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From Serious Eats: New York

What A $47,221 Lunch Looks Like

How much?!

If I was stupidly rich I might treat my friends and family to a stupidly expensive meal. But only one!

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Amazing 66: A Truly Amazing Menu in Manhattan's Chinatown

Wow. I feel pretty ill - gotta love flu - but wow. Looks delicious.

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Gerrit's Satellite Wafers: Cute Packaging, But Tastes Disgusting

I love Flying Saucers, cuz the styrofoam shell helps to counter the fizzy sherbet inside.

Our A-Level English teacher gave out some during our final lesson, and some of the boys decided to open them out, cut the sherbet into lines and snort it. Why, I ask you. WHY?

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All-You-Can-Eat Restaurants: Great Deal, Or Bad Policy?

I tend to like all-you-can-eat buffets because I don't have to commit to one dish - I can take as little or as much as I like and find out what things I enjoy.
I'd say that I probably eat less at a buffet than a restaurant where I have 2 - 3 courses, and luckily I don't find it hard to stop eating when I'm full (I found that out the hard way when I was about 5).

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From Serious Eats: New York

What A $47,221 Lunch Looks Like

How much?!

If I was stupidly rich I might treat my friends and family to a stupidly expensive meal. But only one!

From Serious Eats: New York

Amazing 66: A Truly Amazing Menu in Manhattan's Chinatown

Wow. I feel pretty ill - gotta love flu - but wow. Looks delicious.

From Serious Eats

Gerrit's Satellite Wafers: Cute Packaging, But Tastes Disgusting

I love Flying Saucers, cuz the styrofoam shell helps to counter the fizzy sherbet inside.

Our A-Level English teacher gave out some during our final lesson, and some of the boys decided to open them out, cut the sherbet into lines and snort it. Why, I ask you. WHY?

From Serious Eats

All-You-Can-Eat Restaurants: Great Deal, Or Bad Policy?

I tend to like all-you-can-eat buffets because I don't have to commit to one dish - I can take as little or as much as I like and find out what things I enjoy.
I'd say that I probably eat less at a buffet than a restaurant where I have 2 - 3 courses, and luckily I don't find it hard to stop eating when I'm full (I found that out the hard way when I was about 5).

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All-You-Can-Eat Restaurants: Great Deal, Or Bad Policy?

The last time I was in Israel I stayed at a hotel that offered a breakfast buffet. The food was nothing less than amazing. They had cheeses and spreads from all over the middle east, a large assortment of fresh baked bread, familiar and exotic fresh fruit, and the most delicious yogurts I can remember having. It was very different from the breakfast buffets I have been to here in the US (less animal fat, less protein, less fried potatoes, less sweetened simple starches). In any case, most of us at that hotel ate smaller portions and seemed to be just as satisfied since the food was so fresh and tasty.

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Gerrit's Satellite Wafers: Cute Packaging, But Tastes Disgusting

That's interesting carsodial and kingnutter, we called them Flying Saucers too.

From Serious Eats: New York

What A $47,221 Lunch Looks Like

Wtf?! Are all Nello's dishes laced with gold??? I can't believe people are stupid enough to pay those ridiculously high prices...

From Serious Eats: New York

What A $47,221 Lunch Looks Like

This wasn't a meal; it was a money laundering operation.

From Serious Eats: New York

What A $47,221 Lunch Looks Like

@Peensez: I guarantee you that Nello's didn't use $2-a-box pasta for the pasta specials.

I, too, am amused by all the outrage. A lot of people made a lot of money off this guy: isn't that a good thing?

From Serious Eats: New York

Amazing 66: A Truly Amazing Menu in Manhattan's Chinatown

Another small bone to pick, following that of the Rebbetzin: Japanese pumpkin is kabocha, not to be confused with kombucha (the ubiquitous seaweed-based health food store tea so popular in trendy NY nabes these days). Kambucha seems like it would be some autumnal fantasy drink for Park Slope yoginis that combine the two.

PS. I live in Park Slope and I love it. Not hatin'.

From Serious Eats: New York

What A $47,221 Lunch Looks Like

2 chunks of parmesan: $28
Not having to tolerate the company of the poor: priceless

From Serious Eats: New York

What A $47,221 Lunch Looks Like

@Nathan Teager: Haha, this made me smile. You're right. Give us your poor, your tired...and the occasional hungry millionaire.

