December 2007

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  • Big Family Style Meal at Maple Garden

    We met up with extended family, visiting for the holidays, for a family style meal in Flushing. My mom chose one of her favorite places, Maple Garden Maple Garden. I can understand why it's one of her favorites after seeing a bill for under $200, that more than satisfied a table of 14 people.I don't know the English name for many of these dishes so I ...
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  • Strip House

    Strip House has been on Lon's wish list for a while. We heard about their Crisp Goose Fat Potatoes, prepared by poaching potatoes in goose fat, then baking with goose fat, and finished by deep frying in goose fat. That's what we heard and we couldn't find any documentation on it, so off we went to taste these Crisp Goose Fat Potatoes. They were indeed very good. We couldn't taste much goose fat but did taste some parsley and a ...
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  • Maurizio Update

    I've given Maurizio glowing reviews in the past, but I just went again recently and I was a bit disappointed. The food wasn...
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  • Improved Baked Tofu

    We had friends over for dinner tonight and since one of our guests was a vegetarian, I decided to try to improve on that tofu recipe I had been working on for Lon. With just a few changes to the preparation and baking temperature (marinade staying the same), Lon loved the texture. Our guests seem to like it as well. It's not the most attractive looking tofu but it does taste good. My improved recipe is below the picture...
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  • Calling All Chefs

    If you've been reading my blog, you know I'm a huge fan of allrecipes.com, this huge on-line database of recipes. It's a great site where users rate the recipes so you know if a recipe works bef...
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  • Park Side Restaurant

    My mom was so excited to take us to Park Side Restaurant Park Side Restaurant because her friend highly recommended it. My brother, Lon, and I all trekked from Manhattan to meet with my parents for this dinner, expecting it would be worth the travel. Well, it turned out to be a disappointment to all, and that is saying a lot because my mom and brother aren't tha...
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  • Korea Town Plaza

    I went to Queens to do some food shopping, as I often do to avoid paying Manhattan prices. I frequent BJ's and Costco type places, Hong Kong Supermarket, smaller produce shops across Flushing, and Korea Town Plaza. My mom and I had so many errands to run today that we decided to save some time by eating lunch inside Korea Town Plaza. They have a a seating area in the back where you can order several different Korean dishes for around $5 each. It's not the best Korean food ever but it's a good po...
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  • Yum Yum Brunch

    I had the Yum Yum Sisterhood over for Brunch. Our mission is always social eating but today we also started folding paper cranes for two important people to Julie and Lily, who were diagn...
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  • This Just In (the Inbox)

    A few friends have sent in some links that FoodMayhem readers might find interesting. So we're sharing them with you. If you have interesting, food-related links that you think other FoodMayhem readers may enjoy, feel free to comment here or email them to us using the contact form. Thanks fellow foodies!Sent in by Steve, and created by the team behind Food for Design, a remarkable site by so...
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  • Chocolate Bar and Soba Nippon

    While shopping, Sara and I stopped in at The Chocolate Bar inside Henri Bendel's
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  • Confuzzled?

    Is it a cookie? Or, is it a candy? That's part of the marketing of Confuzzled products. I tried some on display at Henri Bendel's today and I di...
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  • New York Food Trucks

    I just stumbled across this cool page with a map and description of 10 New York Food Trucks. It is not e...
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  • Not-Too-Sweet Cupcakes

    I find most American desserts too sweet so it was such a pleasure to eat these Chocolate Surprise Cupcakes...
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  • Baked SesameTofu

    Lon is not a big fan of tofu but likes the texture of the tofu at City Bakery. He's not sure, but thinks it might be baked and then seared. I haven't tried it yet and decided to try baking some tofu to see if Lon likes it. We both really liked the result.First, make sure you use a good tofu. There is a huge difference between fresh tofu and packaged tofu. I like buying fresh tofu from a store on the corner o...
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  • Vietnamese Coffee

    When my mom came back from a tour of Asia, she brought me some coffee and a filter from Vietnam. As I was making myself a cup this morning, I thought, everyone should...
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  • Bouley

    Bouley Bouley is one of my favorite restaurants, and also one of Lon's, but this was our...
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  • Happy Edible Holidays - Good Gifts for your Foodie

    Lon does not like presents that are not edible. I made the mistake of buying him a sweater once. The Brooks Bothers sweater is still sitting in our bedroom with tags on it. I noticed that his family really just buys him food, for every holiday and birthday. So, what's a good present for a foodie?...
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  • Go Alex!

    My friend Alex (Jando S.) spends hours on Yelp per day. He carefully write reviews for free, for your benefit. After, just over 1,000 reviews, the work paid off. He made i...
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  • Awesome BBQ Turkey

    We've been trying to eat less pork because of Lon's cholesterol. He doesn't like tofu that much and I don't want to eat chicken every day. As you may have read before, I'm not a fan of breast meat so I bought turkey legs. I decided to de-bone them (leave skin on) because I wanted to use the grill. This marinade is enough for 2-3 turkey legs. Grill time will vary because turkey legs vary greatly in size....
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  • Curried Cauliflower Soup

    Lon doesn't really like cauliflower so I tried to make a not so cauliflower-like dish. It ended up being a yummy curry soup and Lon liked it. Yay! It tastes creamy without any dairy and has very little fat....
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  • Lemongrass

    We ordered dinner from Lemongrass Lemongrass while we were at Kasi & Stephen's tonight. The food was completely forgettable and not even that cheap for that kind of restaurant. Even with the $8 coupon, I was a bit disappointed. Just don't bother with this one since there's tons of restaurants ...
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  • Cooking for Dummies

    Two of my best friends have just started to try a little bit of cooking. They have almost no experience and both get very nervous about it. They asked me where they should start...
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  • Bhutanese Red Rice

    There are tons of exotic rices out there but I haven't tried many of them. (Ooh, that may become a future project.) A friend gave us a package of ...
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  • Korean Fast Food

    Since my favorite Korean Grandma shop closed, I haven't been able to get delivery of Korean food.Last night, I was desperate for some but had a major headache and didn't want to make the trek to K-town. I wined for about 30 minutes and then thought of the Korean fast food place Lon had ordered from when he used to work near by. ...
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  • Organic Chocolate and Natural Jelly Belly's

    Are you sick of me talking about chocolate ...
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