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True Thai Food: Sripraphai
Sripraphai in Woodside, Queens could be the best Thai food in New York City. And I’ve eaten a lot of Thai food through the years. At Sri Pra Phai, named after the owner, you’ll find Thais dining in, as well as countless other ethnicities within the melting pot that hugs Roosevelt avenue. You’ll find a huge menu [...]
Out/About Vegan {Summer Edition 2}
I can’t stop eating it. Mango and sticky rice. I love it. I think I need to do a search for the best–and really, when I say the best I mean the biggest portion. I really have never had a bad batch. Even after this to-go mango & sticky rice sat in its foil container [...]
I’ve gone to Rockaway Beach for years…
but, this time, I was a little scared to. The NY Time’s article on how it’s the new “anti-Hamptons”–the boardwalk being the “new Bedford Avenue”–seemed to promise a mob of hipsters… and local backlash of the influx threatened an old fashioned culture clash, ripe with all the associated generalizations. Diehipster.com‘s rant on how the Rockaway locals hate [...]
Thai Desserts in New York City
Remember, faithful reader, my obsession with Kow Dom Mat, the local dessert I lived off of for two months in Thailand? Save for Sookk on Manhattan’s West Side, I have basked in memories of the street delicacy since then. Surface perusal of Asian bakeries in and about New York’s Chinatown were fruitless and, well, geared towards [...]
Sweet Sticky Rice
Mango and sticky rice. There are certain foods that, once before you, are bittersweet to begin to eat. That’s because every bite makes the end nearer; every taste, though supremely satisfying, is marked with a tinge of anxiety. Soon it will no longer be present on my plate. Soon I will have eaten it all. [...]
Stray Eats
V-Spot brunch in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Sweet Fruit Empanadas of banana and strawberry with some sausage. Yummy but could have used an accompaniment… compote, cream, etc Mango and sticky rice at Long Tan in Park Slope, again. Bless that towering cylinder of coconut milk sweetened sticky rice. If I was being executed I’d want my [...]
Nervous Energy
Tomorrow is the first day of school. So tonight I had lots of anxious energy to burn. I had to get in the kitchen and bask in a fragrant medley of like 40% of my spice rack… freshly-ground coriander, a heavy twist of the garlic mill, best buddies in dying my utensils yellow: turmeric and [...]
These Are a Few of My Favorite Things: Sharing Mango & Sticky Rice
I ♥ kao nio ma muang Long Tan, Park Slope, Brooklyn Siam Lotus, Bay Shore, Long Island Lily Thai, Williamsburg, Brooklyn Nine D, Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn
Summer Eats: My Thai
I love Thai food. That’s no secret to friends and loved ones. But now that I no longer have a favorite neighborhood Thai spot… (I speak of the end of my 5-year relationship with Lily Thai who refuses to stock a mushroom-based sauce for vegan substitution of their fish sauce, which I had been ingesting [...]
Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Mouth
Ok, that is probably the silliest blog title I ever published.Here is a epicure rundown: Kate’s Joint‘s vegan French toast. Desperately in need of a pad of Earth Balance… if only the waitress could be found.Oatmeal raisin cookies from my vegan kitchen.Sura Thai Kitchen‘s pad see ew and virgin rolls. This place replaced Ayurveda Cafe [...]
I really think so
CandyPenny is off to Japan for some roaming and vegan reporting! In light of this exciting adventure, friends and I bid farewell with a Asian-themed party. I was excited to have a go at a Thai-inspired dessert for the occasion: sweet sticky rice! In fact, since my time in Thailand I had imagined turning the [...]
A Look Back At Some Outtakes/Little Details
This is Thai money. Color and size differentiating the denominations. “Well known”? That must mean something more derogatory in Thai? The drunkard at Western Bar in Ubon Ratchathani who was asked by the owner to stop talking to me. Black sticky rice, mango and banana in sweet coconut milk from May Kaidee’s in Bangkok. The [...]