From Serious Eats: New York

What A $47,221 Lunch Looks Like

Why is everyone mad. He added about $50,000 to the US's economy. Remember that he is from Russia and deals in rubles. Now his rubles have become dollars. Go USA!

From Serious Eats: New York

What A $47,221 Lunch Looks Like

I find the outrage and disgust...odd. Why is it our business to judge what he does with his own money? @queenbleu, why should you detest the rich? He spent a lot on lunch - so what? At least he was more generous than he had to be with his server. Why all the anger? We have no way of knowing how he uses his money on a regular basis - nor is it our business. He might be just as lavish in his giving to charity for all we know.
Lighten up, people.

From Serious Eats: New York

What A $47,221 Lunch Looks Like

@DCLSweetspot: Well, by that logic, why do we do a percentage for different dishes as well? It takes the same effort to bring out a plate that costs $20 as a plate that costs $8. We still do a percentage in those cases. Perhaps we should just give tips of a set fee rather than a variable percentage.

@sheba0915: a little strange that they didn't drink any vodka though.

From Serious Eats: New York

What A $47,221 Lunch Looks Like

I took my sweetie out for a lovely Thai meal on Sunday, no wine or beer and I had a diet cola. I didn't order appetizers because I was trying to keep the bill reasonable and it still came out to about $28 with tax and tip.

We each ordered combinations that included our dish of choise, veggie pad thai and steam rice. I was pretty satisfied!

From Serious Eats: New York

What A $47,221 Lunch Looks Like

It's always those little extras that add up, I guess.

Or the f*king crazy-ass wine!

From Serious Eats: New York

What A $47,221 Lunch Looks Like

@sanhedrin: It was a table full of Russians. Therefore, the amount of alcohol consumed was not particularly outrageous.

From Serious Eats: New York

What A $47,221 Lunch Looks Like

He certainly can use his money however he wishes, but it doesn't stop me from finding this disgusting. And I'm not envious at all.

From Serious Eats: New York

Amazing 66: A Truly Amazing Menu in Manhattan's Chinatown

Roast Chicken with Garlic/Preserved Vegetable is one of my faves! Great review! You got a lot of the dishes my family and I would've ordered. I gotta try that fried chicken stuffed with sticky rice.

From Serious Eats: New York

What A $47,221 Lunch Looks Like

I don't see why there are so many people upset by this. Sure, we don't have money like this guy, so we can't indulge like he does; for that I am either jealous or envious, can't figure which one. I can't say I am disgusted by it though. It's his money, he could flush it down the toilet if he wanted, and essentially he just did, but again, it is his money. Everyone knows restaurants charge ridiculous mark-ups on alcohol, particularly wine and Nello's is no exception. Hell, I drink wine that is $5 a bottle from my local liquor store and have seen it on menus for $8 a glass!! Okay, I'm jealous and envious and it seems most of you are too.

From Serious Eats: New York

What A $47,221 Lunch Looks Like

The $25,000 for 5 bottles of wine or $100 truffle carpaccios don't seem quite as ridiculous to me as the $12 bottle of water, $9 cappucinos, $55 milanesa, $14 parmesan chunks, or $39 spaghetti. I suppose it's either because I'm not as familiar in the market for enormous truffles and expensive vintages of wine, or because the markup on the luxury items may be a larger dollar value, but a smaller percentage of the cost of those items.

From Serious Eats: New York

What A $47,221 Lunch Looks Like

Unfortunately, this makes me detest the rich even more than I did before.
I'm sure the alcohol was used as a 'lubricant' if this was a business meal. I guess if your are a Russian oligarch, then you don't seem to mind spending a year's salary (not mine!) on one little ol' luncheon. This just shows that the excess of the classes is still alive and well and living in the food industry as much as Wall Street.

From Serious Eats: New York

What A $47,221 Lunch Looks Like

Wow, the final bill ($52,221.09) came out to the price of a home in some cities...YIKES.

Oh well, it's all relative, I suppose.

From Serious Eats: New York

Amazing 66: A Truly Amazing Menu in Manhattan's Chinatown

This already has me racking my brain to come up with a way to create the Crispy Chicken Stuffed with Sticky Rice...I want to make this dish...

From Serious Eats: New York

Amazing 66: A Truly Amazing Menu in Manhattan's Chinatown

so excited for my next trip to nyc. kicking myself for not finding it when i lived there! amazing.

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