
Win Tickets To 'Cook. Eat. Drink. Live.' This Weekend
NOt gaining five lbs ;-)
Win Tickets To 'Cook. Eat. Drink. Live.' This Weekend
A scholarship to the CIA or FCI (including living expenses)
Win Tickets To 'Cook. Eat. Drink. Live.' This Weekend
I would seriously LOVE a Breville Elite juicer... this way I can start detoxing from all the "food porn" of '09!!! And a puppy with ear fringe ;P
Win Tickets To 'Cook. Eat. Drink. Live.' This Weekend
A 5 qt stainless steel dutch oven.
Win Tickets To 'Cook. Eat. Drink. Live.' This Weekend
Dinner reservations or a private cooking class at Le Bernardin (w/Avec Eric)!
Win Tickets To 'Cook. Eat. Drink. Live.' This Weekend
A job, my old apartment, a dry aged ribeye, morels and unfiltered sake
Win Tickets To 'Cook. Eat. Drink. Live.' This Weekend
A Cuisinart toaster oven like the one Eric Ripert used in his series of web videos.
Win Tickets To 'Cook. Eat. Drink. Live.' This Weekend
A Le Creuset dutch oven! Preferably home delivered, I don't think I could carry that thing by myself!
Win Tickets To 'Cook. Eat. Drink. Live.' This Weekend
Travel and eat with Tony Bourdain on his next trip!
Win Tickets To 'Cook. Eat. Drink. Live.' This Weekend
A job as a food writer or pastry cook and subscriptions to food magazines! I also wouldn't mind some new kitchen gadgets like the measuring cup that's also a scale. Ok--so maybe I'm asking a lot from Santa, but I've been good! :)
Win Tickets To 'Cook. Eat. Drink. Live.' This Weekend
a wine-tasting class
Win Tickets To 'Cook. Eat. Drink. Live.' This Weekend
A basket of Japanese green tea flavored sweets! (cookies, ice-cream, mochi, chocolates!!) :D
Win Tickets To 'Cook. Eat. Drink. Live.' This Weekend
A Chemex coffeemaker (for the office, no less)...ok, I'm going to end up buying that anyway, so a kitchen scale so I can finally make all those recipes for which the measurements are in METRICS. Yes, I am a silly American ; )
Win Tickets To 'Cook. Eat. Drink. Live.' This Weekend
A couples cooking class from the Institute for Culinary Education
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Food places actually shown on Google Maps.
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Restaurant.com 80% off, any recommendations?
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New knives.